Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-28
DOUGLAS SWEEPS ON IN GLORY

Douglas sweeps on it's dazzling glory, from triumph to triumph. from glory to glory, until today May, 1909. no city of Arizona rears its head to Heaven with such just and honest pride as ours: no muSic stirs the soul of Arizona so much as our lofty strains of In God we Trust" Among all the towns of Arizona Douglas stands peerless. unriyaled unapproached and unapproSchable.
 The cleanest city of AriAona, it compeis the other petty provinces to sink when compared to its almsJst in- comparable cleanliness.
 Do other states(?) boast of their great rivers? We could ta'ke up all their Niles and Thameses, their yet low ribers. castled Rhines and beau tfful Danubes. by their little ends. and even empty the majestic Mississ- ippt and Missouri, Amazon. Sas- katchewans and De La Plata without making rise enough to lift the flat boat of an Arizona Indian of a sand bar.
 Do they brag Of their seas and lakes? We could spill all their puny Caspians and Azovs, their Dead Seas, Nyanzas and Maggiores and even the mighty Superiors, Michigans, Fries and Ontarios, and scarce produce a ripple on their pebbled brims to wash away the eighteeninch footprints in the sands of Douglas left by the fairy slipper of Douglas girl.
 Do they prate of their romantic scenery? We have a thousand jewel. like lakes just after a hard rain) that would make all their vaunted Comas, Genevas and Killarneys hide their faces in a veil of friendly fog
 The thunder of our smelters drowns out the feeble murmur of the Niagara while the awful crags and canyons of our Arizona. the lonely grandeur of our horizon, fences prairies, billowy verdure, dwarf to insipidity the ia nous scenes of Switzerland and Italy eclipse the wonders and giorieS of the Arabian Nights, and defy all the skill of poets pen and artists pencil to depict the veriest atom of their sub iimity and loveliness.
 Do they prattle about their Aetnas and Vesuviuses? With our noses turning somersaults of supreme con tempt clear over our heads, we thun der forth our College Peak, etc, and others whose names are too huge fol common tongues.
 Do they talk of their jewels and gold? We answer with the exhaust less bonanzas of our sister cities where mountains of copper challenge our skies and where the ceaseless thunder of the Douglas smelters re sounds in the yet warm lair of tn, Arizona grizzly bear.
 Do they rave of the harvest fields We could(?) show them soils and eli mates as varied as the tastes of mer and with capacities for production as boundless as the needs of men: yield ing everything cereal. vegetable, an imal. textile, and mineral. agricul tural. horticultural, geological. DO mological, piscatorial and ornitholog teal. ovine. bovine. capricornine equine and asinine, that all the wants of all the races. tribes. kindreds and tongues of earth can ever require The sun in Heaven, Tn all it's rounds since "the evening and the morning were the first day" never looked down upon more magnificent do main-a fresh and glorious territory grand in all its proportions and end lessly diversified, rich and gorgeous in all its ado-T-'ents, resting like a vast emerald h-.0sf pin upon the bosom of Anc~-cl Sufficient to say Douglas Is t'c ~~andest and moS beautiful city of ,rizona. the mos varied in its productions, and tht most unlimited in its capabilities ana future.
 No sharper. nobler. wide-awake more enterprising. whole-souled. gen erous, irue-hearted, and public-spirit cd men than ours ever left their foot prints on the sands of any countr, than those who control the destinie' of Arizona.
 In the grand orchestra of Arizop; slo-ifcation, Douglas should play n' second fiddle or discordant trombone In the swift. resistless march of Arl zona progress and development Douglas should be found with th' ncolor euardsr = in the Yan and no