Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
PEOPLES PREFERENCE.
As Expressed at a Prescott Meeting on the
 Railroad Question.
Journal Miner.

Journal-Miner.
 A meeting of the business mon, taxpay- CTS and citizens generally, which adjourn ed on Tuesday evening, last night con vened at o'clock in the court house. The officers of the previous evening were unanimously elected as officers Of last nights meeting. A resolution introduced by w. c. Bashford elicited thorough and exhaustive discussion of the railroad question in all phases from a 20-inch to 36 inch gauge, from exemption to taxa tion to $l,OO0 mile in the way of subsidy aid, and in the matter of routes everyone ever heard or talked of was discussed. After a few amendments of slight i'm portance, the preamble and resolution was adopted as follows:
 Whereas, that at the time the people of Prescott urged and secured the passage of the subsidy bIll, under which Mir Bull lock built the Prescott X Arizona railway, from point on the Atlantic & Pacific railEoad to the city of Prescott, and gave to him the right of valuable subsidy for the building of a road south from Prescott, through our rich mining region, we did so, believing that in the event of such road being built, we would, at such time reap our reward. And there fore, be 1t.
 Resolved, That the people of Prescott do hereby protest against the building of the north and south railroad, as propOs- ed by Mir. Bullock, from some point seven to fifteen miles north Of Prescott on the Prescott < Central railway ,sthrough Big Bug and the Black Canon thence to Phenix. That road over such a route can be of no benefit to the country other than that through which the road will pass, but will work an injury to the bal ance of the country and to the city of Prescott, leaving us as 1t does upon the east and avoiding the very country that 1t was the express intention of the bill to build up.
 Resolved, That, as Joseph Reynolds, of the city of Chicago, has and Is interest ing himself to secure for us the much needed road directly through the city of Prescott, by way of the Hassayampa and thence by the most practicable route to the city of Phenix according to the Act granting said subsidy, and believing that l if the Maricopa county subsidy bill, now ! pending in congress, becomes law, that l MT. Reynolds will succeed in obtaining ! for us this much needed railroad cOnnec- l ton with the Salt River valley and the southern part of the territory, thereby connecting the two great industries of | the territory-agricultu and mining resulting in great benefits to the whole ! territory.
 Resolved, further, That we consider the l endeavor of T. s. Bullock to defeat the Maricopa county subsidy bill now before congress as unwarranted and decidedly against the best interests of the whole territory, and the counties of Maricopa and Yavapai in particular therefore, be it.
 Resolved, That the people of Prescott, in meeting assembled do herewith de clare, our every support to Mir. Reynolds, or any other person in this undertaking. That we declare our every confidence in the ability of Mir Reynolds to construct or secure the construction of said road and we herewith pledge to him our efforts in every way within our power.
 Resolved, That it is to the interest oi Yavapai and Maricopa counties and tc the whole territory of Arizona that con gress pass the Maricopa county subsidy bill, and we urge upon our delegate iu congress the necessity of the immediate passage of the same.
 Resolved, That our members elect to the sixteenth legislative assembly be request ed to use their honest effort to defeat any legislation looking to the changing of the subsidy to any other route thar that which the Yavapai county subsidy bill now calls for, and to use their every effort to defeat any bill that should b( introduced asking for the exemption iron taxation of any heretofore subsidized road, or any road connecting the cities o Prescott and Phenix, or affecting the in
 terests of Yavapai country, other thal one built directly south through the cit,
 of Prescott, and by the way as proposed
 in the Act granting the subsidy, and fo which We have mortgaged our homes ant
 property.
 T Resolved that the secretary of this meet
 ing fe requested to send copy of thes
 resolutions to Joseph Reynolds, to ou
 member in congress, and to the governo and secretary of the territory, and to eacl
 and every member-elect to the sixteentl
 legislature.
 While the above resolution was unde discussion, Governor Tritle introduce
 the resolution, found below, as subst , tute, but strong opposition being man ifested to it as substitute for the abov resolution, it was withdrawn by it's at
 thor:
 Resolved, That, whereas the legislatur
 of 1885 enacted law by which the raj
 road route from Prescott to the mort 9 line of Maricopa county was by the wa of the Hassayampa divide, and where's the subsidy granted for the building ( . said road was S4O00 for standard gaug and $3,000 for 36-inch gauge. and, wher, a as, the growth and material developmen
 of the route aforesaid has increased, an not diminished, since the passage of sai Act. therefore.
 Resolved, That we, the citizens of Pre- . do hereby insist upon the faithful an , complete carrying ont of the expresse ] wish of the representatives of the peopl