Williams news. [microfilm reel] (Williams, Ariz.) 1891-19??, 1903-11-07


named increased at the surprising
average ratio of 275 per cent. The
same general history holds good as
to all the recently admitted states
and will repeat itself when the bill
shall happily become law admitting
Arizona to the union of states.
Arizona contains 100000 square
miles and it's resources are as
boundless as its mighty area which
is greater in extent than Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti-
cut, New York and Delaware COM
bined, with enough left to make one
more state the size of Delaware and
two more Rhode Islands. We have
an untouched body of forest trees
larger in area than the state of Yer
mont, while the timber belt in
northern Arizona covers more land
than is contained in Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island and
Delaware put together. Our tim
>ber alone would make all New
England rich, while if the Copper
Queen mine and Senator Clark S
United Verde were in the Green
Mount tains of Vermont, their out
put would change the thrifty char
acter of the people and turn them
into spendthrifts.
Space will not permit the use OF
statistics showing the wonderful
productiveness of Arizona and her
varied resources. These are al
ready known to the reading public
everywhere. Having the material
wealth to support a great state, let
us take look at her people.
Who settled Arizona? What
character of people and whence
came they? Were the pioneers of
Arizona alien outcasts from foreign
lands and the good society of our
own states? No.
Those were the young men from
honest families of all the states,
with an ambition to make a name
for themselves and homes for those
who loved them. With hearts that
knew no fear and with spirits un-
daunted. they left their kindred
and friends and home-endearing
ties and set their faces to the wild
erness. impossible mountains
seemed only an obstacle in their
way and the endless desert was in
vaded without fear. With untiring
energy they removed all obstacles,
with hopeful hearts surmounted all
difficulties, until at last the desert
was conquered; the mountains sur
rendered their treasure, and the
home of youths bright hope be-
came reality; villages, towns and
cities sprang into active existence,
schoolhouses everywhere dot the
plains, and church spires point to
heaven from every hamlet.
This has all been done without
your aid and while you were sleep
ing. Many of these brave, true
men are enjoying in the peaceful
sunset of life the full fruition of it's
morning hopes. May they long be
spared to us! From that first set
tlement until now the sons of these
pioneers and men of like mold have
spread over every county of the
territory.
Defendants of revolutionary he
roes are there. Veterans of the
triumphant army of the north in
the late great war and their child
rem have made their homes there.
Those who followed the conquered
banner till all save life and honor
were lost are working out a des-
tiny there; while the glory and
beauty of it all is that SO few of
any except the highest type of citi-
zenship are sojourning in that land.
Every state in the union, every
corner of our republic, is represent
ed there by its young, intelligent,
courageous, self-reliant and progress
sive manhood. They knew every
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