Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-16
4 CITY OF DESTINY.
Phenix will ae the IIub--Its Natural Ad-
 vantages win Make It So.
Tombstone Prospeetor.


 The Salt river valley is spoken of as e part of Arizona which will support a city in the future of no small size. That city is to be Phcnix. This IS the fondcst hope of the settlers in the capital city and further than this they have not looked. To a close observer of what Is transpiung in our territory and the boundless re- sources of our undeyeloped mountains and valleys, much more importance IS attached to the embryo metropolis than to those who have settled down tO wait for the incoming tide. The midst of un certainty which Obscures the future Of Arizona is lifting slowly but surely, and through il is to be seen a vision which should awake the Rip Van Wrinkles from their slumbers. There is but one city, to recognize this fact is to overlook one of the prime factors in a comtry'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 ether wise.
 San Francisco, as the big city of Cali fornia, has grown in spite of the backsets and barriers that other small towns in in the golden state have raised against her; had the little fish turned to help the parent when she needed their assistance she would not have been the tenth city in the union and they would have out grown their minnow stage of existence. | The lesson has been taught us by Cali fornia and Arizona should profit by the 1 lesson.
 i In the first place we want all of the i produce raised in the Salt river valleys old l to be econsumed at home The fact stares us in the face that barley selling for 60 cents | per hundred and hay at S;i per ton pIice- | at Florence cannot be moved owing tC 1 the cost of transportation while carloads of the same product are shipped in from California thousand miles away and landed at our doors a hundred miles from where the granaries are groan ing with the weight of their unprOtitablt product of labor.
 This state of affairs, which the illustra tion cited is but one of many. must cease before Arizona can prosper It affect; not only the immediate sections where the facts are stern ones, but every non 1 agricultural section of Arizona as well The merchant would go under in any community who could not sell his good to the consumers in his own section. newspaper could not exist where mer chants advertised in papers ont Of tON1 and procured their printed matter il some distant city. Neither can Arizon; ever expect to prosper by sending th'
 money dug from the earth to exchaug
 for products not raised at home
 When there is sickness in the famil, we apply a remedy at the seat of tn
 disease and the condition of Arizona to day calls for radical remedy
 Phenix has alone and single handed without assistance from any of her satel
 lites, sought remedy. Cheaper trans
 portation will alone solve the problem
 A railroad which shall give us a medium
 for the exchange of products will buil
 Arizona into a tit-subiect for statehood
 \ north and south road is jGst as muc
 a necessity for the border counties as
 Is for the welfare of central Arizona / community is short sighted which ca
 and will not aid in every way possible i making the time as short as prac ticable when Arizona can boast C
 one city and a common interest in i; 1 welfare