Arizona republican., 1909-06-02

1T is my deliberate judgment" he said,
that the increased value of the land
will not be SIS an acre, as some have
stated, but much nearer $50 to 500 an
acre"
Frank DeSouza also spoke of the in
creased valuations. He said that
Phoenix must guide the footsteps of its
infant communities I'VE want the
trade of the Buckeye country and for
that reason are trying to build road
there. We want Cave Creek to develop
and the Glendale district, and we want
that vast tract south of the river to be
turned into a fruitful source of revenue
for this city. An expert from Califor-
mia who came here last winter to in
vestigate our orange industry told me
that along the foothills across the riv-
er was, in his opinion, one of the best
orange belts in the whole world"
He then spoke of some of the bridge
legislation which came up while he
was in the legislature When Tempe
came to us with a bill to appropriate
$4,000 for a bridge at Tempe not a
Phoenix man raised an objection to it,
and 1 voted for it. Then when Phoenix
introduced a bill permitting any COM
munity to build a bridge wherever it
was deemed necessary, Tempe at once
opposed its passage; yet it is under
this very act that Tempe is now try
ing to get the bridge there and pre-
vent Phoenix from having a bridge at
all. l consider this an honest and
square sample of the Tempe attitude
toward the bridge question
A song by the glee club followed
to the tune of "Mr Dooley" The solo
part was taken by c. d. Robinson.
One of the versus runs like this:
No more Wen have TO wade across
Nor founder in the sand,
No more a toll of human lives
The river will demand:
The man who has his homestead there
Upon the fair south side
May have a highway pass his door
And on the trolley ride.
Chorus.
AT Center street, at Center street.
Wen build bridge no other place can
beat
Twill be a hummer
Yes, quite a sumner
At Center, Center. Center. Center
street"
Deared. He was wet from the knees !
iown and presented a rather bedrag-
yled appearance. He was asked to
peak at once so that he could go home |
and change his clothes before he |
,aught cold.
Mr.. Davie said. Il have just this |
moment arrived from Tempe by auto. |
We stuck in the mud and l was pulled |
,ut by some Tempe citizens. Under |
he circumstances it would be un-
grateful for me to criticize too harshly |
he Tempe attitude. We want two
'ridges but we want the one at Cen
er street first
He said that in financing the sugar
actory he had brought number of
'eople TO the valley and the hardest
hing he had to overcome in getting
hem here was the conditions of the
Dads and the lack of bridges. With
10Th of these defects removed he
hought it would be much easier to in
luence capital to come here.
Brady O'Neill spoke of the Tempe
attitude" He said that he met Tempe
nen in Phoenix during the parade of
he southsiders. who were trying to
ret Phoenix citizens to vote for two
ridges "Win you vote for two
ridges If I do?" he asked the Tempe
nan. "Oh. no, of course not" was the
epiy. His speech as usual was a
witty one as was also that of c. F.
Ainsworth who followed him.
Judge Ainsworth said that Tempe
vas a learned town The normal
chool was situated there He charac-
erized this higher learning as danger
'us. With 1900 foot span at Tempe"
lie said, they say the bridge there
would not wash away but with 210O
DOT span at Center street they tell me
he bridge here would wash away. In
hort the force of the water would
'e stronger here than il would be at
Tempe. You have got to go to the
formal to learn to shoot more water
through one-inch pipe than you can
through two-inch one
He said that recently in New York
e observed twenty story building Of
oncrete and steel being built on piles.
If my friend Goodwin saw that he
Vould have it stopped"
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