Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13

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 r-E OF THE SoRTHWEsr.
 ~l. af A-.zoaa's summer traveller --. as fss north as Oregon and Wash ---a Territory this season, and thel
 ru us that the completion of tn, E-lr-u Pacific has created veritabl,
 u .l -tat region, the first that has .ra- lyertaken them. Portland is one ftFa oldest II not the oldest American H-r. city o1 the Pacific coast. Ameri. e-Iements commenced in Oregon .. .a-ly a3 1899, and have continued .r.- since, -hough for the first twenty five years at a very slow rate, and less -.g InUl} had accumulated in forty ,sg-- from the date of the first settle -aa.s. while Kansas had a million in -renl-e than half that time. Since 1875 -.4 prospect Of an early completion of the --b5.u Pacific, has stimulated immi- -4.ra. Nonied men who had an eye to 54f.,4re os the northwest have gone -.a Ore on and Washington Territory -8 iav sted largely, with the belief -s- las time was near at hand when ..sv could -ealize large advances on .is.- inv 5tments, and the final outcome shows that they knew what they were doing. T.ogsanis of emigrants are r--aiuE that way, and the probabili- rss are that Oregon and Wash f.y..u Terri -ory will double their pres- -.t population within the next two ,sg-s. ? rtland, a city of 250OO Inhabi- ,.ats. Is a su 5stantial commercial center ..--4rIus many fine blocks of business l11sa- and numerous elegant private residences. It will probably main the chief basiuess center of the State of Oregon. Seattle and Tacoma in Wash iz-tlu Territory are also thriving towns; tha farnerc ntaius population of b. mps17.e and both are increasing very -.slir. or to put 1t m more forcible -.-ls. are ID the midst of boom. There .-s a5t less than j)0 men employed on ,.a streets If Seattle, leveling them to grade aad opening up new streets, l ..as ot when are being cut through the !! -ruayI forests, the giant spruce or Oregon pine towering from loo to 25O 1 l.sth-l. CD either side leaving the ! -rae-s If tde adjacent lots to clear | t-su tr5n theIr ground or leave them IS living win esses of a future age of 1 tts changes that have been wrought. | But those who now visit that country | .alul5 no. allow themselves to be car rsI away by the abnormal growth a1I imp-1va nelts now going on m tls=s new towns and embryo cities lsg are 6s sure to out grow the re-ources of that u-1.-9, as all other new towns of the Vet have outErawn theirs They will -.7= t.,lr days of prosperity, and they rl a- surely have their days of adver- .-E ar what Is usually termed ga set t,i" There being no gauge, booms i-r--.aaIg force the growth Of towns lll cities J=-oni their resources to sus- a1. aud tb5 result will be that in the .5l-,5 1.-two ar three years these mush- -r.u ,5va- of Washington Territory, or ms. of them, will quietly sit down and r-L5r arer -he burdens of high taxes s-it-a large number of empty houses -.. l-.~ and wonder why they did not lsa5 further into the future before going g. iar Bu- some one point on Puget ..l1i -.lI, iu -he next few years, take precedence. The great overland roads vL settle the question, and will do It so Isualeat.y and effectually that the To- eaton of the future city of the North west cannot be mistaken. Oregon, V -liuc.1n. Montana and Idaho will be llluiautiy able to support a city of ial 10000 10 200OOO people, but Es people 0f those states and terri '"uas vi'i not have the selecting of the ste, nor wlIl their present investments scausilare1, when tine time comes, to Lmi that c.5y. The Union PIcific, the Northern P.e.ic and the Canadian Pa C-s lsulgcrs will, at some future day, -aet parda1s in an obscure room ID AsF larE 0- Chicago, and agree upon -s gont These great corporations lave # within their power to make and 1llake clIss in the west as no other e'-p1rate powers ever had before. That lg will use that power, no one who s13Vs anything Rbout them will for -sZelt doubt The site of the future e'E Ei.l De selected at the earliest pos abe uHueut, but will more likely be at ag3-a' l1v .itlIe thought of and of but -..le pr elt value. There IS no money for -sse corporations in strengthening and --1ls t9 build upan old town, as prop e''y valuations have already appreciated 20 la1y such places far beyond their a''1al worth. But they can select Eiela ground at many places on Puget '5lnd where good harbor accom- 5l-tions are to be had, buy it for a few -o1saud dollars, drire a stake in the '5aier of it, and nail board thereon Fl.l tLe Ten words: This IS to be the s's7t ci.y of the northwest" ard sign it E. the corporations above named, and - less than ten years a rival city will be ol--t-not rival to the present cities Of -la' locality, but 8 rival to the great -i5 of San Francisco, which will be the commercial center of the northwest, and '-Pate with the latter city for the iale of the Orient, Australia and the hands of the Pacific ocean. That such .e.'y sIll be built. there can be no .-t', the resources Of that growing sll'ry, and the promising outlet for --5aa traffic will sustain it; its growth '-sa once fairly started will be more '-s-d than any city yet built on this ointment, and 1t will destroy the north 'S'era trade of San Francisco.
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 4f there is any use of quarantine for l''z'na at all, the place to quarantine s-.l.l be at NozaIes. If there is any -alger, the qua-autining of Benson af- .''ls TO protection for Calabasas, and ''"ls along the line Of the New Mexico aaa Arizona railroad nor for Tombstone.