Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-05-30
REAL ESTATE MEN ARE EAGER FOR
 THE TROLLEY
MUCH INTEREST IN OUTCOME OF DEADLOCK OVER THE NEW FRANCHISE
STREET GRADE ALS] WANTED
BUSINESS MEN HOPE FOB THESE FACTORS IN CITY'S
 PROGRESS

If some parsonage clad in the cloak of municipal authority and representing the city fathers should, some morning, drop in upon each and every owner and purveyor of real estate in this city, and should say to them severally in affable tones "What can we do for youS" it is interesting to speculate on what might happen. Doubtless the inn mediate result of such procedure would be to render the land dealers dumb with surprise.
 But when power of speech returned, it is doubly sure that the real estate men would acclaim in one breath, "Give us trolley line''.
 And in their second breath they wonid cry, "Let us have graded streets. !"
 And, to prolong the dream, let us suppose that the benignant one of mu- nicipal authority should say "Grant- ed!" Can you fancy the commotion that would ensuea Imagination fails.
 Suffice it to say that this city would experience more phenomenal progress than it has seen in many day and that, too, very pronto, to borrow word from our friends across the border.
 The business men of the city would throw their hats into the air, fgurative ly speaking, for the benefit of the city council And what popular city coun. cil. it would bel, The very streets might readily be expected to rise up and do them homage.
 What if the copper market is a trifie dullS What if there is slight scarcity of money for property loansa The i'm petus given by trolley and street grade would carry on the growth of the city, barring anything but actual panic. And the people would soon walk to their residences on real sidewalks.
 The writer once knew town that was ultra.conservative. So much SO, in fact, from the point of view of there and then, few additional hundreds on the price of some building lots seemed more to be desired than the presence of thriving manufacturing plant. So it held its lots.
 It is holding them yet. Ten miles away town of twenty thousand people has sprung up around the plant of the company that knew the value of 8 building site. An excellent church and school system contribute to the welfare of. that community. It's name has come to stand for what is best in great in dustry. And ali this because that city knew an opportunity when it met it and buttonholed it before it's back was turned.
 The town that held it's building lots is now enjoying such thrift as comes to a hamlet, embracing some farming land, and very poor farming land at that. Its atmosphere is never jared by the madding strife" of business enterprise. It is a municipal corpse de- nied burial. And the funereal quiet that reigns over the place is in painful contrast to the clamor of its inhabitants at the absence of the street car and rail way. It has paid the price of pleth- ora of conservatism, an excess of de- liberation. And yet from the beginning it's motives were undoubtedly of the best. But it did not see far enough into the future.
 Notable examples of cities that vast ed little time coquetting with progress are Cripple Creek, Col, and Joplin, Mo. Street car lines connect outly-