Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-26

that in the cases of the additions al
ready annexed all the money received
from them in taxes had been returned
in improvements.
Councilman Dyer said the argument
that. the city would sap the blood CT
the additions was a false argument;
that they would get back all they paid
in actual Improvement. to say moth
ing Of the enhancement of their prop
erty in value.
Councilman F'ickas strongly favored
| extension. In order to meet any OBJ
lection that might be urged he would
favor any reasonable concession that
might be asked in the way of repre-
scntation and a pledge for improve
ments.
/ The views Of his colleagues was sub
sequantly endorsed by Councilman
! Saunders, who came in later
| C. NJ. Frazier was an advocate of ex-
Fansion. The prosperity and life of a
town depended upon it. He pointed to
/ the experience of Atchison, Kan, and
Kansas City, Mo. The former was a
/ city when TIE latter was hamlet and
now the latter was one of the great
cities of the middle west while the
other was pining away in it's shadow.
Mr.. Frazier lives in an addition, but
he believed his property had increased
in value with every municipal i'm
prOvement.
R. Allyn Lewis was an expansionist
in every instance. The history of the
country was a history of expansion.
Without it Phoenix would remain a
2x4 town. He reminded his hearers
JoI
Phoenix would soon cease tc be the
capital of the territory. The new cap
itol building was not in Phoenix, but
merely in ,Maricopa county. General
Frazier had presented a petition fr-m
the - citizens .c.-of <Simms' addition
praying for admission. Mr.. Lewis
referred to the petition and said THAT
he had signed it, had signed one from
Murphy's addition, and was prepared
to sign one from Orchard Grove. Gen.
eraI Collins wanted all the additions
taken in and counseled harmony of ar
ton and unity CT interest.
At this stage some one said he IN
derstoOd that the ants were to have
a word in the meeting. So far not one
had been heard and he suggested that
ttsy be given a chance o. A. Turney
arose to say that he was not an anti
and wanted to speak for P. L. Kay. !
VINO was not now, though few months |
ago he had the notoriety CT being a |
king-bec in the opposition. an Edward |
Atkinson of anti-eXpansiOnists He had /
even come out of a fire unregenerated |
and with the breath of the flames still |
on him raised his voice in defiance CT
the city.
New, Mr.. Turney said, MIR. Kay was
willing to come in on certain condi-
tons that seemed entirely reasonable.
He was in favor, not of benevolent as
not of mere representa-
ton that could be beaten on a vote.
but Of an assimilation that would as
simulate by mixing things all up so
that Old interests would become indis<
He wanted a division of
the first and Second wards so that
part of each would be thrown in with
the additions and each be represented
by a councilman.
Joseph Bowyer of Murphy's addition
spoke of a matter dear to the heart
If the residents Of that addition. They
were all in favor of annexation but
were opposed to a division of the ter
-itory. They wanted to- come in as a
so that the map of the
1ew city wouldn't look as if it had a
vas not the symmetry of the map they
,ared about; they wanted to wear tho
block out by dragging it in with
lem. I'VE don't want any such gate
way as that for the city with such a
ign On it, said Mr.. Bowyer. Mr..
3owyer further observed that peoplv
lad a right to expect to find within
What is indicated by the sign without
His address was enthusiastically ap-
,,auded.
Said A Redewin: az differ in tie
Jews expressed by the various speak
IS this evening. They are all entirely
80 modest. They wish to incorporate
nto Greater Phoenix only the addi
ions. / want to take in all the coun
~ from the Maricopa canal to the
liver or at least four or five square
niles of country. In this particular
,oint 1 am in favor of expansion. ]
7ish all my property in eleven differ
mt additions to be incorporated into
Greater Phoenix" and even some
mall ranches situated within radius
two or three miles,
Then came the crystallization OF
sri1iment. Mr.. Lewis moved that d
of one member from each
istrict proposed to be taken in be APP s.
1inted to prepare a resolution ok /
rcssing the sense CT the meeting with i
55pect to annexation.
The following committeeman were
ppointed: J. w. Evans, Joseph Bow
err w. c. Foster, G. D. Gray, M. E.
ollins and Walter Talbot. who sub
equantly submitted TIE following res
luton, which was unanimously
dopted:
BE it resolved, That it is the sense
this meeting thai the common coun-
j CT Phoenix use every effort possible
} secure the annexation of al the ad-
itions contiguous to said city, and as Z
itizens of Phoenix, do urge prompt
5tion in the premises
In the meantime upon a motion by
-ajor Evans to bring about the annex
ton out of court by means of petit