The herald., 1895-09-03
ARIZONA-L0S ANGELES
100000 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BY A. REDEwILL


2oOO people, with an expenditure OF $3.50.
| 0OO
while many Arizonans deplore this
| yearly loss of money spent without any
| apparent mpensation. yet. il they but
stop to consider the condition of affairs,
| they will find that their territory is COM
pensated IN a measure and greatly bene
| fitted by the summer exodus. Arizonians
are good missionaries, possessing large
observing faculties. While gathering
valuable information when abroad, they
| advertise to the world the magnificent
| resources and great possibilities Of their
territory. Communities that would be
prog ressive must have citizens alive to
the requirements of the times. They
must travel, mingle with progressive and
prosperous neigh hbors, take note OF every
thing of any practical utility and advertise
the localities they live in; and this is
precisely what The 1000 Arizonans abroad
are doing every summer.
The bulk of the money taken away
from Arizona is spent in Los Angeles
and its beautiful envifons, including the
pretty city of San Diego and Its mag
nifcent bay. This is gratifying. for it
helps In the gradual development of the
great southwest, of which Arizona forms
an important factor. The prosperity of
Southern California is likewise the pros
perity OF Arizons, hence the dev elopment
of ons cannot but re-echo beneficially TO
the advantage of the other. Three-fourths
of the eastern visitors to Los Angeles
pass through the entire breadth of Arl-
iona, via the Southern Pacific and At
lantic aud Pacific railroads. Many of the
visitors stop over at Prescott, Phoenix or
Tucson: they study the resources of these
tiourishing cities, invest their money, en-
gage in business and not a few loua.e per-
manently there.
The citizens of Phoenix rejoice at the
sperity of the beautiful and progress
sive city of Los Angeles. The assessors
returns. showing an increased wealth of
$1,000 300 for Los Angeles city and coun
ty. is re-echoed in Phoenix and Maricopa
county, where the gain has been of nearly
81. 900 600 over last years figures. Com
pairing the two In proportion to size and
wealth, the gain is decidedly greater for
Phoenix. The increase in wealth and
population in Arlzona's capital city is
remarkable and is attributed largely to
the constant influx of eastern visitors and
investors, the excellent securities optaina-
BILE an sgreat prospects ahead.
Nestled like a brilliant vmerald encir-
cled by q cluster of rubIes, Phoenix. with
its 1000, 900 acres of exceedingly fertile
soil-only one-fourtn part of wnicn is
under cultivation-witn its abundance
of water for irrigation and great water
power for future manufacturing purposes;
with its surrounding mountains filed
with gold, silver and copper-it does not
require a great effort of the imagination
to become convinced tnat it is destined
to become ono of the most important
cities of the west.
Can NJ II Sparmon of ri ;lroy
fame, the heaviest taxpayer in Phoenix
and whom Arizonans mold in great es-
TEEN. seldom makes mistake in his in
vestments or statements. He recently
prophesied that the southwest is des
tined to see three great cities grow to
and Pasadena. with the chances that the
last named will soon be merged into and
form part of Los Angeles.
With its present population of 100, 600,
Los Angeles, the great metropolis of Tn 9
southwest, will have quarter OF a mil
ratio of increase continues Phoenix will
then have Co. 900 in habitants.
The same energy and American spirit |
of go-aheaditiveness displayed by the Cit
izens of Los Angeles is found likewise in
the people of Phoenix. This spirit is
worthy of emulation and imitation, and |
the people OF both cities cannot but gain |
mutually by commingling in closer bus-
ness ana social intercourse, cement the |
bonds OF good fellowship and assist each |
other in the development OF their respec
tive sections. Their interests. being
identical, cannot conflict. AriZonans |
seek the cool sea breezes of Los Angeles |
in summer; Southern Californiann with
weak lungs, throat trout bes. rheumatism.
ETC., will fly from their moist atmosphere |
to Phoenix's dry climate. If coming
events cast their shadows before, then
we are on the eve of the good old times
of 1887, and which will be a tidal wave of |
for the southwest.
Arizonans are enthusiastic over every
thing pertaining to their territory. Meet |
a citizen of Flagstaff and he will show
you the greatest. most awe-inspiring sight |
on earth-the Grand Canyon of the Colo |
RADIO. He will tell you OF their extensive |
petrlfied forests, vast timber lands, ex-
haustless deposits of red and gray sand
stone and growing sheep and wool trade |
A Prescott man will extol the richness |
of the mines. le Congress. Jerome
Crowned King, Senator ana other great
m ines are world known and have WELDED !,
millions of dollars with millions more in |
sight for the next generation. Tucson.
with population of 1000. boasts of |
great and growing commerce. 1t is
gradually scoopng in all the orthwestern
Me xican trade. The Mammoth and other
valuable mines In its envlrons are good
y
ans have just cause for claiming the |
finest winter climate on earth--for eight
months or the year it is unsurpassed and
is perpetual spring time. The vast
alfalfa fields. stretching thirty and forty
les in every direction and on which
200. 600 fat cattle and horses roam. are y
ght to behold. The shipment of early
fruit and vegetables, which mature sew
eral weeks ahead of any other locality in
the United States, will constitute one of
their great sources ofawealth.
The telegraph and newspapers furnish
daily the pleasing tidings Of the advance
in wages IN various manufacturing CEN
ters and the better prices obtaining over
those OF the last two preceding years.
The activity of the mining industry, with
the cheering prospects OF the readoptlon
OF bimetallism are encouraging, and our
m nes re.echo joyiully the good tidings
With the sledges changing, saws buzzing,
whistles blowing. wheels revolving and
furnaces roaring and in full blast, the
good old times are near at hand and will
be for Los Angeles and Southern Califor.
MIA and Phoenix and Arizona a cyclon ic
blizzard of prosperity such as the south.
west has never yet experienced.