Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-18
Speculative Franchise.

1At Nlil or IucsDu AA us EtuGNtt
 youth is loaded down with speculative
 franchises obtained by parties for salC
 and not for execution.
 The tramways granted by the cofyor-
 alton are supeEeeded by one Horlic coach, which makes it's regular trips from Buell's addition to the city streets
 which are gradually becoming deserted, and by summer will resemble the ruins of Pompeii.
 The gas franchise gives the moon a ] fair chance to illuminate the streets at night and the smell of coal oil gas is not yet presented to our olfactories nor ils l brilliancy to our vision. but the scoop has been made and darkness pefvades the streets and gloom the sidewalks. The water franchise has been used as a shuttlecock until 1t smells nearly as loud as the water in the ditches. The amount of twenty-five thousand dollars now rests like an incubus on the earcas of this dead horse" and until this indebtedness Is saddled on the city Tn some way, the municipal donkey must groan under the burden. Artesian bor- ing has proved failure and the five thousand dollar reward offered by the Legislature cannot be drawn.
 The Tadpole water scheme, so called, rests upon the basis of solid property and the water may contain tadpOles, which ID time, with municipal nursing, may come 10 be frogs. No water, no life.
 No water in the streets and an exodus of people next summer for the moun- tains end the sea coast. All the water in the world which has the clements of vitality generates animal life and mag nifying glass IS very detrimental to the thirst for water. In all cities some means of puritication is adopted for rem dering river water pGlatable and no wa ter Is relished until 1t has pass4d through this process. The sediment of the Miss issippi and the Colorado has to be pre- cipitated before the water is relished as drink.
 The Nile is infested with more animal life and tropical vegetation than auy other river, and yet the water 3t Cairo is purified to a delightful beveras se.
 The Thames receives the refuse of more than ten millions of people, and yet the city of London Is the most healthy city III the world, from sanitary statistics.
 In the United States all the water works, except those on the lakes, draw their supply from river vi iere flies, frogs, tadpOles, snakes and vegetable decay abound.
 If there are any invisible streams &C., cessible to the citizens of Tucson, and the impurity of well water in the midst of human population IS asserted by the most eminent hydrolOgists to contain poisons from mineral decomposition and human excrement, which are more dele terious than any water exposed to the air.
 Water in its purity IS composed of eight parts of oxygen to one of hydro gen, by weight; therefore, as oxygen largely enters into the sustenance of vegetable and animal life, 1t follows that water sustaining animal and plant life has its detrimental elements e!imi- mated by these scavengers of nature; just as the leaves of trees absorb the noxious gases of the atmosph re and purify it. Everybody knows that frogs and tadpoles purify a,pond of water, and the destruction of these workers in the arcana of nature leaves the water with out aeration, and it becomes stagnant and putrid.
 It would require a very wise man to improve upon the wonderful works of nature, and tadpoles and frogs perform their functions with perfect exactness, in accordance with laws which but few understand.
 There are always wiseacres in every community ready to air their ignorance on subjects usually submitted to the test of science, or to pander to the taste of others more ignorant than them selves by some clap-trap expression or vulgar allusion resembling retrogression frS6atIhh. atIhho narw'nian theory of the origin of