Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-04-19
HOW OTHERS DO IT.
What Railroads Have Done for Southern
 California.
tCorr. Phenix Gazette.

great and wonderful resources, que lO advertising of the same md the want of disposition to aid IS on the part of the two great rall- road corporations who control the | travel to and from this territory. That their attitude toward us in the | past has actually been hostile and 1 ruinous to our development, has been pretty clearly demonstrated by state ment of facts and figures. In order to understand what is needed for us to do, we should see what other localities have done, and are doing, and for that purpose we naturally turn toward southern California, a section of coun- try resembling our own ill many res poets; were a critical comparison made Arizona would not suffer by it.
 The citizens of Los Angeles. of San Bernardino and San Diego are so en- thusiastic about their country that almost every man within it has con stituted himself an immigration agent to work among his friends and ac- quaintances in the east. The country east of the Rocky mountains IS fairly flooded with maps and circulars, de- scriptive and illustrative of this or that colony. "Callfornia on wheels" magnificent exhibition of the products of the state, agricultural, horticultural and mineral, is now making its sec ond triumphant journey across this continent. This novel scheme is un- der the management of the state board of trade, in which W. H. Mills of the Southern Pacific is the moving spirit.
 Previous to this Innovation state immigration bureau was maintained, toward the support of which the same railroad company contribut- ed one-third of all expenses, besides sending four agents to Europe, of which Dr. w. J. Kingsbury, the fa- ther of the Tempe lawyer, was one and the writer another. We were not sent for the purpose of selling any of the lands belonging to the railroad, but simply to advertise California and its attractions, particularly those of the southern portions; to publish and dis tribute attractive pamphlets in the various foreign languages and to direct intending emigrants to take the south ern route via New Orleans.
 Dr. Kingsbury established his head quarters in London, the writer of this was assigned to Sweden, Norway and Denmark. One man labored among the French and Italians, and another among the Germans. Subsequently the Southern Pacific company sent a
 MT. Street to Chicago, there to inter cept and direct such travellers as might have escaped their European agents This was in 1S83-84, or just prior to the big stampede to southern Califor-
 mia. Will any one say that the rail. road had nothing to do with the boomi
 It cost the company several thous
 and dollars monthly, probably $60,
 GOO year, but if, as before stated
 every bonafde settler is estimated tc 1 be worth a $l 900 10 them, they are
 not losers by the operation.
 The Santa Fe invaded the territory
 through the Cajon pass, and took {
 hand m the boom. One of their frs
 strokes of diplomacy was to build tho
 Coronado, the most magnificent hote
 in the world, well knowing that noth
 ing attracts health and pleasure seek
 CTS more than fine hotel accommoda
 tions. The organization of regular
 excursions then began and a hot con
 test to out thrive the Southern Pa
 cific has been continued to this day
 Attractive folders, beautiful hand
 books and souvenirs of southern Cal
 ifornia are distributed broadcast iron
 every railroad station in the eas
 reached by this company or it's con
 nections, and it pays them big in
 terest on the money invested. In
 stead of stopping at this they arr
 steadily on the alert to improve ol
 the modes adopted.
 On the occasion of President Man
 vel's visit to Los Angeles just tw,
 weeks ago, he offered to the citizen
 of that place, in behalf of the Atchison
 Topeka < Santa Fe company, to pro
 vide and pay for permanent exhibit
 ion hall in the railroad building il
 Chicago. The only expense to tn
 people to be the forwarding and takin
 care of the exhibit. A largely attend
 ed publis meeting was held at tn [ chamber of commerce and the pre-
 liminary arrangements made for aC cepting the offer. President ManveP
 idea was explained to be a genera southern California exhibit. Eacl county might show it's own products but no effort should be made to ad
 vance the interests of any particula section. Even the literature circulat ed should be subjected to censorship to make sure that no objectionabl matter gets in. There should be ever , incentive to the various counties t , work in harmony, but at the sam time each county should be allowe to show its own exhibit. Every art cle should be numbered and recor book kept of the name and localit of exhibitor, to which reference shoul } be made.
 These views are coincided in b } the meeting and an executive con
 mittee was appointed to carry out tn l work.
 t The committee then decided tha 5 $1 300 a month should be pledged fc two years, in the following ratio: Lc
 Angeles, $900 San Diego, $500, an g San Bernardino $500, and ample a , surance was given by those preser f that the funds should be prompt . forthcoming. It was also propose to establish another permanent e:
 hibition on the Atlantic sea-boar,
 either in New York or at Bostol r as soon as the necessary arrangement l can be made.
 r That is the way they do such thini g in California, although my account 8 it remains perforce unfinished. Al e zona, however, deserves to be bett, ]. known than it is to-day In my ne, n will come what Arizona can and shou d do in the same time.
 , Items from Woodruff.
 6 The people of this section realize y very heavy loss during the recel e flood. When the flood came they hs T a "dam by mill site j" when it rece