The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-04-26
RAIL ROADS FAIL
To SHOW ARIZONA
Governor Kibbey Says Travel
ers Do Not Get Adequate
Idea of Territory.
HAS GREAT RESOURCES
GREATEST TIMBER AREA IN THE
WORLD WHILE ORANGES Ri.
VAL cALIFoRNIA-SPo TO
COMMERCIAL CLUB. g.

Governor Joseph Fl. kihbey. of Ari.
zona, formerly a resident of this city
gave an interesting talk last evening
before large attendance OF
Commercial Club members who
were friends of his younger days.
Governor Kibbey, after being in
troduced by T. A. Mott, launched
forth into a discourse on the merits
of the territory of which he is chief
executive He stated that Arizonians
were as intensely American as were
Indianians,' II not more so, as they
were on the frontier which overlooked
Old Mexico, a country which no Ari-
zonian loved.
Governor kibbey told his audience
that the impressions some of them
might have obtained from reading
the .'Arizonia Kicker, which was
published in Detroit, Mich. or from
travelling through the territory over
the Santa Fe Route. or the Southern
Pacific, should not be taken as a
criterion. He stated that owing to a
| railroad war, neither of the two tram
continental roads passed through
born Americans, he said
Arizona today. Governor Kibbey
stated, had population of about
100000 people. and was one of the
most flourishing sections of the I'm
ion. He said that the territory now
is the second greatest copper produc-
| any cities of Importance. with the
exception of Tuscan. of through the
cultivated part of the territory. The
land presented to the view of the
territory. wild and desert like.
Opposed to New Mexico.
He stated that the people OF
Arizona were opposed to be-
ing merged with New Mexico into
a state, as the people of the two ter
ritories had nothing in common. The
bulk of the inhabitants in New Mex
| leo are Mexicans, while nearly all
of the people of Arizona are native
ing country in the world, and that the
annual output last year amounted to
$40,0o0,000. He stated that large a
mounts of silver and copper were al
SO produced.
Has Great Forests.
he Hldde surprising statement, TO
the effect that Arizona had the great
est timber area of any country In the
world, most of which Is included in
government forest reserves. He also
stated that Arizona was now produc-
ing better orange crops than Cali
fornia and Florida, and was the rival
of Colorado in producing Rocky Ford
cantalopes. He told of the great
work the commercial club at Phoenix
(the territorial capira) had done and
their successful efforts to have lines
from the Santa Fe and the Southern
Pacific built into that city.
Governor Kibbey says that there Is
now building in Arizona the larg-
est reservoir in the world for irriga-
ton purposes. He told of an interest
ing incident in regard to the building
of this reservoir. 1t was necessary to
use 10000 barrels of cement and the
railroads made rate of $500 bar
rel for transporting it. The citizens
of Phoenix and two smaller towns
then got together and decided to build
wagon road through the mountains
to the reservoir at cost of $150,000.
This promptly caused the railroads to
reduce their rate to $3.n barrel. At
the conclusion of Governor Kibbey's
remarks he was given a hearty ap-
plause and a rising vote of thanks.