Arizona republican., 1903-11-20
PHOENIX PAY ROLLS
None Notably Large but Their Divers
 ity Guarantees Prosperity.

It is frequently remarked that Phoe- nix needs more payrolls and the re- mark is true. More manufactur- ing business. more enterprises in which large numbers of working men and working women are employed would, of course make a much larger market for the agricultural products of the valley, and would also make that many more people with a regular amount of money passing through their hands and Into the world of local commerce.
 But. after admitting that this is true, and resolving that the next few months and years shall see the inauguration of many enterprises of the nature sug- gested, Phoenix may still congratulate herself in the possession of what she already has. There are ten or fifteen thousand people here. and the major 1 ity of them are on payroll of some kind fer it is doubtful if there is an other town of it's size anywhere that has a greater diversity of small indus tries and the pleasing features of that fact is that the city's eggs are not all in Cne basket. In New England town of the same size. when the mills shut down. everything shuts down. In Phoe- nix there are few bg payrolls, but l one begins more frequently than an old one stops.
 When one stops to think he will re- alize that there is more doing here than he imagined, beside selling a few goods to the farmers who raise alfalfa. Tn the first place there are two railroad companies. the city railway. city water works, Phoenix Light and Fuel com pany. Sunset Telephone company Wells Fargo Express company and the postoffice department. all public util- ities. and each disbursing at frequent intervals. sums of money that make glad the hearts of a considerabl num- Der of employees and their families.
 Then there is the mercantile life ot the city. There are at least six stores that have between twenty and thirty employees and several others between five and fifteen, while below the mum Der of five they are too numerous tC mention. The one line Cf industry rep resented by the butchering bushes: keeps busy almost a small army O
 men. and in connection herewith i
 a soap making business as well whicl
 is strictly manufacturing. There ar
 two good fiouring mills that represen
 lots of money and have payrClls tha
 help. The foundry. machine shop an,
 plumbing businesses should not be fer
 gotten. for all branches are well rep
 resented and it takes good money. t
 get good mechanics. The salaries pail
 by the printing houses of the city wi aggregate very close to a hundred il
 number.
 l There are three steam laundries. an l each one has a long list of employees ! three bakeries, "a big ice plant. hrch = yards. etc.. in addition to which ar
 the contractors through whom hun
 dreds of carpenters. painters. bricklay CTS, plasterers and others find em ) ployment and get their names on tn
 Saturday night list.
 Phoenix would like to have lot ) things, and among them some big mil = and factories of various kinds. Fun
 ther. it is undoubtedly true that thel ] is a great opportunity here for jul {: 1 those things, but even without the f Phoenix is doing pretty well and Q rapidly reaching a point where thes
 good things will come to her, for thel