Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-23
OUR PROGRESS AS VIEWED BY
 AN OUTSIDER
Salt River Valley Man Finds Evidences of Great Prosper ity On Trip Through South ern Arizona
(Republicau

tfte publican.
 The writer retured yesterday -no1s- inB from a business and pleasure tssb to different points in the soutAean part of the territory. The trip ineludeu visit to nearly every town of any 'ize in that section of Arizona It vas noticeable. that everywhere h .,-.- sral condition of prosperity seemed to treFaii. Business appeared to be good md the residents of the various towns were satisfied and confident of even better times to come.
 At Clifton and Morenci the chief topic of conversation these days is
 f dividing Graham county. The resi- dents of the two places as well as .,r Metcalf and Duncan are strongly fin favor of forming a new county. Inc, reason of this is obvious. It takes n full day tO journey from any one of these four places to the county sea, at Solomonville and another day back. II one has any business to transact, that takes part of another day; couse- queEtly the trip can not be Inan,, .n less than three days. Beside this. there are many other reasons Wny the residents of that section desire a change and all of these reasons ap- pear on a petition that has been signed by practically eyry voter in that als- | trict. This petition is in the hanos ,of committe from that section now in Phoenix where the matter viii oe brought to the attention of he Igis- lature.
 Last week at Morenci some Iitt,, SHOW fell and the writer entoyea .ms, novel sensation Of making tracks in couple of inches of snow Sunday morning, Both Clifton and MoreucI have made substantial advances with In the past. few years and addiuonaI improvements are in progress at boJn places.
 A stop of half day was made at Tombstone. It was noted there that all of the teachers of the public school were graduates of the Tempe normal. Asta mattr of fact that same eondi- tion prevails in nearly every town Ill the southwestern part of the territory and in every instance, the teaches give most satisfactory results.
 Bisbee is a better. . larger and a more thrifty town than ever, TIe city has nearly Outgrown the resuirs of it's recent disastrous fire and uttie . lin sight The new town of Warren. really suburb of Bisbee. is Q hand some place. It is connected with the main town by an electric line.
 Douglas is growing larger day by day and is now one of the most rnUu- ern cities in the territory. Being d newer town, it is probably the most modern, That is the way it strikes the visitor for there are no old style and partly dilapidated buildings to be seen. Everything is new. Much interest B displayed in Douglas, as we'll as in Bisbee and Tombstone, over the Open ing of the new town of Courtland, be- tween Pearce and Douglas. Railroad work is now in progress from Pearce to tue new place and the residents of Douglas feel confident that within very shC'-t time the Southern, Pacific will reach the border town.
 The purpose of the writer's visit to Douglas was to close up the business affairs of the late Henry Schmidt. Tn so doing, he came in contact with a dozen or more of the most prominent men in town. Without an exception ssa~h "s +Ne~a evrressed the profound est regard for the young man, Not man h DUuglas had more Friends than he. As a mark of respect and as an Illustration of the regard in which MT. Schmidt was held here it is related that on the day Of the funeral nere, the flag of the Country club the most promininent social organization there was draped at half mast
 While from the above 1t Is apparent tlat tnis southern part of the territory is progressise and prosperous 1t must be stated that it does not begin to compare with the Salt River valley in the writer's estimation. 4 trip Of that kind has the effect of making one feel more pleased with a town such as Tempe where the climate :s more equitable, where things grow the year around and where the general aspect of nature is far more pleasing to the eye.