Arizona republican., 1921-08-27

no question that this Afri- can in the woodpile is the Southern Pacific system, while as you know we have the Santa Fe operating in this state, but for some reason they have to take their hat off to the Southern Pacific. They would like to open the gateway at Daggett, Cal ifornia, get some connection between the northwest and southwest The Union Pacific would also like to open said gateway, but the Southern Pa cific prefers to haul everything around through California and bring it in at the back door, and charge you in proportion.
 Now, this maye be one of MT. Roosevelt's good trusts, but l for one railroad was one of Teddys good kind of trusts.
 Do vou dear housewives of Phoenix realize that it is this African in the woodpile that causes you to pay such high prices for your winter apples For instance. you can ship from southern Idaho apples in car load lots through California to Tucson, Arizona. by said Southern Pacific line, a distance of 450 miles greater than it is to Phoenix by the O. s. & L., L. A. and $. L. and Santa Fe, namely. the Daggett gateway. for sl.S3 per hundred pounds, while we people in Phoenix are required to pay s239 per hundred pounds for the same apples. Do not in the future blame the poor apple vender. when in reality said Nigger is to blame.
 I have a car of apples or more that I wish to ship to Phoenix, but am l A fri can blocks the Daggett gateway Will have to sell my apples where the Southern Pacific or Union Pa cific desires to take them and buy my apples in Phoenix that are brought in from North Yakima, Walla walla, Hood River or some other territory that is reached by the Africans line.
 Do you citizens of Maricopa coun- ty realize that the stock growers of Idaho and Montana could use your cotton seed and cotton seed products to an advantage if we were only al- lowed to go through the Daggett gateway direct. Instead they have to ship above named commodity, either from Kansas City, Mo. or southern California to the exclusion of south ern Arizona, all because this african
 
 is a matter of common knowledge to all that Arizona lost a lot of poor cattle from starvation last winter while the farmers of southern ldaho and Utah had to allow their hay to decay in the stacks. One poor fel- low from that territory attempted to ship. and really did ship one car of baled hay to one of the Missouri river common points. and when he got returns from his commission man. after paying for the bahng and loading of said hay and the freight, he was required to dig up out of his pocket s3.45 and his hay had gone for nothing. It would have been worth something for fertilizer for his ranch.
 A short while ago a friend of mine returned from Kansas City where he had taken three car leads of cat tie; after being out the expense of board and lodging sold all the cattle. gave the money to the R. R. company and had to dig up s15.O0 out of his own pocket to square the freight bill. Now, any man or set of men that will kill the goose that lays the golden egg, has no place in this locality of ours. and if there is such a thing as torment in the hereafter, there should be a special place with extra heat prepared for him, or them
 There is nobody in position to know better than our R. R. officials that the agricultural products are the back bone of any country and the railroads are merely arteries that supply the blood or transport from one section to another. You know that the back bone withers away very quickly if the blood is cut off. so