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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1899
Page
1
Morton and Shewmann publish advertising rate information with contact details and service scope for the local newspaper. The notice lists Morton and Shewmann as publishers and invites inquiries at their office.
The review notes a countrywide trade expansion in January with strong cotton, wheat, iron, steel, and wool sectors. Clearing-house payments run 44 percent higher than last year. Southern California eyes rainfall as key for crops. orange crop estimates drop toward 9,000 carloads, lemons hurt by cold, celery damage reported. Walnut shipments total about 4900 tons, dried fruit steady, canned fruits supply light. Real estate remains healthy though not active. overall outlook remains positive.
The Moqui Indians report forty eight smallpox cases and eight deaths to date with confinement to the middle mesa. Eleven Navajo cases near Fort Defiance are noted. Authorities act to prevent spread as vaccination proceeds and the Moquis in other villages remain free.
The Los Angeles Herald notes Arizona as a beneficiary of a bold venture to introduce motor stages. A Chicago firm reportedly ordered several eighteen passenger stages to run from Flagstaff to a canyon, powered by fourteen horsepower gas engines. This novelty is seen as a potential railroad management breakthrough.
Santa Fe announces its Pecos Valley extension cut-off will run from a point east of Fort Sumner in Guadalupe County west to Ysleta Junction 180 miles away. The new line will route transcontinental traffic southwest from Newton Kansas to Amarillo Texas then west to Ysleta, saving 250 miles and avoiding climbs in the Raton and Glorietta ranges.
Mr Sommerville of Scottsdale promotes a Parmelee Traveling Library with a thousand volumes circulated among twenty towns. The plan lowers costs, offers quarterly readings, and earns praise for quality and up to date works. The report lauds the Normal School progress and calls for campus improvements, lighting, water works, and a gardener to enhance Arizona’s education system.
The Phoenix Enterprise argues northern Arizona deserves an education institution and urges closer ties between the north center and south. It contends neglect harmed regional harmony and calls for greater unity across the territory.
Governor J G Brady of Alaska grew up homeless in New York and was aided by the Children's Aid Society which sent him to an Iowa farmer and helped him through college before his Alaska service. He began as a missionary in the region.
A toll road company with W A Kimball as president plans the Globe wagon road. Capitalization is $50000 and construction would greatly aid the valley. The article notes local support and hopes the enterprise proceeds. Mrs Sharp and son visited, Mrs Mahoney and J B Barkley receive dues and notices, and a 50 cent photo business opens in Co-Op Hall by R M Wordall from Tempe.
West half of Block 7 is offered for sale for cash with access at this office. Inquiries should be made at the newspaper office for further details.
The Southern Pacific touts its complete equipment, comfortable transport, prompt service, and fast elegant trains with gas lights in all cars and dining cars on limited services. No snow blockades, 238 miles to Los Angeles as the shortest line, quickest to eastern points. For more information call or address M. O. Bicknell, Agent.
The notice directs travelers to choose routes with the best connections and accommodations going east via Southern Pacific. For westbound trips, it recommends the shortest line to seaside points and provides contact information for M. O. Bicknett G P A Phoenix.
The Phoenix Short Line restored its Pullman train between Phoenix and Maricopa. Passengers may board at seven PM and stay until six AM the next morning, removing the need to rent rooms at Maricopa.
The Southern Pacific unveils a new fast train from Chicago to the Pacific Coast starting about November 1, running twice weekly with vestibuled Pullman cars and dining. A second fast train will run biweekly between New Orleans and San Francisco linking with Atlantic Coast routes. Also four weekly east west trains from Maricopa via the Sunset route offer coast to coast service with detailed information available by inquiry.
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