Phoenix weekly herald., 1898-10-20
ARIZONA'S RIGHTS.
JOHN Fl. BAUMAN,
Receiver.

There is no good. or even plausible,
reason why the admission of Arizona
into the Union as a full-deged State
should be delayed byond the forth
coming session of Congress. Accord
! ing to the best authorities she has n
steady and permanent populations of
100000 souls. over and above Ac-
BE army of nomadic cattlemi :
the prospectors, whose discov
dition of the 5!!,sSt mining State
of the Union. She has not only gold
and silver, but coal and copper. so that
she is not dependent upon any single
branch of the mining industry. Add
TO this the great value of the succu-
lent grass pastures in her mountain
ranges. and you have a State capable
/ of supporting more than a million OF
population even if she does not rals6~
her own breadstuffs. but is Obliged
to import them from California. II L
exchange of products that makes hnsiS
ness for railroads and we all know
how imnortant part railroads play
in the development of new states and
Territories.
Nevada was admitted into the
Union in 1864. as a partisan measure.
1t was asserted that she had. at that
-in,e 5n O00 people. which is exceed
inglv doubtful. She may have had
35.OOO for Virginia City certainly had
10000 and Carson about 1900. but It
is very much to be feared that the
whole State will not show much
over 27.000 at present. Some of her.
'arger towns are ronidly deelinA
while others are at standstil-
Arizona, on the other hand, is
strong and virile She is not only
~, oil hrTf m
also heavy deposits OF maganese and
wOlframate. which are Indispensable
in the hardening of steel for armor-
plate. With the urgent necessity that
now exists for a larger and more ef-
ficient navy, the demand for these lat
ter metals must increase rather than
diminish The Introduction of cya-
nide processes into modern mining
has. however, rendered valuable many
gold and silver properties in Arizona
that hitherto could not be worked at
Il profit. In n word. Arizona is
great Territory and growing rapidly.
Irrigation has already begun to work
wonders in her industrial improve
ment; and the development of new
water systems is daily bringing into
cultivation many hundreds of acres
that have hitherto lain idle.
There can be no reasonable doubt
that Arizona has nearly four times
rs much population as Nevada has at
he present time. She has a better
climate than Nevada and is a good
leal closer to the older States from
which immigration is to be drawn.
She has as good title ranges as either
Oregon or Washington and can pro-
iuce a class of fruits that cannot be
rrOwn profitably in either of those
States. She is deficient in native tim
her to be sure. but she can grow in
the next ten years eucalyptus enough
TO make up the deficiency. She pro-
fluces melons equal to those of Geor-
ria. and peaches that cannot he sur
passed this side of the Delaware
wool as any of the States except
all these diversities of primary prod
ucts. she should no longer be isolated
from sisterhood in The Union. II is
contemptihle partisan legislation that,
with this growing. can give the privi-
ieges of Statehood to Nevada and deny
them TO Arizona. She should be ad-
mitted into the Federal Union at the
next session of Congress and given n
sufficient area of the public lands to
ne sold for educa tional purposes. to
bring her school facilities up TO those
,f the adjacent States of Colorado and
California. There is no party ques-.
ton involved in this proposition. 1t
IS simply n matter of long-deferred
Justice to a vigorous ambitious and
hospitable people.