Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-03-05
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
Escoup.anSa ENUMERATION.

If Kansas does not become one Of the
 most populons and prosperous States m
 the Union. it will not be for a lack Of
 genuine enterprise and an universal dis
 seminRtion of facts concerning its re-
 sources. Its newspapers give to the
 world every possible item concerning
 that State that IS creditable to it, and
 many private citizens and corporations
 seek methods of sending abroad such
 information.
 Chief among these public benefactors
 IS the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
 Railroad Company, which is doing a
 vigorous work beyond the Atlantic in
 the interest of Kansas. Not content
 with establishing agencies all over Flu
 rope, and distributing prints by the mil
 lion, they now deliver lectures Tn the
 centers of the agricultural and mining
 districts in England 10 crowded houses,
 usually presided over by the local au-
 thorities. One Of these lectures, on
 Organized Emigration and the Re
 sources of Kansas was delivered on
 January 24th, under the auspices of the
 Young Mems Christian Association, m
 the lecture hall of the public library al
 Sunderland, county Durham. The speaker was the Hon. Charles II. Brans- combe, late United States Consul at Manchester. The Mayor of Sunderland presided; and many prominent gentle men, among them Colonel Gourley, NJ. P, were on the platform. The audience consisted of men and women of all shades Of society, who manifested in- terest in the subject by frequent ap- FsloOsO- Alter tho loot-ira Mir C R Schmidt, the general European agent of the Santa Fe road, was called upon to l answer many questions put by the audi ence in reference to settlement in Kan gas. The meeting lasted three hours. Mir. Branscombe is also booked" for number of towns in the northern cOun- ties of England, and the result of his labors will be measured by millions of wealth to the growing State he repre- sents, and by enduring benefits to the whole country.
 Arizona possesses wonderful natural resources that, when developed by the hardy pioneers of industry, will be ca- pablo of supporting a dense population. It IS great error to designate this Ter ritory as barren, unfruitful desert. 4 belt of desert land, it is true, stretches across its southern portion, but under the shadows of the mountain peaks, that stand like enduring sentinels on the plains, there will spring into existence many flOurishing towns, deriving nour- ishment from the countless treasures stored under its forbidding exterior.
 On either side of this uninyiting zone there is work not only for the miner, but the farmer and stock-raiser can find . fields for their respective callings, equal 10 the best in the country The hus- Dandman has not yet turned his atten- -iou to tilling the soil Of Arizona to an extent, the attractions of . mining having been too strong a temp stion for him, but the day Is not marked ' ly many annual cycles of time ere the A iills and valleys of the State of Arizona u sln be noted for the quantity and quality 'i its soil productions. Within its bor- T lers there is room for a large and pros |. 'erous population, and if our people n how an enterprise equal to our Kansas |, eighbors, a tide of immigration may be |. lrned jnfo Arizona that will develop a o 'ealth from its soil equal to that ot its :, -onderful mines.