Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

ie.' of many times her wealth and pop
 ulation
 The streets of the city are uniform and noble in their wide prportions and are laid out to the compass cardinal
 points. while two plazas. the north one planted to umbrellas and evergreens.
 10 acres in extent, provide fer public demands in the way Of parks and rec reation grounds.
 The business structures line the main street for d block and half on either
 side. while other buildings devoted to commerce are situated in various dis
 tricts in pleasing individuality.
 Embraced within it's business circle is found almost every line of business found in any western city.
 There are six general merchandise
 stores, three exclusively dry good stores
 and shoe establishments, four grocery
 stores, two drug stores. two hardware stores, two stationary stores. two bi-
 cycle shops, two restaurants. one bak
 cry two large hotels and one lodging
 house, one furniture store with under
 taking establishment in connection, two l butcher shops one harness shop and | second hand store, an up- date bank a lumber yard, two real estate offices, | eFNN iANClN SbdbitSr lN GleiN hSlll4ii shops. one opera house, and ice cream and sodawater establishments in pro- fusion, three millenery shops. three saloons. and last but not ieastin it's Gaily functions. the dailY and weekly paper. the Mesa Free Press. devoted to
 the interests of the people and country | Inside of the corporate limits are two large and imposing school houses
 in which are taught everything from | kindergarten to and including the tenth grade of the high school.
 First Settlement of Mesa i When the mighty bells of the eastern ! cities were ringing out their announce ment of the birth Of the year 1878. that portion of the great Salt River Valley 1 on which Mesa City now stands was
 an arid plain. unpeopled and practically unknown. In February of that year it's
 regeneration began. Seated at camp | fire on the banks of the Salt river fif- l teen travei-stained. weary men. almost l resdtute Of worldly goods, planned it's 1 restoration to the markets of the world ! from the torpor in which it had lain 1 since the annihilation of the Aztec race ! long centuries since.
 ! Frank NJ. Pomcroy John Ii. Pome- roy George W. Shrine. Warren l.. Sir ; rine. Theodore l.. Shrine, Charles Nal : lory. Elijah Pomeroy. Farley p. Shrine | from Bear Lake, Idaho and William M Newell, Charles l. Robson. William ! Schwartz. Job Henry Smith, Charles ! Crismon, John D. Hobson. William ] Crismon and J. II. Blair, all from Salt ! Lake City Utah, were their names. i And when in future years the youth of a wholly developed continent read | the biographical histories of the great | pioneer heroes of America, no purer source for information TO nobler mod els for emulation will be found in all | the archives of Occidental achievement than the earnest. patient. self-abnegat | ing careers of these modest. but truly | great reciaimers and reformers of 2 { long forgotten and a long abandoned : land.
 1 Seated at that camp fire, their loved ones sleeping near. the colony, in all numbering seventy mine. they counsel
 ed for the morrow. What were their ' posaessions? What had they with which to begin their battle with un- ! developed nature? What did they need? | What could they procure? An inven . -tory was mentally taken: their require meTts approximately discussed; and ! the results would have dismayed many men of the most determined mould. Not | so with them. The first essential requ-
 site, of course, was water-not to as suage their thirst, but the thirst of the [ torrid lands. bitches must be made.