Mohave County miner., 1906-10-27

in New Mexico is, on an average, double that of Arizona. Even in Mo- have county, where the tax rate is 4 cents on the dollar, it is quite low when compared with that of Bernalillo county, New Mexico, where the rate is six cents for county, and in Albu- querque two cents for city purposes. Besides the raising of this big levy there are hundreds of thousands of dollars of railroad bonds on which the interest has been defaulted for twenty years. These bonds will have a day of accounting, when the burden inn posed by them will be almost unbear- able. It is to help meet this burden. that is sure to come, that the. New Mexicans want the aid of Arizona's great and constantly growing wealth. The county of Santa Fe has general debt of 6SO,O00$, and railroad debt of 00,000$, together with twenty years defaulted interest. The total valua- tion of Santa Fe county this year is about 2.O0O,OOO$ Bernard 2. Rodey, the original New Mexico joints. 1, stated in congress that the tax rate of New Mexico counties ranged from three to seven dollars on the 100$ of valuation, and that the valuation placed on the property was much high CT than in Arizona.
 The democrats of New Mexico say they want Arizona democrats to join with them to skin the New Mexico re- publicans; the New Mexico republi- cans say they want the people of Ari- zona to join with them to give New Mexico clean government and re- duce the taxes. The politicians want Arizona to join with New Mexico to get whack at the defaulted railroad debt and militia warrants of that tax ridden territory, while the 'common people" want Arizona to join with them to control the Mexican vote and make white state of it. In the mean time the politicians, ably assisted by the whisky trust, with Greenhut at it's head and Ainsworth at the tail, would exploit the new state to their hearts content. There would be bonds without number forthcoming, issued in the past ages of New Mexi- co.'s history, from every vault in the country, for validation and funding. And the militia warrants! There would be no fraudulent ones among them when they came to le yislative halls for funding bill. And there would be found to be millions of them, instead of the few paltry thousands that the New Mexico papers admit were issued in an emergen n;y during the Indian wars in that territory in the days when the Apache terrorized the country along the Black range and down to the Mexican line.
 On the other hand Arizona is on the top wave of prosperity. Its mines are pouring out their horde of wealth; it's sawmills are furnishing lumber to all the surrounding territories and, states from the largest forest of pine in the United States; great reservoirs for the conservation of water are being built to reclaim thousands of acres of land and upon which lands thousands of families are soon to settle: her cattle and sheep industr es are growing day by day until they almost equal that of pastoral New Mexico; it's manufac- lures the past fiscal year amounted to 29, ,O00, ,O00$. while to digress, our New Mexican neighbor only manufactured 3,000,O00$ worth; her people are a homogeneous, happy, contented band of Americans, contending for voice in national affairs without being tram meled by union with race of peo- pie differing from us in every material interest.