Arizona citizen., 1878-09-06
TO OUR EXCHANGES. Please change address of TIE ARIZONA CITIZEN to Tucson.
Here We Go.

In the first issue of THE CITIZEN in Florence on November 9. 1877, we saluted our readers in an article head ed Here We are" and now after ten months of pleasant labor among this community we choose an equally brief and expressive head under which to say farewell.
 THE ARTZnNA CITIZEN was estab- lished in Tucson just one month less than eight years ago by Hon. John Wasson. The paper was owned and ably conducted by him until October last, when it was purchased by us and removed to Florence. Journalism was an entirely new field for Us, we knew little of its arduous duties. cares and. annoyances, but we have labored faith fully and we believe successfully for the best interests of our County and Territory and not without substantial profit to ourself.
 Our local patrons well understand our motives in going back 10 Tucson. It should not be inferred that Florence is q failure, nor that the town has failed to give THE CITIZEN a com paratively liberal support The fact is we have prospered beyond our ex- pectations, but we regard Tucson a larger and more profitable field, and as all business men are guided in their operations by business prospects, so we are induced to return to Tucson feeling that we can command greater prosperity there.
 During our residence in Pinal coun- ty we feel that we have secured many warm friends and a few sufficiently bitter enemies. At our beginning we declared that we should seek only to' know right truth and justice, and with these we should stand, without fear or favor, against all opposition. and that having chosen new field of labor we should devote our energies toward the advancement of the best interests of the. whole Territory leav- ing olG issues with the buried past."' We believe we have acted consistently with these and other purposes pro. fessed at that time. Our recent posi- tion on the use of the army is a new issue under entirely new relations and causes. We believe that during our brief editorial labors, We have main- tained the dignity of our position and the confidence of our readers. To have done this IS sufficient honor and sue cess to claim as the beginning of such an arduous and important profession. In our new field we hope to derive. great benefit from past experience; i; we shall concentrate purpose and ener- gy to bring THE CITIZEN into the high est sphere of true journalism.
 We leave Florence entertaining ;heI most pleasant feelings towards her citizens and the best wishes for her prosperity and future greatness. We trust these feelings are reciprocated, and thai a goodly share of the patron age we have enjoyed here may follow us to our new field We shall endeavor to keep posted on the developments in Pinal county and shall chronicle the same with pride and fairness.
 More words are useless, we believe our position is understood and ap preciated by our friends, and others will not be convinced by much writ ing THE CITIZEN will return 10 its natal town, but we trust it will con tinue popular and useful in the fair village of Florence where it has lived and fiourished for nearly one year Of. it's existence.