Arizona silver belt., 1889-04-27
HUNGRY rox LAND.

years since Bishop George Berkeley Dean of Derry, while in Newport, Rhode Island, wrote and published "The star of empire westward takes its way" and at no time since the eRunciation of that metrical compost. tion has its force been more fully real. ized than now, since that long line from east to west took up its march to Oklahoma, which taxed railroads to their utmost capacity to dump them on the promised land on Monday last, in order not to get left at the com mencement of the allotment of lands. A feature of the procession was coffin merchants who, in anticipation of great mortality among disputants over squatters rights to Oklahoma soil, ex- pect to reap harvest from friends and estates of cotfiAed humanity. A Kansas City dispatch describes the leader of a party of Missourians bound for the promised land as a man who would have been considered insane had it not been for the trust and obe. disnce he exacted from his rather har- dy followers. He was tall, lank, dressed in rough wern clothing and had thin, shrewd iace, and a scrubby chin whisksr. Over his pantaloons and stuffed in the top of his big jack boots he wore sensational pair of overalls, made of bunting, stamped with small American flags. He car ried long, brown rife of the ancient but accurate ball.and-patch pattern, and around his waist were strapped brace of canneH-calibe navies and large knife.
 The smniscent real estate agent was promInsntly present on the cars with banners bearing advertisements of town lots Tn Oklahoma city, spot sn the map of the Panhandle of Texas touching the western tip of Oklahoma. These so-ealled town lots sold like hot cake at S2 apiece, and an additional charge of Sl for recording the deed.
 One thousand wagons crossed the lIne of the Cherokee Strip on the 19lh U. $. troops were escerting the train and directing Its movements. An Arkansas City dispatch of the 18th says the highways are moving mass of white covered wagons. Commis. Slonsr Stockslagsr, of the general land office, has expressed the opinion that not less than 100000 persons would enter Oklahoma within month after ths 22d of April, but this, doubtless, IS an underestimate It is claimed that more than that number is already Ghsre, and inasmuch as there is not land enough to provide all who go ,hsrs with homes, the presumable re- 2ult will be an invasion of adjoining lands, from which it will be difficult to dislodge squatters without blood shed. The Oklahoma excitement is not unlike that of the Black Hills, in 1875, where United States troops were unable to protect Indians in their rights ts reservation lands, which Bnaily resulted in the purchase of the land by the United States from the Indians, and leaving the gold hunters in undisputed possession.
 This want of room is apparent by the moving mass of humanity west ward, and is partly accounted for by hs constantly increasing European immigration 10 our Atlantic coast The creation of States west of the Missouri furnishes an illustration. For instance, Kansas, which was ad- mitted as State in 1861, year later, IS shown by it's first enumeration contained 364, ,399 persons, and twen- ty-ssvsn years later, The Annual Sta Iistieian and Economist glves the pop ulatisn as 1,26S,5 ,562. Nebraska, an. other Western State, also bordered on the east by the Missouri river. in 1870 had population of 122, ,993, which in- creased 617.652 in IS years.
 And new, in view of this state of facts, is it not incumbent upon the legislative branch of the United States 70 open the way for further enigra- ton west to stll anoccupied lands which needing water storage and irri' sation, are to be found in the arid re- giens, notably Tn Central and South. arn Arizona and New Mexico, south oi longitude 34 degs., where seasons are sufficiently long to insure two cereal crops year, and where climatic in. huences are, at all times, most agree able.
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 The settlers on lands in southern Pima County, who have been greatly