Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13
PHENIXIANA.
Ready for RaiIrosd-More Wheat 1haI Barley Being Sowed-Times Brisk
 the Resurrection City.

PHENI1, Oct. 4,h-
 The atmosphere is cool, clear ana
 bracing; comfortably warm at midday
 but in the early mornings and at sun down one finds a heavy coat indis-
 Densable to comfort, while the knights are actually cold. IL has been said that Salt River Valley during eight months of the year enjoys a climate which can not be surpassed in the world. One may readily believe this, but permit me to draw a vel over the remaining four months. was here a ear ago last July when it was too hot for anything but profanity, and even that question: able amusement soon lost it's charm. The harvest has long been over and all the crops gathered in. Now the "sOng of the sower" IS heard ID the land 1; only 1t IS different kind of a sOwer than that of which the poet sings. It IS run by machinery.
 The little eonhsgration which oc. cured here week ago, has already l ceased to be a subject of onversatiOn.
 
 mind were shown by the self-elected fire company, and but fo- good judg- ment and rapid work, the town might have suffered 8 real calamity. As It Is two thousand dollars will cover all losses, and the heaviest loser MT. N. A. MorfOrd, owner and editor of the Herald, has tine sympathy of all.
 Business here IS becoming more lively II seen on the streets and all the hotels are rapidly filling up. Some of the influx Is due to the term of district court now pending, and more of 1t IS the result of the knowledge which IS being gradually disseminated in the outside world that Salt River Valley IS par excellence the winter resort of the United States, es- peclally for those troubled with lung diseases.
 Phenix does not depend on outsiders for sn exlstence-by Cutsid-r I mean visitors and travellers passing through. It IS chiefly the farmers up and down the valley who contribute to her wealth Many hundreds of laborers and faru, hands are continually employed and DO one really wishing to work will search for IL in vain.
 At this time of year the large canal companies whose iitches together amount to nearly one hundred miles. are cleaning them out from one end Co the other, and eXP1ndIng thousands Oi dollars in doing so. The three most im pOrtant ditches in the valley, VIZ: the Grand Canal, the Maricopa canal and the Salt River valley canal will have paid out tO labOrers by the tune the cleaning IS completed, very nearly SlO, GOO cash. Then there IS the Arizona Cd. nal in course of construction, which en- ployg over fifty men, and the Tempe and ! Mormon ditohes.
 It has been dry week for the justic, | courts-nO criminal or civil cases. Tb, l Board of Supervisors has been in session l since Monday.
 There is very little talk here on the question of a railroad, but the people ! only want live man to wake them up to the situation. 1 was talking to-day | to a farmer who says he has lived slz years iu this valley, and his converse tIOn proved to me that other farmer have opinions identical with his. II said hs was putting in wheat this year because he thought 1t would find aI easier market than barley. He was about the transportation of ne1 years crop and said that all farmers b, had met were anxious for railrra, between the Southern Pacific Railroad ] and Phenix, ard that most Oi then when they had finished planting would | be willing and anxious to put in their time and teams ID grading a mile or more according to their means and for l pay take stock in the railroad He was certain he could find many who would iO SO as soon as theIr "crops were in, if they could be sure of having it com pleted tune tO move next years crups The man I was talking to is A slow going ! German, and since he has | come to this opinion, think 1t a fair index of the feeling among Salt River farmers generally. There are capitalists here also, as We have seen, who favor he railroad scheme, and If only some of TOUT energetic TucsOnisns wlll make mother move in the direction, 1t is almost sure to be successful. R.