Arizona republican., 1905-10-13

a number promenaded Washington and intersecting streets for an hour or more, getting a glimpse of the city by night But by 10 o'clock all had re- tired to their rooms.
 FRIENDLY EXPRESSIONS.
 Whatever apprehension might have been felt in Phoenix regarding the at titude of the visitors on the joint statehood question was removed after brief interviews with them. They soon made it clear that they were friendly to the territory and would favor only such legislation affecting it as would be to it's advantage. Some of the gentlemen were more non com initial than others but the impression was left that not a member of the party would vote for a joint statehood bill.
 MT. E. S. Minor of Wisconsin said:
 This is not my first visit to Arizona, though I have never been in this part of it before. About five years ago I visited COchise county and other points in the south, so that I know perhaps more about conditions than some of the other members of the party. But much of what I have seen on this trip is revelation even to me.
 About joint statehood, this is an un-
 official trip. We were not appointed by anybody to visit the territories but we have come to make a study of con ditions. We had no precOnceived ideas on the subject of joint statehood when
 we came. I am speaking only for my self, but believe that is the unanimous sentiment of the party that the ter ritories should not be joined. I voted for a joint statehood bill once but will never do so again. It was agreed and decreed that We should support the Hamilton bill but I do not think that any member who has seen what we nave seen on this tour would vote for it again.
 DIVISION IN NEW MEXICO.
 We have found that the sentiment in this territory is practically unani- nous against jOinture. In New Mexico we found it divided with perhaps q majority of the people We met in favor of it. I think the best thing for Ari- ZOna is to cease the statehood agitation for the present. It is deserving of sin gle statehood and before long it will be admitted. The time will shortly come when it will not be necessary for you to knock for admission. Congress will be glad to reacn out and take you by the shoulder and drag you in as a sin
 gle state.
 Tt is only necessary that the coun- try should learn of the marvellous wealth concealed in your hills with an iron grasp. The millions which have been released are not a drop in the bucket. Then -Our agricultural re- sources are wonderful Here you have 113,000 square miles, much of it made | up of great treasure bearing noun tains My state mas 57,0O0 square miles. If your mountains were remov- ed and cast into the Pacific you would still be a wealthy territory, the richest agricultural region perhaps in the United States excepting the great states of the middle west. As said your best plan is to avoid agita- ton at this time and moreover avoid antagonism to New Mexico
 NOT CAMPS BUT CITIES.
 Said Mir. Halvor Steenerson of before he became a member of con- gress: Arizona is a wonderful ter ritory. We had no conception of it's greatness. We had heard of the min ing camps of Clifton. Bisbee, Douglas and Tombstone. They are not mining camps at all but pOpulous permanent lmanUfa curing towns. What I knew of Arizona I had read in the reports of committees sent nere to investigate the territory with reference to statehood and what I heard in debates in con- gress on statehood bills. From what I have seen, much that I heard and read was untrue I believe that our party is unanimously in favor preventing the joining of Arizona and New Mex icO. l find the people of this territory solidly against joint statehood and in my opinion under those circumstances it would be an act of injustice to in flict joint statehood upon them. The sentiment in New Mexico is divided.
 It is difficult to ascertain which is the stronger. The joint statehood advo- cates do the most of the talking but most of the business men and prom inent citizens whom I met are against it. On one occasion at Albuquerque after joint statehood advocates had
 been talking to us a business man whose interests extend throughout the territory took me aside and told me to pay no attention to it.
 NOT BY HIS VOTE.
 Mir. Maynard of Virginia was asked: Are you going to give us joint state hood?' Not with my vote" he re- piled. "What I can do will be done against a joint statehood bill. I think it will be disposed of in the beginning
 by an arrangement by which OkIaho- ma and the Indian Territory will be admitted I believe that nothing will
 be done at the coming session in re- ference to Arizona and New Mexico
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