PHOENIX 



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PHOENIXVILLE 



rnnoan.on the north coast of Africa, wa.- -pnng- 

 ing up Carthage, a Phoenician colony which wa- 

 long to dispute with Rome the mastery of the 

 world. Acre and Beirut, Sarepta, mentioned 

 in / VII. 9, as Zarephath. ami Arwad, 



now known as Ruad. were all maritime tit 

 < M' them :ill Tyiv and Sidon stand out a< mo-t 

 important. Tyre as the great colonixing power. 

 :i :t- the commercial and manufacturing 



Politically. Phoenicia had little pov 

 ambition and in time submitted to more power- 

 ful neighb..'- I 1 - cities and its navy, however, 

 made it indispensable in the scheme of world 

 politics, and though after 850 B.C., Phoenicia 

 ;ne tributary in turn to Assyria, Babylonia. 

 : i. Kirypt, Greece and Rome, its position 

 was more that of a helpful ally than of a sub- 

 ject state. Until its conquest by Alexander 

 the Great in 332 B.C.. it maintained its commer- 

 cial supremacy. 



Of the once famous "Cedars of Lebanon" 

 that crowned the slopes of the northern bound- 

 none remain. The land there In- deoo- 

 The harbors of Tyre and Sidon no lonm r 

 noutrh for >hips of commerce. Kim: 

 Solomon obtained from Hiram, king of Tyre. 

 the -led to build the Temple, and the 



ins required for the work, for he had none 

 with ".-kill to hew timber like unto the Si- 

 domans." F.ST.A. 



Consult Rawlinson's History of l'lu /,. 

 Sayce's A nci< t Empires of the East. 



K-l:ii-(l tnliji-ctN. The reader \\}u> is im.-i - 

 I in Phoenicia is referred tn tin- following 



L'l.;iM>M. .M.uiiitains of 



!..n 

 Tyn- 



PHOENIX, /. 'mfo, M binl famed in lable. 

 held -acred by the Kgypt lali- and -aid by il 



rod<> : ither of hiMory." to have come 



ry 500 year- from Arabia. It 

 was supposed to have red and gnldm plu::. 

 and to resemble ihe ,-., L |,. m .,/e :m ,| form. 

 kbe many fanciful tales related of the 



pfl the be-t known i- that when 



of about 



'he bud built IT-. It a ne-t i.f h. rbs, 



lighted it by f.mmnu with it- golden wing-. 



; hen died upon M From the a-he- a \\oim 



Phil ,!,.,, 



tnrri> W;| - ! hoemx on e.uth at a time. 



it died upon the j.yre ii had 

 \\onn which d- -111111 the 



came in its turn the only representative of the 



\Ilother Irjirml tells of the SV 



of the phoenix given at the rising of the sun. 



The modern use of the word is based upon 



old legends. When a new building i< at 



once elected upon the ruins of one destroyed 



by lire, it jx s ,jd to "ri-e phoenixlike from it- 



ashes." 



PHOENIX, ARIZ., the capital of the state 



and the county seat of Maricopa County, i- 



'ed in the fertile valley of the Salt River. 



It i< south of the geographical center of the 



1.1(1 Cnilefi i.-t and >outh of 1,0- Angele- 



and 150 miles northwest of Tucson. It is sen ed 



by the Arizona Eastern and the Topeka & 



Santa IV railways. The population in 1910 was 



11.134; in 1916 it was 18,621 (Federal estimate). 



Phoenix has a dry and healthful climate and 

 is a favorite winter resort. The streets ami 

 1 larks are made attractive by semitropical vege- 

 tation, and there are many beautiful i 

 dences. Prominent -tructmvs are the Mate 

 capitol; the Federal building, completed in 1914 

 at a cost of $150,000; the V. M. C. A. buildm-. 

 COM ing $100,000; the Agricultural Kxperiment 

 Station, city hall, Carnegie Library. Arizona 

 School of Music, hotels and ho.-pitals. Three 

 miles north is the Phoenix boarding school for 

 Indians, supported by the United States | 

 eminent. In the vicinity are remains of old 

 A/tec Indian dwellings. Indian rock writing ami 

 mounds. 



Phoenix is in the finest farming district in the 

 state, and agriculture is the principal soun 



. ptian cotton, grapefruit, oranu't -. 

 olive-, date- and grain are the leading crop-, 

 and the earlie-t markets are supplied with 

 cantaloupe-. M 1 a w bei Tie-, apricots and garden 

 truck. Hay and alfalfa an e\t.n-i\.l\ rai-ed 

 for the fei dim: of cattle and >heep from the 

 i:mge<. brought into town for shipment. ( )r- 

 chaid- and field- are irrigated with \\aier from 

 the Hoo-e\,|t Dun. which is about srxvnty 

 mile- northea.-t of the city. There is some min- 

 ing m ar Pho< m\. and the city has sugar-: 

 and canning factoi . 



,d incorporated in 1SS1. 



I'lnniiix b c;iin. i||, capital of the territory 111 

 1889. In 1912. the year m which All/olia \\a- 

 adnutted as a -t ale. the coimm urn form of 

 illliient uas adopted The \\it-i -\-tem 

 i- owned by the municipality. 



PHOENIXVILLE, /, 'mksvil, P\.. a borough 

 in Chester County, in the -outh. a-t. in part of 



the -tat,. twenty-eight mile- Ilol'tllWe-t of 



Philadelphia It i- on the Schuylkill Hive) 



