The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-24
ARIZONA PEOPLE
OPPOSED TO UNION
They Do Not Desire to Join
Hands With New
Mexico.
WEll-kN0WM ATTORNEY
DISCUSSES SITUATION
He Believes the Proposition
Will Be Lost on
Vote.

William Herring Of the law firm of
Herring, Soren & Ellingwood of Tue
son, Ari.. Is a guest at the Kenyon,
being here on legal business Speak
ign OF political and other matters In
general way he said:
The people of Arizona are set
against ratlfying the act of Congress
which unites them with New Mexico
as ono State. and the test comes this
fall when. under the act. a Consti-
tutlonal convention VIII also be cleo
ted. which, In case Of a ratifying vote.
would meet and form a Constitution.
But there is no danger of such
thing happening.
our firm has charge Of the affairs
OF the great mining and milling firm
of Phelps. Dodge & Co. and | have
been many years In Arizona, and be-
lleve l know her people very we'll
The question of tho ratification Of the
act Of Congress Will come up in both
Territories, and must receive a ma
Jority vote In both to win 1t is out
of the question TO get such a vote in
Arizona. We have been Democratic
there for twenty years and have al
ways sustained our Representative,
Hon. Marcus A. Smith, who has Bit
terly and perslstently fought union
from its inception. New Mexico Is
at her last election. while Arizona Is
Democratic. having had 500 majority
at the same time.
Arizona Democratic.
Arizona has been Democratic for
twenty years, with the exception of
one term in Congress OF Delegate
Murphy. and herein lies the crux Of
the thing. If we had union, 1t is Just
possible 1t would mean two more Re-
publican Senators. which. with the
two from Oklahoma. would be a great
gain for that party.
1T Will make no difference If New
Mexico would vote to ratify. az Ari-
Zona VIII be guided wholly by her
own vote. A possible contingency
though not at all probable-would be
the uniting Of the Sociallstic vote,
which IS considerable about the min
Ing districts, with the Mormon and
Republican votes. This could carry
the State. but it would be a bitter pill
for those who made it possible.
I'VE do not know the attitude OF
the Soclallstic element on the queS-
ton OF Statehood. therefore the whole
possibility is largely In the air. Very
much OF our recent immigration has
come from Texas. Missouri, Alabama
and other Democratic States. and such
men always remain Democratic, so
that the vote is likely to leave things
just as they now are. l do not appre
hend that such a result will In any wise
affect the business prosperity OF either
Territory
'In a mining way our people own
and run the Copper Queen Consoll-
dated at BS5bee, the Detroit Consoli-
dated at Morenci, and the United Globe
and Old Dominion mines al Globe.
We employ 1850 men at Bisbee and
proportionate numbers at tho other
mines
New Town Springs Up.
I'VE have just built new town on
the boundary line. called Douglass,
where We shall build a smelter to en-
ploy 100 men. We are building a
railroad from BiSbee to Ell Paso for
Also gone south to Sonora. In Mex
leo, some seventy miles. to reach our
interests there.
"All the copper and other mining
interests OF Arizona are in very pros
porous condition. The mines around
Tucson are marvellous shippers of cop
per We now have come to deep min
Ing altogether, Where we used TO
think 700 or 500 feet deep for a cop
per mine. we now work at depths of
1900 feet, and find the ore body
grows larger and richer as we descend |
There is no heat in these mines, The |
copper is largely in deposits. and is
found in walls also. 1t Is mainly In |
large chambers. There are no regular |
hssure formations.
Railroad building and mining In |
all its branches. including smelling. |
are on the top wave Of prosperity, and |
the question Of Statehood is not prom
inent.