Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-15
HOW DOES THIS STRIKE YOU!
The Railroad from Flag.
staff to Globe an AS.
sured Success.

The point of junction, Flagstaff,
comes to the front with an offer of one
hundred thousand dollars. The ter
minus, Globe, follows. goes one better
and takes two hundred thousand dol
lars in bonds. The shelters and min
ing companies, such as the Old Globe,
Buffalo, Long Island and Carrie sign
another one hundred thousand. The
cattlemen and farmers along the
route, place confidence in the road to
amount of one hundred thousand dol
lars. Two hundred miners and labor
ers, offer their labor for shares in the
enterprise.
All this means the placing of two
million dollars worth of railroad stock.
1t means the immediate letting of the
contract for the first fifty miles of
road; it means new existence for
Globe; it means glorious revival of
trade and prosperity for the county.
1t means the long .looked-for success
of our copper enterprises; it means
Globe the copper center of the CONT
nent; 1t means dividends to the share
holders of the Globe, Buffalo and Long
Island; it means the opening of our
immense silver and gold interests; it
means cheap reduction of our ores,
cheap freight, revival of our mining
interests; it means a population of
10000 where Globe now stands with
barely 1900; it means more, it means
money for everybody who to-day suf-
fers from hard times, who is waiting
for something to turn up.
What then is the matter with our
people? Flagstaff to-day is the only
point where sufficient interest for the
enterprise has shown itself to raise
one hundred thousand dollars for the
road; have our people become short
cannot Globe, the terminus,
aid in proportion as the point of juno
ton has done? Cannot ella county
promise to raise, in the East, after the
necessary'legal enactments have been
complied with, a beggarly 100000, at
a low rate of interest in exchange for
railroad bonds? Is our belief in the
growth of ella county, and tie conse-
quent growth Of our resources, upon
railroad advent and connections, so
small and timid as to make us waver
and think whether we shall be able to
bear an additional tax burden, such as
would accrue from the issue of bonds.
Would not each one of US pay cheer
fully, as our contribution for one year,
double the taxes we are paying now
for after the road is once built, the
railroad taxes themselves will form
heavy income for our county, leave
alone the increase of population, and
consequent increase of taxable prop
erty. Can the farmers be possibly so
short sighted, as not to see that
railroad will give them an ample and
profitable outlet for that surplus
grain and farm produce which is sure
to accrue in the near future. Can the
copper companies be so blinded as not
to perceive that railroad means for
them big money, and no railroad
ruin.
These lines are not written with a
view to bankrupt our county, they are
not written with view to see the
farmers homestead mortgaged; they
are not written with view to see the
copper companies furnaces lie idle
idle forever; they shall simply serve
as reminder to those who may think
that we can better afford to remgin in
the conditions of slow decay, than to
help such enterprises, as for instance
a railroad from Flagstaff to Globe.
TAX PAYER.