Arizona republican., 1910-10-23

by one fully equal to the citys needs,
 for which bonds are voted, and a good city railway system which is under l going improvement and expansion. | These are of the, present city of | Phoenix. and therefore of it's past.
 They are spoken of that the reader may be inspired to a vision of it's ] future.
 Just hint of things that are yet in ' the doorway of dreamland may not be ] useless. The city railway system en- | couraged by the rapid building up of the city and the plating of lands into small tracts for miles in the country, is now engaged in building a second line of railway north and south through the city proper making three that cross it at right angles to the main line on Washington street, run ming from it's limits east and west, with another spur on the southern side running to the depots The long est line is a suburban road running to the Indian school, and which has been in operation for years. A few months ago it was extended a couple of miles further in the country to Lincoln place and now it is being again extended to Orangewood, an ideal settlement of country homes on North Central ave nue, eight miles north of the city. Orangewood is to Phoenix, on a smaller scale, what Hollywood is to Los Angeles.
 From OrangewoOd the line will in the near future be run several miles further west to Glendale, the sugar cit ae hn factory in Arizona A few difficulties are yet to be surmounted but wlth such men as w. J. Murphy and K. r. Davie devoting their energies 10 the project with announced certainty or purpose, a successful issue is too well assured to be classed as either pro- phecy or prediction. Stll another electric line in a more direct route to Glendale has been more than dreamed of. as has a project to unite the capl- tai city with the Scottsdale and lnSle- side country, ten or twelve miles to the northeast, the former prosperous farming community, and the latter the seat of an ideal country hotel Tor tour- ists.
 Mention of the sugar factory recalls another dream of other days that IS now q splendid realty, accomplished after discouragements that would have embarrassedba less enterprising people than the residents of this valley, whose inspiration finally reached the mental processes of that magic builder, R. P. fDavie, in his Colorado home. The sugar factory, disbursing a half mil lion dollars annually among the valley people is the result, and beside the cash distributed it has opened up a channel for the activities of many farmers, and given them added dlVer- sity of crops with sure market
 On beyond Glendale another five or ten miles and beyond the purvlew or the government irrigation system, this same magician Davie, since his recent advent into the valley has brought into being another canal system div erting the waters of the Agua trla river, and lifting the underground flow. transforming the broad acres or the Marinette mesa land into an agr1- cultural field of rarest promise, and present partial development.
 West of what is known as the Salt river valley proper and forming the western boundary of the irrigation dis trict is the Agua Fria river. Beyond it lies the rich but barren acres now heinz. reclaimed by the Avondale com pany. with pumped water, vast acre age that will soon be as good as any in the valley. Beyond it to the south west is that richest of all rich alfalfa and dairying regions. the Buckeye
 lnXNRr end of the Salt river valley. And clear to the east, beyond the thriving towns of Tempe. Mesa City and numerous smaller settlements, the sturdy settlers are pushing out on the desert, plan aing to thwart natures perpetual dry ness by pumping the water from the hidden underground channels To the northwest in Paradise valley the same thing is being done and though the prospects for immediate return are not flattering, there is certainty of ulti- mate success.
 Little has been said of the vast treasure house or I1Ie enS1re territory or of the thousands of cattle that roam the grazing lands in every direc- ton. some near at hand, more scores of miles away. They are all part of Arizona and Phoenix is its chief city, therefore, Phoenix need not boast of anything more liberal than selfishness itself in declaring that whatever helps any part of Arizona, indirectly helps Phoenix. There are other states where one or another and in some degree all these resources are found but there IS no political subdivision in the nation possessed of so many diversified in dustries capable of development and when developed each is market for another. It is thus that this vast domain, the great desert waste of the past century, when come to be under stood and intelligently approached, is becoming through the dreams of the elders the promised land of the rising generation. The spirit of Moses through thousand embodiments, yea ten thousand of them, stands on the rugged mountain tops of Arizona s present, viewing the verdant fields or the land of milk and honey. and beck ons to the pilgrim host in other climes' echoing back the refrain, to para phrase a little,
 This is the land you long have sought And mourned because you found IL
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