Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-11-22
ARIZONA WILL HEAD THE LIST IN
 19O6 So Says B. J. Whiteside, A Visitor To
 Prescott Gives His Views Of Its Prospects And
 Politics
(From Saturdays Daily.)

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 "19O6 will see Arizona in the lead for copper production in America, !" said B. J. Whiteside, who represented Santa Cruz county in the 22nd Legis- lative Assembly of the territory, to a Journal-Miner man yesterday. "The southern part of the territory was new CT so prosperous as it is at this time, and since my arrival here I find that there are a number of new enterprises in the mining line started in this county, that will materially assist in the advancement of this industry in the north," he continued. "All the way from New Mexico I found the towns along the line of the Santa Fe Pacific showing much evidence of prosperity and growing right along"
 "The territorial fair, which will be held in Phoenix shortly, promises to be a great success, and from what I know of the exhibits which will be seen there, believe that the fair will be the means of advertising the re- sources of our territory as they were never advertised before I will tell you," he said, "that the men who have the management of the fair in hand are as energetic as could be found anywhere in America. They are all heavily interested in the territory, and deeply interested in its welfare and advancement.
 When informed that there was an i'm pression in this county that the people of Santa Cruz favored joint statehood he said ''that none of the citizens of Nogales or Santa Cruz county favored joint statehood or advocated the ida outside of a few politicians who cx- pected favors in an official way fro-i the party in power." "Why," kc said, five are all proud of Arizo- q
  brightest country that the sun evc- shone upon, that we have as good q business community and as bright d intelligent a citizenship as any in the country, and being cognizant of thc fact that the territory is self-suppor,- ing in every way, consider that we arc entitled to single statehood and would prefer to remain as a territory forever sooner than be linked with New Mexico"
 "The resources of Arizona," he con tinued, "surpass those of New Mexico in every way, and we are now far ahead in population and taxable wealth in comparison with many of the terri tories that were admitted to statehood in years gone by, besides we believe that the question of economy of gov ernment of the new state would be better served by making Arizona and New Mexico separate states"
 When the matter of the nomination for the next delegate to Congress was approached to him, he said "that in his travels he had met and talked to many prominent people all over Arizona and that he found that a very large majority of the Democrats of the ter ritory favored sending Mark Smith to Washington again if he would ac- cept the nomination. I also find that in case Mark Smith will not ac cept the nomination or does not de- sire to make the race, that Col. J. F. Wilson, of Yavapai, who represented us twice in the halls of Congress, will certainly get the nomination. l have not found any one advocating the idea of seeking new timber for Congress sional honors, because all believe that the great question of statehood de- mands that we have a representative there who has had previous expert enee, and we know that both of these gentlemen have very wide aequaint- ance at Washington, and have the con- fidence and respect of a greater num- Der of United States senators prObab- ly than any other availbale candi- date that we might nominate and elect. The people of the southern part of the territory favor Mark smith," he continued, "but they also recognize that Col. Wilson rendered valuable services to Arizona in Con- gress. that he is a statesman of a high ]