Arizona republican., 1896-02-25

a tremendous cigar held savagely in their mouths and generally with spurs jingling on their heels. There were merchants from Los Angeles and every town in this state There were actors for there are a number of attractions in the theatrical line here, and stock men, c1ergymen and ranchers, and as for color, every shade and race and cline is represented. Army officers came clattering down the streets side by side, with Indians half naked and guiding their horses with a piece of rope. The Indians here wear no hats, and as they ride along rapidly, their hair floats in the breeze like long black streamers. Women are everywhere. They ride past in carriages dressed in , the height of fashion, with colored drivers and they sit on the sidewalk and nurse the coming generation. The streets themselves are a great show, a never changing panorama, a perfect kaleidoscope of men and women and children, civilization and barbarian ism, frontier life and the effete east. It is a show that even this country cannot produce many years longer, be- cause the conditions which make it possible are passing away, never to re- turn"
 In the course of an article several columns in length MT. Hoyt of the Los Angeles Herald, said: "The industrial and commercial exhibit in the grand parade showed that the merchants of Phoenix took great interest in the dis play, ad the merchants of Los An- geles have never made as creditable a show in either fiesta as the merchants of Phoenix did. Their floats were we'll arranged and in many cases novel
 ''It is estimated that there are over 10000 people here at present and I fancy the estimate is not far wrong. The city is certainly caring for more than twice it's usual population, al- though there are many from the coun- try who go home at night. The car- nival is certainly a great success and will do much to help business in this section
 "The Los Angeles visitors are all be- ing received most cordially. They were applauded repeatedly all along the line, and friends rushed out and shook their hands as they passed along. The business men seem de- lighted to see them, and it is the gen. eral expression of opinion that the re- result of their visit will be to greatly cement the friendship between the two cities and Arizona and southern Cali fornia.
 "The capital city of Arizona is mak- ing splendid record this week, and iaI, 4o tial benefit commercially, intellectual " and socially. Such carnival as this, while source of intense delight to the many thousands of participants and spectators, also possesses an edu- cational side, for no one who is brought in contact with it can fail to learn much that is not only interest 1 ing, but absolutely valuable, as an ad- ditional stock of knowledge that can be made available in after years" 1 And the Denver Republican mos. kindly says: Phoenix, which is in
 the midst of carnival, is the most
 important town in Arizona and enc of
 the leading places of the southwest. It is in the southern part of the territory and enjoys an almost tropical cli- mate. Its growth in recent years has been very rapid, many people from i California and the east having made i it their home. It would be well for those people in the east who oppose i the admission of Arizona as a state i to visit Phoenix. It would convince 1 them that a territory which can sup port s0 good town has strong claim ! to be admitted into the Union.'