Arizona republican., 1906-01-01
"A LAND OF PROMISE
 ABILITY 10 MAKE GOOD
The Impression Arizona Made Upon a
 Kalamazoo, Mich. Visitor.

That Arizona always makes a good impression on visitors who come here and stay long enough to see what Ari- zona really is, and that doesn't take very long, is again demonstrated by an article appearing in the Kalamazoo Gazette, in the form of an interview with General William Shakespeare, who recently visited Phoenix and other Arizona towns. Such publications in eastern papers are of great benefit to Arizona and the subject matter of the interview is so eminently correct it is q pleasure to reproduce it as follows:
 More land and less people, more cows and less milk, more rivers and less water than any other place on earth"
 That is an Arizona definition of Arizona brought home by General Will liam Shakespeare, who recently spent two weeks in that bustling and prom isiting territory. He was deeply i'm pressed by the great possibilities of the region, its exuberant prosperity and its high ranking civilization. The General places the stories of the woody southwest far back on the shelf with many other discredited myth
 Arizona is eminently land of promise" said General Shakespeare, but it has everything to back the promise. I know of no finer section of country and I would be entirely willing to place everything I possess in real estate or business there It is a wonderful land and is a great place for a young man to go.
 ''I went on mining business and was highly pleased. Many of us here have invested in the White Gold Mining company, which i S opening up mines twelve miles from Wickenburg, in the Black Yavapai country. The manage ment is proceeding in a business like way and prospects are fine Other mines are doing well and the business is taking on enormous proportions.
 "The wild west features we used to read about are all gone. The people occasionally try to have fun with q tenderfoot On the way to the mines some of the boys tried to scare us by making rapid turns at dizzy places, looking for us to turn pale and holler l had been in rough places before and ] told the boys if I went over the rag ged places they would go too. No more jokes from the boys"
 General Shakespeare and William nH3keSpeafe, Jr., spent most of their stay in Arizona at Phoenix one of the finest towns in the country. The general says Phoenix has a population of about 15,000 and has as fine book stores and all other stores as Kalama- zoo has. "The court house beats ours" he said. and their hotels are better and more plentiful. The people are like those of an eastern town. They attend to business, are courteous to strangers and live as well as any Americans. It is the most eastern town l have seen in the west. Busi- ness is good"
 William Shakespeare Jr., is due to come back to e2rth some time this week. The general says the younger man was so enthused over the country that he has been in the air ever since leaving. Everything was new and promising. There is energy in the air
 Irrigation is going to do wonders in Arizona. General Shakespeare says the big dam fifteen miles from Phoe- nix will make a garden of an enormous territory. The government has start ed work and it will be only a few years until the system is in operation The Salt River valley will then be able to supply the world with fruit The possibilities of the soil under ir- rigation are infinite