Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-29
Arizona's Development.

be admitted as state and Springer's proposition to make a state of her, says:
 "The proper scheme in this case would be to reunite Arizona and New Mexico, and when the proper time comes admit them as one state. The territory should not have been divided. Their joint resources will still be scanty enough to support respectable state. Is MT. Springer's committee willing to reunite Arizona and New Mexico as the first step toward admitting 1t into the union. The same policy might be followed with advantage in other directions. M ssI
 All of whieh goez to slsoW xery cle&E ly that the Fnhane Knows fo1llif,G about Arizona or Tese,..S-s-s. has been but twelve years since Ari- zona has had a railroad anywhere within 400 miles of her borders and less than ten years since line cross ed her borders and passed through the territory. Up to the time of the latter event she was almost terra incognita and what little of her was known was devoted entirely to mining, and it is now well known fact that that in- dustry is even now in its merest in fancy. She is now in a fair way to reach the foremost rank in her gold, silver and copper output. Twelve years ago she had an assessed valu- ation of $1 400, ,000; to-day her assess .ment roll foots up nearly $30,OOO,0 900, and probably does not reach over one third of her cash value of property. Within the past year 295 ,481.O5 acres of land have been entered in the ter ritory and her population has grown to upwards of S0,000, if her vote at the recent election is any indication of population, it being upwards of 16,000, considerable larger than the vote of the state of Nevada. All this has been done under the incubus of great In dian reservations on one or two of which the government harbored until within the past three years, one of 1 the most treacherous, yillainous and warlike of the Indian tribes on the continent, and from which reservation they were allowed annually to make bloody raids upon the hardy prospec- tors scattered among our mountains in peaceful pursuit of their business Within the past six years Arizona has developed an agricultural country ex- celled by none other in the United States, country that will ultimately extend to at least one-half the area of Arizona when the government shal have lent her assistance in water stOr age and in the development or artesiar water. Great as are our mining anc
 stock-raising industries, agriculture l! already leading them in the race fol supremacy. Even at the present time our lands have been sufficiently devel oped, that is enough are under canals
 to support in atfluence population
 of 250,000 people and we have jus
 really begun the development of tn
 agricultural resources of the territory
 Five years ago there were not fit.
 miles of irrigating canal in tn
 territory, to-day in Maricopa count.
 alone, there is not less that 250 mile
 of canal to say nothing of the rapi'
 construction of canals in Yuma, Pima
 Pinal, Cochise, Graham and Apach
 counties, in all of which the peopl
 are all just waking up to the fact tha
 their great wealth lies in tilling tn
 soil. True, as the Tribune says, Ari
 zona has been settled great man, years but not longer than Californi and originally with the very sam
 character of population; but whil
 California has been developing unde
 the pressure of an American popula
 ton and unexcelled attractions fo
 thirty-eight years, Arizona has beel
 attracting that character of population
 in any marked degree but about si
 years and is to-day in precisely tn
 situation California was in, thirt
 ago. Barring the extraordinary aC
 vantages of California in her grea
 coast line and navigable rivers, no ma
 who knows what there is in Arizona
 resources, twill doubt for moment tha
 thirty years hence Arizona, under tn
 new immigration, will, comparativel,
 be far beyond where California is tt day in wealth and population. Withi . the next four years it is safe to sa, 2 Arizona will poll population of 200 - 900 souls without her Indian tribe 6 now happily settled down to agricu :, tural and stock-raising pursuits.
 Itwould be a most stupid piece { : legislation to form Arizona and Ne . Mexico into single territory agail Already Arizona contains an area : large as the half of New England an
 she will not now be long in receivir I the population she can sustain. H. ; ; magnificent climate alone would giN | her population large enough to nal l. her state within the next ten year t, And when the Tribune..compares Al d zona with Nevada and points to tf # decrease in population there and a e serts substantially that the same eau d es would retard the development > Arizona, that journal simply proclaim .e it's ignorance or it's prejudice in u Ie premises.
 l. With the dawn of the great pro Y perity that is now upon her, Arizor ,s = simply wants ito be let alone" for u d present and she will demonstrate h )t ability to be worthy a seat among u IS great sisterhood of states and it w It not be back seat either that she wi T. ere long demand by right of her wealt ,d her energy, her population, her br m rms liant future that is already dawnil D. bright as her skies of eternal sunshir It No! Arizona will one day be the "Sta C. of Arizona" and grandly worthy of u IS name.-Phenix Gazette.
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