Weekly journal-miner., 1913-03-26
GLEED BELIEVES IN ARIZONA
 ALWAYS
Santa Fe Chief Tells Chamber of Our
 Rich Future
From Fridays Daily.)

are now listed with the Site Com
 mittee of the Chamber of Com merce, according to the report read
 by Chairman Joslin at the regular weekly meeting of that organization
 last night
 It appears that several of these proffered lots do not suit the require ments of the Treasury Department as to area Mir. Joslin said he was anxious to have a full list of offer ings at the earliest possible date.
 The Legislative Committee re- port dealt with many bills now be- fore the Legislature, in which Yava- pal county is interested The gist of this report has already been sent to Phoenix
 C. s. Gleed, a director of the London-Arizona Mining Company, President of the Missouri-Kansas Telephone Company, owner of the Kansas City Journal and Director of the Santa Fe system, told the mem bers present that when he first vis- ited Arizona, way back in the seven ties, the least said to an Fastener about this State, the better.
 This meeting and many other signs I see plainly on every visit to Arizona" said MT. Gleed, convince me that your State is going ahead and verifies the belief I have always held regarding her future"
 Every recurring sunrise exhibits her progress. The East loves Ari- zona now and thousands of people look upon her as one of the garden spots of the United States. Every sort of possibilities are in store for Arizona and Prescott will share the prosperity that is bound to come in large degree"
 Gleed station, on the Santa Fe main line, in Yavapai, was named after the speaker of last nigS. He said that station was the only one he knew of in Arizona which had seemed not to have gone ahead. He had tried with the other directors of the road to have a platform or a water tank or something suggestive of life put at Gleed, but the name remains the only mark that has sur vived
 Mir Gleed is a fine speaker and evidently sincere adherent of Ari- zona, and, while railway officials are not given to partiality as to cities on their lines, he clearly showed that he has a more than kindly feeling for the Mile High City and her citizens.
 T. c. Norris brought home all kinds of good news from Washing ton, whither he went early this ! month to attend the Federal Aid | Good Roads convention. Mir. Nor 1 ris and a live Arizona delegation made great strides, by their work at the Capital, for roads in Arizona They secured, subject to the recom- of Governor Hunt, Sl0,- poo for the postroad between Spring erville and Halbrook.
 An engineer from the Office of Roads is promised, free of ex- pense, for Yavapai county. This trained expert will locate, survey and estimate costs for roads proposed to be constructed under the county bond issue.
 A great Virginia cigar, in a white box, bearing the picture of Presi- dent Wilson and the title, "The Big Smoke in Washington" was given 10 the chamber by Mir. Norris, as a nemento of the inauguration.
 Upon motion of LeRoy Anderson. President Drake requested the Road Committee recently appointed in with the county bond is- sue plan, to interview the Board of Supervisors and urge upon them .arly action in this matter.
 The Band Committee has been lble to round up thirteen of Pres ,ott's choicest musicians, all of whom have promised, under certain conditions, to play this season under he direction of a committee of the Chamber. President Drake named as his committee: Messrs. E. A. Kast- Ter, F. P. Cruice, A. J. Head, H. ). Aitken, C. E. Meany and Robert <. Porter, with instructions to get ,usy and prepare sweet harmonies O drive away dull care during the pproaching summer.
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