Arizona republican., 1891-04-08
UNNECESSARY DELAY
IN THE TRANSFORMATIONS IN AND
 OUT OF PHOENIX.
One Who Has Gone Oyer the Line Points Out How 1t May be Remedied and the City Benefited.
To the Editor of TIE RrrupLrcAN.

To the Editor of THE REPUBLICAN
 TUcsos, A. T., Aprill 5, 1891.
 The great American privilege retained and maintained by the Constitution to us, the people, is the right "to kick" as it is expressed in this latter-day slang, so 1 propose, with your assistance, to make public my cause oi "kick."
 Have you travelled, since the flood, from Maricopa to Phenix, or rather from Phoenix to Maricopa? If not you cannot be in sympathy with my kick; if you have then am assured of your full sympathy, especially if you have intended journeying eastward from Maricopa. The distance from Phenlx to Maricopa is about thirty-six miles by wagon road. A stage at an easy gait should make, over these almost level roads, at least six miles an hour, that is, six hours is ample time (especially with two changes of horses, as they now have) to make the trip. If, then, our stage left Phoenix at A. M., as the rail road did [, then it would have six hours and forty-five minutes to make connection with the east-bound train on the South ern Pacific Railroad. This means one full day saved to the person travelling east, or to the mail and express going east. It means more than that. These days are getting warm, in fact the sun is hot, and the early morning hours are perfectly delightful to ride in, and, too, the early hours are free from dust, while the later hours are exceedingly uncom- fortable as to heat and almost unbeara- ble as to dust.
 Certainly there is energy enough in sthe gentlemen running the two lines of stage to make this change. It is better for their stock and tor their drivers. The one that does make the change can count on all the passengers. If there is not energy enough in either of these lines, then new line has an open field to start work in. If there is not energy enough in the liverymen of Phoenix, then the citizens should take a hand, for these unnecessary delays are daily injury to Phoenix and the Salt River valley.
 This is not alone matter of interest to those travaling. but it is equally SO to all who send or receive express mat ter, and still more SO to the entire com munity as to their letters and papers Take your paper as an instance; instead of getting to Tucson the day it Is pub lished, as il shonld, it does not come in until the next day. This is equally true of every letter or paper sent out of Phoenix. IL these things are not cor rected for the benefits as shown that can be derived from them, then the post office authorities should be notified Of the unnecessary delays and their strong aid invoked.
 Every person visiting Phoenix or the valley has to leave one day earlier than they would otherwise leave, and this means from three 10 five dollars loss 10 the valley for every one that is leaving. This alone in months time amounts to a very considerable sum.
 We'll have had my kick and l will give an item or two of facts that are not very pleasant but believe in know ing the worst. Do not expect the train to be running into Tempe under a months time, with good luck. There will not be more than six "bents" of piles driven day Ga "bent" consists of four piles driven at right angles to the line of the road-bed and about four feet apart). These "bents" are about six teen feet from one to the other. That is to say that with good luck they will make ninety-six feet day and as the distance is 30O0 feet, you can calculate for yourself. As yet they have hardly got started, just about enough to call a fair start.
 They have two pile-driving engines, the heaviest hammer about twenty seven hundred pounds and the other less than two thousand pounds. The piles are from sixty feet down and are driven about twenty-five feet, some more and some less.
 There are a number of orange and other fruit trees at Maricopa that the owners have refused to receive and many of them are probably already dead or too far gone to save, but many of them are still good and probably could be had at bargain.
 To return to my "kick," if the people of Phoenix really understood the un. necessary injury that is being done to them and their fair valley they would start new line by contribution if ne cessary. Single teams without change and carrying three and four people have made the connection, and it only need, trying, to do it at all times. Keep il alive and before the people, Mir. Editor and you will do your community good service ARIZONAN