“ The city is a popular winter resort. It has extensive commercial interests, controlling an important trade in live stock, grain, hay, honey, wines, oranges, and other fruits. Settled in 1870-75 Phœnix was incorporated in 1881. The government, under a charter revised last in 1893, is vested in a mayor, who holds office for two years, and a council which exercises some powers of confirmation and election in administrative offices, though the majority are filled by popular election. ”