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Mesa Free Press

Location

Mesa, Arizona, United States of America

Date

Apr 05, 1894

Page

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Dain Coq Opens New Mesa Store With Fine Goods

Dain Coq introduces a new Mesa shop stocking dress goods channels and gent's furnishings. The store promotes high quality merchandise and positions itself as agents for select lines.

How Arizona Missed a Deep Sea Harbor

A Tombstone resident reports on Mexican grants and treaty wording that shifted the boundary from Nogales to twenty miles below the Colorado, costing Arizona Port Isabel and rich lands. He urges government action to recover the lost coast and other valuable territory, even at a few million dollars.

Tombstone Arzonay Mexico Arizona Gulf of Mexico Nogues Golordo Gia River Port Isabel

Yuma Reservation Treaty Report Seeks Land Sale Plan

The Secretary of the Interior transmitted to Congress the Yuma Indians treaty commission report. It recommends dissolving the reserve into ten acre tracts after irrigation and appraisal, selling to highest bidders, with funds credited to Yuma Indians and 18 000 acres irrigable 3600 set aside for Indians 14400 open for settlement, plus levee steps and route change for the Southern Pacific.

Yuwa Times Yuma San Dego County Commissioner of Indian Affairs

Great Midwinter Fair Presents Wide Global Exhibits

The World’s Midwinter Fair offers vast spectacle with foreign nations occupying over a third of space. Highlights include a 272 foot electrical tower in Grand Central Court and a 150 foot swinging Fifth Wheel ride. Visitors explore a mining camp, cyclorama of Hawaiian volcanoes, Japanese tea garden, and Chinese Alaskan and Indian villages among many attractions.

Grand Central Court

California Midwinter Exposition Ad Highlighting Reach and Scale

The piece extols the California Midwinter International Exposition as a uniquely grand Pacific Coast showcase. It notes reduced rail rates and fair lodging prices, claims the event surpasses other fairs in scope, and emphasizes foreign participation, vast grounds in Golden Gate Park, and building costs over 700000 dollars.

Pac Ific Coast’ Industries Maing Golden West Golden Gate Park Amerca

California Travel by Railroads and a Supreme Court Mining Rule

The piece urges use of cheap railroad rates to explore California's cities resorts and springs with guidance from Southern Pacific officials. It also notes a Supreme Court ruling limiting mining rights to the vein portion within a claim and denying extralateral rights beyond claim boundaries.

California Southern Pacific Company T. H. Goopman San Francisco U.S. Supreme Court

Josh Billings on Insurance and Arizona's Promise

The piece parodies life insurance questioning with a slick agent asking absurd personal details. It notes Arizona's fertile prospects due to irrigating canals from the Colorado and Gila rivers, suggesting the region could become a rich agricultural garden with heat moisture health and cheap soil attracting population.

Garden Angel 2 “Life Insurance Co Nate Arizona Denver News Colorado Gila

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