Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-08-15
GOV. IRWIN. He Tells of Aizona'S Re-
 souces in New YOk. HE STATES THEM FAIRLY. It's HealthfulneSs, Produotiveness
 and Need of Capital.
HE STATES THEM FAIRLY.
Tells of the Biggest Fig Orchard i,l the World, the Most Fertile
 Soil, the Richest Mines.

It is pleasure to hear the Hon. John | x. Irwin, governor of Arizona, talk
 about the territory of which he is the
 executive head. He believes in Arizona
 throughly and is able to give good reas-
 ons for his belief. At the Murray | Hill hotel last evening in the course of
 an informal talk he remarked: Arizona IS the sanitarum of America. Let any person iu whose system the seeds of | consumption gre planted go out there
 and stay there and he CT she will csr- tGinly get well. 1 recall the case of one man whC went to Arizona dying of
 consumption. He weighed only ninety pounds when he reached there. In less
 than four TOnths he was able to jump
 on the back or donkey and gallop over the mountains.
 "The climate ot Arizona is perfectly
 dry. It is well adapted to the health
 fulness Of mankind and the raising of
 fruit. A January monday there would
 compare very fav3rably with a June
 monday here in New York. 1 have seen
 men and women on the streets of PhenIx
 in she middle of January clad in summer
 garb and perfectly comfortable. Our
 mortality record is remarkable. Deaths
 are very infrequent. During the con-
 strUction Of the large canal in Arizona
 4,0G0 men were employed for two years
 on the work. Only two of the men dIed
 in that entire period.
 We have the biggest fig orchard in
 the world in Arizona" continued Gov.
 Irwin. "it belongs to the Bartlett
 Brothers. We raise a frer quality of
 fruit than is raised in California, and
 Te can deliver oranges, lemons, lines,
 and olives in New York at least four
 weeks quicker than the California grower can. We can also deliver here
 pears, peaches, and apricots three weeks
 before the advent of similar fruit from California The soil of Arizona IS very fertile. The memory of the Indians does not go back to the time when a pound of fertilizer WAS put upon the soil of our territory. A fine grade of wheat and barley is raised there"
 While expressing the utmost confid | ence in a great future for Arizona, Gov l Irwin said that he could not tell how | long it would be before that richly | endowed section of country became pos sessed of adequate facilities to develop | its resources. Railroads and capital are | most urgently needed, and the enter prisiDg people of Arizona are looking to New York for both
 New Workers have got both the nerve and the capital to build railroads and open up mines in an undeveloped remarked the governor. i've need greatly enlarged facilities of in order to get our products to market. With an area of territory equal to all of New York state and New England combined we have only HOO miles of railroad. It is owing to this lack of transportation facilities that Arizona is today, perhaps, the least known of all the possessions of the United States.
 "We have belt of dense forests 200 miles long ard about 50 miles wide, ard yet we have to pay s40 or $50 a thousand feet for rough lumber. It Is impossible to transport any large quantity of timber. This condition of affairs ought to appeal at once to eesterns capitalists. There lies untold wealth in the mountains of Arizona. There Is probably not in the territory that does not contain more or less precious metal. Why, sir, our immense deposits of gold and silver have scarcely been scratched as yet. But new mines are being opened constantly and several lew railroads are projected. The outlook for the territory is certainly very encouraging. It is true that Arizona has the desert, the cacti the rattlesnake, the Apache Indian, and the Gila monster, and yet Lhe smallest county in Arizona could develop within it's borders the largest ten counties known in the state of New Y York, and man could be residentof any part of Arizona from his cradle to his grave and never see a poisonous reptile any oftener than if his life WAS spent on Island. The Indian is there, but he is on the reservation provided for him by the government, and is, on the whole, fairly kept within its lines.
 "It is the simple truth to say that life in Arizona-in its towns. its villages, and its farms-is safer today than life in New York. The life that can be led, and Is led, by the American man and woman, by the American family in Arizona--in its mountains or in its valleys-is just as pure, just as sweet as Is the life of any American family living in New York pr New England"
 The raising of cattle and sheep is a great industry in Arizona. One corpoF- ation there controls mora than 1,010.0O0 acres of land on which about 50G00 cattle are fed. II sincerely believe said Gov. Irwin, that there is no place n this country or ln the world where sheep are so free from disease as they are in Arizona. This fact is being rec 1gnized; for the first tine, in 1891. in that remote country, from one little valley and cue railroad g. iation, S100,000 WAS paid out for wool the first year that the sheep were driven into that valley. On ts mountains, in its plains, the herds If all America could live and thrive New York Times.