The Arizona sentinel., 1893-05-13

in the past IS not far to seek. Inac. feasibility and Indian troubles befor the Railroad era were sufficient il themselves. The railroads came orig finally not because of Arizona at all To them she was merely brid ge ovel
 which transit was necessary evil II
 order to secure something far more
 valuable beyond. The ignis fatus of
 "Transcontinental Traffic" for whicf
 every intermediate territory between 1 the Missouri and the Pacific has hac
 to suffer in turn, and Arizona most
 of all, because she had more than
 several of the others combined to lose
 by such suffering.
 At last even the railroad mag.
 mates have discovered Arizona
 Up until two years ago they were
 chiefly noticeable for the dust their
 special cars attached to Especial
 Engines" left behind for the edif-
 cation of the eyes and nostrils of
 the natives. However let the past
 bury it's dead. From Tucson to
 Yuma, from the confluence of the
 Gila and the Colorado rivers to the
 base of the mighty San Francisco
 range, Arizona throbs with new
 life. Capitalists and sturdy toilers
 vie with each other about who shall be first to prove their faith
 in this new Arizona of 1892-93. Seemingly it is as new to most of the recent corners as if it has just
 been discovered by a Stanley, and its immense wealth disclose by a volume about Darkest America"
 Humboldt's prophecy is daily
 being realized and in due time the capital city of the State of Arizona will contain grand marble statue of the immortal Scientist hewed from it's own marble on which will be inscribed, "To our first great Prophet-you told the truth"
 But perhaps some of my readers may still want some mathematical proofs of all these assertions. This is a very sceptical world, and the surmise that any body can ever say good word for any portion of the world where he has no acres and corner lots to sell is almost beyond belief That strange to say happens to be the case in the pres ent instant. Ifthese lines should influence some eastern reader to make trip of investigation in that old new land you will return with a very enthusiastic conviction, "that the half had never been told"
 Did you know for instance that Arizona has a surface area as large as Italy? That she has scenery as imposing and skies of still deeper blue than was ever seen over far famed Naples? Did it ever occur to you that she will | produce the golden orange of that beautiful country, and that she will | furnish marble and building stone for the whole west? Did you ever | deem it possible that the very | "treeless desert" that every travel Ter by the Southern Pacific will | assure you is all there is of ofArizona | has in it's Northern tiers some of I the most valuable forests on the | Continent? Did you know that | one of the most active and enter prising cities in the whole country | between Kansas City and San Francisco has come into exisetnce in less than ten years? And that it has become so by virtue of the horticultural and agricultural resources surrounding it, though according to the geography it is still located in the very heart ot the American Desert"?
 Never the less such a City is Phoenix. Justly so named for it's very foundation stones rest on the crumbled remains of an ancient civilization that was the contemp- orary of Classic Egypt and Greece. The "Salt River" so called presum- ably, because its water is not salt put sweet, courses through the beautiful valley of the same name, he valley that has made modern Phoenix all she is. It will treble Ter population as we'll at the pres l mt rate of influx in less than two