The weekly Arizona miner., 1877-06-22
The Trade of Arizona with san Francisco

] From ihe San Francisco Post
 The business men and interests of San
 Francisco will need 10 bestr tn, mselvcs if
 they hope to control any considerable pro
 portion of the growing business of the region
 to the southeast. IL Is not enough to con
 graduate ourselves on the completion of the
 SoutherL Pacific Railroad. l. is necessary
 that every effort should be made to induce the managers of that road to pursue a liberal policy in the matter of freightS and fares.
 But more even than that depends upon the
 libcrallty of the merchants themselves. This city has no exclusive pre-emption right on
 tAe trade of the Territory, even with the
 added advantage of railroad transportation. The following, from q recent copy of the ! Tucson Star. establishes this Speaking of
 a merchant at Camp Grant the Stor says: l NIT. stewart has been absent from the Ter | ritory some three or four months, has visited ! the principal cities of the East and says that | Eastern merchants are competing for the Arizona trade. The St. Louis markets have
 advantages over all others in this respect and Mir. Stewart made his purchases accord ingy, and further informs us that Arizona
 merchants shipping goods from the Fast through Chick, Browne X Co.,. can have
 goods laid down cheaper than getting them
 direct from san Francisco that Is to say, cheaper than goods can be laid down al
 Yuma, and consequently saving seven cents
 per pound for wagon transportation.
 There is no reason why this should be so. at least for great many of the goods which are required in Southern Arizona and So- ! nora. A large part of the latter State can
 be supplied from Tucson. That place is but | 300 miles from Yuma, and by rail Yuma is ! only 120 from this city The nearest point ! for railroad communication east of Tucson | now Tn the southern portion of Colorado. q | distance of at least 600 miles, while St. Louis | Is $50 miles by rail therefrom The wagon | road usually travelled Is from Trinidad. Colo Iado, S35 n.iles. to Tucson Yet with an
 advantage ln our favor, by railroad and
 wagon ruad of at least roo miles. We are
 being successfully shut out from market in which we ought to have large and growing interest. Our business men must not de- spise the day of small things" nor must they regard the trade of Southern and East crn Arizona as being embraced by that def milton. TucSoa has done large business for over century past, and can to-day be made -e even more than it has been = the point of supply for a very considerable ter ritory. This trade is worthy an effort It will be competed for quite kecnly hy St. Louis interests. The city understands the value ot this trade, present and prospective. and her business representatives are on hand. while San Francisco is almost without q voice. And yet the ml st active citizens are with California, and naturally , lean this way. The Territory now has of at leas, S5,OlO, and it is in creasing quite rapidly. This doas not em. c brace the Indians or the troops stationed { therein. There is danger of complete alien. $ ation from this city as the commercial m. o trepot, and much of this feeling is the result ot an llliberal spirit among business houses !, That portion of the Territory which by every U law of geographical relation and access 'h9uia be closely related to us-the northern a half aud western third of the territorial area ! will, Il Is asserted, yet be able to supply ', tSeh at cheaper rates from the East than |, rom this city and coast. There is no renu. u ne reason for this, for very many articles |, U Se ought to be able 10 furnish at lower :, prices than St. Louis. A considerable pro. U 'orhon ot this dissatisfaction is due to the aTge difference in the rates of transporta. ion Certainly, 1t Is not a wise nolicv on P he part of merchants or freighters. to so act Is s to destroy the very germs of what must E. re long be great trade to