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Show Hi Advancement S" MD a gentleman yesterday: "This city has been transformed in the last four years, 1 and as things are moving, unless there is Bf some setback, it will be transformed again in Bt the next four years." Bf And that is true. The smelters are paying Hf the railroads about $2,500 per day freight just to Bf carry east their copper bars. It is freight, too, H on which there is no risk. It Is not rich enough H for hold-ups to steal, if a wreck comes and. a car Hp on which it is loaded is smashed, it will not mat- Hf ter, the car may be converted into kindling wood B' but all that is needed for the bullion is to pick W It up and load it upon another car. And. think Bj of paying railroads nearly $1,000,000 per annum H for picking up five cars of freight daily and car- B rying it to market! Think, too, of the men that R must have been employed in the mines to pro- Hf duce the ores to ake these five carloads of con- V' centrales! Think of the transportation necessary Hi to get the ore from the mines to the smelters; H' of the fuel and the labor needed there! Finally, Hj think cf the mines that can give; up this ore daily H1 without any signs of giving out, rather with ample H I assurances of continuing the present output for H'i' two generations to come! H And that is but one item in the city's growth. B Other districts are doing their part, new mines i are being opened. H Then there are other factors. One manufac- H tory after another is spring up. and with every H improvement made In the city, people from the H' outside are more and more- Impressed with the H place and its business opportunities and are com- H ing-this way to link their fortunes with it, to H' share in its advantages and help to make it K greater. j The greatest factor of all is that for four years i past a -live, progressive government has been in B1 charge and no restraints have been upon the best Hl efforts of citizens, rather the city has been behind H and helped in the superb work that has been done m and is doing. K The work has been a constantly expending ob- B ject lesson, and with every new feature, new B courage comes to the workers, new incentives are K given visitors to remain here and join In the f work. The result is that population and realty B and business have doubled in theso past four B years. And beyond correcting some apparent mis- IH takes, there must be no change in the programme. fHb Why, to let It bo known the morning after olec- K tlon that the city had been given back to the Bf reactionists, would cause a loss in a single day of Bf quite 10 per cent on the present valuation of the B realty of this city. Bi This Is so plain that a full majority of the B voters must see it, and the members of every B creed and political party must see it, the skilled B and unskilled laborers must see it, for they are B the most directly interested people of all. Hence B the election this year should be an easy-going B affair and all the appeal needed should be for jjH every voter to look over the field dispassionately B and vote as his own best interest dictates. |
