Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-03-20
AriXaca NnieS.

Arivaca Notes.
 ARIvAcA, ARIZONA, March 18th 1886.
 EDITOR CITIzEN:-Itis Is rarely that undertake 90 communicate fact through the journals ot our territory bus living for long time in the southern part of Pima county, we should hay, some claims upon your valuable pape to state few facts of general interest to the farmers, miners, and stockmeI generally. We learned recently through an old Mexican friend that that Repub lc had modified the order for bushes. men to pass into the state of Sonora with ihe general outfit for businesspur poses by giving bond for customs, fol SIX months. Heretofore the rule was t1 only grant the privilege al the farthest Tor oO days and that was tue exception The rule was out few days, making it almost impossible for business men to transact business and keep out of the way of the c0nfiscatiun laws. It is be. heved this wIll tend to largely increase the trade with the people of our sister hepubllc, which benefited Pima county SD much m the past. Let the good come and not only arouse up the bus;- ness Tn the south but in tue central and northern part of old Pima. It IS hoped T. will electrify the ancient metropolis of ihe territory, Tucson.
 The weather has been a little blustery but old stormy March has to shake her mane, being the divide between, winter and spring. We already see the heauti- tul buttercup with gorgeous cOloring, in the language of the poet
 They sleep in duet through the Niutry hours Then burst forth m glory."
 The low lands begin to look quiet green; el vaca and bronco, are shedding their shaggy haIr of winter and beginning to look sleek and tidy, for summer, and m a few weeks will be fat, for the shambles.
 The health Of our side Of the county IS ot the highest order. The Doctors wlll have to swap horses if they get more than a living.
 Recently We saw a party of surveyors, said 10 be CslifOTnigns, marching out, and plating Q large section of the Sgsabe valley, sad to be operating under the timber act oi Congress, and strange to say, the plot included the best mesquite timber land in ths valley. Timber every way good for fencing posts for sgricul- tural. laUds'an can it be that Jhese.me VII destroy our growth Of timber. with a promise to the government to plant another growth and thereby possess themselves of the lAnd2 This does not look like far dealing, Knowing ones say that ditch from a p0int in Ariraca Creek Is to carry the water over the mesquite timberedsvElley, but uufortu- uGtely, where the ditch IS Et8rtCd there IS not drop of running water during the dry season, and the oldest citizens Jf tA.s sIde say that there never ,hCs 1ren living wate- il the dry season for m.'es up tue stream. r. this a scheme Co be spread on paper for the CaliiOr- man or tho far away poOs nan tO be re- level Oi his money, without value? |. hoped not. |, is hoped that this new administration. which has passed the me of its first year, will see that justice slil be done even though the Capital Is pn the other side of the continent. II matters but little which party is in power, there Is a common interest iu pro- ,ect;ng tbe bOnatiie settlers, the soldier. sailor. Much has been said by all our pc pie 8bout our new Surveyor c, D. .ral's high integrity, and ability, while xe do not know him so well, yet from what We hear, our faith k full that he Sill stamp out all such land iobbing in this territory. Gen. W. J. A. Sparks. Public Lands Commissioner, at Wash nyton D. c. IS said to be R stingeT and when facts are known, that 70 or 70 miles f our finest mesqu.t timber lands Is go- Is Co ra tsECr u0ier the tImher ac. of ngress, no doubt there will be an eS- pose decidedly unwealthy for 8 few.
 The prospect now is that our trade with Mexico will largely increase.
 The papers are busy writing up the great railroad war. It Is well settled that individuals can do but little with these mammoth corporations, yet where they take hold of each other, they make the financial fur fly and rarely they .ver get back 10 the old schedule, hence his Is favorable for all shippers in this Tar away land of Arizona, for every dol lar taken of transportation leaves one n the hands of the producer, whether of grain, beef or bullion.
 sl AEk AlOM NLEAt aN n khAtA AAEhA hA AENA- ing and some talk on the subject oi Territorial and County taxation, by the taxpayers, of Pima County. All agree hat a halt must he called, that 35 or 4O mills to the dollar Is about all :he mod crate farmer can make out of his invest meut So when at the end If the year he balanced his annual account he Is out and really his little home is cOnfis- cated to the public. I think Of our sis ter counties c8n, at least some of them, get along will ten and fifteen mills on the dollar. the oldest county ID the Territory should do so too. The south tide of the county to a man, want a law passed by the next Territorial Legisla- ture, that tine supervisors Of each county of the Territory shall be limited by law not to exceed n levy of fifteen mills fer all purposes, or one and the half of one per cent.
 The taxes in many Of the counties are so high that they are really a rent and will If not soon reduced produce dis. order, md drive out settlers.
 Let the above jaw be discussed by the tax-payer5 and presented to the next set of candidates for the li;h Legisla. tuTe and have them promise to GO it and t will be done.
 ARTyACA SN.