Arizona republican., 1905-12-10

The citizens of Arizona have no con- troversy with New Mexico; on the con- trary, they ask for their sister terri tory the same consideration and jus tice which they ask for themselves.
 New Mexico is an empire of itself. It is larger than half a dozen of the older states when punched together. It has an area greater than the aggre- gate area of England, Scotland and Ireland and Wales. Think of joining such an empire to another Of equal size to make another state. New Mexico and Arizona together have an area equal to the area of all the thirteen states on the Atlantic seaboard from Maine to South Carolina; or equal to the az gregdte area of New York, Pennsylva- mia, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
 If these two territories are ever join ed together it is certain that in a few years, at latest, they would be again separated, to the everlasting discredit of those who unwisely tied them to- gether. The act of congress providing a temporary government for the ter ritory of Arizona reads in part as follows:
 AONiUCh AOi NlCi, LcAb SfNiu 6ON CA IT. ment shall be maintained and contin- ued until such time as the people re- siding in said territory shall, with the consent of congress, form state government, republican in form, as prescribed in the constitution of the United States, and apply for and ob- tain admission into the union as state on equal footing with the origi- nal states
 All Arizona asks is that this conven- tion be held inviolate. If the other states are not willing to admit her into their sisterhood, all she asks is liberty to grow. She has the extent of territory, the mines, the fertile fields, the men. All she needs :s time to de- velop her wealth and power. Her cit izels, now practically disfranchised, are willing to wait to have their dis abilities removed until congress in its wisdom will grant the boon of state hood.
 Fasteners who have not visited the southwest can have but a faint idea of the magnificent, extent Of these great territories. One county of Ari- zona, and that by no means the larg- cts, contains 7,500 square miles, an area equal to that of Connecticut and Rhode Island Two hundred thous- and acres in this county, are said to be os fertile as the valley of the Nile. To successfully irrigate this valley, a part of which has been under cultiva- tion for years, the United States gov- ernment is building a reservoir. where the loftiest dam in the world will rise to a height of 470 feet from it's foun- dation on bed rock. thirty feet below low water mark. This means 240 feet | of structure above the surface.
 As an outlet for the reservoir a tun- mel 450 feet long will carry the diverted 1 waters of the river so that the eXcava tions for the foundation may go on | uninterruptedly. This tunnel is closed | by series of six huge gates of steel, | weighing nearly S00000 pounds. Be- l hind the dam will be a body of water | twenty-five miles long, with an aver age width of a mile and a quarter-the | greatest artificial reservoir in the l world. The 100000 acre feet of water impounded, if spread out one foot deep | would cover a million acres. an area | greater than that of the state of Rhode Island.