Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1893-07-01
STATE OF WASHINGTON.
An ArizOnan in q Cold Climate He
Prefers Arizona and Tells Why.
SpnH. Woch 1909

| an Ar1z0nan In q Cold Climate-He
Prefers Arizona and Tells Why.
| SPOKANE, Wash, June Is. 1893
Editor Citizen:
L now take the liberty to write you, as
L agreed to before l left your city
Since L came to this north western
country have travelled great deal and
have seen most OF this state, and have
met many old-time friends and acquaint-
ances who have LETT Arizona to try their
fortunes in this state, and each one OF
them takes great pleasure in referring
to the good old times and the happy
/ days they spent in the silver territory.
, In fact | have been royalty ent rtained
by all whom | have met and | am sur
prised to see so many old Tombstone
prospectors settled ia this city Of Spo-
kane.
The growth of this city is marvellous.
Twelve years ago this lard was loca'ed
and settled upon; today tie population
numbers BLOOD. There are SIX ines Of
railroads coming into the city from diff
terent points of the union, and 1T looks
to me as if this were the dumpir
ground of the northwest for the foreign
emigration to this country. Many times
l have stood looking at them coming
in and wondered why could not our ter
ritory get part of them, and l believe it
could if the same enterprise vera dis
played by the citizens of our territory
as is displayed by the citizens of Spo-
kane. The wages of laOoring men are
very low-common lauor S1.50 per day,
carpenters S2.70, machinists sand
little employment to be found at that,
as there no manufacturing OF any kind
except in flour mills, of which there are
four, and one electric light and power
plant and city water works. All ma
chinery here is run by water power. In
fact il IS rare thing to see a stationary
engine here as electricity and water
power take the place of steam, hence
there is no labor for machinist5-and|
little for the lsbcrer. When he gets
here be must get out on the public do
nam for an existence, hence the settle
ment of this state. There is a great
deal of what the people call ''scab" land
in this state, land that will not produce
in fact the land here wall hot
with Arizona. Ii Arizona only
had the water that gees to waste in
Washington to irrigate with, what a
state she would be! The valleys here |
produce very we'll and crops q. pro- |
duced without irrigation, but t,ke the !
land as whole the state Is not very
productive. Lumber is very cheap, $40 |
to s1S per thousand and plenty of 1t. |
The valleys are dotted with LAX s and |
springs ara in all the canyons. Ia fact |
the water resources of this country are |
immense. There are fourteen lake |
within radius OF twenty miles, some of
them five miles long and one m le wide. |
One in particular, Medical lake, is
noted for its healing properties, anu /
large sanitarium is located there. The |
whole country il covered " fine
coat of grass. 1t has rained evers "
days siace | came here. To-day If | |
we're to leave the house | ould have TO
wear an overcoat. 1t is very cold and
end | tell my Arizona
'rieads here that do not Think | can
become acclimased to so much cold
weather.
ARIZONA FOR MINERALS.
| have travelled some in the mining
region of this state, in the Okanogan
country. along the line of British Col
lmpla, and am Of the opinion there Is
more mineral in the Pal agonia and
Santa Rita mining districts than In the
whole state of Washing ton.
l see by the late papers thu the lion
las laid down with the lamb al d the
-ascals are all turned out, and the hon
,st men once more control the political
Diff ces of our territory.
But | did not see where those honest
Who deserted their party
asst fall have been rewarded by the good
and honest democrats they helped to
slect by voting the peoples party ticket
Why can't something be done for them?
arr sure our new governor ought te
the honest Harshaw Silver or
Weaver club that did 50 much to elevate
the honest men of Arizona anu seat
aim to the Chicago convention.
L am in hopes that the coed repub-
leans of Harshaw will take tumble 70
themselves before the next pres denIiai
election and vote with that party which
ian end will give us the free coinage of
silver, and who saved the nst'on from
political ruin in 1S61-the party which
will save our country from financial
,uin in the next campaign.
pectfully.
w. S. FLEMING.