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 bly, who oppose exempting embryo rail road corporations, in Arizona, from taxation for Q specified time, are too young to have just conception of travelling on mud pikes' on horseback, farm wagons aud stage coaches, fifty years ago, then the oRly mode of get ting beyond sight of the smoke of the house where their progenitors resided. The writer, who is no spring chicken, well remembers the time when four Nell groomed horses, in the spring of the year when the frost was leaving the ground, rattled Concord coach into Ehs town of Mercer, Pennsylvania, at the unparalleled speed of two miles and half an hour
 Upon ono occasion (lS2G we saw the Nations guest, Marquis Do Lafayette, after an all nights ride, emerge from the interior of stage looking very much the worse for wear, presenting the appearance of man who had been on Q protractsd spree. The subscriber, then only nine years old, was magnifi- gently gotten up for the occasion of Lsfay',.ts's reception, ,9s was also every other denizsn of the village. During the night every window was illuminated with tallow candles, the village band consisting of tenor drum and fife, un- der the conduct of Drum major Suvers, was on hand to welcome the guest. When the stage horn announced his coming and was responded to by a platoon of musketry, the band gave voice to Hail The conquering hero comes, which was but prelude to what was in store. Hugh Bingham, the father of John A., the man who prosecuted Mrs. Surratt as a co-coR- spirator for the murder of President Lincoln, was the spokesman of the oc- SaSiOhS anu Nc Ieih Nsll ASiuctipoi HIS prediction that when the General next visited Mercer he wound be conveyed iR canal boat instead of mud wagon. The conviction that We would then be upon the high road of prosperity, gave rise to the announcement that there would be meeting at the court house ''at early candle light" to consider inc propriety of digging O canal to connect nake Erie with the Ohio river. The canal as then projected, many yesis later was completed That done, pro grsss in every walk of hfs was realized. In the meantime new aud better means of communication had been dis. covered, and the building of railroads commenced, which reduced the value Of canals
 And now when almost every civilized country is checkered by iron rails, is it not Q matter of surprise to find nun Der of Arizona law makers opposing railroad exemption from taxation for a brief period of years? Should their churlishnsss or want of foresight defeat the proposed building of railroad connecting Globe with east and west communication, might we not with pro priety class their legislation with the once sapient legislation, of Massachu- setts, which ia a spirit of economy, while intending to reduce toll for grind. ing grain, enacted that instead of one, eighth of bushel, one-quarter of [ bushel should constitute the lega
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 We Lave read the published accoun of the expedition of Lewis and Clarl from the Missouri river to the Pacif, Ocean and havo personal knovledgr of John c. Fremont's Rocky Mountain expedition, both of which were institu ted by the Federal government with tn, view of asesrtaining the capabilities o that terra ineognito of supporting, at future day, a largely increased popula ton, and having found homes for tn millions of would-be immigrants the. are either deuied the facilities of reach ing them or they are churlishly granted Such was Bishop Borkeley's experience Bofore leaving England he obtained th promise of Sir Robert Walpole, Prim Minister of George the first, of twent thousand pounds for the purpose of es tablishing colony in "the new world but not receiving penny of the prom ised sum, he settled down, built hous now known as "Berkelsy's Rocks, q 2 Newport, Rhode Island, ]" Twas eve thus from childhood's hour" that groa results are blasted through the ignc r4scs df those whose duty it is to pro mote sBsm.
 Apd now, roll aside this panorarrs bsnishted Arizona, and vivify its pulsr less lie with knowledge of what
 transpiring beyond it's borders. Req history and you will learn Shat progre siye men of the East, De Witt Clinto among Che number, inaugurated sy tenn of internal improvements for Il State of New York alone, which it WI declared, if carried into effect, woul bankrupt the State. In 1925, thel
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