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VOL. VIII. -
Florence, final county, Arizona, Saturday, October 21, isoo.
NO. 43,
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promptly arfoeusicd to. Florence, ,t-i-2011a.
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' President.
V.'M.C. IATIP,
Viee-Presideut.
. THE I
i CONSOLIDATED NATIONAL
Of Tutsan, Arizona.
r Capital Paid Up, -.-Surplus
and Profits,
; Deposits, - -
$ 50,000
40,000
.500,000
Foreign exchange. Cable and telegrraphio
' transfer nil over t he world.
Accounts of individual-, firms and corpora,
i tians solicited end their lnterests earcfully
j' looked after.
H. B. TENNfiY. Cashier.
THE
Florence Pharmacy
Under Management of
Dr. GEO. M. BRGCKWAY.
Completely Restocked With
' Drugs, Patent Medicines,
T Toilet Articles, Peffumeries
Blank Books, Stationery, Cigars, Etc.
NOVELTIES ORDERED FROM TfnSE TO TIME.
All Lou's Restaurant
- Orposlte Thr lur.X3tGV, Tkibpnf oEee
' la P. R. Brady, Jr's.,'fiew Building.
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LaJios dudn room.
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Casa Grande, - - Arizona,
W V. ELLIOTT, Proprietor.
First-elass Accommodaf iocs for
, Commercial Travelers and the Gen
eral Public
Rooms tiewly furnished and kept neat and
clean. Table supplied with the best the mar
ket affords by an excellent American cook.
Corner Saloon,
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( Florence, - .- - Arizona.
Headquarters for the Gang.
The finest of Wines, Liqnors
and CigarB.
DEALERS IN
, General HerdianilisB,
Corner Main and 12tli streets.
Florence ... Arizona-
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Meat Market,
Main Street, Florence.
Is constantly supplied withFat Beef, which
.will be furnished customers at the lowest
cash prices. We buy for cash and are com
pelled to sell for cash, and will use our best
endeavors to guarantee satisfaction to our
customers.
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Corner 9th, and Bailey streets,
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Florence 'Hotel,
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Newly Furnished and Befitted.
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STBICTLY FIRST CLASS.
'Table supplied with the best
the market affords.
Elegantly Furnished Rooms
ASB ALL MODEEX APPOINTMENTS.
Bar Constantly Supplied With
the Choicest Wines, -Liquors
inJ 'Ci.irs.
Patronage of Commercial tnen and the gen
eral public reape-tfulii-solicited.
The Valley Bank,
PHOENIX, ARIZONA.
Capital,
Surplus,
$100,000
25,000
VTm. ChkiStt, President.
1L H. Shesmau, Vice-President.
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Make Collections,
Boy and Soli Exchange,
Riscbti'nt Ccntruereial Paper and do a
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" Honrs, 9 a. m, to 3 p. m.
"eOBKKSI'OSDESTS.
Atneriean'5Exchanse National Bank, N. Y.
The Angle-California Hunk, Sun Francisco,
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Exchange Nut'l Bank, Chicago, 111.
First National Bank, Los Angeles,
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70UZQNA CONSOLIDATED
Slap and Livery Co.
(INCORPORATED 1892.)
DAILY ; STAGS
BETWEEN!!
Florence inl Casa Grande
Livery, Feed u
Sale Stables
Florence and Casa Crancie.
THE ARIZONA RATIONAL BANK,
Or Tucson, Arizona.
Capital Stock, - - $ 50,000
Surplus and Profits, - - 7,500
OFFICERS.-
BABB05 M. Jacobs. President.
Fked Fleishman, Vice-President.
Lionel M. Jacobs, Cashier.
J. M. Oriisby Assistant -Cashier.
Transacts a General Banking Business.
Makes telegraphic transfers. Draws For
eign and Domestic Bills of Exchange.
Accounts of Individuals. Firms and Cor
porations solicited.
COMMERCIAL HOTEL,
European Plan.
GEO. H. A. LUHRS, - - Proprietor.
Corner Center and Jefferson Streets,
Phoenix, Arizona.
-
Leading btisiiit'ss and family hotel in Ari
xotta. Located in the business center Con
tains one hundredroems.
runnel Saloon,
CHOICE WINES,
LIQUORS
AXD CIGARS.
J. C. KEATIWC, Proprietor.
Lem Wing Chung
DEALEEIK
Bry roods, Groceries
And Notions.
Sell cheap for cask.
Corner 10th and Bailey streets,
i Florence- ... Arizona.
THE ARID LANDS.
THEIR RECLAMATION BY THE GEN
ERAL GOVERNMENT.
Views of Dslegits Wilson, of Arizona.
Since the discussion of the subject of j
the reclamation of the arid land, and !
tbe mauuer of reclaiming them has be-i
eomea topio of interest, and since I '
was, perhaps, one of the first to
acilate one of the views now beiiie I
pressed, I have been requested to.
speak again on that subject through
your columns. I hive concluded, by
your permission, to comply.
Ali admit this to be a question, of !
very great ota-juHnde, and, in order
to ct'wprekeiKl its gravity, H bi-eomea-us
to uiidri-sunid the s-'0e It must
cover, the Ktuount of m:itter iiKolred
in it, in order to determiae tits t.et
way Ui reach the desired end.
The sniij-'ct matter in liand is-the.
reclamation of the arid landa,.
These lands lie in fifteen different
states and territories, ami they u e
fairly well and equally dStnlnH,
among them. The aunotuil of tuve
lauds subject to the dispoaiti m of
the government in these arid states
aad territories reach, the enormous
amount of 611,205,248. of acres, or
'.hereabouts many times the size of
the whole republic of Ifrauee; und
it has been determined by the most
authentic means we have at hand,
and that is by the report, of the senate
committee of. the- United Slate ap
pointed a few years ago to investigate
and ascertain on that subject, Hi at
nearly 150,000,000. of acres of these
lands eould. be made prodjetive, aud
that the ouly rowans of doing it was by
irrigation.
It will be seea by these figures that j lev? system tuan any ol the slates or
this amount of land, which may be territories are by mraas of the canal
thus reclaimed, amounts to more than ! and reservoir system. Aud yet,
four time the . itiuou'nt of land re j through the wnole spaee of fifty years,
daimed by such means "m British lad a, not a single one of tht-se stale baa
ajod from which 110,000 of people are j e'er made a single record' of prime sue
maintained. This now determines-tbe i :t'8S bJ tttw reclamation of any of those
oiiantitv of land involved in the cues- ;
tion in hand to be reclaimed, if reclai
med at all, by some means to be adop
ted hereafter.
We rtrxt discover, as- to how they
tire distributed, and tliey are as fol
lows: - - Acres.
Arizona M,6y,53l
California .50,132.241.
Colorado.
Idaho..
Kansas , .734,080
Montana 74,558,143
Nebraska .10,709,332
Nevada. 42,385,735
New Mexico.. 51,720,803
Oregon 38,435,873
North Dakota .19,500,555
South Dakota lS.OOO.Syb'
Utah ...35,231,466
Washington 19,098,420
Wyoming 52,055,248
This presents the amount of the
land -with which we must hereafter
deal, and their distribution in the
verious jurisdictions, sovereign as
they are, within the boundaries of
which they lie. We have thus pre
sented the subject in order that we
may have a basis from which to pre
sent the difficulties that we are to
encounter in presenting the one view,,
and the ease in overcoming them in
maintaining the other.
Two theories are being maintained
for the settlement of the question
pertaining to these lands. One is,,
the theory maintained by Governor
Murphy of this territory, and that
is, that these lands, be ceded by the
general government to the states and
territories in which they lie, and leave
them for reclamation to those states
and territories.
The other ii that the land, being the
property of the general government,
should be prepared by the general
government for reclamation or be by
the government reclaimed. Tuat this
should be dune by the government
buildingj great reservoirs at poiuts.
above them where sufiieieut water
may be impounded to be carried over
these lands by means of canals and
the like in sufficient quantities to make
them productive.
The first theory, maintained by Gov
ernor Murphy, and others with him,
we oppose for many reasons, which to
ua seem cogent and strong, a few of
we here give:
In the first place,r these states and
territories, and especially the terri-.
tones, are absolutely unable, to per
form the tjask aud execute the work
mapped out for them by the advocates
of the first theory. That being so, the
states and territories would then tiud
themselves forced to leave these lands
in the hands of aggregated capital of
individuals to do the necessary work
of impoundiDgj etc.,, before the laDds
nould be reclaimed at all. That
would virtually mean the giving of
the lands away the placing of thetu
in speculative hands the rendering of
tie lands a commodity of speculation,
I and especially the water tliat goes
1 with them, a thin? which should never
be, for such . would surrender the
rights of the consumers,, the people
who wouM have to use this water, to
j the cruel hands of corporate grt-ed.
1 la UM second place, all t.istor.i
proves .tha t every subject kind.-. 4 u,
tu- on9- Wid,.' which has he!f
P06! in the hands of the st,ites for
ntrol, has. in most instance, indeed,
,u Bil ul luem proven sign.ti lauures.
For instance,, oa March, 2, 184S1, eon
press enacted, what is known as the
Swamp Land Act, which was amended
from time totitne. finishing with the
OL 'uar,;u W ail of mcii
m-ai'iy m,):H'.,i):yj ot aer.;s o ia id be-i'-tuh"i;
to the aeijera irovertiinent.
and lying within fifteen statics of the j
uuitJU U:i-vvu ah .s.-.atnp jitJ," uei-e i
ceded t- the vHiicus t.itra iu uhU-h
la.-... Brueik'iai-y Mates of this!
ee-.iu, w.tS me am'M-it ceied to each. 1
are as follows ;
Acres, j
Alabauu 414,310!
'rks:-. 7.fi-;- .?-7
i-ioruia ....
Illinois
Indiana , -
lo.va ,
Wisconsin.
Louisiana.
Michigan
Minnesota. ,
Miasissippi
io.11..; , 0i
..1,4!7I8
..1. 2ti5.107
, ...aSl.049
'..3.3451,132
..8,90880
, .5,72,1.843
. .3.H9.142
..3.325,437
Missouri , 4,495,816
Ohio 25.H0O i
Oregon. .315,101
These were the beueQeiary Mates,
uidtuey are a.l. perhaps .v:th a single
exception, better able financially to
reclaim these lands by means of the
LukU thai had to be reclaimed.
Visconsi has, perhaps, done more to.
ward It, in one way and another, tl an
all of the rest combined.
Thirdly, as a further reason why
this Scssior.-' theory to the stales and
territories mat net'emiaiUx enoo4oUc
obstacles which cannot be Ofareome,
and therefore finally fail as' state
project, tutu U,- the reclamation of the
,41 ,Hy8.S77 i lands by any legislative- flan, is be-.34,2-25,149
1 cauie all of the prioeipal streams of
j any great magnitude lying above these
j millions of acre of land, and from
which the greatest irrigation schemes
must necessarily flow for the reclama
tion of the greatest bodies, have their
source in Wyoming, Colorado and New
Mexico. States, we know, are sov
ereign and have sovereign control of
ail thiDgs belonging to them within
their boundesies. They would, there
fore, necessarily have the .sovereign
right of control of the water within
their jurisdictional limits and woujd,
therefore, be powerful enough to defy
the law of prior appropriation as ap
plied to individuals. They might
divert the headwaters of those stream
and lessen the nse, aud destroy the
competency of the needed amount of
those states and territories lying below
them. We submit, that to simply
state these great barriers lying in the
way of unanimity of interest is to
make fast the argument on this point.
Therefore, for these reasons alone,
if for no. other, (and there are many
others-, the theory maintained by
those advocating the session to the
states should be destroyed.
We. pass now to the theory that the
government should take the matter in
hand, and present what we believe to
be unaswerable reasons for it. First:
The lands belong to the government
mainly, and aj-e valueless as they arei
bat are most vulua bie when rc-laimed,
and when reclaimed would be most
J profitable- to the. citizen, and self
j sustaining and remunerative to the
I government a well. That the govern
ment couid, make it so is seii eviueut.
Secondly. It is a, historic fact that
from time ' immemorial every such
scheme, every where, in every govern
ment and in every clime where the
government Itself undertook the re
clamation of their arid lands, a prime
and crowning success, was the result
Take Egypt, for instance. That little
government reclaimed its lands made
the subject a national enterprise, and
centuries ago by that effort and mans,
gained the name utkd title of the
grauery of '.he world.
Again, go to British India, tue land
of fairjine of former days, where starva
tion, was the great ghost of coming
death because of the shortage in the
production of the. soill There the
general government, controlling it as a
national project reclaimed about 26.
000,000 of acres, which was done iu
latter years. The effect of it was to
stop starvation, stop famine, and in
place of famine, starvation aud death
110,000,000 of its people are plentifully
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maintained from the production of the j
land reclaimed by the hands of the
government. Not only is this so,: but
the governments of France, Spain, i
Algeria, Australia and Peru nil leil I
the same tale and bear I he same !
testimotiv. These-arc ii'.s,
iri.ul fa-.-'.s.
undeniable, and are sufficient to St-t ve J
our purpose here on this p jtnt. These j
we submit as a comparative statement
of facts, which facts alone we submit,
when taken for their worth, and sub-
mitted to the candid, mind mil to tbe !
impartial investigator who is. &--arch-1
ing for the true road to foiio.v, ia
enough to destroy the cission. theory,
and stoutly maintain the other.
Not col v is this so, bet w matnlain
that, to ask the government to reclaim I
these lands for the people of the we:, j
for purposes of agriculture would be
asking nothing idot? than fair play
and impartial treatsaent btuvea:! the
people of the west ana the people of
south, east aud uor'.ii. it would be
askipg cq mora for the benefit of
agricuHure in thwest than the gov.
eminent has already done for the
benefit of iuland commerce in the sec
tions just named, aud not so much by
far. We all know that the govern
ment has done nothin g for the people
i t the west in this derection, while on
the other hand, for commercial be
nefits in the states of Alabama.
Arkansas, California,. Connecticut,
Delaware, District of Columbia, Flo
rida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mich
igan, Minnesota. Mississippi, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Penu- j
sylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia,
Washington and Wisconsin, the gov
ernment has actually expended iu a
local way and ia a fair, equal distribu
tion between these states, $92,445,377.
64, and bas in addition thereto in
these states, for general purposes ap
plying to them all commercial in
their nature or at least to promote
'commercial interests, in the form of
miscellaneous expenditures, expended
$188,408,189.98, making an aggregate
of $230,850,567.60 for benefits other
than agricultural in those states. Not
only is this so, but in twenty stnt.es in
this union, to-wit: In Alabama.
Florida, lliiu ois, Indiai a, Iowa, Ken
tucky,. Ohio, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Michigan, New Jersey, Oregon, Penn
sylvauia, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wis
consin, the government has exercised
the functions of a canal builder (and
not unwisely, either), and has expen
ded in these states directly for that
purpose the sura of $0,920,733. And in
addition to that it has given vast areas
of public land to these benefits, as
well as a good per cent of the proceeds
of the sales of such land. Not only is
this a fact, but that siuce May, 1375,
to June 30th, 1890, the government has
received $318,532,129 as the direct pro
ceeds of sale of pubiii! land, nearly all
of which came fro,a the west,. and uear
ly every dollar of which was expended
fu(i improvements in the south, east and
north, and scarcely any in the wee tern
country from whence the proceeds
were derived. Nor do we atop here,
lu the last fifty-seven years the gov
ernment has expended about $4,000,-000.000-
for the cleaning and repairing
of canals, water-ways, for commercial
benefits, nearly all of which was be-
I yond the Rocky mountains. Indeed
in 1896 alone for cleaning aud improvl
11
Imitation baking powders are mostlvmade j
from alum. They may cost less per pound, I
but their use is at the cost of health.
ing- harbors, building dams, canals
nd the like $71,158,956.88 was expend
ed by the general government. Why,
in the period of two years in 1895-6
and 7, 515,000,000 was given away by.
the foverncieDt to "sugar baunty"
in juev, not one dollar for which was
ever returned. In the last twenty-
seven years fiere has been over one
hnudred millions of money expended
for improvements and public buildings
in eastern cities. But why go on to
enumerate. We deem that this is
enough, to show the general, generous
disposiiioa of our government, in the
expenditure of the public revenue for
general oeoefits as they arrive, and
are proven to the government to be
ueedeJ. Also, that these facts are
sufficient to cause all fair-minded men
to declare that the government should
now act as fairly and generously foe.
thj benefit of this western people- and
.v?;teiQ gruwtu, for the benefit of
agriculture tiie source of all wealth
and power in the reclamation- of
these lands, or. at least for the' imv
pounding of waters for that purpose
by the erection of large reservoirs, etc.
as they have already acted and done by
the people of tue east, north and south,..
That it would be but even-handed,
justice between the different sections Of
this great country. The question now is,,
will the government do it? The reply
can only be, that if it does it will only'
be in line with tbe magnanimity found
in the actions of this government in
matters of gravity arising before it
heretofore.
A government so magnanimous as
ours one that has borne what this
government has a government that,
has been rent-rocked in the cradle-"
of red-handed revolution passed
through tbe most bitter conflict that
history kuows passed through, it
successfully settled all matters oi
dispute raised its standard higher
than was ever known before ami-
done it without the confiscation of a.
siugle estate, or tbe execution ot a
single political oifender, will do a
great duty to a great section of its
.country, by placing its sou within
the hands of its people, properly re
claimed for the further increase of
its great wealth, growth and power,,
and thereby deal by that section
impartially as it has with others. It
will do by us as it has done by the
people of the east, especially so.
when it is to be repaid for the ex
penditure made.
In conclusion, we submit that the
fads and Sgaves liere. su'.niitsS'prove
three di-fi.-.iite thaws. First : That;
tbe es:-uon of tbe public domain to
to the stages and territories is im
practicable and would prove a failure
if made. Secondly: That the reclama
tion i f the arid lands by the govern
ment is practicable and beniicial that,
.iauh a scheme lias proven a success in
all countries, climes and ages and.
therefore must necessarily here. And,
thirdly: That is the duty of this,
great government to reclaim these
lands for the benefit of its people and
itself, and thereby show its equitable-a-nd
just action in the treatment o'
its people and all sections alike.
I am, with many respects to the
public and you, very truly,
J.'F. Wilson.
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