Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-29
SOMETHING ABOUT OURSELVES.

are appreciated. The CITIZEN had something to say day or two ago about the resources of Arizona and the possi-
 oilIty of building up a city, and com parison of the Denver of 1870 with Tncson of to-day. A number of well
 p sted and observing men, who are &C., quainted with the history of the two cities, have voluntarily expressed their
 approval of the conclusions arrived at in the article, and fully agree with us as
 to the superior resources of Arizona
 and its promising future. 70. b"
 whose letter appears ID another column, is an old pioneer who has watched the
 growth of Kansas City, St. Joseph, Salt
 Lake, Denver and other western towns,
 has faith in Tucson. He has witnessed the results of western enterprise in those
 cities: he has closely observed their re- sources, and calculated their probabili
 ties, and never made a mistake as to
 the final outcome. Looking over the
 field in Arizona, its resources, in mines,
 agriculture. grazing and lumber, he
 naturally comes to the conclusion that
 here is another spot upon which the energy, perseverance and capital of the
 pioneers of the West will center and
 build up 8 city far beyond the expecta-
 Jions of most people. The opinions of
 -uch men are worth much more than
 he ordinary comer and goer, who Is
 ''here to-day and there tomorrow" who
 is a citizen of no town or place longer
 than 1t serves his purpose to make
 money in easy and desultory
 ways. We have a large class of citizens iu Arizona who, for more than thirty
 ,ears, have followed the fortunes oi
 njalng camps on the Pacific coast; the!
 are a noble class of pioneers who have
 tood the bruut of the battle, the storms
 f ady-rsity, and, like the people ot
 very land, they form opinions by draw
 ng cJmgari ons from what they have -een aud experienced through life.
 They are unused to the building up Of permanent towns and cities, because
 rom early manhood they have lived and -xueu, ed the best years of their lives iu
 4,ring camps, which, gs everyone knows,
 agst collapse with the mines which ere
 ted them. They have followed the for
 mes of White Pine, Virginia City,
 iodle aud scores of other similar rlin- .1g camps in California, Idaho, Nevada,
 ioutaua and Utah, and are unused to -ae more permanent resources of agri- culture, grazing and extended com
 uricp, and cannot realize how towns
 ,ni ciJ es can grow and prosper beyond
 he support directly furnished by neigh boring mines. They are honest in their
 '1uvicuons, but their ideas of the futuie
 # such a town as Tucson are formed Ipon erroneous data, and no class of our citizens will be more astOnished when, few years hence, Tucson rises to
 he proportions of a thrifty, prosperous city, with all the elements of perma- uency and future greatness.
 When the railroad neared Tucson this class of people predicted its tall, because they had seen railroads kill towns In California. The railroad came and passed on to the East, but 1t did not kill our city. On the contrary 1t continued to grow and prosper far beyond what 1t had before. This prosperity continued for more than three years, and still the city lives, hough business is not what it was a year or two ago. But this stale ot ltfaIrs is not owing to the building of a railroad through our country, but from various causes. The Guaymas road has cut of much of our Soncra trade; the foolish action of our merchants, who ,ent word to Mexico that their money vas not good enough to buy their goods, lad very disastrous effect on our uade; then followed the Indian troubles waieh created general stagnation .hrourhout the Territory. Aside from taese general causes our city had grown CD or beyond the limit of its resources. IL B not strange then that a season of luIet has overtaken us; but 1t is a sur prise We have pulled through SO well.
 But our people have opened their eyes; they begin to see things in their tue light They have come to the cHaolusIon that something must be | Le t0 open up new avenues of trade; tIat lt Is necessary to build mills and smzl,ers for the reduction of our ores aud establish manufgctories for the p rmaneAt employment of labor. It 4as taken long time to bring these taug4 about, but they are coming. By tle jluici0us investment of the sIG0,0UO of Pima county bonds autho lzed by the last Legislature We have it within our power to do much. Tucson can secure every rail s0ad tbat the present demands. and | winch give promise of benetiuDg this section of Arizona if We do our duty. | Our reduction works are secured We nave it In our power to build a road to a road to PhoenH and road | to the great mineral and pine regions of 2 he north. These are all we need at present, but we do need and must have every one of them before we can expect that prosperity which every reasonable and observing man must admit IS within our reach. Tucson Is not a mining | camp, but a natural center from which | the trade and commerce of Arizona will | be distributed if our people will do their duty. The tide may just Rs well be turned this way the coming year as the coming decade, if we but will It. If we do not do our duty and make every edge cut as it can be made to cut, we should not complain, us the fault will | lie with us and not with the location of Tucson. or the resources of the coun- try.
 THE business men of Tombstone, who have not been Tn the habit of observing the Lords Day" have concluded a and hereafter they will | shut up shops at noon. Six hours is cutting the time for prayer rather short, but We remember there is no fishing near Tombstone to cause a further divi- sion of time.
 LAwLEssNEss on the frontier IS now conceded to be in the neighborhood of Ohio. Somebody will be thn-a hnfn-n tha r.n,n-