Weekly Phoenix herald., 1885-01-22
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 ALMOST daily we hear the ques- tion asked "of what benefit would a railroad between Phoenix and Mari> copa be?" This Is usually followed by the declaration that the Southern Pacific people would charge the same rates as now and that we could get freight out and into the valley no cheaper than at present. Suppose now that freight rates should remain just the same, though this is g mere assumption for they are liksly.to be controlled and decrease as trade in- creases, would railroad into the valley be of any use to us? Should the petty matter of few dollars and cents which our merchants and shippers might pay out more or less for freight to be considered for moment when the advance in real estate, the increase in population and consequent large increase in business, the change which increased population and decrease in size of ranches will cause in products, the increased amount of products, the new industries that will necessarily spring up amoug us, the capital that will come in, the new energy that will come to us, the institutions of so- cial and educational nature that will be attached to us-when all these enter into the question, as they most certainly do, is Maricopa county going to say "no, "keep them out, keep out the railroad because freight will be no cheaper?" Are our busi- ness men going to say "no, we are afraid of competition, we don't want any more capital, we can't compete with new energy, we wouldn't be able to controll all the trader" Are our ranchers going to say "no, we don't want to cut up our ranches, we don't want any more market, We don't want a variety of products, we don't want a neIghbor on the wild land, we don't want prosperity?" ?" Is the community gong to say mo, we don't want higher and better schools, we don't want beautiful homes among us, we don't want society, we don't want churches, we don't want lyceums, We don't want anybody in
 the country able 10 deliver an inter esting lecture, we don't want anye thing but the doIlar?" We th1nk not. Our business men are, most of them, men of enterprise, men who have come from geed surroundings, men who can see in public prosperi> ty the safeguard of their own per. sonal prosperity, and men who mean to make their homes here. Our ranchers are men who see in the ads vent of a railroad a rise in the val ue of their lands, demand for those lands, demand for more varied and profitable productions, home mar ket in the increasing population, The community at large coming, as
 is usually the case in frontier country, from the most energetic, wide awake and often education DOT ton of older communities, knowns the advantage to society of general prosperity and thorough population of a country; they know the influ> ence which spring up, under such circumstances, that are cultivating and refining, that bring schools colleges and libraries. We believe the country, as whole, thoroughly understand all the advantages to be derived from the accessibility of our valley to the outside world and we believe they want that accessibility as soon as possible in the shape of railroad. And thus we have endeav> ored to point out some of the ad- vantages to the county, to our town, to our business men and farmers, that railroad would be to the val. ley, even though the freig ht upon our products should remain the same as they have been in the past thing that Is entirely improbable
 Dr. Gleason, of the Elmira water cure, suggests that we have little care in our hygiene. He says, that n 1tl l0r.b rua bova N11il1 foroo x,h;oh