Arizona republican., 1916-03-12

l 'dluaDle, put dlteT DolNS WOrkeQ TOT some months they were found to be 1 the finest mines of Canal coal found | in the United States.
 l When this reached the ears of the eastern mine owners they started out l tor Phoenix by the thousands, and now in nineteen twenty five there are over 1 fifty thousand people residing here ] More than two hundred million dol lars worth of coal has been taken out in the last five years 1! The city of Phoeniv has also changed 1 as the population increased In the l business section there are dozens or new buildings, the largest being a ten- l story stone building where a small | building was torn down on the corner and this new one built in it's place This new building is owned bN the Miners association.
 l There are also many new schools, ! two high schools and three grammar 1 schools; college is also being built l In the residential part of the city | there are blocks and blocks of fine 1 homes, in which live those who first l bought the immense coal fields and then sold them at a great profit There | are also hundreds of small homes, in which live the miners
 | What used to be the desert for hun. | dreds of acres near Phoenix, is now 1 irrigated, and large groves of orange, l grapefruit and olive trees thrive there, and the cactus that used to be there I is now seen only in the gardens, where 1 it has been planted.
 The theaters, street cars, restaurants and railroads have likewise grown with | the city and surrounding country.
 Many years ago on the heading Of the evening paper appeared this head line: Phoenix Must and Will Have a Mainline Railroad" That has been fulfilled, as now there are two lines
 the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific roads both having run main lines here
 when coal was found
 The most fashionable society place
 in Phoenix is the Women's club, which
 occupies a fine, new five-story build : ing on Central avenue.
 During the last few years the three paving companies have been busy pav-
 ing the streets.
 Phoenix in Nineteen Twenty five.
 As we rolled into Phoenix on the
 Coast to Coast Limited' in nineteen
 twenty five we noticed great change in the appearance of the town. I said
 town-it was really city Many new
 buildings had sprung up. one the Phoe-
 nix Real Estate company's building,
 being fifteen stories high The railroad had put in a depot that would be an
 honor to any city. It was built or
 the lines of the old Spanish missions and was a very exquisite structure
 Phoenix had caught the craze and had "pay-as-yOu- enter" street cars
 There were also some aeroplane jitney
 busses that would take you around
 town to see the sights for five cents
 Some progress.
 As we rode on the street car to the , hotel we noticed that the same con- pany was running the cars. We could tell by the way they jolted.
 We stopped at the San Xavier hotel
 which had hot and cold water in every
 room. There were eleven new hotels , in town.
 That afternoon we decided to gy around town and see what progress the city had made We saw the new city hall; it. like the depot, was of the
 Spanish type of architecture It was , built entirely of granite and had a , beautiful finish. We stayed a long
 while to gaze on it.
 The city could we'll afford such a hall, as Phoenix now had a population
 Of two hundred thousand. There were
 fine paved streets all over town there
 being over two hundred miles of pave ment connecting all the suburbs with
 the city. They also had a real police , man standing in the center of the
 street crossings
 ) The fair grounds had been rebuilt
 and enlarged and the fairs held there were the best in seven states. There
 were fine highways connecting Phoenix
 with Prescott, Yuma, Tucson and !. points east
 Where the Central school stood there
 was a magnificent building capable of
 accommodating one thousand five hun dred pupils. After stay of two days we had to say goodbye to our old native town.
 which had grown SO much we could l hardly recognize it. Leaving Phoenix l we went 10 Los AnpelaS