Arizona republican., 1899-09-03
lNGLESIDE WINS FAVOR
Peoenix Gains a New Friend in inc NiSIf Of E.f. Ge efCheIl Of Chicago.

Mir. Edwin F. Getchell of Chicago
 arrived in the city on Thursday night train and spent Friday and Saturday in visiting various places of interest in the city and valley, leaving on last
 nights train for the north. His visit to Phoenix was purely one of recrea- tion and pleasure, though he has for
 long time been intimately acquainted with MT. w. J. Murphy and other Phoenix gentlemen whose relation of the wonderful things to be seen in this region as well as the remarkable re- sources of the territory long ago reused a curiosity he has been anx- iously waiting tc gratify. .
 MT. Getchell is one of the federal committee (so-caHed to distinguish it from the city committed of seven ap- pointed by the citizens of Chicago to wait upon President Diaz of Mexico, and in person tender him an invitation to visit that metropolis as a guest of the city on the occasion of the grand celebration on the 9th of October.
 Having successfully accomplished this mission MT Getchell left the party at Albuquerque on thelr home ward journey and went to Kingman. Ariz., where he had business matters to attend to. Being so near at hand he took advantage of the opportunity to pay Phoenix a visit and expresses himself as greatly pleased at having done so.
 He is enthusiastic over the seeming prosperity of this valley in this, it's least favorable seasan of the year. is greatly taken with it's vast resources that await only the hand of industry and the quickening impulse of capital. Though he had heard much of Ari- zona from men in whom he had the greatest confidence, he was surprised that even so little had been told him. His remarks regarding the city, it's public improvements and convenient ces, tie bread streets and the general plan of it's laying out, in which the future was evidently taken into con- sideratiOn, was highly complimentary. The work already accomplished, un- like many other small cities, will not have to be done all over again with the attainment of size and increased population. With only the short time at his disposal he had seen enough to proph3sy a great future for Phoenix, and that at no distant day.
 Yesterday he visited Ingleside, the site of the proposed new hotel and the line of the s. F., P 6 P. extension to this part of the valley Regarding these enterprises he freely stated that nothing of a similar nature could pre- sent more feasible or reasonable hope of success and the result would certainly prove not only a profitable investment for the promoters but would prove of incalculabe benefit to to the entire valley.
 The local features should arouse en- thusiasm enough to see the hctel a finished structure at no distant day and the tourist patronage would in short time more than repay principal and interest. Though not personally interested in it in a financial way, he was sanguine that from knowledge he possessed it would be rapidly carried to successful issue. The orange groves, orchards and farms along the way afforded a pleasing spectacle and a reliable testimonial of the great fer tility of the soil, while the irrigation syKem spoke for itself of the wonder