Arizona republican., 1894-06-26
THE GROWTH OF CITIES.


 city council for a permit to construct a street railway connecting the towns of Mesa and Tempe with the corner of First and Jefferson streets-such road to be operated by steam or electric power at the option of the applicant. The matter is still pending and unde- termined, because the memb bers of the council and the mayor desire further light on the subject. Objection is made on the ground that the locomotive will be noisy and emit smoke in the street. If the ordinary open steam engine is to be used this might be true, but if the locomotive which is known as the noise- less steam dummy is used the objection is not well taken in point of fact. Those locomotives are so constructed that they exhaust into an inclesed chamber and the steam is condensed and at the same time the noise is so untitled that the noise is not objection able. In fact the noise IS not so great as that made by the electric cars with their trolly apparatus, and we presume the council will easily guard the fran chise ln this particular. Anyone who has seen the steam dummy operate be- tween San Bernardino and Redlands passing through the buainess streets of all those cities will readily understand what we men. Those engines and cars make far less noise than our cars which are propelled by eletrlcity in Phoenix.
 Without street railroads in these modern times no city will be built. Phoenix is prosperous town and hopes to grow rapidly into a thriving city, larger than any other city in the south
 west. Her geographical position war rants 1t and her abundant resources as- sure it. But no such city can or will be built on one street nor within any cramped area. city is built up through many influences, one of the principal of which is it's trade.
 If one were to have visited the island of Manhattan before the white man settled there he could have had all the land and adjacent waters for the mere taking and when the Dutch did first oc- cupy the land they made small farms, gardens and COW pastures of it. Why was the great city of New York built there? Simply because of the great facility afforded by nature for commun ication with other parts of the world. Ships sailed into the harbor and brought articles of merchandise to the inhabitants from over the high seas and the same ships carried away whatever they found there for sale and market able in other ports. At first the e1- ports were limited to furs, but soon afterwards they included fish, whale oil and the products of the fishery and farm but finally they included almost everything considered valuable by man.
 The beautiful Hudson river was navi- gated by sailing vessels at first and afterwards by steam boats which were invented and grew into perfection partly through the ne- cessity of having such facilities for transportation and then followed the invention of the locomotive steam engine which hauled cumbersome wagons on wooden rails. In the mean time the then great internal improve ment-the Erie canal-with it's tow path on it's bank-was constructed to carry freight and passengers from the navigable waters of the Hudson rlver up through the fertile valleys of west ern New York state to the great lakes whereby the merchants of New York sent the1r goods to their country cus- tomers-not only in such country places as Albany, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo but also to all the trading places on Lake Erie, Lake Michigan and con- meeting waters. What is the result of all this? The result is simply that New York is one of the great cities not of the great state of New York nor