Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-19

From a reliable newspaper Ia the terri
tory l take the following:
Hay sold past year Salt River
a.iey :" :. :. .............. 100000
fruit sold past year, Salt River
SdHey ........ !. ...... :. $4,000
Cattle and horses sold past year
SaM River Valley ........... -, 800. 900
Hohey sold past year, Salt River
Valley ....... ............ -. $4,000
Salt River Valley ........ ..... 76. 900
Poultry and 81 sold past year
Salt River Valley 49,. ...... . $4,000
lhfough that territory two trunk lines
or railroads pass, and In 1t we have 1,419
miles of completed railroad facilities.
with other. lines In prospect, some Of
which are being built.
No better code of laws can he found in
the union than in the territory of Arizona.
There the law is strongly enforced. It's
penalty falls heavily upon the heads OF it's
~Vlolators. and by it's virtues life is safe.
property rights secure, and the pursuit OF
napplness secured to all men, with no one
to make them afraid.
The most perfect election law in the
government is there. The Australian bal
lot IN Its most improved state is in force.
~ IS SO SNAPPED as to perfectly protect the
purity and secrecy of the ballot, and cleo
iron contests there are scarcely known.
uhuer lts safeguards. when the majority
AN Nils oil - anu ODeV. tan
any country in this great union boast Of
more? o"'e"
NOT only have we these, but we have an
eAcellent educational system which 7 ha-
neVe Will stand comparison with the hest
we nave there a university well equipped.
,h M" = - oo credit to any state. We
nave two normal schools, built at a cost
or $l2O,OOO with strong faculties, highly
graded, and of the most improved. Thev
are the admiration of all and the inferior
of none.
None of you have a finer public school
.system. we tax ourselves and maintain
all Of these systems. Public schonIa a,a
m session there in nearly every school
ulslilct IN the territory from five to 10
months In the year-most 1O-with school
prppertv or the value of SITS, 600. High
schools. with latest chemical Ia hnsa-
tories, graded and grammar schools are
IN session all the time in every quarter
or the territory. The fact Is they are
excelted nowhere.
The unfortunate sufferer whose reason
IS dethrOned Is provided for also. For
such u~nfortunates an asylum Mas heen
quit ar a cost Of about $125, 900, with a
capacity Of about 200 patients and more.
and IT Is handsomely maintained.
IN 1896 each county immigration COM
missioner was required to take a cens,rs
OF his county and report the same to the
governor. This duty was performed by
each all, and by that system it was
found that Arizona had a population OF
lol,24o. This fact will be found in the
report Of the governor for that year. We
mot only have q growing, gaining popula-
tion. but an exceedingly Intelligent one.
exceeded by none in any part Of the
union. AS is officially stated by Govern
or Murphy in his able report to the sec
Rotary Of the interior for 1898. 95 per cent
of that population does IT'S own reading
and writing lin the transaction of its own
business affairs, and l know he does not
Oyerstate it.
America demanded that Spanish crimes
against humanity should cease, Arizona
was first to offer her services to her
country's cause, first to fill her quota.
first to rally on the field, first to prepare
for the conflict, first to place foot on
foreign soil. to rush on the foe and face
death.
As to the possibility of the admission
of the territory, I think it is altogether
probable that it will be admitted at the
next session of congress-. Every indica-
tton row points tina way. | have stat
ed a few of the above given facts to the
president in presenting the matter to him
for his assistance in the admission of the
territory, and the president is very
frank to say. and has said that. assum-
ing the above facts to be true, there is
no reason why the territory should be
kept out of the union. but on the con-
trary, politics should be laid aside and it
should be admitted.
lHele Is no more tnan from 8 per cant
to 5 per cent of the population tina is a
Mexican population. At any rate, the
amount of that population is very small.
the per cent l haven't before me. They
(the Mexicans) are mostly all old resi-
dents there, we'll to do and are very de-
sirous of seeing the territory become q
sovereign state. These people are intcl-
ligent, thrifty, loyal to the flag and re-
garded by the Americans as guol citi-
Zens.
As to the principal objections to the adj
mission of the territory I know of rome
hat are Well grounded. Any objections
nation as to the condition Of the terri-
tory, and on political objections, the lat
ter of which can only exist in small
minds wherein partisan feeling must pre-
dominate over good Judgment and loyal
ty to precedent and constitutional rights.
J. F. WILSON.