Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-11
THE COMING VISITORS.

Today a party Of visiting national representatives will reach Arizona for the purpose of touring the Territory and gaining personal knowledge of the various industries and enterprises which would have a bearing on the question of statehood for Arizona. The congressional party is headed by Rep. Tawney. and this fact we consider a good omen.
 If the party comes in search of the facts we have no doubt that they will be convinced arter passing through Arizona that the sentiment in this Territory is practically unani nous against the proposed jointure. that the people of Arizona would much prefer to remain under the present territorial form of government indefi- nitely than to accept statehood with New Mexico.
 If the visitors have been influenc ed in their statehood position during the last congress by the efforts made in the senate by the Beveridge com. mittee, which passed through New Mexico and Arizona four years ago, their coming now will certainly open their eyes to the fact that Beveridge was misinformed ana misjudged the conditions in this Territory. They will find that the statement made in the Reyeridge report to tne effect that Arizona had practically reached the limit of it's industrial development did not foreten what has happened in this Territory since that time. In Cochise county they will find that the mineral industry has more than doubled since Mir. Bevei idae was here: they will fin1 that the transfer of the reduction plants of the Copper Queen company from Bi4ee and the building of the Calumet and Arizona smelter in Doug las has resulted n building city there having today 5000 energetic and intel Hgent citizens. At Bisbee they will find that greater progress has been made during the last four years than dur ing all the time of it's former exist ence. They will find the mines of the Warren district employing three times as many men today as when the state ment was made that Arizona had practically reached the limit of in Austrial development. They will find Tombstone, referred to in the Bev eridge report as an abandoned mining camp, taking on new life, with an as surance that it will soon again be pouring another stream Of wealth into the lap of commerce.
 In every county to be visited by the congressional party substantial and continuous progress will be found to have been the order since Mir. Bever- idge was in Arizona. Tn Clifton they will find copper mines that have kept that camp a scene of industry for twenty years still yielding ore in in creased quantities. If the visitors could look at the Giia valley in Ora ham county they would find that the mining industry is noI the only pros porous one in the Territory, and that the farmers are as prosperous as the miners At Tucson Mir. Tawney and his colleagues will see what the peo pie of Arizona are doing for the ed ucation of the present and future gen. erations; he will find the Arizona uni versity to be an educational institu ton of which any state in the union might well be proud; at every stop ping place the visitors will find hand some school buildings and competent teachers, drawn to Arizona from every state in the union by the lib eral salaries paid here.
 In the Salt river the visitors will find a valley filled with prosperous homes and where all manner of agri. cultural products may De produced in greater abundance than in the valley of the Mississippi or fn the famed III inois bottoms. Here the fact will be impressed upon the party that when the government supplies the water or assists the people of Arizona to supply it under the national irrigation law, Arizona will rival some of the great agricultural states of the union.
 This is no time for weakening in the fight against joint statehood. It is the time when every friend of Ari zopa who wants to see it remain a