Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-10-07

vouchsafed Arizona immediately on
 her admission. The JoURNAL-MISER has never denied that certain advan-
 tages and privileges will accrue on
 our admission as a state. They are
 privileges aud advantages very
 much desired, too. But there IS no
 use in soaring entirely away up
 among these, but the question should be looked at from a practi- cal business-ike standpoint. Let
 us get our public lands surveyed, and brought under cultivation first.
 Let us increase our population and
 taxable property, so that the bur dens of taxation' may not fall go
 heavily upon those here. Before we can make any great progress even as
 a state we must do this. There
 never will be any great rush of im-
 migration here until we can reduce
 the rate of taxation below a figure
 which is considered a good rate of
 interest in the east, and we can never
 reduce the rate of taxation by in- crossing our expenses Come down
 from your aerial perches ye advo- cates of statehood and face the question fairly and squarely as it exists, not as you would like it or as you may have the ability to picture 1t in your imaginations.
 The JOURNAL MINER has frequently called the attention of the govern ment to the importance of maintain ing Whipple Barracks as a military post. There is not to-day single military post in northern Arizona except Whipple. The government has expended thousands of dollars in improving the post. The value of such improvements would be rendered absolutely worthless should the post be abandoned. With the construction of the north and south railroad, which is now an absolutely assured fact, the location of this post IS an excellent one from a strategic stand point. The climate of this section is simply unexcelled so that from sanitary stand point there is no section which can offer better in- ducements for the station of troops. With the building of the north and south railroad supplies of all kinds can be procured for the troops as cheaply as at any other place at which they could be stationed in the west. So othat taking everything into consideration it would seem to be wisdom on the part of the govern ment to not only not abandon but to enlarge the post for the accommoda- ton of large number of troops. Aside from the advantages the loca- tion possesses for quartering large number of troops, there seems to be an absolute necessity for its being maintained, at least until the Indian question is finally settled for all time. As already stated there is no other post in northern Arizona while just to the east of us is one of the most powerful tribes of Indians in the southwest, the Navajoes, which in case of trouble could muster from 5000 to 5000 warriors. A restless but less powerful band which for merly occupied this section and which for wears contested with tho white race for supremacy, is now located to the southeast of us on the San Carlos reservation, the Mohave and Tonto Apaches. The latter are nat urally of a war-like disposition, and while they have given no trouble for years it is among the possibilities that should this, the only menace to them, be taken away they might at tempt to repeat the atrocities of former years. While it is equally true that the contingency of trouble with the Navajoes is a very remote probability it is among the possibil- ities, and the abandonment of Whip pie as military garrison for troops would increase the possibilities of such an event should dissatisfaction arise. It will be seen that aside from 1 the advantageous location to the 1 government of maintaining troops here, it is duty which it owes to the people of northern Arizona to main tain good sized post at some con venient place and Whipple seems to be the most convenient. It is sin cerely hoped that the consideration for abandonment may not prevail