Local Shop Promises Best Lines and Low Prices
A local business touts high quality lines and prices as low as the lowest while offering prompt attention to special orders.
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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1893
Page
1
A local business touts high quality lines and prices as low as the lowest while offering prompt attention to special orders.
A New York monthly promotes a one dollar yearly subscription plus fifty two complete novels delivered weekly by mail. Readers would receive one novel each week for a year and monthly issues of the magazine, with authors listed such as Wilkie Collins Trollope Doyle and Verne. The offer aims at a large subscriber base and requires payment by P O order or registered methods.
The International Irrigation Congress in Los Angeles urges US action to unite water and land use in arid regions. Proposals call for surveys to create a uniform water system, construction of reservoirs and canals, and selling land in forty acre plots to actual settlers. Arizona and California leaders seek expert hydraulic engineers and wider participation from territorial representatives in Congress. The Yuma Sentinel notes cattlemen plan winter drives back into the valley as feed remains good, with Allison, Roberts and Johnson keeping large herds nearby Lang’s toward the north.
The Arizona Sentinel reports Yuma Heights Company will expand fall actions with fines and trees and significantly increase acreage. President H W Blaisdell writes from Boston that funds are improving and the future looks bright. A large lemon grove will be planted, a new venture for the company and for Yuma.
The piece argues Congress should admit territories to statehood quickly. It states high public interest is best served by creating territorial governments as state governments replace territorial regulation. It contends territories deserve full senatorial representation and self government, outweighing political policy notes.
The speech recalls a warning by a future senator about currency contraction. He warned that the move would bring distress for most people, noting debtors, salaried workers, and annuitants would face loss and hardship. He warned of bankruptcy and reduced enterprise, risking farm production and investment unless taxes were cut.
The Denver Republican notes Arizona's rich gold and silver resources and predicts a surge of immigration as the territory gains attention during low silver mood. It anticipates congressional action on statehood that would boost regional growth and development.
Oscar Wilbur from Picacho says the company will start a trail run in about ten days once missing flanges for the pipeline were supplied by the Aztec. About twenty five men will be employed steadily after washing begins as Wilbur surveys Mohave desert gold properties and remains enthusiastic.
The Stockman remarks on a growing Chinese population seen near the area. Their exact arrival route remains unknown but they are not coming by rail, and the Mexican line is not distant enough to explain their entry from that direction.
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