Arizona republican., 1901-05-08

mnch on aid from the national govern
 ment and not enough on themselves
 They have about reached the limit her,
 in cultivation. unless they can get more
 water. Range stock has suffered iron
 drouth the last two years. and the wa.
 ter to fertillze the mining stock and bonds must be brought all the way from
 the financial centers of the east.
 "Fuel for power is also a problem, fol
 there are no coal mines, and while ths
 mountains are covered with heavy tim. Der 1t is inaccessible, and mesquite | wood, much of it brought in on the backs of burros. is the main resource
 The grandeur of the country and its
 immensity make one feel that all the claims of its people are capable of re- alization. If the government would put in the money here which it is now spending in shooting Christianity into the Filipinos and Chinese. Arizona
 would give returns richer than dreamed of in any foreign conquest. The people are progressive. well educated, and pos | aess that empirical knowledge which the boOkworm never learns. They have all been somewhere and while there may be less "cult,lre" than in the east there Is less hypocrisy.
 OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE MONEY
 The women are as pure as the moun- tain air and the men as broad in their views as the country they live in. To one who has money to invest this is a good place to Tut it. for a good profit can be realized on the investment. do not mean to place it in some of the wildcat ventures that are advertised in the east, but man can come out here. look over the fielo for himself and he'll have no trouble about finding gilt edged security. The reason is that all the money here is working. and there are legitimate opportunities for lots more of it. To one who has no capital except health 1t Is a good country, for wages are high, and labor especially in the mines. is in demand. To those who have lung trouble it is good place, provided they are not too far on the road. The climate is bracing. but it will not grow a new lung, though there are those who came here years ago with one lung, and still havn E:
 If some of our folks back home, in stead of taking European trip, would come out here and spend a few weeks looking around they would return with different ideas about the advisabil of going thousands of miles away to ob- tain territory. They would see in the vastness of their own land room for de- velopment beside which the Philippines are but town lot to square mile. They would also see that the population out here don't carry guns or murder English. While this is a great country, 1t hasn't everything in it. and to one who has been used to the Maryland oyster. the shad and the herring, and to the melons and peaches of the eastern shore, to say nothing of sitting in old Druid Hill park which We don't have to .rrigate, there comes a feeling which makes you wish to be back in the old home and in the old haunts, that not even this glorious climate and the pos abilities of the country can drive away After all Baltimore is good enough for me. though this little side trip has been pleasant diversion and an education. Our old town Is all right, but we never thoroughly appreciate 1t and its envi- ropmept until We leave it for while.