Tombstone daily prospector., 1890-08-07
A CITY OF DESTINY,
Phentx Wfil he The Hub. rfs Natural Advantages Miil
 Make Ef So.

That city is to be Phenix. This is the fondest hepe of the settlers in ihe capital city and further than this they have not looked. To . close observer oi what is transpiring in our territory and the boundless resources of our undeyeloped mountains and valleys, much more importance is attached to the embryo metropolis than to those who have settled down 10 wait for ;he incoming tide. The mist of uneer- tainty which obscures the future of Arizona is lifting slowly but surely, and through it is to be seea vision which should awake the Rip Van Wrinkles from their slumbers There is but one city 10 each state and not ;o recognize this fact is to overlook one of the prime factors in count.y's growth. That Phenix is to be the city of Arizona should create no jealous feeling in the breasts of those who would have it otherwise.
 San Francisco, as the big city of California, hls grown in spite of the backsets and barriers that other small towns in the golden state have raised against her; had the little fish turned to help the parent when she needed their assis -ance she would not have been the tenth city in the union and they would have outgrown their min now stag. of existence. The. lesson has been taught us by California and Arizona sl,ould profit by the lesson.
 In the first place we want all oi the produce raised in the salt river valley cold to consume at home. The faci stares us in the fs.e that barley selling for co cents per hundred and hay at S4 per ton (prices at FlO-encel. can not be moved owing to the cost of trans portation while carloads of the same product are shipped in from California a thousand miles away and landed at our doors hundred miles from where the graneries are groaning with tle weight of their unproftable product of labor.
 This state oi affairs, which the illus tration cited is but one of many, must cease before Arizona can prosper. IL affects not only the immediate sections where the facts are stern ones, but every non-sgricultuTal section of Ari- zona as well. The merchant would go under in any community who could not sell his goods to the con sumers in his own section. A news. paper could not exist where merchants advertised in papers out of town enl procured their printed matter in some distant city. Neither can Arizona ever expect to prosper Icy sending ihe money dug from the earth to exchange for products not raised at home.
 When there is sickness in the family we apply remedy at the seat of tine disease and the condition Of Arizona today calls for radical rem edy.
 Phenix has alone and single handed, without assistance from any Of her satellites, sought remedy. Cheaper transportation will alone solve the problem 4 railroad which shall give us q medium for the exchange of pro ducts will build Arizona into it sub ject for statehood. A north and south road is just as much necessity for the border counties as it is for the welfare of central Arizona. A com munity is short sighted which can and will not aid in every way possible in making the time asshort as practicable when Arizona can boast of ne city and common interest iB it's welfare