Arizona republican., 1900-07-18

competitors, and has adopted the broad policy of a territorial newspaper, are the conspicuous reasons why The Re- publican, it's politics to the contrary, is 1 receiving strong support in democratic 1 Jerome.
 1 Jerome on the Fourth made an en-
 viable reputation for itself. It enter tained more than a. thousand visitors. and satisfied them entirely and pulled | off the whole programme without it's being marred by drunken Cabals. The
 Jerome national day was sober and i happy day. Mayor Tovrea and his able 1 corps of assistants are master hands at
 a Fourth of July celebration. The T.
 F. Miller band deserves mention for its
 splendid progress since organization. 1 The band has been working but three months, but the number of pieces ren- l dereG on the Fourth and the manner in which they were played was highly | creditable. Bert Lincoln is the leader and has been since it's organization. 1 There are twenty-five members with ! three applications for membership | pending. Kind remarks about the band
 were heard on every hand the day of
 the celebration.
 The markets of Jerome display bril- liant array of fruits. Cherries, plums, apples, strawberries, raspberries, black berries, apricots. peaches. muskmelons.
 watermelons and tomatoes and all l grown on the Verde. The fruit is eX- cellent in flavor and appearance. The apples are conceded by Missourans to
 whom they have been shown" to be as ' fina he. | it can be ina agined how fine the fruit is. It is to be lamented that more are not [ grown. as Arizona as a general thing does not know what a good apple is. ! Every town sooner or later must sub-
 init to the inevitable water works
 question. Jerome at present is getting | squarely before the issue. The ques- tion has not yet come up for final set
 clement. It is difficult thing for any 1 thing to hit Jerome squarely, as the
 missile is more than likely to glance off l and roll down the mountain side never 1 to be seen again. But the city water | question, in a short time, will hit the | town and will stick on the side hill the
 same as Jerome does. because it comes l from dire necessity. Jerome has long l been suffering from a water shortage and it's consequent evils. The United l Verde mines loses about one day in | seven on account of insufficient water
 supply.T The water connections in Je- | rome. about half the time. have no
 water. The place is continually in 1 danger of utter annihilation by fire, and ! indeed. were it not for the much i abused sulphur smoke that sweeps 1 down over the town several times a day, the inhabitants would doubtless ! die off from diseases bred by refuse | that must of necessity be allowed to 1 accumulate everywhere. The present | mayor and city council are determined l to have city water and are working to- | wards that end with the almost unani-
 nous support of the citizens.
 No tourist in, and, for that matter. no ! resident of Arizona, should miss seeing
 Jerome. There are many things that will be found out of the ordinary. The ! crookedest railroad in the world. the greatest copper mine in the world with
 its workings, and the most upset, down. [ hill town in the world, will be noticed i by visitors. To the stranger, in all [ things, Jerome is original even to a l wagon brake. This brake may be an 1 old appliance. but the writer never saw l 1t before. Back in the blue hills of i Wisconsin. his Illinois grandfather i whose parents emigrated from South 1 Carolina. would lock hind wheel by
 tying one end of a rope to the box, the | other around heavy stick and pass
 ing the stick through the spokes oe the | wheel so that it world catch and stop | the wheel from turning. In Jerome it 1 Is done differently and better One
 end of heavy chain is fastened to the
 front aXel of the wagon. To tie other
 end Is secured a wide and heavy iron | shoe or runner. On the upper side of
 the runner is groove wide enough to { admit the tire of the rear wheel, which
 runs upon it and is thus locked, while | the friction on the ground of the wide fiat shoe elfectually checks the mo-
 mentum of the wagon. Great loads of
 rock and other heavy substances are | hauled down astonishing grades. The | driver, however, should he catch the
 astonished look, is surprised at any wonder in the matter
 C. M. LANDER 1 The foregoing was delayed in trans
 mission, but it contains matter of i special interest to Jerome and some things that are new to the outside world. though they are old in point of time.