Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-13
DETERMINATIONS.
Sugar Beet Culture the Great Source Of
 Wealth far Phenfx
D. Poaton in the Phenix RspubIieaa.

U
 Asthere is truce in politics rof a while, several trtic .es ia y0 t. rewsD Der on economic subjects enco Isage me 10 offer fe@ su sgs5.iOus as a dIsinteresteI party.
 4 nortn aad south railro I i5 generally demanded, but the means Of building i. have not been arrived at. The exchange Of commodities between north and soath are naturally greater than between east and west; but this does not apply to manufactured goods 4 north and south railroad from Phenix to Prescott would furnish 3 market for the farm products of the 5ait river valley, but farmers arc very apt tO buy supplies where they sell pro- ducts and have credits, 50 the commerce of PneuiX, except the hand d-tO-mou5l bas mess, would likely be transferred t3 Pres cot. A cross cut saw cats both V ys
 The expectation of getting favorable Congressional action and Presidential aD- proval at this session for the north an1 south railroad may be well founded, but there is nothing in past experience to justify It. My observation jusSfies the opinion that lobby influences more often defeat than benefit q meritOriOus measure. i Senators and members are less and less in eiined every year to be ipauenced by an- official information and as for moaee d5s- | bursements in Washington they genera y | go to imposters and bummers who have no influence with anybody.
 ! It is perhaps fortunate that our Teri
 toFial Legislature will bein session sone ! time after Congress adiourns and 1t will
 be time for them to consider the railroad necessities of the Territory after Congress shall have failed or refused to afford any
 relief
 The congested condition of the Salt
 river valley. and other parts of the Terri
 tory for that matter, requires speedy re-
 lief as the year will close with an unsatis- fatory balance sheet. Even if the Terri
 tory were gridirOned with railroads, there
 must be something produced for trans
 portation. The arrival of the train here
 yesterday with one white passenger and
 four MeXicans IS not encouraging to the
 extension of the railroads, but 1t must be
 admitted that 10 cents a mile does not
 offer inducements to tourists.
 The argumentin favor of establishing
 communication with competing lines iS laid to rest by the combine recently en tered into by the continental railways. 4 man must have a very hard head both in
 side and out who would essay to buc! against the railway corporations with thei stupendous power.
 , In agricultural productions we car -, scarcely undertake to compete with tht
 states in wheat, barley, cotton, hay, hogs
 hemp, tobacco or any other staple: but ii , the comparatively new industry of suga beets, Arizona could probably excel, a ' the soil and sun are exceedingly favorabl to saccharine productions, and the bount of cents pound offered by the Govern ment for the manufacture of domesti ! sugar forms an inducement never know ! heretofore. The frost which kills frui Il Il will never hurt beetsi and it may b reasonably hoped that two crops a yea can be produced on the same land. Twer f ty-fve tons per acre would be sma ! | average for Arizona land, and the pel U centage of saccharine matter would just , fy market value of over s per tor The residuum furnishes good provende .' Phenix, December 8th. 1880.