Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-08

mountain crSgs and canyons, mak- ing no padSe until .he waters that lave the shores of the vast Pacific commend a halt; Uad now along the avenue of tho iron rail surges in cease.cs tides a restless and ever advancing peorla. as numerous a. Black Aawa ss.d he white people were sixty yeaIs ago, gs numerous as the leaves !n tlo forest.
 Scattered all oyar this broad land the spires and domes of thousands ot cities and villages slisteu under the ,igb, oi the HuonUay sun, and eyeryw here ia forest auu on prairie, by lake and by river, mvriads upon myriads of rural homes, are uestling today amid the mos. gorgeous foliage, bv the most lovely akes aud amid the most picturesque scenery taat flag anywhere pro- tects. The great iases, those mas slve water gems waieh nature has set 'u the heart oi tho continent, tho rivers thag flow m mljesty,' the many estur es nat indent the cor 1ent, che biav waters of either ocean, today are bearing upon their hosoms the merchant
 ma .ae of an ever iucressiug com
 merce of great aad powerful
 nation.
 Invention mas touched with magic hand the mysteries oi nature and great wonders baYe sprung forth.
 Many of the mysteries of that subtle and potent, though terrible element, electricity, have been unveiled. It
 now conve vs our messages, not only | from city to city, across the conti-
 nent, but moving with the speed Of | the hghtuing's flash, down m the
 depths of ocean 1t carries dispatches from natIou to nation, and by the aid CT that other potent engine of
 civi Zltion, he printing press, ! brings each morn 'ug to our doors | tldlrgs Of the otest regions Of l the globe. Iuventiol has also sup | piled electricity with an echoing
 tongue, aud friends, though miles 1 apart, speak togei her, each readily
 recognizing the voice of the other.
 IL has been harneSsed to do the bid ding of man, and now drives ma
 chInery and propeis transportation, | and it IS not improbable that it will
 eventually supercede tle uSa of steam as motive power. Nor is this all invention mas purloined from
 electricity; it has purioined that
 wonderful and beautiful gif; Of
 nature, light, aud every where
 throughout Christendom tho shades
 of evening bring toe gleam of the ! electric ligLg, that converts night | into day and dIssip g oom.
 And wbat strides have We made in
 the science of navigation. Compare
 the awkward looking carayels of Columbus with the great steel rail
 way ships of today, which, carrying
 clouds uf canvas plough the oceans Of the globe. Place the o.aft of | Robert Fulton. which made the first
 steam boat ir,u, Ualy ninety years ! ago. CoWn the h Hdseu, from Albany
 Co New Yo5s, gn ng at the break necS paca ot fNn 'es per hour, bgs ie thA n z. icesi ocraa grey ] haUr5s Of toGat. s.l fairly leap ! accos~ Ae Allan p iies of five hundred m'g 0s. Wnat has ! been Il of yhe p- -c,ss Ei,.ie . transportation bs Hata may be sad | of the carrying .-a-e ou land The | lTeig-taTs Cutht o. sl glgiy day and
 even C today ln some parts oi the west, .ar superior sa suy aode of trans p0ua'iOn known in tEe east ] befCr' thc a4F0r ar r ~oI B, and yet bow iusi, .iicsnt hev seem when compare Ust3 toe lrJa horse on its baDos OI s,eel dgaWiny long | trains oi cars heavily f.r u l with ! the commol.j.as Cf tee ga, and of
 the west, beng hrJl Flt here to ex-
 change for our ffu aud gram. aud
 cattle and sheen aud hogs, yea, our
 silver and our gold.
 Now, fellow citizens, l want to pay tsibu's to one your fellow ! citizens. NM.s 1a--. cs or other
 causes may for ale withhold the ! need of praise due the time
 will come when VI acknowledge
 that Mr. Frank N. Iu phy has by l his energy, q ltleayer ace, his ! pluck aud grea, au done more
 to develop Arizo s han any other
 man. He has buil this iFst-class
 railroad that connects central Ari-
 zona with one ol tGe great trauscon- tineuta! lines O. -aitNGv and did it
 at 8 time when ;4e financial skies
 were lowering and ile poItents of | finaucia! disaster were everyw here.
 IL is not far to say that he did it for
 his own aggranGizement. That
 might have been one of his motives,
 and If 1t was |, was proper one, but it was not the ouiS one. for the the grand Iesult-a ,ul. which has
 mace Y, EroPe.tv ,n the territory or
 st lea-j n the . River valley more
 valuable, a great deal more yaius-
 ble-we sloUid be duly 2 grateful and not hes ate tO award the proper
 credit Let Us render unto Caesar
 tue aiuss nat are Caesars,
 The bui,Giug oi this railroad
 which gave to the Salt River valley
 anothet outlet-a connection with
 another cue of the great transconti- mental nes-was igauSJt with deep importance to us; ana ne people of
 Phoenix and the Selt F yer valley
 fee that they owe a debt of grati- tude to the men whO projected. promoted aud built that splendid railroad to heir doors if took rugged courage aGa sublime faith on the par5 oy the men who Iurn- lshed the money to bmld that road; it took great sk.l 0ld engineering because of the character of the country through which it must be built, and it took financial ability of the highest order 10 carry it to completion.
 When the brave old Persian,