Bisbee daily review., 1906-01-19
.MR. SCRIBNER TELLS
 OF TOMBSTONE PROGRESS
ssYs OLD CAMP WILL BE BIGGER
 THAN EVER.
Interview With New Orleans Paper in Which the cochise County Man Tells a Little of Mineral Develop ment and Other Conditions.

EhlSuIty tTtSzsAItf s8ae l. cSftUntfs : who is at present on visit to his old home in Louisiana was interviewed by a reporter of The New Orleans States in which Mr. Scrisner tells of the resources of our Territory and the objections of its people to joint state hood. The following is a copy of the article published:
 Arizona does not wish statehood with New Mexico for the reason that New Mexico has a very much larger debt than Arizona and because New Mexico has a larger Mexican popula- ton which we have not got" said NJ. D. Scribner. a former resident of St. Landry parish. but for the past twen- ty years resident of Tombstone, Ari- zona.
 Mir. Scribner is a guest at the St. Charles Hotel for a few days, this be- ing his first visit to New Orleans in several years.
 Arizona is growing very rapidly and will soon have a population large enough to entitIe it to separate state hood and that is what we want Of course after that time comes a vote of the people will be sufficient to make a single state out of Arizona, but meanwhile we will be paying a lot of New Mexican taxes from which we have never derived any benefit. Arizona Is making great strides in mining and agriculture Many irri- gation projects are now under way which are creating the most valuable farming lands in the world. And the old mines at Tombstone which all the mining world will remember were flooded with water because they pen etrated a strata of water. number of years ago are being redeemed. When the mines were flooded Tomb stone, which was then town of some 10000 people. became almost depopu- lated. But our engineers have dis covered way of getting the water out of the mines and some of them are already being worked and all of them presently will be in operation again. They are rich in silver, gold and copper.
 The cattle raising industry in Ari- zona is in a most flourishing condition. Many large tracts of grazing land have f the large grants which have been pur- chased extend across the border line into Mexico. Thus not few of the big herds of cattle graze on one mans land but in two republics.
 The headway being made in cop per mining is something remarkable and the mining world las paid partic- uiar attention to the r,eteoric career Of MT. Greene. who ncsy puts on the market about G,o0o,G00 p lnds of cop per every month, worth from 17 to 19 cents pound.
 "As for our climate we have the fin est in the world and many come to Arizona every year from Los Angeles to get a tonic atmosphere.
 The circulation of money per cap ita is larger in Arizona than in any other area of the same size in the world. Arizona is particularly young mans country. I know of one young man who come there few years ago without dollar who is now in busi- ness in the mercantile line and has a stock of his own fully paid for amounting up into the thousands of dollars.
 While it seems down on the cards that Arizona and New Mexico are to come into the Union as one state, yet it is not right that such should be, and believe there will yet something arise to preyet the consummaticn of such an injustice upon the citizens of Arizona"