The Arizona sentinel., 1877-06-16
"WHOM the gods wish to de-

expected to rival San Francisco.
 Tom Scott was the fetish man
 whose magic was to transform an
 obscure village into great me-
 tropolis, to transmute a shallow
 inlet into a"harbor" and fill it
 with the fleets of the world; to
 load those fleets San Diego counted on Arizona as her "back country" Before Tom Scott she
 bowed down and groveled in the
 dust; everything he demanded,
 she gave with indecent, break
 neck haste; bonds, lands, servile fiattery-everything. Now she
 finds that Tom was ''bad medi
 cine." San Francisco laughs at
 her; the Cuayamaca has sailed away, and a few abalone junks are the fleets that stir up the mud
 in her harbor; and Arizona, her back country, is absorbing her population. San Diego is mad.
 Her two newspapers are jealous of Yuma, and of the growing lnf1u- ence and circulation of the SEN- TINEL. The Union asks where Yuma will be when the Southern
 Pacific rails are picked up and laid on the MOhave route. San Diego. when that occurs, we will
 buy the bridge and big depots here and sell them to the Texas Pacific. The editor of the SENTI- MEL last December bought out all there was of the Tom Scott rail- way in Arizona and held it a couple of weeks, just for gran deur;" if it had been worth hold. ing we should own it yet; as it was, we sold it for $35O in green. backs, and got big price for it. The San Diego Neacs- (ance) pitches into Yuma and Arizona in a con- munication signed by ''VOx," which is short for Fog, ct pretere0 nihI. It speaks of Mohave as "a dry gulch somewhere on the
 Yuma desert" Ungrateful San Diego {! Your real import. ance laid in your being the ter minus of the stage line from Yuma; you throve on the generous expenditure of money in your town by Arizona travellers.
 When Kerens & Mitchell pulled off their stages and ArIzonans reached San Francisco by another route. you became poor-the Hor- ton House closed. You charge Yuma with toadying to the South ern Pacific. You forget your great gifts to the Texas Pacific; your receptions speeches, bands of music and fulsome laudations.
 We speak we'll of the bridge that takes us safely over. Instead of a horrible journey of 48hours toSan Diego, we now go comfortably to San Francisco in less time and for less money. Instead of paying $11 per ton freight on ores and waiting 30 to 60 days for their ar. rival at San Francisco, we pay S9 per ton and have them arrive iii 3 days. We are about to have an excellent bridge across the Cobra do, large freight sheds, depots and repair shops. Property has enhanced in value and our popu. Iation is increasing enormously. Invalids, who can not live in the damp, foggy air of San Diego, can now come here by rail to restore their health and spend heir money among us. These and other ben- efits have been conferred by the advent of the Southern Pacific. We appreciate them. We gave lands, and fine buildings are erect ed on them. You gave lands and -? We have given merited commendatiOn without sacrifice of self-respect. You shouted your. selves hoarse in hosannas and outvied each other in gifts and in obsequious adulation. What have you in return? But enough of this. Yuma and it's paper have