The herald., 1895-04-20
OUR LETTER FROM ARIZONA
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The HeraId's Enterprise Is
Appreciated Everywhere
RAILROADS AND CIVILIZATION
Varied and Valuable Resources of the
Territory
A Cruel Joke-Au Interesting Budget OF
News From Several of Arizonas
Thriving Towns

PHOENIN.Ap 1S.-Unstinted praise
is accorded the Los Angeles Herald for its
warm, unSeliish interest in this territory.
The local and territorial press have been
profuse in their acknowledgements in
that respect. The people, irrespective of
party, concede that The Herald has ''set
the pace for others to follow. The time
has arrived when Arizona must be con-
sidered other than an undesirable geo
graphical division of this great union OF
states and territories by people who know
nothing of its people, pros pects wealth.
enterprise and unbounded resources cover
ing the domain OF mineral, timber, graz
ing grounds. agricultural and horticultural
lands. The impression that has been en-
tant. far and near, that Arizona was the
home OF the reptile and reprobate, has in
measure been removed by The Herald.
Its appreciated efforts on the occasion of
the advent of the north and south road
was surely the barbinger yea The Her
aid! that dispelled the Ignorance and
prejudice that existed and hung like the
darkest pail over worthy and struggling
people. The history OF Arizona is only in
part written. The unmarked graves of
hundreds of her pioneers, men. women
and children. are only the bloody chapter
in the struggle to advance civilization. in
dustry and enterprise. Apache savagery
is no more, and in its place white
winged peace" reigns. Capital, which al
ways breads lawlesSness and shuns local
tiles where life and property are consid-
cred insecure, is pouring in. and the
great work of development is under way.
In the words OF another 1.-THE shrek of
the locomotive was the death knell of saw
agery and isolation, the trumpet peal of
progress and prosperity Prosperous
settlements. new mining camps. thriving
towns. budding cities that are putting on
metropolitan airs already, are filling the
waste places.
The wealth locked il her mineral ribbed
mountains is beginning to be appreciated
as source of money supply; her beauti-
full valleys and her desert plains offer
homes for millions when the contem
plated impnunding of the waste waters
shall have been perfected.
'For the promulga CATION of the above state
OF affairs to the world The Herald can
lay claim to and does get credit from the
people OF Arizona. Its enterprise in pub
fishing Il report of the stockholders
meeting of the Rio Verde canal and sub
sequent banquet given by the officials of
that company to their friends in this city
was an enterprise that has been of UNI
told value to the territory at large and
has been far reaching in its benefits to
this section, said prominent business
man the other day.
cruel joke has been played on Col
onel Rogers of the Prescott Courier. The
authorities at Washington mailed him an
income tax blank TO fill out
Winslow
The Mail says of the new county:
Navajo in five years will be one of the
most prosperous counties in Arizona.
Taxation will be lighter. Her finances
will be in better condition THAN that Of
any other county, if she keeps on as she
began in electing her officers. A better
b ard OF supervisors could not have been
selected. Her other officials canrot be en-
celled in the territory. She has rlent' of
material from which to select officers in
the future. Every one with whom we
have talked has the utmost confidence in
her future, and is willing to do all in