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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1894
Page
1
A608 GO Up advertises a Mesa store offering dress goods flannels ladies and gents furnishings hardware groceries and agents for Myers Pumps Fatherbone Buggy Whips Canton Clipper Plows. Emphasizes best lines low prices and prompt special orders.
A description of a pioneering rail corridor uniting the United States via the Santa Fe Route. The piece highlights the railroad’s expansion, connecting key cities and facilitating cross country travel and commerce with emphasis on the new link between eastern and western lines.
Florence awaits the North and South railway as the line nears Benson Calabasas and Phoenix. The Santa Fe system would connect New York and Mexico with Arizona ports, boosting Florence real estate and local boom. Gold finds at Walnut Grove dam site and Goler camps fuel optimism amid other mining notes.
The piece notes only seven of seventeen transatlantic cables remain active, with ten failing from various causes. Estimating each cable cost at 3 million dollars, a total of 30 million dollars is implied to be buried beneath the ocean as an unrecovered investment.
Ed Austin returns from Austin City on the Santa Maria. Tom Fitch located there with his family and has employed twelve men to work the wine bonded from Austin Owens. Dan Thorne accelerates development while prospectors flood the district, a rare Arizona area with rich resources and abundant water.
A man from southern Pinal county reports that Papago berry pickers near mountains left a papoose on a blanket. An eagle swooped from a clear sky and grabbed the infant with its bill, carrying it away before gunfire could stop the act. The incident ends with the infant missing.
The Philadelphia Record notes Hamilton Disstan, famed as the greatest maker of gaws, aims to become a major fruit and vegetable grower and sugar producer. He controls 1,000,000 acres in Florida, a quarter of Maryland's size, in a single tract, with drainage work over ten years enabling large scale colonization.
The State Geologist of Alabama states the War rior coal fields hold 108,394,000,000 tons of coal in seams eighteen inches or thicker. He notes this equals triple the bituminous coal in Pennsylvania and, at current prices, Alabama coal would be worth 150 billion dollars or 1,900 times Alabama’s 1860 property value.
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