Arizona republican., 1911-09-04
MANY CHANGES ARE NOTED
Comparison of City of To day With That of a Year Ago Reveals Large Mum Der of Very Interesting Facts.

'"'H 'he HlultltuueS gather Tn Phoenix early in November to attend
 the Arizona Fair, some of them are
 going to be treated to sensations
 akin to those felt by Rip Van Wrinkle after that lovable vagabond spent
 twenty years in slumber up in the
 rugged Catskills.
 Not that any of the people of Arizona have been asleep for a copule or decades-far from that And not
 that any of them possess the quail
 ties which gave Old Rip so much
 character that not all of it couId
 be admirable. This observation is
 based solely on externals-on the changes tbat have been wrought in Phoenix and its envirous since Novem-
 Der, 1910.
 The Phoenix citizen himself will have to take stock to comprehend these changes, they have come with such startling rapidity What. then. of the thousands who will a couple of months hence, see Phoenix for the first time in an entire year?
 Of course the visitor to the fair will see some important changes there. He will find that numerous Improvements have been made. par ticularly an addition to the seating capacity of the grand stand. And he will also find that the big show itself is better than ever
 But it is in the city that he will experience the greatest degree of surprise. He will find that today new Phoenix is in process of forma- tion' and that whatever signs of a jay town" may have been in evidence a year ago. all have disappeared.
 For he will find that Phoenix is in truth becoming metropolitan, He will find it prepared for the install alton of a modern sanitary sewer sys- tenn. He will find the substitution of a modern system of paved streets for mud roads. an up-to-the minute lighting system in the business sec ton. and the completion of a vast extent of sidewalk in every part of the city.
 There are some other things the visitor will find. He will find a com pleted National Bank of Ari- ZOna building, completed Y M. c. A, completed Water Users building. and construction in progress on a modern Federal build ing. He will also find such additions to the educational sytem in the mat ter of buildings planned and others as to give him the sur prise of his life.
 This visitor will find that Phoenix | people are building up the town at the | rate of $l0O000 worth of buildings a l and he will find that this | building movement includes a large | number of business blocks of the l most substantial character.
 Outside the city proper improvement | will also be noted. It will be observed | that a large cement plant is in pro- cess of construction a short distance | east of the city; that the Central | avenue bride has been finished. and | that a magnificent territorial bridge | has been started. The visitor will | be told that a new electric railway | system has been projected and that | other business enterprises of equal l importance are under consideration.
 If the visitor be of an observing | disposition he will note decided | change in the general appearance and | the general tone of the city. He will discern that business is on the ad vance. both in character and volume; hat there is a vastly larger number Df people here than a year ago. and IDH ic int in way that recently would have been deemed impossible.
 And all these things, let 1t be re- nembered. have taken place in one short year. It would take an inspired prophet to foresee the future for the next twelve months.