The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-14
A Scene in the Salt River Valley

ical engineer. Peoria; A. S. Gage pro-
prietor Wellington Hotel, Chicago.
On the parlor coach of the Chicago
and Northwestern line came G. &. Bowen,
and d. NJ. Ferry. of Detroit; n. X.
Fairbank, the great Chicago millionaire;
b. Gage and wife, of the Congress mine;
Mr.. and Mrs. Carpenter, of Chicago Mr..
Paige, of Detroit; ]. S. Smith, chairman
of the Yavapai Board of Supervisors;
Hon. J. l.. Fisher, ex-Mayor of Prescott;
and member of the Fifteenth legislature
and Jacob Marks, OF the same city. Many
of these gentlemen are interested in the
new road.
Both this directors car, as it was
called, and that of the W. J. Murphy
party were met at Congress yesterday
noon by Mayor Monihon and the Phoenix
reception committee, lntroductions fol
lowed and guests and hosts started soon
for this city, where they arrived at 4:3C
p. III. An immense concourse of people
fully $500, greeted them. On lehalf Of
the committee DR.. Goodrich int oduced
Colonel Tom Fitch as their spokesman
in welcoming the visitors to Phoenix.
Standing in De Wits open barouche, the
Pacific Coast orator, now grown gray in
feats of eloquence, gracefully disc harged
the commission entrusted to him.
He said he would be unmindful OF the
proprieties if he delayed them long at
that hour. after the great journey they
had lust completed. For Phoenix Mari
copa county and ali Arizona he desired to
extend all the warmest welcome to those
now entering our gates. They can e, he
SAID, not as heralds with grandiose prom
ises of what they would do, nor ct as
orators sounding praises, but as rdent
builders who have achieved their pur-
pose successfully They came to sec III
its swaddling clothes, the infant COM
monwealth they had done so much to de-
velop. Crowned were they with the
laurels of conquest over waste places,
over panic in the East and steep grades in
the West.
Colonel Fitch said he would institute
no odious comparisons. nor would he
make any ill-timed complaints. But
Phoenix had been sde-tracked for long
time. Her citizens had worn grooves with
their boot-heels on the stations OF the
Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad waiting
for unearthly nocturnal trains that came
when they got ready. Merchants had
found their traffic restricted by unjust
rates. and perhaps that was their fault for
living at a competitive point.
Farmers had grown tired OF a railroad
partnership in which the railroad took all
the profits and most of the assets, leaving
the farmer to pay all debts and bear the
road would bring relief from such condi-
tions. Its builders rightly expect to reap
a profit on their investment, but he did
not think they would be so grasping as
to make their gain our loss.
Farmers here will get more for their
crops. consumers north OF us can buy
cheaper, and yet the railroad can make
its round profit besides. This valley can
secure cheaper coal and lumber. The
railroad company's gains will be clean
and honest ones its dollars will not be
filched from anyone, bl:t honorably earned
by utilizing natures resources.
Roads are measure OF a nations civil
ization, benefactors OF the people. The
imperial Caesars who marched from the
Pillars of Hercules to India, from Africa
to tie North Sea- are long since forgotten
but the name OF Appius Claudius, who