Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-06-14
Tle Silver Lake.

The opening of the establishment at Silver Lake on Saturday night prepared by Maish and Driscoll, exceeds anything ever performed in Arizona, and even rivals the stories in the Arabian Nights entertainments.
 The four r-in-hands were turned loose about the cool of the evening and all the beauty, fashion, and chivalry of the metropolis of Arizona streamed towards the silver stream.
 The appointments there are inde- scribable moonlight, music, love and flowers" is stale quotation compared to them.
 All that has been said, or written about brooks, rivulets, rills, rivers, cas- cades or cataracts is dimmed by the flashing waters of the Silver Lake Gs they dance over the bOulders and glim- mer as they go in the brilliancy of the electric light.
 There are some men gifted with the prestige of success-mostly plodding men like Jay Gould, Lloyd Tevis aad Maish and DriscOll.
 Everything they touch turns to gold, because they attend to their business. They are the alchemists of the century.
 The vast developments of Jay Gould have spread the great advantages of -,,I,-axy ,pEaraourca frOnn New York tO the City of Mexico.
 The methodical mlnd and unceasing industry of Lloyd Tevis has made Wells, home in America.
 And in our own dear and desert land Maish and Driscoll put their hands to a prince or peasant
 In olden times a flour mill ground its gram on the Santa Cruz as mournfully as the shadow ejects the waters of the Nile onto the land of Egypt
 But Maish and DriscOll took the mill on the hoos" over, and a fairyland rlses like an Aphrodite from the sea
 Man does not live by bread alOne'- We must have wine; and some of us must have women.
 The growlers say that Tucson has no industrial pursuits-ls not a railroad centre-has no manufacturing elements is hot pestered with the eternal hum of industry. Very true-neither was Babylon, nor Jerusalem, nor Athens, nor Rome-and never hammer fell in Pompeii; and Paris, the capital of the world, is not celebrated for industry.
 The type of Asiatic religion IS repose the genius of Greek culture was fest ivity-the Chinese wisely locate the soul in the stomach.
 The Americans unvisely locate the soul in the pOcket.-"Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow We dle"-and then comes the worm, and the assignee, or the public administrator Just think of that and go to Silver lake.
 In view of recent events in Pima coun- ty, and the glaring report of the grand jury, let us all put our shoulders to the wheel of time and make Tucson a center of pleasure-an oasis in the desert where the weary traveller on the Journey of life may rest and be thankful"
 In a circumference of a thousand miles no other spot can be found so en- inently qualified by nature for the en- ioyment of her gifts. The sky fits around 1t like dome. and the gas jets of the Universe illuminate its festivals.
 It is manful to look facts squarely in the face and say the truth.
 The commercial supremacy of Tucson vanished with the Mexican dollar, never more to return.
 The report of the grand jury and other iudiclal proceedings recently, have ex- ploded the integrity of Pima county.
 As the possibility of Tucson becoming a railroad center, that opportunity has l passed.
 There IS nothing left but to obey the | laws of Nature, and make Tucson cen tre of pleasure. "A vile de iOice." A Monaco. A Cairo.
 Before the Kaiser William formed a with God for the suppress sion of vice in Germany, Hamburg and Baden Baden absorbed the floating I wealth of Europe.
 Now, Germany Is poor and grass grows in the Straas. |.
 In circumference of thousand l miles around lake Lucerne. no such clements of prosperity exist, and yet Geneva for a thousand years has been .he centre of learning. of liberty, of law, lf literature and us long as the Rhine lows from the melting snows of Swift .erland the brain of Europe will seek he Swiss citadel to draw inspiration rom the Alps. We must make American homes and ( Oster them. No lake in Switzerland or taly equals lake Tahoe. Its profHndity s a mystery, and it's sylvan shores are in the old world. As the Roman citizens of note made or themselves POmpeiian villas; as the I ay Parisians seek the western sea; and be metropolis of the world contributes I alf million to summer at Brighton, 0 the Atlantic cities work themselves C l the summer time from Cape Hatteras D New Port. ! And We of the inbound land must have plunge in the sylvan water which -uctiies our beautiful valley, and gives he reward due tO native and AsiHtic of esculents, fruits and A overs appreciable for the antithesis of le desert. In the shOwering bouDties of nature, fight Is day m Arizona; and the land of 4, ,ng (where the nightingale warbles his IT ndying love to his blushing mistress, the ,sel Is improved by the minstrelsy of usic over the babbling stream of Silver B ake where tenderfeet keep terpsichOr- P m time over the dancing waters. The Lucullian pavilion glows like the | nl orm that never dies; and appetite, as | c leOpatra, grows more ravenOus by what feeds upon and all in all it resembles ., of Lalla ROOkh ID Cash Nj ere or Persia.
 COP.