Arizona republican., 1906-04-18
GOVERNORS
 TALK OF THEIR LANDS
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that life or property is less safe. therefore than in the older cOmmuni- ties, for I have no hesitancy in as seTting that life and property are safer in Modern Arizona than any other state or territory in the union.
 Our mines are producing fifty mil lion dollars in gold. silver and copper per year. In copper production Ari- zona is easily the second if not real ly the first. of all the copper -produc- ing states and countries of the world.
 We are contributing largely to the cattle. sheep and wool industry of the country.
 We are beginning to send you here in the east the earliest and best or anges, lemons. pomelos, grapes and melons. and this industry is just on the eve of enormous development.
 The government of the United States is advancing to us more than six millions of dollars without inter est which is now being used for the construction of irrigation works for the supply of water to our arid lands making possible the cultivation Of thousands of acres of the most produc- tive lands in the world.
 The mining industry, enormous as it is, is increasing at an accelerated ra- tio. Within the last few years hun dreds of miles of railroads have been constructed, and they are still being extended into the hitherto inaccessi- ble places of the territory, rich in their mining, lumber. stock and az riculturaI resources. We have an enormous amount of timber awaiting | the Iumberman.
 Our artisans and operatives and our ! farm laborers are paid the best of | wages.
 Our people are alive and alert and are up to date.
 We have the clements of a rich, prosperous, intelligent, forceful, pa triotic people.
 II We are building a state out there and We are building it out of good ma
 terial and with a nigh purpose.
 There is much said about Arizona
 that you may possibly think I ought II to contradict. I think not; l am talk ing to an intelligent people and |l shall not assume that you will think i'll of us out there without evidence tC H justify it, and I feel sure when the
 evidence is heard and seen by you your verdict will be in our favor. Some say our population is scant H Possibly so. We think we have quite H 200 900 people now. I know that some hard headed statisticians among yOl will say, at once, that the last census does not show that number. l am sure that I can appeal to you of St. Loui! that we out there should no more b' held down by a six year old census than you.
 Some say we have vast extent O waste lands and that that adds to ou property Not so; I am not familiar
 with any rule that waste land must b'
 counted amongst the liabilities. Or the contrary we count those vast ex | panses of territory as a most Valua
 ble asset. They constitute one vas
 laboratory, where the climate is tenn
 pered and where the air we breath is refined and purified, and no lan'
 on earth can boast of a grander O
 more salubrious climate than that O
 Arizona ;and no more valuable asse D could we nave.
 But we have hundreds of thousand
 of acres of land fit for the blow, pro
 ductive beyond that of any of the old
 CT states. We have enough of tha
 to outstrip some of the states whicl
 am sorry to say are our friendl
 critics.
 But I shall not tax your indulgenc
 further. Arizona is proud to be reck oned a part of the great and rapidl
 growing great southwest.
 Referring to the Springfield lynch