Arizona republican., 1906-03-04
.OUT WEST ARTICLE
 PLEASES N. Y. SUN
That Usually Unerring Journal Falls
 Into a Curious Error.

The New York Sun. though it used to scold Arizona quite severely, has been giving this territory a fair deal ! in respect of the statehood fight Tn a recent issue it reviewed editorially, the Arizona number, of the Out West magazine, drawing a very pleasing and sensible conclusion. The Arizona mat ter in the Out West magazine, as Ari- zOna readers know, was furnished b. Miss Sharlot NJ. Hall. who is not only i a talented writer but an Arizona girl. ! born and reared in these so-caHed Wilds. The Sun, in it's comments, fail ed to make special mention of Miss 1 Halls poem entitled Arizona" which must have been an oversight, for 1t 1 has attracted wide attention elsewhere. ! But the Sun really owes Miss Hall an apology for one thing. and that is it's ! frequent reference to her as Mister. | She is 9 woman and one that Arizona is proud of Why, out in this coun- try. the women are more talented and i literary in their accomplishments than most Eastern people think it possible ] for even the men of Arizona to be. ! Therefore, in this instance, it may be | construed that Miss Hall mas been complimented by being called Mister. ] Following is the Suns editorial:
 After reading an ambitious article ! on Arizona in Out West and noting | the handsome illustrations of fat graz ! ing lands, blossOminG orchards, teem- i ing mining camps, modern public l buildings, and private dwellings, with i no mean pretensions to elegance and taste, we can understand the resent ment of that territory against those ] 1, f ,,-i+h Mexico. The author. Sharlot NJ. Hall. . makes the best possible presentation of his subject, as any loyal AriZOnian would do. but we undertake to say that, on the other hand. the East does not know enough about the territory to do justice to il.
 Ben Wade would no longer say that Arizona is just like hell-ali il lacks 1 is water and good society" Thanks to ! the National Irrigation act, the defec, of aridity is rapidly being rcmedied; and Of the society. il is enough to say that it is American. Arizona has never l been all desert. she has" says Mr. Hall. "the largest and most valuable forest in the United States-probabIy ! the largest unbroken forest area in the world. covering 10000 square miles. She has the largest tract of agricultu- ral land west Of Kansas. and, with the ! completion of the Tonto reservoir (th= largest artificial lake in the world) will have under cultivation. with ample water as much land as is farmed Tn all southern California from the Te- hachepi to san Diego"
 Tn the future Arizona's wealth VII . be measured more by the crops of her farms and orchards than by the out put of her mines; but it is not gen .g,.5 r~r, .RT . copper sne is second on the list yf American states and territories-ln the last twenty-five years the value of her copper output has been $15S.0J0,000. The live stock industry is already so . considerable that there are 5000 dai.y ! cows in the Salt river and Gila val loys alone, and there must be 2,OO0,- GOO head of cattle in the territory. The ostrich industry is not peculiar 10 Ar izona, but two-thirds of the whole number of birds are raised in the la falfa belts. On one farm nine miles from Phoenix there are 2.OOO ostriche 5, and t is estimated that in five years there will be 10000 oG these birds in the state-Arizona will no longer be a territory.
 Arizona's great forest of 10000 square miles lies at a height Of 5000 70 1000 feet. and extends from beyond the Grand Canyon on the north and Bill Williams mountains on the west, southwarG to the rim where tSe Colo rado plateau breaks down to the southern plains" Flagstaff is the cap ital of the lumber region-the output of one mill is 4O,O0O.C00 feet a year. The climate of Arizona has been scan dalously maligned. It is hot in Yuma and a good many other places but the northern half Of the territory "is a great plateau, ranging from $500 .1 1000 feet in altitude crossed and re- crossed by ranges of mountains reach ing up to the eliminating peak of San Francisco. .14,000 feet above the sea" Arizona las more than 170,000 people. Gov. Kibbey says there are not fifty iluterate native Americans in the ter Titory The list of illiterates, 37 1902, includes 16,659 Indians and 1O,643 whites, made up of Chinese, MeXicans and the foreign born. Arizona has if ty-three newspapers, and nineteen re- ligioUs denominations with churc1 property valued at $1.OOO.O0O. Mr. Hall has demonstrated the fitness of Arizona for the honor and responsi- bility of statehood. We are inclined to think that the illustrations of his article, without any text, would dem onstrate tt.
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