The copper era., 1906-02-01

mandlng many miners, and before
 winter is past hundreds of men vii
 be employed by the big companies
 going in there. Hoisting plants are
 being put on the groups of mines
 controlled by Osborne and Wardwell
 On the Blanchard-Butler mines hoist ing plants will soon be put in, as the shafts are getting below the depth
 where whims and windlasses can be
 used to advantage. The mines are showing up well.-Kingman Miner.
 One of the best articles we have
 yet read against jointure is from the
 versatile and costic pen of Kean St. Charles, editor of "Our Mineral
 Wealth." of Kingman, of which the following is an excerpt:
 Having lived in New Mexico nearly score of years and in Ari- zona ten years we may be excused for not making a comparison be- tween two good people. Men and women who have braved the hard ships and terrors of frontier life live both in New Mexico and Arizona. New Mexico was good enough for Kit Carson to live in. Each terri tory has it's romantic history that the inhabitants believe belong to each. To merge the two territories seems to the old inhabitants like grading a railroad through the home burying ground. That is called sen- timent. It is as strong in the human breast as the love of music It is the love of home, the place where one is born. New Mexico has as much to lose along these lines as Arizona.
 ''The logical reasons why Arizoaans object to being merged with New Mexico is, first, They Don't Want it; second, They don't think they should be forced to accept what they dUu't want. They know they are entitled to Single Statehood from any point it can be looked at. Arizona is on the verge of being the greatest mineral producer of all the states. | She is after the leader, Montana, with giant strides. Geology and the returns from bullion prove it and it has only been scratched. The moun- tain ranges trend through the terri tory northeast and southwest. They | are the primary rocks faulted, fs- | sured aud filled with mineral.
 "Why should the greatest mineral zone on earth want to be joined to a sheep pasture? Why should the | man with a gin fig to his name, Bey- craze, want to force a bitter medi- 1 cine down the throats. of Colonists 5000 miles distant?.
 ''It is easy to understand why the en-sides up against a mineral sur face. They want to mix a little of our mineral with that bah, bah, from the backs of their black sheep. So would you if you were in their place. Arizona is the road to wealth. She is the king pin and will sit at the head of the table if the wreckers can be kept off until she catches her breath. She is the bright star that Captain Buckley O'Neal saw in the Horizan when he made his famous remark, "Who Wouldn't Die for a New Star on the Flag" If Bucky was alive he would be leading the fight against jointless-statehood.
 ''Are we for or against joint state hood? To be or not to be, that is the question. Does a duck paddle his own canoe? Can a man uphold the action of the brother of Esau in talk ing the goods and leaving the name? Is a territory that is Rising like the blazing Sun to hang an Obscure blanket over it's own face and shut out its glory forever? Does the Robin desert its nest and take up its abode with the sandhill crane? Does the king of beasts desert its whelps in the race of danger? Man being the superior of these is he less wise?
 'With the compliments of. the New Year to our friends, the New Mexicans as an Arizonan, Sun Kissed Land, Beauty Spot of Nature, Treas ure Vault, Re-discovered Land ot Ophir, Golden and Coperiferlous Wonderland with your mighty for ests and Lung-Balsom for the Heavy Laden. We are for Thee to Hold Within Present Boundaries for Aye and FVerD