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VOL. VIII.
FLORENCE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1899.
NO. 27.
PROHESSIOWALCOARDS.
.DR. ANGIL MARTIN,
JTB AM) EAR. PfaoenlxArizona
GEO. M. BROCKWAY,
PHYSICIAN 'ATTD StJRGEOV. Office bud
residence at hospital-'Kie'renes. Arizona
GEO. SCOTT.
OE 'WE 'PEACE, "NOTAR7
nd Conveyancer, Dudlej villc,
JUSTICE
Public
A.T.
DOCTOR MORRISON.
"OHYSICIAJi AND-SEtSJEON. inCalliao
swcred jtncvrrly day orn:Eht.itifice
in the tVnLUls'-bt'iUb.e'javt tack of C -f4J.
Miehoft & Co., st-jre. Florence, A, T.
M. P. FREEM AN',
Present.
WM. O. DAVIS,
Viecr President.
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CONSOLruAVED .NATIONAL BASK,
r raotm, "Arizona.
Capital Paid Up, - - $ 50,000
Surplus arid Profits, 10,000
Deposits, - - - - '406,000
Foreign exchange. ACafole aud- telegraphic
transfers all over the world.
Accounts of Individ nals, firms and corpora,
tions solicited and their interests carefully
looked alter.
.H. B. TENNET, Cashier.
THE
Under Management' sf
0r. "CED, IS. TJROCKWAY.
.Completely Ttestocked With
Drugs, "Pdtent ftadieines,
iToilel Articles, Perfumeries
"Blank "Bo6ks,"Statlonery, Cigar, Etc.
NOVELTIES OHUGREO FSOU TIME TO TIME.
i LeeMesiairani
"Opposite The IXonman Twbcns office
.brP. R."Brady, Jr's., New Beijing.
"Virst -class in every respect. Meals 15 and 25
el. J..afies dtoiue room.
'Corner 7th and Main street
.Florence, ... Arizona.
Elliott House,
' South Side Railroad TrackJ
Casa Grande,
Arizona,
W . ELLIOTT, ?roprtrt.
First-class Accommodations for
'Commercial Travelers and -the Geo-
.erai Ptffcttc.
Rooms newly furnished and kept neat and
clean. Table supplied with the best the mar
'. ket affords by an excellent American cook.
Comer Saloon,
.CHAS. W. HABDY, Proprietor.
Florence, - -- Arizona.
Headquarters for the Gang.
'The finest of Wines, Liquors
anfl 'Cigars.
.O.IIHEAS
DEALERS TS
eierallrcliaiuisa,
"Corner Main and 12th streets.
Florence ... Arizona-
G. E. AtlGULO'S
Meat Market,
Alain Street, Florence.
Is constantly supplied with Fat Beef, which
arid be furnished customers at the lowest
icash prices. We buy for cash and are com
polled to sell for cash, and will use our best
endeavors to guarantee satisfaction to our
customers.
Antonio, Chinaman
DEALER IN
General IlercIiaiiflisB,
Corner 9th and Bailey streets.
Florence. - Arizona,
Fur
Fiariafif
Florence Hotel,
l.-K. DRAIS, - Proprietor.
ttfefwly Furnished and Refitted.
Will be run
STRICTLY HRST CLASS.
iTable supplied with the best
-the market affords.
Elegantly "Ebrnisbrui Rooms
AND ALL MODERN APPOINTMENTS,
Bur Constantly SuppRcJ With
the Choicest Wines, Liquors
and Cigars.
Patronage of 'Commercial men end Hie gen
eral public respectfully solicited.
The VaUey Bank,
PHENIX, ARIZONA.
Capital, .- - $100,000
Surplus, ... -25,000
Chbistt, President.
M. H.Skebkah, Tice-President.
II. W. HEgsnrasB, Cashier.
Receiv Deposits,
-Malta Collection,
-Buy and Sell Ex-change,
Discount Commercial Tspr and do a
General Banking Business. Office
Hoars, 9 a. m. to 3 p. m.
COSSB8P0SDBKT8.
American E xetranfre National "Bank, N. Y.
The Anglo-California Bank, Saa Francisco,
California.
Am. Exchange Kat'l Bank, Chicago, III.
First National Bank, bos Angeles.
Bank of Arizona, trescott, Arizona.
ARIZONA CONSOLIDATED
SlapailiTBryCo.
'.rscoBPORitriD 1892.)
DAILY : STAGE
."BETWEEN j
Florence mil Casa Grande
Livery, Feed &
Sale Stables
Florencevrid Casa Grande.
THE ARIZONA NATIONAL BANK,
Or Tucson, Arizona.
Capital Stock, - - $ 50,000
surplus and Fronts, - - 7,500
OFFICERS:
B&beox M. Jacobs, President.
Fa Fleishkak, Vice-President.
Lioxsl M. Jacobs, Cashier.
J. M. Oeusbt Assistant-Cashier
Transacts a General Banking Business
Makes telegraphic transfers. Draws For
eign and Domestic tints ot fexebange.
Accounts of Individuals. Firms and Cor
poration, solicited.
COfMRCIAL HOTEL,
European Plan.
GEO. H. A.LUHRS, - - Proprietor.
Corner Center and Jefferson Streets,
Plioenix, Arizona.
Leading r.aaiiiecs and family hotel ts Art
Bona. Looated in the business ceKter von
tains one hundred roems.
Tunnel Saloon
CHOICE WINES,
LIQUOKS
AND CIGARS.
J. C. KEATINC, Proprietor,
Lem Wing Chung
DEALER IN
t n . v n
ury lioods, lirucanos
And Motions.
Sell cheap for cash
Comer 10th and Bailey streets,
Florence - Arizona.
ARID LANDS.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THEM
BY CONGRESS t
Ex-Gov. McCord of Arizona Opposes Ces
sion totheStates and Territories
Predictions of the Bad
Results of Such a
Policy.
Phoenix (Ariz., ) June 20, 1890. To
tha Editor of The Los Angeles Times. j
The question as to whether the arid
)au Js should be given to the States and
Territories is causing' some discussion
though as a matter of fact there is
little diiference of opinion among
those who want to see them reclaimed
ia a way that will secure tluir
settlement and occupation. Those,
who advocated that the terms of
the Cary act which provides that the
government shall cede 1,000,000 acres
to each State, be extended so as to in
clude the Territories assert that it is
aseless to try to induce, tha govern
ment to inaugurate a national system
of irrigation for the reclamation of
these lands, and that to give the lands
to the States and Territories is the
only way they can be reclaimed in 1
the near future.. I will not go as far
as the Los Angeles Times, and some
other papers friendly to a, system of
national irrigation, andsay that cession
to the States and Territories is but a
land-grabbing scheme; lw& if we are
to judge of the results. of the operation
of the laws providing for cession in the
States, and notably in the State of
Wyoming, where the author of the Cary
act lives, we must conclude that the
process of reclaiming the lands through
the operation of that law is an igno
minious failure. The law: known as
the Cary act has been a law now nearly
five years, and less than 19,000, acres
of the 1,000,000 acres ceded or provided
be ceded to the State of Wyoming
have been reclaimed. And the great
bulk of this has been reclaimed by
small farmers who have taken out a
little ditch heie and tWe by which
they get a limited quantity of viater
on a 40 or $acre tract. It must b
evident to any one who knows any-j
thing about irrigation that such little
patch -work as that amounts to Dotti
ng toward reclaiming the great arid
belt.
A national system of irrigation is no
new theory with m Three years ago
last January, in some remarks 1 made
before the Agricultural Association
of Ariaona upon the subject of "State
hood and Irrigation," I took occasion
to say : "'Every man who believes in
tbe perfect development of our country
should support a national system of
irrigation.' Thai ia the only way the
vacant spaces in our national domain
can be. rounded out and our country
made symmetrica!. Should this great
government take hold and carry oat
sttch a work, which it could do and
not feel the cost,even if it required$100,
000,000or$200,000,000,the mighty south
west (which, means Northern Texas,.
Southern New. Mexico,.Soutbern Colo
rado, Southern Arizona, Southern. Utah
and Southern California) which con
tains such vast areas of now useless.
land would become a veritable para
dise. With a national system of irri
gation, millions of people from tho
East could find s home m which peace
and plenty would reign, where now
squalid poverty only is found ;. and
this great southwest would be-aa em
pire of itself a multiplied paradise."
"National irrigation of the arid lands
suggests a field for internal improve
ment, with much greater assurance of
reward then any scheme that ever
challenged the eloquence- ot Beery
Clay and his school of statesmen.
The Governor of this Territory
( Hughes) in his annual report recom
mends that the provisions of the Cary
act be extended so as to apply to Ari
aona. The Cary law gives each State
in the arid region a million acres of
land, provided the State reclaims it..
While I have great respect for th opin
ions of Gov. Hughes, yet upon this
question I. cannot agree with him.
Such legislation is not what we want..
Tbe land would be utterly valueless to
its,, because we could only get it re
claimed by giving it away,, and. it
could only be given away when an ag
gregation of capital could be induced
to undertake its reclamation.as a gift.
If a corporation could-be found that
would undertake its. reclamation on
those terms, and should succeed, they
would own the lands, and of course
have the right to fix such.' prices- upon
it as they desired. Such a- condition
for obvious reasons, is to be avoided
rather than sought. The government,
under the operation of the homestead
and desert-land laws, is now giving
these lands away for their reclamation
and in a way much more advantageous
to the country thanby the process that
would result from carrying out the!
Jjirovisions of the Cary haw.
"If the government parts with its
title to. large quantities of the public
domain In the arid belt, under the op
era turns of the Cary law and kindred
measures, it will prove a great draw
back to the scheme for the accomplish
ing of which the entire West should
bend every energy and use every hon
orable means, viz., national irrigation."
Those were my views three and a
half years ago, and time has confirmed
ne in the belief that they were then,
M now, sound. Eighteen monthsaftr
the address tW(e rjuoted from was de
livered, in my report as Governor to
tljaj Secretary of the Interior, I advo
cated a national system of irrigation,
saying,, among other things: "The
government could carry out such a
work readily. The millions that would
be needed could best come from the
nation, and with a sale of the lands
irrigated, the aaonoy that it coat could
be returned to the national treasury.
With a - national system of irrigation
millions of people from the congested
center of population, would find homes
in the West. A more even balance
would be given the nation. Squalid
poverty would be replaced with pros
perity, and the desert would be trans
formed into a veritable paradise."
Now these are my own individual
opinions, but I am gratified to know
that every irrigation congress that has
met in the West or elswhere has re
solved in favor of national irrigation,
and against cession of the lands to
the States and, Territories. Even the
recent congress at Wichita, while more
of a' commercial gathering than any
thing else t passed resolutions in fapor
of national irrigation aad sef used to
pass a resolution in favor- ot csssion.
Those who favor the giving of the
lands to the States and Territories say
it is idle to think that Congress, will in
this generation, or the next to come,
adopt a system of national irrigation.
Those who pretend to think, so are
either ignorant of the sentiment pre
vailing in the country and. Congress, or
they are not honest. For tha? should
know that Congress, at tta lat sasaioa,
ca me very close to appropriating ' ' $.'iW,
000 to begin work upon a system of
national irrigation for. the arid West,"
and
that the leetdwa. fc& pgrtttta
agreed with Senators Warren,. Carter,
llawlings, Shoup and others that at
least that sum should be appropriated
by tu licit Cuagr.jc, ii, they would
consent to let the matter go over.
There is little doubt but that the next
Congress wilLinaugurate the work of
buihling tbe Nicaragua Caeal,. which
will be of vast benefit to the great
West, but it will, not be one-sixteenth
part as much besefit as would be a na
tional system of irrigation for the arid
lands.
If the government-parts- with its title
to the arid lands, and they are hawked
in every city in the land.to. find capital
to reclaim them( as ttey would, be,
they wl never- be reclaimed,, as they
should be, for the benefit of actual
settlers; but if the government con
tinues to own them. the time will come
when it will see the wisdom of reclaim
ing them to make room, for- the over
crowded cities, and will, do ib. Until
that time- the people and Congress
should be warned against all efforts to
give the lands to the States and Terri
tories. The f fiends of a national sys
tem of irrigation ought to be, and no
doubt are, very thankful to the Los
Angeles Times, for its powerful aid in
opposition to giving the arid lands to
the States and Territories. The Times
does not wear any corporation collar,
and its columns are devoted to the in
terests, of the people. Long live the
Times. Mtbon II. McCokd.
HORIZONTAL RAISE
Readjustment
of Arizona Postmasters'"
Salaries.
Washington, June 16. The annual
ruitdjaaUnout of presidential post
masters? salaries changes Bisbee, Ariz.,
from $1,600 to $1,700, Flagstaff $l,oOO
to $1,600, Globe $1,300' to. $1,800,
Jerome $1,400 -to $1,600, Kingman $1,200
to $1,400, Nbgales $1,400 to $1,500, Phoe
nix $2,500 to $2,600, Tucson $2,300 to
$2,400, Williams $1,100 to $l;300; Win.
slow $1,100: to $1,300,. Tempe $1,200
to $1,100. Everett Palmer of Nogales
baa been appointed railway mail clerk.
Dr. 6., A.. Scroggs and wife and
Judge O. C. Smith: will leave-early in
July on an outing in the White moun
tains, going by way of Florence, Globe,
San Carina to Fort Apache, where they
will remain' a- greater portion of the
iime. rue aoetor expects- to kill a
stiver tip bear before he returns. Re
publican.
Parties coming in from: Washington
Cimp report great activity going on
at that place; New- mines-are' being
discovered and considerable- develop
ment work is going on in that im
mediate vicinity, Oasis,-
jjsTy u-sa yftftyBKER
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
sew wrwepowofs
The Arid Lands.
From the Los Ang-ele TIuras4
Re'rring to a recent editorial in tiie
Times regarding the irrigation of the
arid lands, with special refereuce to
the contention, of, Gov, Murphy of
Arizona that these- Uuta. sLauldi be
ceded to the States and Territories, the
i'hoetiix Republican takes up the cud
gels for Gov. Murphy and his plan, and
incidental; ginga.sk. jawejod&.oi. Salt
River soil at the Times.
The Republican says that Gov. Mur
phy has done more for Arizona than
any other man- in the Territory.;, has
made a national reputation- while m-
Congreas,. and ia recognized as one of
the strongest men of- tbe country.
Granting that all this ia. true and
the Times baa. never intimated any
thing to the contrary it does not by
any means follow, as a logical se
quence,, that the views of Gov. Murphy
in regard to the disposition of the arid
lanlds belonging to the government are
wiseor co creels
The Republican says- there- is. no
present hope of getting Congress to
vote money for the building of reser-
voirsbecause residents of the agricul
tural. States east of, the arid region are
against further ecuopetitiaa in the rais
ing: of' crops, and that, therefore, we
should all join in the movement, for
the cession of these lands to the States
and Territories. Tite idea that be
cause the right road is a dimenlt one
to travel, .we should take to the broad
andeasy. road that leads to destruction
is pusillanimous,, and unworthy of
Americans. For eastern farmers to
oppose the reclamation of western
lands- is. about as reasonable' aa it
would be for California iru-g;rowers
to object to the cultivation of oracges
in Florida, or for the owners of alfalfa
' lands in this section to oppose the irri
gation of mere land ia the fertile Salt
River Valley. Beside, the argument
of the Republican is not well fuanded.
The irrigation of the arid lands-of the
United States is a big question, involve
ing the expenditure of a large amount
of money. It always takes time to ed
ucate public opinion on these import
ant questions and to get Congress to
work. For ten years ot mare the
Times has been hammering away about
the construction ot a deep-water har
bor at San Pedro, the introduction of
; the beet-sugar industry into Southern
California, and tbe building of the Nic
aragua Canal. Barges are now dump
iug rock for the breakwater at San Pe
dro; there are three large beet-sugar
factories south of the Tehacbapi, and
the entire country ia-arouscd to the
great national importance of the
waterway through the isthmus, work
upon which- ia certain to: commence
within a. very short time. Yet,: when
these crusadea were commenced a ma
jority of the people regarded them'
with indifference, if not with distrust.
It is the same with the great ques
tion of irrigating thearid lands;, and
'.so making, homes for, millions of
American citizens, at no ultimate cost
to the government. Congress is
slowly, but surely, coming around to a
realization of the great importance of
this question, thanks, mainly, to the
indefatigable efforts of a. few public
spirited citizens of the great West,
backed by several of the most influen
tial newspapers At its last session
Congress almost agreed to appropriate
$300,000 to begin work ujkni . system
of national irrigation foiv the arid
West, and leaders of all purtlcs agree
that at least so much should be appro
priated at the next session. Tbe Con
gress of the United States,, like other
great'bodies, moves slowly, but we may
be sure that the good seed which has
been sown will soon -bear fruit.
In.- a- communication published in
the1 Times of Friday; ex-Gov. McCord
of Arizona advanced a number of pow
erful arguments in favor of Federal:
irrigation ot the' arid lands, and
against State cession.. Mr, McCord
showed that, in Wyoming, where re
sides the author of the Cary act, for the
cession- of a- million acres to each
State, the reclaiming of public lands
through- that law has proved an igno
minious failure; It haa been in opera
tion' nearly, five yearay during which'
time less than 19,000 acresof the mill
ion acres ceded, or- provided- to be
ceded, to the State of Wyoming,, have
been reclaimed, most of this work
having been done by small farmers,
who have taken out a little ditch here
and- there; As Mr. McCord shows, if
arid- land were ceded to Arizona,, it
co., wwvoss.
would be utterly valueless to the Ter
ritory, because the Territory could?
only get it reclaimed by giving it.
aviay,.and it could. a!y be given away
wben an aggregation of capital oould
be induced to undertake its- reclama
tion,, in ' which case- the capitalists
would own the lands and could fix
such prices upon them as they desired.'
The government, under the operation'
of the homestead and desert-land laws,,
is already giving these lands, away'
for their reclamation- on a small scale.-
In conclusion, it should be remem
bered that every irrigation congress,
including the recent congress at Wich-'
ita, has resolred. in favor of' national'
irrigation, and against cession of r the :
lands to the States-and Territories.
This has been done, in spile of, tha
strenuous efforts made by a small
number of interested persons to swing,
the conventions into an opposite chan-
nel. Should) the efforts of - these men
prevail, wbielt ia-not-probable, Arizona--would
beonoof the greatest sufferers,
among the States and Territoris,-f romt
such a mistaken policy.
The regents of the University have
decided to make a substantial increase
in dormitory, accomodations for the next
school year. . A new fortyroom brick
dormitory for the use of the young
men will be built on the south side of
the university, grounds.- The building
will be in the form' of a-crosBf- two
stories in height,.with four ionic pillars
gracing the front of the beildibg, and
deeorated in harmony throughout. The
present stone dormitory will be'
remodeled and be used by the young'
ladies. The dining room will be en
larged to accommodate the increased
attendance. Active operationa-wiil'be'
begun at osce and the matter wiil be:
pushed with all vigor so as to be ready
for the opening of the new term.
Star..
They have a rather queer way o
administering justice -in Cuba. Au
Ainerican has been in prison in Havana
without a trial since last January on'
the charge of paying a' jeweler for a
ring with a check' which' proved no
good. The prisoner claimed' that he'
had a deposit in the bank on which
the-check was drawn, but surrendered -tbe
ring, and 'one day he had a hearing. -The
official told him that the jeweler '
had died meantime and was not, there
fore, "in a position to withdraw the '
complaint." So, unless released by '
tbe military' authorities, the man
must remain a prisoner for the rest of -his
life. Exchange. -
The Lower California placer fields'
turn out to be worthless. There never '
was enough - rain in the Peninsula to '
assure a very wide distribution of '
nuggets and gold-dust' from the de
composed quartzof the mountains; and'
the bulk of what precious metal there
is reposes in the original rock. The1
time may come when Lower California
will attract large capital to its quartz -lodes,
bat there is small prospect that '
it will ever earn -the right to be called
a' poor man's country on any other'
basis than the poverty of its working,'
class. San Francisco Chronicle.
Dave Hughes received frori Washing-'
ton this week a certificate of merit from
the government which entitles him to
$2.00 per month during his natural life,,.
This is a reward for services in the
field on' Citbani soil.. The autographs
of President McKinley aud Russell A.
Alger appear on the document. Of
fifty volunteers, seventeen went to the
Rough Riders. Citizen,,
Itis stated: that ii- everybody who)
owe newspaper publishers would pay
up what they owe, every publisher in
the United Stater would be able to pay
his debts aud each would have a good
surplus with which to improve his
paper and increase its power in benefit
ing the community where published.
Try it on us. Redlands Citrograph.
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