Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-24
PICKETT TELLS HOW WE WILL
 ID II
interviewed in Los Angeles by Examiner and Proves an
 Ardent Anti,

Col. Pickett of the law firm of Pick cit & Bowman of Tombstone, is in Los Angeles and was seen by a Los An geies Examiner reporter and the fol lowing interview published:
 "Col. H. L. Pickett, a prominent mining attorney of Tombstone. AriZ.. and member of the delegation seLt to Washington by the territory to oppose the joint statehood bill, is at the Hol- lenbeck Hotel. Col. Pickett is one Of the most confirmed believers in single has produced, and says the rest of has produced, ans says the rast of the population is with him.
 "'The joint statehood bill will be defeated by the people on the Sch Of November next said Colonel Pickett, and by 90 per cent of the total vote. Cochise county, of which Tombstone is the county seat, is one of the most popuIoGs and wealthy counties of the territory and will not cast one-half of enc per cent for jointure; in fact, only one man. so far as known in Tomb stone, favors joint statehood.
 Both of the great political parties of the territory are solidly against it. wing with each other as to which shall cast the largest vote. The people are all one way on the sub l feet. II IS not a question of politics, but one of seif-preservation, involving the maintenance of their autonomy as ! people.
 Object to ShouIderinc Debt.
 "'The people of Arizona are unalter- ably opposed to being forced into an ! unholy union with New Mexico, with a i population which is 62 1-2 per cent Mexican. according to the report of Senator Beveridge, made to the senate l some two years ago. Arizona has the resources. New Mexico has the voters and the debts and she is very anxious l to have Arizona help pay them, which would be done under a state govern | ment.
 l Many of the counties of New Mexico are largely, and some of them hope lessiy in debt. Santa Fe county, for instance. owes something like a mil lion dollars, with only three millions of taxable property and in case of joint statehood the new state would have to assume all this indebtedness and Arizona would have to pay the larger portion of 1t, having so much greater -esources-almost double the amount of taxable property. This Arizona very seriously objects to do ing. It is one of the many reasons why arizona people are so bitterly op- posed to joint statehood.
 "'Ano.her reason is the two terri. tories have nothing in common except a large expanse of territory. They are totally different in character of their citizenship. in their language, laws, customs and ideas, so much so that il would be utterly impossible for the
 people of the two territories ever to
 amalgamaIe homogeneously as citi
 zens of the some commonwealth.
 Arizora Taking on New Life.
 GA further reason is the people of Arizona believe in the near future
 that the territory will be admitted as single state.
 'Tt is growing in wealth and popu
 lation more -apidly than any ether state or territory in the union. In the
 last ten years 1t has more thar doubled it's population and during rhat l tlnS haS HdhS tilaeS lloIe IIlhu lEeD , led its wealth. Its mineral output last year was some forty millions, lc
 say nothing of it's agricultural pro
 ducts.
 Arizona was never so prosperous as now. It not only ranks third among inc states and territories in produtior of copper. but many of the old mining 7 camps are being resuscitated and pu , on paying basis again. Notable among these is Tombstone, famous ths world over for it's production of $40, !, 100000 almost twenty-five years ago : which is n"w being operated by two c 3 the great mining men of the west, E
 R. Nj. Murphy.