Arizona republican., 1902-04-10

beard completed it's part of the con- tract. securing q bonus of %ij,0c0 and aiding the company in getting its con- tracts for beets. 1Ir. M. E. Sampsell. the representative here Of the Eastern Sugar company. is now in the east con- ierring with his principals
 h September the board Of trade be-
 gan the campaign Ter statehood now OF. and il is net hold assertion to say
 that had the entire territory properly
 backed the board in it's light Arizona
 would have been much nearer state
 hood than sbe now is. On September
 il the board invited Governor Murphy
 t1 discuss the sta;ahcad matter. and
 tEa.. at the request Of the board, the
 governor called territorial statehood
 convention, to be held or October 26.
 Fer this convention and for the Drevi-
 GUS county convention the board raised
 the funds ard managed the entire mat
 ter up to tfe opening Of tI.e territorial
 convention. Then, when the delegates
 selected at tue convention. failed to go
 to Washington to urge the passage of st@ tchood bills. the board made up
 funds and sent d representative of it's own. NIv. E. \. FGWlar was selected t0 lobby in congress both fc~ statehood
 and irrira:iol nasa1..Ies and. is sill at
 the capital. The board. through it's statehood committee. took Up q very extensive correspond de1Ce win senators and congressman and various pu5lica- lions and men cf influence. laying be- fore them raasoIs for Arizona E aGni@-
 sion, besides causing much private CC"Tesgo sgondsCCe between eastern people
 here and their represents tves ia con- Gress. MT. Fowler in a recent letter expresses a LcIier that there is hope O. q statehood biH passing both houses. On November l9 the board began the ; work which finally secured the trans fer O. the Ciice ol the SUIVeycr general Of Arizona from Tucson to Phoenix. After over three months of vely eX- tersiFe cCiTeGpcnG with the de- pIrtEeut of the interior and the com missioner O. the general land office and by the aid of petitions from Gll parts Of certral and northern Arizona. tte board Was notified, or February 70, of this year. by the secretary of t1a in-
 t9riGr. that thc order had been issued
 transferring the office 10 Phoenix.
 ] SosHe Knowledge Of the value of the accession Of ,he surveyor generals os- flee may ba g. th red from the knowl- edge that ia 1901 tho office paid cut at TUcscn a t1tsl O. $1C0, coo The ofica ] employs frcm ten tu twenty persons. q i large proportion ci whom are married men y---o have brought their families i to Phoenix. As nearly all land and l mineral surveys require a visit to the i office Cf the surveyor general, fer either
 securing or closing such surveys, tha
 ctsice draws many visitors to Phoenix 1 On March / of this year the board 1 took up the matter oc the enabling acf. prepared by the county board of water i storage commissioners, and adopted | resolutions ando.sing it. At the re- ] quest Of the storage commission q con- mittee of twenty-five citizens was se- | lected hy the board to provide way: i and means to properly present the en- abling act at Washington.
 i Il should certainly be source of ! satisfaction to the members of tho board of trade to know that this body i was the prime mover in the original efforts for water storage and has sinoa i worked necessarily to that end. finally heading the movement which resulted 1 in the present water storage commits
 sion.
 The railroad committee Of the board ] arly last srTinE began action to secure
 q through train or the Southern Pa ! ciic road between Phoenix and Cfuay- mas, IeEico. Colonel I13es Randolph, l then superintendent cf the Arizona di- ] vision. finally promiseG to recommend ] the change. but before he could act he | resigned his position. The board con i tinued to a=iiate the matter until par iai success WAS achieved in the plac- l ing of through sleeper between Phoe- 1 nix and Tucson. h January the board [ took uD correspondence with W. J. ] Black. genera! passenger agent of ths
 santa i'e route. requesting better ad-
 Vertisement by the Santa Fe of the side trip crcn to California tourists ] hcm Ash Fork down. Mr. Black prom ised to &cQuiesce as far as possible. In , January the beard took up the matter I cf the proposed Phoenix and Eastern ! road sending out newspaper matter
 calculated to encourage the building of the road. This work was done in CO.,