Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-02
PHOENIX AND PROSPERITY
The Reason why Travel Is Being
Directed TO Arizona.

The following communication has
been received at this office from DR..
Lewis Halsey:
Every citizen of Phoenix is in
terested in her progress and PROS
peIity What benefits our city, ben
efits all of us, and each individual
should commend and encourage every
honest and we'll directed effort to adj
vertise our resources and explicit our
advantages.
perhaps no city in the United
States has a brighter future than has
Phoenix We are assured now of the
location of the capital. The noble cap
itol building is rising in architectural
beauty Many handsome dwellings and
business blocks have been erected
within the past few months. Provin-
cial customs are passing away; we see
the stores closed on Sunday, and pub
lie amusements less popular on that
day. Old nuisances have been abol-
ished. Our streets are better kept
and better paved, our water supply is
excellent and ample; our railroad IA
ciities good, and our population rap
idly increasing. Our merchants are
wade-awake, progressive and anxious
to sell the best goods at popular prices
AS an illustration of the activity OF
business, note the fact that LOunt Il
Sons freight bill for the machinery
for their enlarged ice plant was four
thousand dollars The machinery
came from Chicago by way of the
Southern Pacific. PhoeriX fruit brings
the highest price. The Santa Fe,
Prescott & Phoenix railroad is doing
a steadily increasing business, and de-
serves it, for it is becoming known
throughout The world for its scenic at
fractions. The fortunate tourist is de-
lighted by the ever changing panorama
Of mountain, glen, valley, river and
ranch. Now he looks out upon the
distant peaks and the rocky mountain
side, now upon broad fields Of alfalfa
with Eheir herds of thousands of cat
tie. Now he sees the giant cacti and
the Iifeless sand waste; now the fertile
fields of the Salt River valley and the
lawns and flower gardens of beautiful
Phoenix.
1.-The attractions of our vast terri
cory, double in extent the area of New
York, are many and unique. First
them are the Grand canyon of
the Colorado and the world-famed cliff
dwellings. Then there are the Moqui
Indians and their snake dance, the
Wild Apache, the gentle Yumas, the
sturdy Pimas, and the embarrassing
Two large Indian reser-
vations are only a few miles from
Phoenix, and a suburb of our city IS
the United States Indian school. where
several large new buildings have been
erected recently, and where S. NJ. Nc
Cowan is the able and popular super
intendent. Mr.. MCGOWAN has just re-
turned from the Omaha exposition,
where his Indian school band was one
Of the chief attractions.
Our mineral treasures are appar-
emily inexhaustible. Then we have
our orange groves, our ostrich farm.
our raisin vineyards, our da..e palms
Zone of which, in fruftage, may be seen
at the home of Mrs. F. D. Rickerson
on South Second avenue), our lemon.
hg, olive and pomegranate plantations.
our Aztec mounds, our interesting sys-
tenn OF irrigation, some of the canals
following the waterways of the ancient |
peoples who inhabited these valleys |
ages ago. Within short distance OF
Phoerfx are ruins Of ancient cities |
many miles in extent, some of which I
nave been explored and exploited by
Lieutenant Gushing, U. S. A To this |
we'll called wonderland the stream of /
tourist traVA Is steadily turning. and /
when it is fully realized that our win |
Ter climate is that of southern France |
IND our skies are those of Italy, Phoe- |
NIX and the genial Salt River valley /
VIII become more and more the Mecca |
Of health seekers and home builders. |
To this end may all our citizens |
Unite their endeavors, each working in /
his own place and in his own way to |
make his home and his city more |
pleasant as place of residence and /
more attractive to our visitors.
LEWIS HALSEY"