Bisbee daily review., 1905-11-08
CONGRESSIONAL PARTY
 DEEPLY IMPRESSED
Congressman Adams of Wis. CODSin Tells of UbSef-
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 the following:
 The members of the congressional party who recently visited New Mexi- co and Arizona were deeply impressed with the industrial resources of these territories and the development which js now going on. We stopped in six teen towns and cities in Arizona, Yis- tied the great copper mines ot the Arizona Copper company at Clifton, Ihe D. c. Al. Co. at Morenci, the smelt- CT of the Phelps-Dodge company al Douglas, where the gigantic engines have capacity of 45,00U horse power; went forty miles below the Mexican border where the famous copper mines and mills of the Greene Consolidated company are located and where $Iy,- CoO,000 have been expended upon the plant; visited the silver and gold mines of Tombstone and went up the wonderful mountain road of the Santa Fe, Phoenix and Prescott to the Grown King where the elevation was 1000 feet and the air like a breath of Para disc.
 We found the people of both territo. ries to be full of the western virtues oI warm-hearted hospitality, business enterprise, pluck and public spirit.
 The trip conceived and provided for by Hon. Frank Murphy, of Pres cott, formerly resident of Wisconsin, Who Is a banker, a newspaper man, a mine owner, a capitalist of large means, and enthusiastic lover of his territory, a determined opponent of olnL statehood with New Mexico, and who wished members of Congress to see with their own eyes the progress which both territories are making in mining, agriculture, education and in lelligent government The men, women and children were placarded from one end of Arizona to the other with badges carrying the motto NO Joint Statehood
 There is no agitation there for Independent statehood at this time. The people of Arizona say almost without exception, we can stand it to be territory, although we should be a state, but a union with New Mexico, which would outvote us, would take the capital, the state officers and the legislature and tax us to death, would be an intolerable outrage"
 At every town in Arizona we found fine school buildings and great num- bers of school children massed in picturesque confusion before them to give the visitors a first class boy and girl welcome. Arizona, which in the early days was the abiding place of desperadces and the most bloodthirsty savages in the world, brides itself now and properly, too, upon it's public school system and its enforcement of law. The towns are thoroughly up 10 date, water works, sewer systems, electric lights, fine daily papers, stores liner than any in Madison. parks laid out and beautified, and a citizenship of the most energetic and best type, one sees in all the Arizona cities. The climate is ideal in all except the summer months. The tents of the consumptives are scatter CT through both territories. met a banker in Tucson who told me that he was taken to Arizona on a stretch CT, was advised to go back east to die at home, but who camped in a tent for three years, and now does the work of two men every day of his life.
 AACAC elAC A4AdLs dlGd5 III tue LEIIl- tory capable of great agricultural pro cuction. All that is needed is water That Is being supplied by irrigation works already in use, in process of building or in contemplation. The fruit is far superior to that of Cali fornia in quality.
 The TOnUo dam that is being built by the government seventy-five miles from Phoenix will be the largest in the world It will be 275 feet high and Will make reservoir Of water that will irrigate 250,000 acres of land. This is an area greater than that now irrigated in Southern California.
 Many of the cities in both territo- ries entertained our party with dIn- ners and receptions. Comparisons are said to be odious, but truth com pels the admission that we attended banquets that in menu, in tasteful decorations and in service are seldom equalled in the east.
 The proposition of joint statehood submitted to a vote of the people of both territories would undoubtedly be defeated. All of the members of Congress in cur party voted for joint statehood in the last Congress, with one exception. Not one of them will vote for the admission of the two territories as a single state, if that question is submitted to the next Congress. Each territory is entitled to independent statehood now. Each is capable of supporting a population greater than Wisconsin now has The pioneers of these territories who have spent most of their lives in bringing the mountains and plains from the domination of savages to the rule of law and order under the stars and stripes, who are making deserts bloom with the fruits of productive industry, who have opened up countless mines of gold. copper and silver, who have built up solid cities of the best modern type, who fave established uchool systems that would be credit to New