Williams news., 1903-10-24

the Congress, Commonwealth, Oc- tave. Leviathian, Gro Grande, Vul- ture, Harqua Hala, King of Arizo- ma, Hubbard and Socorro, all gold mines and, several of them amongst the greatest of the world, paying large dividends.
 Here in this mountaneous region Nature has sown, with lavish hand, her treasures of gold, silver and copper. Elsewhere people labor for something which they may ex- change for gold and silver. Here they find the gold and silver them selves.
 And the development of these mighty resources is hardly begun.
 Now let us take the Southern, Pa cific railway by way of Ell Paso.
 It is all desert, the scene varied only by cactus, manzanita, mes quite and sagebrush, with an occa- sional jackrabbit or coyote skimming across the plain. Again the unini- tiated wonders what one can find to induce him to live here. At Maricopa Junction he changes cars for Phoenix. It is early morning. The day is fine, as nearly all days are in Arizona. The clear air re- veals the mountains in every di- rection. They seem very near at hand but are twenty to a hundred miles away. The same pure air transmits sounds with phenominal distinctness. The blue haze on the mountain tops breaks the montony of the view and rests the eye. The lights and shadows that play on the mountains constitute natures kaleidoscope, with its lightning like changes. But still you are travelling through the desert and you have not enough acquaintance with and knowledge of the desert to appreciate it's beauties, although it has its own attractions and they are neither few nor small. But you are tired of it and long for a change, and behold it is at hand :; and it comes not little at time, not gradually but like a flash. Sud- denly, in a moment, the train rushes from the bare aLd monoto- nous desert into a veritable para disc of trees, with rich green foli- age, fields of deepest, darkest green alfalfa, houses, surrounded with trees, flowers and tropical fruits.
 It is the same desert, except that by the magic power of irrigation it has been literally made to blossom like the rose.
 You are coming to Tempe, a beautiful city of 1000 people, with a $5O,00O hotel. one of the Terri torial Normal schools, fine brick business blocks and elegant and comfortable homes and as intelli- gent and enterprisinga population as can be found in any place of similar size, anywhere in the Uni ted States or even in the Philippine islands, which seem to have taken the place of the territories in the affectionate care and solicitude of the administration at Washington. A little later you come to Phoenix, the terminus of this branch of the Southern Pacific.
 And what shall I say to you about Phoenix? We'll, it is the biggest city of it's size and has the most people for it's population, is the most metropolitan city, the most cosmopolitan city and best all-round town and community that 1 ever saw.
 In its hotels, business blocks, churches, school houses, residences, street railways, homes, parks and in the intelligence and enterprise of its citizens it will compare fa- vorably with cities twenty times it's size elsewhere And it is clean and beautiful city. Think of a court house plaza with an avenue of. oleander trees thirty feet high and forming an archway from the