The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-04-01
THE COURSE OF TRADE.


 
 The time is nigh when the trade of Arizona will be diverted from old channels and placed in new ones Our railroads will accomplish commercial, ss well as social, revolution Great good, to us, will come of the changs Already our merchants are sending to Eastern cities for goods for their customers, and the driving business people of St. Louis. Chicago and Kansas City are active solicitors for our trade San Fran cisco. which has had monopoly of thn business, is, of course, 10th to part with It, and yet her people hope to retain it; not by underselling Eastern competitors, but, we presume, on account of past friendship and intimacy Let us see about this friendship Her press and people did echo our cries for Governmental aid in the days long since passed, when the ApAches and other Indians paylaid and murdered people here; destroyed property and almost made the land untenable for white people. For assistance, in this respect, the gratitude of our people is un- bounded, and they have rendered their friends of the Bay city much solid benett for this kindness As an offset to this early good feeling, the San Franeisoans have, of late. by words and acts, retarded the devei- opment of our country by a lack of faith (oftentnnes strongly expressed in words), in the richness and permsnency of our mines. Perhs.s some of her capitalists have not been treated uprightly by few Arizonians- We say. perhaps. because the fact s not figured that they have been So treated It is. however. of record, that many Of her peo,,le have .neered at our mines, misrepre- s.nted our climate, soil, etc, to our disad- vantage. of course. They now see and ac- knowledge their error, or errors- Nevada, their pet. is sick nigh unto death; many of her n,i,,es are worked out; her miners are without profitable employment, and hun dreds of them are, to-day, richly rewarded for their labors, in Arizona. The masnates of San Francisco now see the errors. of their ways. They feel sorry because they failed ,o .acur. such Arizona bonanzas as the Grand Central. Toughnut and Vulture. They have wheeled into line and are now secretly cursing their folly. In not taking hold at th. right .ilne, not only some of our pest ,otue,- but our rich trade has slipped rom them. never, perhaps, to go back, tor be It known that people of Eastern cities, notably St. Louis and Chicago, can, and will furnish us such article as we need at cheaper rates and on easier terms than could be thought of in San Francisco.
 As this is not manufacturing Territory, hor r.sople rill have |" import quartz milis, ssesszsazssssasszzss<.szs<ss les. some provisions, drags, medicines, in fact almost everything. Our exports will consist, in the main, of gold, silver, copper, lead ores, wool, hides, beef cattle and sheep, all of which we can, and viii, ship directly East for less money than they would be carried to San Francisco. Besides which: these articles of export will be sold m better markets than we have had for them. No such "middle men" as have swung around the Bay of San Francisco are to te found be- tween Prescott and the East to gather tolls for handling our products. For instance, 100 lbs of wool shipped in the old way, to San Francisco, would bring the San Fran cisco seller, say s22, and the Arizona pro- ducer about SIS, less freight. The same quantity of wool shipped directly East will bring the producer here BPS or s90, ss the market goes. This. we think, IS sufficient illustration of what railroad connection with the East xil do for us. And this is but one item.
 Speed the day, say we, when the northern portion of our Territory shall be welded to St. Louis. Chicago, New York and all other Eastern cities iy the 35th Parallel Railroad and it's connections. Then will come the era of cheap supplies, of capital, of skilled labor and awakened energy, all of which we re- quire to utilize the great mineral and other resources of this new finland empire"