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The oasis., 1906-03-10
LETTER FROM
 WASHINGTON
THE OASIS EDITOR WRITES FROM
 SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.
Tells of Interesting Battle for and Against Statehood at Ma
 tional Capital

Washington, D. O., March 3rd. At one o'clock the 2Sth ult., the train reached Washington, and within few minutes we were safe- ly ensconsed in the Riggs House, where we were shortly joined by Judge c. K. Ainsworth of Phoenix and J l. Hubbell of Apache coun. ty together with Mir. Rodey of New Mexico. After lunch we went to the capital, and at once joined in the work in which Messrs. Hubbell and Ainsworth had been engaged several weeks, viz: soliciting the support of senators for the ioint- statehood bill There is battle royal on hand, and the issue is in doubt. Without a question the bill will pass. but the crafty op- position from Arizona are seeking to emasculate the measure by amendment. They seek to head off constitutional election and it's great educational effect, by putting the question to an election in the territories separately in a snap election to be held at the end of sixty days. That is the Foraker amendment, as outlined in THE OASIS of the 24th ult. Both sides are very confident, and the Wash ington Post of yesterday states that the Foraker amendment will be attached to the bill by eight majority. Senator Beyeridge as- sures me that the bill will pass without the Foraker amendment. 4 vote will be agreed upon next Friday. and the result of the vote will be announced, probably, sim Iultaneously with the presentation of these lines to readers of TIE OASIS.
 Of one proposition toward which l have long entertained q strong conviction the present trip to Washington has made to my mind a certainty. That is the iointure with New Mexico is the only method by which the people of Arizona will ever enter the Amer ican Union. The people of the United States will never consent to the creation of two states out of those two territories. Even dem- ocrats are beginning to see the fol ly of their claims, and already one democratic senator MT. Clarke ol Arkansas) is lined up for the bill as 1t now stands. The same req sons advanced by Senator Dick oi Ohio and Senator Hopkins of Hi. nois against admitting the two ter ritories separately will be shortly grasped and appreciated by the people of Georgia, Virginia and other great states in the South, and in another Congress the people oi the territories may find the repre- sentatiyes and senators from those great states supporting the propo. sition to terminate the territorial condition and force joint statehood ] upon the people of Arizona and
The oasis., 1906-03-10
HUNDRED THAT ocALES-TucSoN
 CUTOFF WILL BE BUILT.
increasing Mexican Traffic Causes Activity in Railroad Circles
 in Southwest.
Nogaies to Tucson, i37 miles.
 NogaleS to Tucson, 7z miles,

NoE@tSS lo tuGSoHt f< tHVSSs
 The first line shows the distance it is necessary now to travel by rail in order to go from Nogales to Tucson. The second line shows the distance it will be necessary to travel when the Southern Pacific railroad builds the Twin Buttes- Calabasas cutoff. The distance will be cut down one-half
 Instead of travelling 137 miles as is now necessary, only 72 miles will be covered. Sixty-fye miles, and much of the distance over tracks of very disagreeable grade, will cut off.
 It is stated in railroad circles here that the directors of the Southern Pacific company have already made an appropriation for the construction of the road from Twin Buttes to Calabasas.
 Twin Buttes is 28 miles from Tucson and the road to that place (owned by capitalists headed by Mayor David Rose of Milwaukee, who have valuable mining proper ties in course of development at Twin Buttes) is now under way from Tucson. From Twin Buttes 10 Calabasas is 34 miles. At Gala basas the cutoff will connect with the Benson-Nogales branch of the Southern Pacific, Calabasas being ten miles North of Nogales.
 It is stated, however, that noth- ing will 5e done towards the con strnction of the cutoff during the coming summer, except to survey the route, the construction work to commence about February of next year.
 The fast increasing traffic of the Sonora railroad makes the cut-off necessary to the Southern Pacific. 1t means shorter route. and avoidance of some heavy grades. It also means through trains from the Pacific coast to pointsin Mex ico, via Nogales. It will do away with the ''burro" (local) train now running between Nogales and Tue son via Benson, as a mixed freight and passenger train will then be sufficient to accomodate the traffic ot the road between this place and Benson.
 On the new route there will be no heavy grades. There is a water course, the Santa Cruz river, run ming almost the entire distance from Calabasas to Tucson.
 To the Mexican traffic entirely IS due the decision of the Southern Pacific officials to build the Twin Buttes- -Calabasas cutoff connect ing Tucson and Nogales. It will affect the entire Southern Pacific system (the Sonora railroad and the Cananea, Yaqui River x Pacifc) south of NogaIes. Es- pecially 1t is due to the develop ment of the Yaqui river country in southern Sonora, a regioh that is
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~tS" AuOAAeo oEhiuot the WILL or their people. The objection set forth by the two senators quoted is that THE OASIS has so earnestly pointed out as the stumbling block to single statehood. That is that the people of Illinois with five millions population, Ohio with six millions. New York with eight millions, Pennsylvania with seven millions, will never consent to any more small states with half the population necessary to entitle them to one member of Congress entering the Union with equal weight in the Senate. That time has passed, and forever; and the quicker the people of Arizona and New Mexico awaken to the fact the better 1t will be for them. Sufficient in number to keep them forever from single statehood are the great states which have taken the stand for jointure. The very logic of their position will shortly bring around some of the great democratic states. And when it does that will settle the question. Unless Arizona and New Mexico get into double harness now they will have to do so then in very short order.
 Nor is this forcing states into the Union any new proposition, as shown by Senator Dicks speech (also by Congressman Hepburn in the hearing before the House com mittee on territories. Iowa re- lected statehood three times, and on the fourth accepted it Dy a scant majority only. Maine also rejected several times what we call the priceless boon" Those were the days in which the struggle dividing the American people was to maintain the equilibrium in the United States senate between the slave states and the free. To off set Louisiana, admitted in 1916, the North needed a state, 50 an enab- ling act was given the people of Maine. They rejected the consti- tuition framed hereunder. Twice again the question was sent back to them, and the third time they became a state. Iowa was wanted to offset Florida, and three times her people refused to go into the Union. The fourth they did squeeze in"
 Nor is the proposition to enlarge the area of a territory to make a state anything really new, Us shown in Senator Hopkins speech on iointure. Illinois was enlarged and given her fourteen northern counties, including what is row the site of the City of Chicago. But for that Chicago would now be in the state of Wisconsin, and Illi- nois would have only about one half of her present population. Sc 1t is made plain by the two sena- tors instanced that in past history other territories have had state hood forced upon them, and that at least ont. tarritorv was "Outrao- ed" by Congress forcing an exten- sion of it's boundaries as a condi- tion precedent to statehood. Pre- cedents show that when the people of the United States make up their collective mind that they want territory to become state, 1t has to do so, anu on the terms the people of the United States desire, and when the people of the United States don't want state to leave
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ic system, but also by the Nacoza- II road the Sonora extension of the El Paso x Southwestern system. It Is the desire of the Southern Pacific 10 have the shortest and most convenient route possible be- tween that country and Pacific coast points in the United States.
 The Nacozari road crosses the international line near Douglas, Arizona, south into Sonora and as another means of combating that road in the fight for the Mexican trade the Southern Pacific system is surveying a route from the Ia- qui river region in Sonora north to Douglas, the road to connect with it's Cananea, Yaqui River & Pacific road in the Yaqui river country.
 Another railroad project now on foot in Sonora that must in time be given attention by the Southern Pacific system in it's efforts to con- trol the traffic of the west coast of Mexico, is a little forty-hye mile road that will connect the Altar District of Sonora with the Gulf of California. The concession for the road to the gulf has been secured from the Mexican government by Mir. John Henderson, president of company of California and east ern capitalists who own valuable mining properties i'll the Altar District. The road is now being surveyed and construction work Is to be commenced IS soon as the engineers have completed their work. The road will be built from Cape Lobos on the gulf to Caborca in the Altar district, passing through a number of rich mining camps whose development has been retarded through lack oi transportation facilities.
 At the present time the Altar district, generally conceded by mining men in this section of the country to be the richest mineral district in the Republic of Mexico has no railroad connection with the outside world. Freight is now brought into the district by wagon from Santa Ana, on the Sonora road Southern Pacific), to Altar, 60 miles west and to Caborca and Pitiquito, fifteen miles further from which central points it is distributed in different directions to the smaller towns and camps in the district. With the completion of the Henderson road from the gulf to Caborca, the very center oi this rich district, all the freight now going into that section via Santa Ana over the Sonora road will go down the Pacific coast and up the Gulf of California to Cape Lobos, thence into the district over the Henderson road. And it is 1 the general belief that the present freight traffic will prove to be but a small matter when compared later with the increased traffic that will come with the rapid development of the district that is sure to follow it's connection by rail with the outside world.
 Mining men interested in the Altar district are watching with interest the operations on the Henderson road, as they see in it a goad that will induce the Southern Pacific to build not only to Altai and Caborca, from Santa Ana, but entirely through the Altar district from Santa Ana to the gulf coast.
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tcoNcLUDED ON LAST rAGK.l
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
ALABAMA FIXES PRICE
 OF THE WORLDS PIG IRON

blast and it is estimated that In the
 six months they will produce 1,037, $50 tons. If the estimate Is correct the
 Alabama output ot pig iron will reach the record breaking figures of 1,S67.- 59O.
 The destined pre-eminence of Ala
 bama in this industry can be apprec- lated when 1t is considered that Penn sylvania, with it's immense coal fields, has to bring its ores from far off
 mines; that Pennsylvania. which has
 been making pig iron for scores and
 scores of years, not only makes little more than ten million tons of pig iron
 each year Ohio, which stands next to
 Pennsylvania as an iron producing
 State, only produces five million tons
 and Illinois only two million tons or just aslittle more than Alabama. While definite figures are not ob- tainable it is safe to say that in Ala Iabama there are more than sixty iron
 ore furnaces, some few of which are
 not excelled by the furnaces in the
 rich Plttsburg district.
 Value OR~Iron Ores.
 According to the able and instruc-
 tive work of Dr. Eugene A. Smith on
 this great resource of the State the
 iron ores of Alabama are in their
 economic value: first The Red Ore or
 Hematite Second. The Brown Ore or
 llmonite Third. The Gray Ore or magnetic The black band,or Iron clay stone These ores are used in the manu-
 facture of pig iron for foundries, mills and pipe works and for making basic
 iron for open hearth steel Practically
 all the ore mined in Alabama is smelt-
 ed in the State, the shipments out or
 the State being practically about equal
 to that shipped in from other States
 The red ore or hematite ore Is the
 most important in the State because
 of fs great quantity, and the low cost
 at which 1t may be mined. it's reliabil- ity and it's close proximity to the coal and stone used in the manufacture. The red ore amounts to seventy-two per cent of the total ore mined in Ala bama.
 In his exhaustive report alluded to.
 pr. Smith says:
 Much mining of red ore has been | done about Gate City, Springville, At" | taila. }adsden, Round Mountain, Gay l lesville, Fort Payne, Valley Head and other places but the most important development of this Clinton ore in the State and in the world is along the fifteen or sixteen miles of stretch be- tween Birmingham and Bessemer and there is a practically continuous series of mines and strippings for the entire distance The ore here Is in thre diff ferent seams, but the upper fifteen
 feet of the Big Seam or Red Noun
 tain seam have furnished almost the
 entire supply of ore to the furnaces
 of the Birmingham district"
 The brown ore or limonite which
 furnished the second highest number
 of tons of Alabama ore, amounted to twenty-eight per cent. In the entire union the brown ore furnishes only nine and three-tenth per cent of the
 total production. but in Alabama 1t amounts to twenty-eight per cent or 1.0Os, s3s long tons according to the figures of 1902. In this particular phase of the siron industry Alabama leads all States of the union up to
 the year 1878 this ore was the only ore used in the catalan forges. bloom
 aries and charcoal furnaces of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
THE CAR OF DESTINY.

We planned to 20 into sheep raising. The events of tonight have left me undecided. don't know. Tell me-" he brust out, turning to her. You know my story. Should go back and bear punishment for the wrong I feel I did not do7 Is it right that should be denied the privilege to go forth among men2 To breathe the open air7 To live my life, and make the best of what Is left to mel cannot prove my in- nocence. Would the prison purge me in the eyes of those who have known me, and set me back where I once was7" He paused in his impassioned ap- peal, and buried his face in his hands.
 Miss Norman gently touched tho bowed head. "No," she said softly. Tt would do no good. Go and begin anew7 Life may still hold much for you, and in the new country the bit- terness of the past may be forgotten. !"
 Ashton squared his shoulders and rose to his feet. Ills head was thrown back proudly.
 you have decided for me, Helen. % he said tenderly. "Once out of the country shall forget the past. Only one thing In the life that was shall cherish Helen," and for the second time that night, he paused until he obtained mastery over his voice, T can never ask you to be my wife. That nhDOlnGEBs 1 hnOWt IS not GO U0 TUT AAb- But" he hesitated again, but If I might hear from you now and then just a line or two-to tell me you are well and happy, 1t would mean much to me. It would be something for me to look forward to out there in the bush alone: something to read over and think about during the long months away from civilization. Of course" he added, speaking slowly, atx.vt,o wal
 While Ashton spoke. Miss Norman was thinking. The man before her was going out Into a new world. All that had bound him to the life that had been, he was casting away. In spite of the shadow over him and the obstacles ahead, she envied him. For two years she had hated the life she lived. How she wished she might do like him. If she could throw aside the letters of convention, forget her wealth and position, leave the dull common place of her surroundings and share with him the struggles Of the pioneer In the far country. If she but could! She held out her hands, and and as he grasped them he thought she had never looked so beautiful as then, the moonlight on her face,
 Where will a letter reach your she asked.
 'Mail it to Perth" he said T shall De hundreds of miles from there, but twice each year, in the spring and the fail. we go down to the city for sup plies"
 Very well. then. On the first of April you may expect to hear from mo in Perth"
 T shall be there." he replied sim ply, and as she saw his desire, she yielded him her lips A minute later she drew herself gently from him.
 "You have missed your train,' she said, but must catch the next one You can go on alone from here"
 But you" he protested.
 T shall go back she said, smiling q think the auto will run now. stopped it here because there was something I wished to find out before l left you"
 He looked at her in astonishment. and when the truth dawned on him, ahe was already In the car. As he
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

took the hand she extended in fare- well, his voice was low and husky.
 T thank God that he made you. Helen," was all he said.
 She looked back as the car got undar way, and for many days she saw the solitary, uncovered figure in the mid- dle of the road, vanishing in the dark-
  When Miss Norman entered the breakfast room the following morning, she found her stepmother ahead Of her.
 Helen" she broke forth, as soon aa the latter had opened the door. '.fanve you heard the dreadful thing that hap pened last night5 Jack Ashton came back. and was almost caught in hln fathers house He escaped in an auto- mobile which the papers say must hava belonged to a confederate"
 Mrs. Norman stopped, for Helen had calmly taken the outstretohed paper and was paying no attention to her stream of talk. The reported had writ ten graphic and highely colored ac- count of what purported to be a true relation of the events of the previous night
 Tt Is very remarkable" she said ct last, laying the paper on the table and turning her attention to her plate
 
 thing so dangerous"
 T wonder you should take ik so cooly." retorted the matron, ohaGrined at this reception of her news There was Q yelled sting in her words as she added, T thought at one time there was some sort of understanding bee tween you and Jack"
 Helen bore her stepmother~s scrutiny with indifference. and calmly bit into a piece of toast.
 "No more SO than there is now," she replied carelessly.
 By the way" she said presently 4 am thinking of selling my car this fall Yes" as the other looked her ia. credulity, T am tired of it. I think she added, thoughtfully. T think ! shall take an ocean voyage in the spring"
 Constenation spread over Mrs. Nor- mans face. Where will you go9" she asked heplessly.
 Helen yawned slightly. as if bored ever 90 little T think shall go to Australia" she said.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

required no less than twenty.The old fashioned lifts, tipples and wheel bar rows laboriously lifting the limestone the coke and the iron ore to the top of huge furnaces have given away to the modern electric lift" which is as quick as any elevator that flies up and down a modern office builo@ ing.
 The greatest feature of the modern furnace, however, is no doubt the huge stoves with their checker board work in the interior in which the air for the furnace is heated so much hotter and so much quicker than 1t was under the old system. This hot air shot into the furnace where the burning coke is at work mon the furnace charge of ore and limestone helps the flames to speedler work in turning the mass into A flowing river of burning, golden ore, ready for the steel works across the streets.
 In Ensley too, one can stand and see the hills from which the great insred- tents of iron and steel come, the coal mine. the limestone quarry and the ore mine. He can with his eye trace the assembling of these parts and watch the process which turns the coal into coke tbe coke ore and limestone into soften pig iron and the pig iron Into huge steel rails and billets
 Tn less than twenty-four hours and within half dozen miles Of EnslAv these raw materials an be dug from the biIlsidea run through the furnace. tban through the fierce hot blast of the open hearth steel making system ana finally thrown out on the platform es steel rails ready for the railroad track.
 a Qrsater future is before tt
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
LimitIess Supply of Ores of all Kinds Are fin the Hills of the state and Stesl-Aaking apd other industries are stin in Their Infancy.

Alabama practically makes the price of pig iron for the world IL makes the price because pig Iron can be made cheaper in Alabama than any other spot on earth.
 Pig iron can sbe made cheaper Tn Alabama than anywhere else in the world because, so far as known. the richest deposits of iron ore are found in the mountains and foothills which mark the end of the Appalachian chain of mountains. It can be made cheaper, for the second reason, because the fhraa ingredients for the making of pig iron, rich ore, coke coal and lime stone can be had from the same hills in Aiabama's mineral district. In the Alabama hills there are concealed In it's hidden mineral riches, stores or wealth, greater than those Spanish De Soto sought and found not
 Tn his blind search for gold the splendid adventurer passed over in Alabama, in the unnoted rocks hls soldiers stumbled over that which would have made his king richer than any gold mine he might by chance have found.
 Today a great properity has been built up from those ignored and de- spised rocks-a greater wealth has grown up from the hidden wealth, which was dragged to light only in the last few years. than De Soto dreamed of.
 Dictator of Market.
 The proud position that Alabama now holds, as the dictator of the pig iron market of the world is sufficient evidence of the wonderful wealth that has come up out of the mountains. And as yet, the great industry Is in it's infancy. Within the past quarter of the century only has the iron industry assumed any great importance in Ala bama and, only the other day 1t would seem has the State entered that other field of great wealth possibilities the field of steel making.
 Alabama today is fourth of the States of the union in the production of iron. The three States which lead her are Pennsylvania, Ohio and Ill., inois. They are older States and were making iron many years before the inc dustry was under way In this State. Alabama only in the past twelve years has become really awake to the im- nortance of the great riches which have been stored In the sides of her hills The Alabama furnaces are not Ias ynodern as a general thing as those oe tbe other States and their capacity m the average Is smaller than those ~ the States in which iron making has been a recognized industry for many years. ., ,s ,oo. r,o tons of pig iron. In 1905 the output SS the furnaces went to 1,6O4,O62 tons For inc first half of the present year sSo.OSO tons of Alabama pig iron were put on the market. This high mark was attained with only twenty four fuTnaees recorded as being in opera lion. During the second half of the year thirty three furnaces are now in