Mesa free press., 1899-08-25
MESA EREE PRESS
A. P. SHEWM AN, PUBLISHES.
MESA CITY AND VICINITY.

Mesa City and the surrounding
country have every reason for congratu-
lalion. The season has been one OF ul-
usual progress in the gathering in OF
abundant harvests. and all the signs OF
the times invariably point 70 a period OF
better facilities for the marketing and
exchange of the vast increase OF the
products of the soil and industry OF Its
citizens. No city or county on this con-
tinent can claim more natural adyan'
tages, better climate the year round,
greater variety of fruits, vegetables or
cereals, vaster fields for the grazing OF
cattle, sheep and horses, more beautiful
landscapes and leveler plain. What
more needs man to insure his ogress
than is to be found right here within the
radius of twenty m les in diameter. A
man with energy and the health that Is
assured to him in living in this climate
must either prosper or be the victim OF
a hoodoo. This is a new country, the
city ia yet one of tender years and 1t
vast possibilities may only be seen by
those; who have assisted In making
famous other sections and cities OF the
country. Their advice should be fol-
Owed and their efforts should be emu :
lated by those with little or no expert
ence. The cheapest and best education
is that which is, as it wert, inherited or
gained from experience, and so comes to
us without effort. The fullest fruition
of all the results are obtainable, and
mankind is on the highway of mortal
attachments.
With the assurance of the early COM
pletion of the Globe road. and the ex-
tension of the Santa Fe railway through
this section somewhere; the storage OF
water for irrigating the many thoAsalds
of acres of uare"laimed lands lying IN
every direction around the city, ana the
facilities being formulated By the Board
of Trade at Phoenix, together W tn the
aid rendered by the appointment under
the recent Immigration Act OF an In
migration Colnmissi ,ner, but few things
remain to be done to insure population
of many thousands, and city of no
small manufacturing Importance.
The intelligence of the peopl' is not
wanting, nor are their appreciation OF
comm odious environments al together
extinct. What is wanted is to renew
the spirit of emulation in the direction
of beautifying the homes and city
grounds, and keep the streets and side
walks in proper repair, which. when
the i'm portance of such things are under
stood and adopted will be source OF
pleasure rather than one of regret and
disdain.
We are not Oh a boom, but the high
way to long. steady and permanent
growth to city and county of the first
order. Nothing but the lethargy OF its
citizens will prevent our advancement.
We have every natural resource within
orr reach; the utilization OF which, with
the intelligence at our command, wisely
exercised warrants and guarantees the
highest conception that any one has.
placed upon the possibilities OF the
country. The evidence OF this greatness
is first manifested at our own door. and
as the con'agion spreads it will gather
force and magnitude. and as natural as
sleep and waking alternates, the lntec-
ton of the taste and ambition to take a
hand in the ogless of events is sure
and certain.
An effort is now being made to beau
tify the city parks and make them what
they are designed to be, place of
amusement and recreation. This effort
is in the right direction and calls for
general approval and aid, seeing that the
citv revenues are not ample and at hand
for the purpose. The parks are the
property of all the people and the in
terest taken in seeing them made place
of rest and pleasure should oe ge neral
and the aid liberal.
Here is work for all, and It must be
harmon ous so far as the citizens of Mesa
and the surrounding country is con
cerned. The home demands your first
consideration luill up and beautify it.,
and Mesa and the surrounding country
for place to live in will not be sur
~,ooool ~, oorth