Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-05-24

The railroad meeting convened
last ever ing n the call Of the chair
man Of the previous meeting. The
meeting was called to order by MIR.
J. NJ. Ellis. Mayor Porter w s called
on TO preside and n. y MorfOrd to
act as secretary.
The will of the meeting being call
I'd for Mr., J. VI. Ellis made Il few
pointed remarks to the effect that
after due dcliberation on the subject
and that he considered the endeavors
of the citizens of the valley correct
in theory in attempting 10 gain ar
outlet for their produce whereby
they could compete with California,
never; hcless, he thou hit, the valley
should m Iintain frienusip with the
Southern Pacific Railr ad Company
for the reason that it is within their
power even when we have an lnde-
pendent line to Tues on and the south
to make their rates sucn from Cali
iornia that competition in these mar
kets will be impossible. He thought
it better TO ask the assistance of the
Southern Pacific people in building
The ROAD coupled with such concess-
ions from them as will i.isu US
rates that will place us in the south-
ern markets ahead of southern Cali
fOrnia. Should the Southern Pacific
refuse 10 assist us in any way 1t
wou Zen oily be left us to oppo
them.
Mr. CAM thought that we had
been subject to the Southern Pacific
people long enough and that if we
were determined and would so ahead
that with the assistance of Pima and
Pinal we could build the road and
succe sfully compete with the South
ern Pacific.
Hon A. C. Baker after a brief re-
sumo of what previous meetings had
doae towards getting things in shape
Tucson to the effect that the l. aiding
citizens of Tucson wished to visit us
soon. MIR. Baker then moved that
tie chair appoint committee to in
vite the Tucson people to visit u
and the mly or OF the city to be its
chairman. The chair appointed as
such committee the members of the
Town Council composed of til" Ho IS.
Mayor, DeForest Porter, j. Y. T.
Smith, NJ. Kales, w. F. NcNultr,
G. II. N L ,hrs and in addition Hon
A c. Baker, Capt. w. A. Hancock
and E. GAM. This committee was
subsequently made a committee on
entertainment also.
On motion of Mr. GAM a commit
tee on finances was appointed for thu
purpose of raising funds for the en-
tertainment of visitors. The motion
prevailed and the committee was
named as follows: f. GAM, a. c.
Baker, Capt. Hancock, j. Y. T.
Smith, NJ. Wormser, F. M. Fowler
and Judge |. H. Cox.
The chairman of the meeting, Hon
DeForest Potter called Capt Han-
cock to the chair and in substance
slid tn t after al these years whtn
the leading citiZen> of our sister city
had at length expressed themselves
as desirons of making us a visit it
would be a great pleasure to us to
entert--in them. He sail that even
though the visit might not result in
a railroad it would be great benefit
to our valley to have these visitors
examine its resources, for he was
sure the people of other portions Of
the Territory understood very little
of its importance.
He thought that which would en-
terrain most would be the in'liv dual
courtesies which we might extend to
them individually and that for the
purposes of entcrta ming or visitors |
the people of the town and valley
should consider them selves Il COM |
mittee of the whole
A motion then prevailed TO |
adjourn subject to tie call of tae
chair.
a subscription list was handed
around at the close of the meeting
and fifty-fivr liars were at once
raised for the purpose of showing
visitors about the valley, etc. The
list will be circulated for a day or
.wn and it is hoped that the citizens
will subscribe literally.