Arizona republican., 1904-02-06
RICHNESS OF FINAL
Phoenix and the Valley
 Should Be Moving
That There Is Nothing Being Done Here to Attach a Promising Tribu.
 tary Is Surprising.

MT. F. M. Murphy and MT w. A. Drake returned yesterday morning from a trip along the Phoenix & East ern so far as it has been constructed and on to Dudleyville. MT. Murphy is very much impressed with the future of that part of the country. He found it even more promising than he had supposed it to be. Speaking of the possibilities of that section from a mining point of view and it's connection with Phoenix, he said ''I was very much surprised to find that the people knew so little about Phoe- nix and I am still more greatly sur prised to find that the people of Phoe- nix know so little about that country. Just how the merchants expect to profit through connection with this great mining country I do not see, un- 1 less they exert themselves and inter- est themselves in what is going on. I am free to confess. that the newspapers cf Phoenix are just little bit behind the merchants, and I am equally free to confess that the railroads are just a little bit behind them all.
 "A mining section similar tC that now being opened up by the Phoe1ix & Eastern, if it lay within a hundred miles of Denver, Col, would have l. GOO men in the country in advance of the construction. The newspapers of Phoenix should send competent men into that district to write up the mines and prospects and make the people acquainted with the great pos abilities of the country The merch- ants Of Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa should send representatives into that rich mining region and get into touch with what is going on. Inducements should be offered to the people there to come to the valley and get acquaint- ed with the conditions here. They should be made to understand that Phoenix is the gateway to this most promising mining section soon to be blest with the best of railroad facili- ties.
 "Conditions in and about Florence | should be thoroughly studied. Ways and means should be devised to inn prove the water systems there. The people of the valley should extend a helping hand to their neighbors They 1 have nothing to fear from competition, agriculturally speaking, in this coun- | try though the section about Flor ence could be made a prefect garden with an abundant water supply. 1 ''I understand that a daily stage ser | vice will in a few days be established 1 between Florence and Globe, thereby making it possible to leave Phoenix in the morning arriving at Globe early the following day. Even today it is the natural way for people to reach ] Globe from the north and west as ! they can make a saving of from Sl0 to ] $i5 going via Florence as compared with going by the way of the & P and the c. V. c. & N. In most eases too, they would save a days time
 The day is rot far distant when the mineral section along the Gila will be | one of the principal contributors to this valley. if properly looked after Ii : won't do to wait until the country is | In an active state of development If the people of the valley wait for that they will find some one else in control of the situation. The newspapers can do much to bring about satisfactory ! relation between this mining section and the valley, but in order to exert a healthy influence they must know | what they are talking about They
 must be reliably represented: live
 writers should be sent into this mining
 district and they should get acquaint- ed with the prospectors and the man.
 agers of the different companies IT
 SC doing the papers will not only make
 friends for themselves, but they vii
 establish a relationship between the merchants. the railroad people. the
 farmers and the miners that cannot but be helpful to all"
 MT. Murphy was asked if he found
 any politics on his trip. He replieC
 that he was net hunting politics, that
 he intended for the present, at least
 to leave politics to those who had noth
 ing else to do or who had axes tC
 grind. When the time arrived, h,
 said, it would not be necessary tt
 go to democratic papers to find wher,
 he stood.
 MT. Murphy remarked that there wa,
 q great deal of foolish talk being in
 dulged in just now by parties whc
 should know better. Every effor
 should be made to solidify the party
 instead of indulging in petty pre-
 judices that if persistently followed cal
 result only in creating bad feeling
 such as might prove very harmful when the real fight is on. He said i
 was to be expected that the demo
 cratlc papers would make all the capi tai possible out of imaginary differ ences, but they should not be eivel
 any more material to work on thal
 was absolutely necessary.
 MT. Murphy left last night for Castl
 Creek Hot Springs, accompanied b,
 Judge Kent and his mother. He vii
 return to the city on Monday night an I will then visit the mines of the Imper
 ial company and will also go to Tomb
 stone.
 T TTITSnN NEUC