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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1894
Page
1
The Mesa department store boasts a dry goods section with new dress goods flannels and furnishing items. Hardware and grocery departments feature choice goods. Agents for Myers Pumps Featherbone Buggy Whips and Canton Clipper Plows with low prices and prompt special orders.
Advertisement promotes the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad as a main link across the American continent, connecting with the Santa Fe Route and its railways. The copy emphasizes breadth of network and interconnections for travelers and commerce.
Promoted as a superior facilities and picturesque scenery line, the service advertises access to the Grand Canyon, Natural Bridge of Arizona, Montezuma Well, and Petrified Forest. It touts routes via Flagstaff Williams or Peach Springs, with mentions of San Francisco Mountains and cliff dwellings.
The article weighs the 320 acre to 10,000 acre farming dilemma in the arid West. It argues success hinges on the farmer not the size, praising small irrigated fruit farms around twenty acres. It contrasts disaster for large operations with opportunity for disciplined smallholders, citing Mammoth era cloudbursts and regional floods impacting crops and towns.
H W Blaisdell of Yuma visited the city to assess a San Pedro river to Mohawk mine pipeline. He found the plan feasible and noted the Mohawk mine sits 800 feet above the river. He cited Cargo Muchacho in California pumping water against 1200 feet for fourteen miles as a precedent and suggested pumping water to the Mohawk could save over a dollar per ton.
C. H. Smith, a rare non dependor on feed and grain, farms a quarter section near Glendale, ten miles from Phoenix. He employs a dozen workers over time and funds groceries at five stores from egg profits. Two hundred hens lay about five dozen eggs daily, averaging 20 cents per egg year round, supporting a domestic economy.
Advices from Harshaw in Pima county indicate renewed mining activity and hope for old camp prosperity. Colorado investors eye purchases with B T Blow of Denver evaluating the Mowry mine and backing a fifty ton smelter if a deal closes, Swain owner traveling to Denver to finalize arrangements.
A Bethany Democrat item reports a married couple in an adjoining county celebrating a birthday anniversary. The husband gave a piano lamp and, when asked why not naming himself, the wife quips the lamp has brass appeal, handsome appearance, needs attention, and may flare up or smoke, reflecting playful humor about the gift.
The prosecuting attorney grilled a reluctant defendant in a breach of promise case. The man admitted not kissing his fiancée on return but swore he would tell the jury if needed. His witness noted the gate scene as he rode up and joked about not being a giraffe as the courtroom smiled in amusement.
The Kansas City Mail recounts a Congressman who, after confiding to a venerable Washington barber, receives a playful compliment. The barber asserts the Congressman's breath rather than head resembles the famous Danil Westah, prompting a puzzled smile and a further exchange about the mistaken imagery.
The Star reports widespread rain in Pima County with late showers aiding stock growers and improving dry ranges. Miners in placer districts welcomed precipitation, aided by dry washers where water is scarce, with more rain expected within twenty four hours. Sheriff Marshal’s ranch yields 46 bushels of barley per acre across 21 acres, valued at about 483 dollars, plus straw worth 168 dollars, totaling 651 dollars and 31 dollars per acre, with corn to follow boosting yearly returns beyond 40 dollars per acre.
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