Williams news., 1903-10-24
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
 ARIZONA'S EARLY HISTORY
And Others Showing Her Development Now Which Should Be Good Argument
 for Statehood for the Territory

ritory of Arizona. Thus, under the benifcent influences of the American flag, the territory took on a new lease of life. But the Red man fercely resisted the encroach- ments of the whites, and thousands of sturdy pioneers found bloody graves in the lonely defiles of this territory. The history of Arizona is like the history of all civilized countries; intelligence, progress and civilization cannot be stayed. The Red man, though brave and defi- ant, was forced to give way to the demands of humanity, and Arizona today stands preeminent as one of the most peaceful and orderly DOT tions of the American Union. En- terprise and industry, when reliev- ed from the nightmare of Indians, began the labor of development Capital sought investment and the new territory moved on unchecked by diversity, until today Arizona stands almost alone in its marvel ous productions. The whistle of the locomotive as it crossed the Col orado river in 1878 sounded the first real trumpet peal of conner cial victory that ever resounded in the hills of Arizona. Possessed of all the resources that build up great commonwealths, Arizona invites capitalists and good citizens to join us in the work of development.
 In recent speech on Arizona, delivered at Rhineland Wis, Judge Mccormick, of Phoenix said some good things about Arizona that are quite appropos at this time, when we are all talking statehood: says the Phoenix Enterprise. Among other things Judge Mccormick said:
 Stating the subject alliteratively. so as to better fix it on your minds I will talk about the country, the crops, the climate and the citizens of Arizona.
 The territory comprises an em- pire in area when compared to some of the Eastern states, whose sena tors have been recently distinguish ing themselves by opposing the ad mission of Arizona to statehood. Some of these states have one and some two and some even three counties at low tide and one or two at high tide.
 But whether one or three they would not make respectable COW lot in Arizona.
 But let us take trip to Arizona or rather two trips. The first over the Santa Fe railway. Before you arrive at Ash Fork, where the Phoe- nix branch road leaves the main line, you will have passed along the northern end of the largest body of standing pine in the United States, all of which is in Arizona, and will also have passed within a few miles of one of the greatest of natures wonders, the Grand Can yon of the Colorado.
 In travelling south from Ash Fork you see nothing for many miles but mountains covered with juniper and you are apt to ask "What on earth can be found of val ue in such country?"
 But all this time, off to the left hand, has been rising in plain sight the smoke from the mills of the United Verde mine, which pays a million dollars profit every month and is said to have enough ore in sight to maintain the present out put for thirty years. How much agricultural country would be re- quired to yield such sum?
 Travelling southward toward Phoe- nix you pass along and across the