Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-05-17
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and 200 acres of stout grain, so acres o.
grapes, 40 acres of apricots and 20 acres oi
almonds. This ranch is we'll kept and is
most profitable piece of property.
On the Fowler Bros. ranch we saw 5000
fine hogs which had been raised and wa.
then living upon alfalfa.
The Arizona Nursery owned and operated
by Geo. H. Clayson & Sons, is one of the
most beautiful ranches in the territory. Mr.
Clayson took this land four years ago from
the desert and with water and skill has
transformed what was barren waste into a
bower of beauty. Jerry Millay has 40 acres
of beautiful orange trees and 10 acres OF
almonds. T. M. Hine has 80 acres of beau.
tiful orchard and vineyard. Messrs. Millay
and Hlne are Maine men. They removed
from Richmond to this territory some ten
or twelve years ago, and have not only
made comfortable and beautiful homes fol-
themselves but are heavy property owners,
men of wealth and influence in territorial
affairs. Mr.. Hine is the able, efficient and
obliging cashier of the Maricopa Loan &
Trust Company.
A visit to Phoenix would not be complete
unless one has seen the ostrich farm.
This novel feature of farming is located
about four miles from the city and is a
financial success. There are at present A
full grown birds, which am told are worth
$500 each. This farm is owned by Josiah
Harbert and is under the care and manage
ment Of Mr.. ID. B. Wright. The birds
live on alfalfa and corn, thus the expense
of keeping them is very small. The feathers
find a ready market at from $40 to 500
per pound. Mr.. Harbert has proven that
this is fine climate for ostrich raising, his
birds being the largest known.
The territory is literally covered with
cattle, horses and hogs. They are to be
seen in tremendous herds on every hand
and yet the leading cattle men of the terri
tory tell me l have seen none of their
stock. In riding four miles l counted
$50 horses feeding on sweet alfalfa
on one side of the roadway and there were
probably as many more on the other side.
Hundreds of cattle have been shipped from
California to this valley for pasturage dur
ing the present season and yet there is no
lack of pasturage.
The mining resources of the territory
are wonderful, its many mountain ranges
being loaded with rich gold, silver, copper,
lead and iron ore. Mining is already one
of the leading industries of the territory,
and yet no one can doubt but that even this
great and profitable industry is still in its
infancy. Arizona is urquestionably the
richest in its wealth of gold ore of any
other territory or state in the Union.
The growth and prosperity of this terri
tory is greatly retarded for want of better
railroad service. There is now no compe-
tition and freight and passenger rates are
outrageous. The North & South Road, as
it is called, will obviate this difficulty in
measure, since it will make the Santa
Fe and Southern Pacific competing roads
for local traffic. The North and South Road
will extend from Phoenix to Prescott and
connect with the great Santa Fe system at
Ash Fork. The road bed is already built
for the greater portion of the distance and
it is believed that this road will be in oper-
alton by the first of January, '95.
But the great stumbling block in the way
of growth and thrift in this territory is that
it is a territory. Few men of ambition and
enterprise, when then come to understand
the great sacrifice they must make to become
a citizen of aterritory ARE not willing to sur
render their franchise, and lose their voice
in national politics. Capitalists are not
willing to invest in a section of the country
where laws have little or no foundation to
rest upon and property rights and local gov
ernment are controlled almost wholly by
those who have no special interest in and
know very little about the natural resources
and the needs of that particular Sec
ton. Give Arizona statehood and her
future is assured; her growth
would be rapid and healthy, her
citizens contented and prosperous, her
arid lands would TEEN with the choicest ag-
ricultural products, and capital would find
within her borders safe and profitable in
vestment. The question of statehood is not
political here at home. Democrats and Re-
pubhcans alike clamor for admission to our
Union. Contrary to the statements con-
tanned in the Chicago Sunday Tribune of
Feb llth last, it is not the irrespon-
sible or "bad element that ask for
statehood. | have been in the territory
longer than the special correspondent of the
Sunday Tribune, and judging from his arti-
Gle, have associated with better and more
truthful and reliable class of citizens, and
know many of the advocates of statehood
personally and that they are the bone and
sinew of this section of the country, the
men who own the property and pay the
taxes, they to man want statehood and
are willing to adopt any honorable means
to obtain it.
The article to which refer in the Sun
day Tribune is at once the most wonder
full and flagrant perversion of truth
and facts that it has ever been
my privilege to read. 1t is believed by
many and not without ample reason in my
judgment, that much of the pretended sta
tistics contained in said article, originated
in the ever mischievous brain of the present
very unpopular chief executive of Arizona,
who, if current reports be true, must have
been selected by the almighty Grover, be-
cause of his career of crime, insfficiency
aud natural cussedness. 1t is my judg-
ment that Gov. Hughes could not be elected
water carrier to the primary school
in his own ward in the city of Tucson,
The Governor is more interested in his
office of Governor than in the growth and
prosperity of his territory, and this is hii
reason for opposing statehood.
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