Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-19

borne along with thousands of others and
 by what happy incident, Or by what great intervention l was not also d
 victim, know not, save that pleadingly appealed to a higher supremacy than
 that of earth, and when awoke to sensibility from the effects of that ter
 ri6le ordeal, found myself upon one of the highest peaks of Gibraltar with my
 feet sull bathed by the waters of a turbid
 sea madly seek lg egress. It was five days my friends before was released
 from the position of isolation. looked
 around for some one of my former com
 panionship, but ou, of that great con course of people once residents of this valley, rot one remained to welcome me
 from the ATS S. Gibraltar. Now that 1 have given yoa m bness synopsis of those eventful days long since pa, let us turn cur attention to the present and lhe future. Let IS petition the National Government to establish a system of ar,esian wells ar.i windmills. the same as existed up to he year I776. Three
 millions apPrc ..,.te 10 renew those wells will bring 10 youg Territory in two years hundred thousand population and half million of people within four years. It was accomplished under the flag of the Aztecs, it can be repeated and realized under the stars and stripes of a great Republic. Your mines eclipse in richness those of Peruvian fame and in America, there IS none that excel them. The time is not distant when steel rails VII connect the great king on the North to the Port of Sebas,opol on the Cali fornian Gulf, and the shrill neigh of the iron horse will strangely contrast with the sweet chimes of Gibraltars bells and the cry of fresh fish will be heard in the streets of Pinal, Florence, Casa Grande and Tucson. Arizona, we'll snded in the flush of her youthfulness will emerge from her obscurity, and taking her posi- tion amongst the sisterhood of States will shlne as brightly as the silver dollar of her nativity
 Great applause followed these remarks and the sage of Casa Grande bowing kind recognition of such friendly greet ings stepped from the rostrum to the floor, where he was captured by the irepressible Terpsichorean Queen with whom he led the dance accompanied by two hundred couple and four hundred terpist feet including the number sixe5 of your humble reporter, who temporarily casting aside the implements of s.eno- graphy, mixed in the whirligIg of a magical dance, and helped in the manner of a skilled artisan 10 add to the high polish of d neatly waXed floor
 Thus en,hused by rhetoric, charmed by music and bewitchingly entertained by the ladies, your stenograph'c cor respondent found the sun of the first morning of 1882, peering in rays fantasti- cal through the pavilion when reoollect- ing that he was but an employee of a | leading newspaper of the Territory, and ! not one of the Princes of the land, he l seized his book of short hand legerde- | main along with his hat full of dreaming bewilderment and with a parchment of true recordations vamosed for Uncle l Sam's newsical receptical to forward 10 you the sayings of one of the most ! peculiar old men of the times of I7Oo and 1 1900, the prophet, seer and sage of Gibraltar, who ouilived the calamities of I766 and giyes sterling advice to ;he | generations of 1881 and 1882