Year: 1873

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 | People daily ask us if we intend to pub l fish daily paper orprint extras. We em- phatically reply no to both inquiries. In recounting the names of those who ask these questions, we find none represents a

 man who makes practice of doing much labor or mourning much expense without nice profit or the hope of it. We have published a paper many years and over

 three of them in Tucson. Our local ad-

 vertising patronage has been as liberal

 here as any place else, and our advertisers

 pay promptly and without grumblirg. We have even no complaints to make of a lack of subscribers in Tucson, but owing

 to the nativity of very large proportion

 of our population, the list is quite limited.

 Early in the first year of THE CITIZEN, we

 tried the experiment of weekly publish

 ing a column or so of local items in the

 Spanish language, and since that date

 we have given in Spanish all our

 more important articles relating to MeXi-

 co or the people of Mexican birth and ed

 ucation, without the slightest return for

 our effort. The Spanish people have re-

 ceived none but kind words by THE CITI-

 ZEN and never will while we are proprie-

 tor. Leopoldo Carillo is our only Mexican

 subscriber in Tucson. Connected with his

 firm, Mir. Ochoa has been and is still lib- eral patron. These constitute our Spanish subscribers in Tucson, and many Ameri- cans have never yet become subscribers.

 The statement of these facts is not made in fault-fnding spirit. We have never begged patronage nor whined because we haven't had more. A newspaper is neith- CT bread, whisky nor clothing-hence not necessity. People who have had vol unteer and valuable support of THE CITI- ZEN when they needed it and in fits of gratitude or forgetfulness acknowledged the fact, have never yet given it any patronage, and far be it from us to hold them under any obligations; yetwe some times think that they might appear more consistent if they would abstain from criti- cising every paragraph which they don't love or which they might love if they knew the basis for it. These statements seem excusable now when expectations are up that we will incur expense and la bor without the slightest hope ofa subStan- tial equivalent. If anybody believes there is field here for a larger newspaper than THE CITIZEN or a daily one of any size, he or they can have our concern and a clear field so far as we are concerned, by paying us what our office has cost us in cash. We would like to have daily paper publish ed in Tucson, but not well enough to bank rupt ourself in doing it. Let the news paper patriots accept our proposition or be consistent about a larger paper or one of more frequent issue.

 Now as to telegraphic news: The mili- tary authorities have put it within our power to pay for all dispatches worth hay ing or we have room to print, even if in taking and printing them not a cent addi- tional income is realized thereby; there fore we shall direct that every Friday a special dispatch containing concise be made up and sent to us from Prescott, | San Diego and Yuma. If anything of very | great importance occurs, it may be tele- | graphed us Saturday morning by eight o'clock and appear the same day. THE CITIZEN only aspires to publish matter having some direct reference to the wei are or interest of Arizona, hence news rom abroad ought to be very important indeed to justify transmission to us by tel graph. Ordinary news from beyond Ari- ,ona will not be published if sent us. The | price of greenbacks in San Francisco is a sample of what we regard valuable news tenn to our readers from abroad.

 Of these facts we desire to assure the public, viz: That as soon as it's income will justify the step, THE CITIZEN will be enlarged and the extent and freshness of ts news improved. Mechanically speak ng, it has no superior now.