The border vidette., 1912-03-30
MEXICAN TRADE.
States of Arizona's Excellent Com
 mercal Opportunity.

A. H. Wilde in the University of Arizona SayS:-AriZOna, the newest of the states has a pc- culiar position among he states. All that is raw and rough iS coupled with Arizona. Sunshine. and too much of that. has been the sole asset of Arizona accord ing to the eastern. and yes. tho California mind.
 Arizona never will be q boom community; it takes too much interpriSe and capital to develop her resources But the enter prise should produce more enter prise and re-iOurcefulneSS until the state throughout the Union iS known not for her sunshine Grand Canyon. and deSorts only but for human Qualities; that made the Ph9nicianS the nor chants of antiquity and the Ro- mans the cOnquererS of the world.
 Arizona's climate iS it's great est asset. It is among the great est of the mineral states. Begin ningS have been made in farm ing. One great industry. how ever. is slow in development, that is commerce, commerce in the large. Business truly has provided for the needs of a given locality and the camps and ranches around about but to develop trade 50 to 3OO miles away has been left to few, a very few.
 Arizona's great opening for trade is western Mexico. We ought to have the same access to western Mexico as Fl Paso to northeastern Mexico. Fl Paso and Los Angeles must both come into Arizona to reach this land. Even if California has the ad- vantage of the sea. Arizona may excel in quicl1neSS of delivery and in friendly contact with GUS toners. If the merchants of Arizona will learn to do business with Mexico as the Europeans do it, if then they will cultivate this business by painStaking efforts and by friendly visits of the Arizona merchants them SelNeS, CIlcS VIII SeU ulliS Ouol- ness and keep it.
 Arizona merchants should or ganize themselves. not singly only in local chambers of com merce or in affiliated cham bers of commerce, but in actual cor porationS for the development of trade. There are four large towns in southern Arizona Douglas, Bisbee, Tucson and Phoenix. Leading merchants of these towns should associate themselves for Mexican and other trade, admitting merchants from other cities; maintaining the highest type of represent ativeS in the customers terri tory; studying the present and future needs of this Territory through United States COnSul's reports and the corporations own agents; interesting eastern capital in railroads and other enterprises incident to this work. Arizona should at once develop a trade which in 1915 with the opening of the Canal may pass permanently to others.
 Present conditions in Mexico prohibit new commercial activity in that country, but when the revolution ceases, it may do so quickly and preparations made now may then speedily go into operation.
 There is no limit to well con ducted commerce. This is the undiscovered gold mine of Ari zona. When all Arizona realizes it's commercial possibilities, it will not leave Phoenix alone to fight for reasOna ble freight rates; ali the state will unite in a consistent and persistent effort to secure fair chance with cities farther west at the jObbing trade in territory that naturally belongs to it. Then the state will cease to be tributary to Fl Paso, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. And if the matter is approached reasonably by sen sible men it may be found that the railroads themselves will see it to their advantage to stimulate instead Of restrain the development of Arizona, and make rates not that benefit their sea terminals only, but that help also the hintprland that now