Arizona republican., 1895-10-18
 PH(ENIL ID 4 STRANGER. A EGe0raskan View of
 Arizona. pitality That Just Touched
 the Spot. A. c Wolfen oarger Writes His Inn pressions of His South
 western TrIp.

One of the leading lights of the last irrigation congress was A. G. Wolfen- barger. He led the Nebraska delega- tion in the gallant and unsuccessful fight against Phoenix for the location of the next irrigation congress. De- feated he took his medicine as though he were fond of the bitters and came to Phoenix to see the land adjudged more worthy than Nebraska. Following is a portion of his impressions, contribut- ed to the Nebraska State Farmer:
 'One of the most pleasurable feat ures of our trip was the excursion to Phoenix and return to Albuquerque, rendered by the enterprising representa- tlves of the capital city, who took a party of sixty-four delegates in two large and elegantly furnished Pull man cars, free trip from Albuquer- que to Phoenix and back, a distance of something over 1900 miles, through varied scenery and into the great Salt River valley, which, in the opinion of the writer, is destined at some time in the future to become one of the most fertile and populous valleys in the great southwest.
 After we reached Phoenix there was nothing left undone by the committee of the Commercial club and of the city to make our visit one never to be for gotten in the lives of those present We were taken in carriages about the city, transported in our own special Pullman cars to different parts of the valley, shown through the irrigated orange groves and vineyards where the trees were bending under their heavy burdn of fruit just beginning to turn and through the groves of al- monds and olives, and as our carri- ages passed through a 200-acre or chard, planted to olives, oranges and almonds, we were fpelted with sacks of delicious almonds raised from four year old trees, on the land of the Ari- zona Improvement company.
 'In this brief letter I must studious- ly refrain from personal mention, and therefore have only room to say that if the ghost of my great grandfather had risen before me would not have been more surprised than was to meet as one of the most conspicuous mem- bers of the delegation from Arizona Colonel George Woodford, whom l have known for the past sixteen years and who is known to the people of every state and territory in thisUnion as a man who has devoted nearly a quarter of a century of his glorious life to the cause Of reform and especially the temperance reform. Colonel Wood ford was member of our escort party and he and J. H. McClintock, R. R Coleman, Judge Hancock, President Murphy, of the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix railway and Assistant General Manager Wells, together with Jim Goodwin, could not help but be remem- bered
 For two days and two nights our party were the guests of the Phoeni- clans, and the man who paid a bill or offered to pay one was subjected to discipline. We were entertained iat the best hotel in the city of Phonix diven to any point within a radius ot twenty miles, wholly without expense we were fed on luscious fruits, and feasted and toasted in public banquets and private dinners. Having seen something of this country the writer undertakes to say that no party ot visiting delegates or foreign guests were ever more hospitably and royalty entertained than were we at the hands of those wholsouled Arizonans.
 The new capital city of Arizona has brilliant future before her. Hel citizens are made of the kind of stuff out of which great enterprises and magnificent accomplishments grow but it must not be understood that oul visit was in any way marred by the in. roduction of any scheme or plan ol venture looking to matters of business Not one man or woman said town lot or land, or irrigation ditch, from g commercial standpoint to any delegate so far as my knowledge extends. They simply showed the products, possibili- ties, and results of applied industry i1 that new country and that was enough
 Arizona today has less than SO,OOC population within her borders. The county of Lancaster, Nebraska, i1 which Lincoln is situated, contains g greater population than the entire ter. ritory, yet, under scientific farmine and intelligent agriculture, together with her mining industries, that ter. ritory is capable of supporting more than 3,000,OO0 of people to put it mild 1y"