Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
RgoswILL MUSIC COMPANY ING.


 Every community has some one man Nho stands out pre-eminently as its first citizen. This mark of distinction sometimes is applied to a man ..of great wealth: at other times to d man of great philanthrophy and, again il marks the man. of great educational attainments. but |. it ahva%s means more 10 the community when it ap- plies to man. who. in season and out "t season. at all times. gives of his money and his time unbegrudgingly to promote the fcOmmunity's prosperitv No man is more entitled to the distin- $lliShment as the -cOmmunity's first citizen than is the man who is trying by every means to foster and build up the community in which he lives. Such a man has Phoenix in the person of Asustus Redewil, who came 10 this oasls from San Francisco only twenty live years ago in wears. but over a century ago when the time is measur- cd by the march of human events W hen MT. Redewill came to Phoenix It was an adobe town of about five hundred people. To the north and east of it the blood thirsty Apache still held dominion. The mountain barriers that nature had raised on every hand seemed to preclude the possibility of. the. town ever having ac- cess 10 the great marts of trade lying 10 the east of us. But MT. RedewiII saw the possibilities of the Salt Riv-. CT valley and he saw the day. in his minds eye. when the iron horse. that great fore-runner of civilization would push its nose through the mountain passes and the Salt River valley. with its great agricultural and horticultural advantages. would be known of all men.
 Several years before he finally To- cated in Arizona. Mr. RedewiH had visited PhoeHiN and sn every succeed ing trip witnessed its marvellous growth from an uniniportant hamlet of three hundred people, in1u a beautiful city of eighteen to twenty thousand souls. the capitol cf territory that produced last year more mineral wealth than did any other state or territory in the Union
 It is such men as Mir RedcwiIl. com. ing here with their nlunev and busi- ness experience settling down. taking up life's work and Iuesuing il with determination to win, that have made these great changes possible. and the debt that the community owes to such men is indeed inestimdbIe
 Mir. RedewiIl is sn Amcrieanized Frenchman. After receiving a college education al St. Johns college. New York. where he eXcelled as a linguist. he landed. as the age of twenty one in san Francisco and accepted a position as piano salesman for A, L. Ban croft X Co. a position he held for over ten years during which time he travelled all over California. Nevada. Utah. Montana. Washington. idaho. New Mexico and Arizona His mode of travel at that time was by stage and he visited not only the towns but also the rich rancheros who would trade town lots. ranches or horses for a piano. and in this way he accumulat- cd considerable valuable real property His first advent in Arizona was about the time of the completion of the rail- road to Tucson. when Geronimo and his band of renegade Apaches infested the greater portion Of the territory The towns in Arizona which Mir Rede- will visited were Yuma. Tucson. Tombstone. Prescott and Phoenix. and it was during these trips that he saw the many possibilities of the Salt Riv- CT valley and determined to cast his lot here permanently.
 Mr. Redewill was well equipped for the battle that lay before him in mak- ing Phoenix his home. He brought with him on his first visits about s45.- oc0.G0 in money as first installment. , and subsequently closed all his busi- ness in California and the Northwest and brought few thousand dollars more. all of which he invested in lands which doubled. trebled and quadrupled in value. He loaned his surplus on property in such sums as to almost , amount to purchase. at least that is i the way it seemed to one who could {!