Arizona republican., 1908-08-26

country correspondence. The Republi- can considers them valuable assets
 for itself as well as for the county. In
 the first place the paper has the loyal patronage of the major portion of the country people. They take it and they read it and it is their agent for the interchange of items of interest 1 in their respective neighborhoods. It lis as important to the Billville people to know that Sammy Snow drop has the measles, as it is to the
 Four Hundred of Phoenix to know
 that Mrs. Millionaire has sued for a divorce because her husband objected
 to her Merry Widow hat The Re
 publican therefore owes a certain amount of space to the Billville con-
 stituency and without offense to city
 readers it can be truthfully stated Tthat the country reader is more ap-
 preciative of what is furnished him
 than is the urban subscriber.
 There is another phase of the case
 which it is desired to impress. If an
 item appears in the rural correspon-
 dence of concern to any particular
 family, and there are many such
 items in every letter, the person con-
 cerned is more apt than a city 'dweller to send from one to a dozen
 extra copies to friends in the old
 home. Such papers are read by those
 who receive them more thoroughly
 than literature sent out promlscuOusly
 by advertising bureaus, or. business
 men who mail literature from a sense
 Of duty, rather than for a specific
 of readers that the country in large
 part draws its immigration. The far mer can do twice as much to adver-
 tise the country if he chooses to as the city man can, with the same amount of effort
 Regarding the correspondence from other counties and districts, it is uniformly interesting and is devoted largely to giving publicity to the re- sources of those sections of the ter ritory. The manner of it's handling is a source of satisfaction to The Republican for most of these cores pondents are writers of more or less experience and present their stories in good form.
 To the MaricOpa county reader the suggestion is made that the outside correspondence be carefully read for self instruction. Half the residents of the valley never lived anywhere else in the territory and have but a small appreciation of the wonderful of the distant counties in Arizona. There is scenic grandeur and there are incomparable industrial possibilities the world has scarcely dreamed of yet. The valley cannot expect the people of the east to take an interest in "all-Arizona" as a budding state unless Arizona people broaden their horizon to territorial boundaries.
 To the nonresident reader and homeseeker the suggestion is made that he read the columns devoted to correspondence just as as as he does those stories di- rectly setting forth the advantages of life hereabout. By glancing down the correspondence from the rural routes, the reader can secure a ka- picture of life on an Ari- zona farm that he cannot get from reading cold statements of fact or boom literature. It is no difference to him who the people are, their comings and goings paint the picture he is looking for. In the same way he should read the correspondence from Flagstaff, Wickenburg, Roose- | welt, Patagonia, Nogales, Kelvin and other places, even if he expects to make his home in this valley, for are Arizonians wherever they reside and their interests are mutual and not confined to one small locality. Phoenix appreciates that her would be much less if | there were no Grand Canyon or Cliff | Dwellings in the north, no mining districts in the south, east and west | and no wonderful forest and noun 1 ain parks for the tourists all over | he territory. These things all mean | l great deal to Phoenix people, even | hose who never leave the valley to orm a personal acquaintance with hem.