The Florence tribune., 1900-03-10

me properly, than the whole State of Iowa combined.
 As before said, the yield of these broad acres to him who calls on them is immense. While agriculture and Kindred industries there are in their infancy, so to compare, it may not be aniss 10 give a few items of value of domestic products there.
 From the Arizona Citizen, reliable newspaper in the Territory, I take the following
 Hay sold past year, Salt River Valley .S700, 600 Fruit sold past year, Salt River Val
 ley ......................... 75,000 Cattle and horses sold past year. Salt
 River Valley y.......................... s00,000 Honey sold past year, Salt River
 Valley. ...s.................... so,OOO Butter andcheese sold past year. Salt
 River Valley. y.........,................ 76,000 Poultry and eggs sold past year. Salt
 River Valley ey...................... 5000
 These figures are given by an enter prising Republican editor, who, I ap- prehend, will be taken as authority by the gentleman from Iowa.
 Through that Territory two trunk lines of railroads pass, and in it we have l,4le miles of com pleted railroad facilities, with other lines in prospect, some of which are being built.
 No better code of laws can be found in the Union than in the Territory of Arizona. There the law is strongly enforced. Its penalty falls heavily upon the heads of it's yiolators, and by it's virtues life, is safe property rights secure, and the pursuits of happiness secured to all men there, with no one { make them afraid.
 Tue most perfect election law in the government is there. The Australian ballot in it's most improved state is in force there. It is so. shaped as to so perfectly guard the purity and secrecy of the ballot, and to guard against inn position aud fraud, that election con tests there are scarcely known. Under its safeguards, when the majority speaks at the polls, all abide, bow, aud obey. Can any country in this great Union boast of more?
 Not only have we these, but we have an excellent educational system, which, apprehcnd, will stand com parison with the best.
 We have there a university well equipped, with dormitory accommoda- tions attached, which will do credit to any State.
 We have two normal schools, built at cost of s12O,OoO, with strong faculties, highly graded, and of the most improved. They are the admira- ton of all and inferior to none.
 None of you have finer public school system. We tax ourselves and maintain all of these systems. Public schools are in session there in nearly every school district in the Territory from five to ten months in the year mostly ten-with school property of the value $l75,000, and high schools with latest chemical laboratories graded, and grammar schools are in session all the time in every quarter oi the Territory. The fact is, they are l axao1fod no.-bara
 The unfortunate sufferer whose reason is dethroned is provided fol also. For such unfortunates an asylum has been built at cost of about $125,. 900, with capacity to accommodate 200 patients and more, and it is hand somely maintained.
 Right here let it be understood thai all counties, and the Territory as well have their own public buildings, ant they are strong and ample. There thu Government has none. The Territory and the people furnish the Government all buildings it uses, and they are com modious.
 MT. Chairman, I have thus stated bnt few facts, meritorious existing conditions there, going to real worti and value, as response to the eTrone ous imputation cast upon that fai land by the gentleman who spoke o that about which he certainly knev nothing at all.
 And the gentleman said, "Sparsel. populated, or scarcely populated a all."
 To that remark 1 must pay som little attention, for it must necessaril, be so misleading as to effect injur. unless met. Therefore can not per init it to pass without mention.
 No better answer can be given thai to give it's population and its character In 1896 each county immigration com missioner was required to take census of his county and report tn, same to the governor as chairman oi the State board.
 That duty was performed by eacl and all, and by that system it wa found that Arizona had populate ol of 10l ,240. This fact will be found il