Arizona republican., 1906-06-18

t With the tra1ScOnJIllenlal mes or tHeI
 branches
 | Were they making a speciality of
 passenger traffic, the railroads in the
 mining districts of Arizona might well 1 be advertised as scenic routes. | Sheep and cattle raising is' carried on quite extensively. Thousands of sheep
 are grazed on the mountain sides and
 plains. Sheep shearing is done by
 machinery, one man being able to shear from 1855 to 175 sheep per day.
 The wool is shipped to the eastern
 wollen mills and the fatted lambs prin- cipally to Kansas City.
 | The ostrich farm, near Phoenix, con-
 sists of 1900 acres with more than
 1900 birds. 1t is the largest farm of
 it's kind in the United States and has proven 8 profitable investment. | In the manner of dress. the people of Arizona might we'll represent any eastern locality of the same popula- 1 tion. The larger towns will compare favorably with towns of the same pop ulation in the east, and a great many eastern towns would suffer from the comparison. The idea that ali the men go around dressed in buckskins, with
 one or more young cannon" strapped to them is a mistake, and the idea Ori- ginated in the imagination of the writ
  illustrate for them.
 The scale of wages for skilled labor
 is somewhat above the average. The cheaper. unskilled labor. is performed chiefly by "greasers" (MeXicans of the lower classy
 The Indians are now chiefly located on the different Indian reservations, and the few who are not on reserva- tions cause no trouble. They do noth- ing more savage than come to town occasionally and eat from the garbage
 barrels (the same as some of the very
 poor civilized people of the large east
 ern cities do) It must not be under stood that all Indians are filthy. a great majority of them are intelligent and industrious. On the different Indian reservations are fine schools where hundreds of In dians are being educated. The largest Indian school is located near Phoenix This school consists of more than twenty-five buildings with modern im- provements. It has an enrollment of nearly 900 Indian pupils of different tribes.
 Nor are the Indian children the only ones for which good schools have been provided. The people of Arizona have not been so busy making good In- dians," seeking the precious metals, building railroads. or following agri- cultural pursuits that they have had no time to attend to the matter of schools and churches. Yavapai coun- ty. with q population of 13 S0O has for | ty-five schools taught by sixty-five teachers and an average attendance of ! 2,525 children. A school tax of s22.SO per capita of attendance is paid To obtain a firstgrade teachers certifi- lfl fn in A,-f.x quired to pass d more rigid examina- ton than in a majority of the states of the middle west. and the salaries paid 1 for teaching are considerably larger. According to the latest census Ari- l zona has 163 churches. with a mem l bership of 45.00O and church property valued at $1,150,O00. When the pup
 ulation of Arizona is taken into con | Sideration this is d very creditab bIe showing.
 There is d mistaken idea in the east | about the climate of Arizona. To most 1 eastern people the climate of the entire
 territory is synonyms with hades with
 the preference in favor of the latter. 1 While it is true the southern portion
 of the territory is hot it must be un- derstood that on account of the diff | ference in humidity 100 degrees in Chi ! cago or New York is more noticeable
 than 115 or 1e0 degrees in Arizona AL i though Phoenix is only 13O miles south ! of Prescott. there is an average diff i ference of about 20 degrees owing to | the difference in altitude. the altitude
 of Prescott being 53O4 and that ot 1 Phoenix 1O74. Phoenix has an ideal | winter climate and a more delightful
 summer climate than that of Prescott
 is hard to find. During the hottest
 summer months the nights in Prescott
 are cool enough to sleep under cover 1 ing.
 1 It is claimed by the opponents to sngle statehood for Arizona and New l MeXico that Arizona has too small a 1 population to justify single statehood.
 The census of 1900 gave Arizona a | population of 122.212, including 2e 4SO
 Indians and 23,396 foreign born. chiefly 1 MeXlcans, but the rate of increase l slhce 1900, has been large and the pop ! ulation of Arizona at the present time ! iS probably 150,000 to 16O, ,OOO. the in> 1 crease since 1900 being mostly Amer
 jeans When Minnesota was admitted to statehood she had a population of i l51,O0O. Indiana, Senator Beveridge's state, had but 145.00 four years after 1 being admitted. Alabama had a popu- | iation of but 127, 300 including 42- BOO | slaves. Missouri had 7O.6OO of which | number more than II. 900 were slaves
 Kansas had 1O7.OOO and Kentucky had | 15, ,0OO.
 Although Arizonians believe that they are justly entitled to single state | hood, they are not, at the present time
 c"ntending for it, but they do stren-
 uously object to joint statehood with New Mexico. They believe in the doc trlne. America for Americans and Arizona for Arizonians" Old timers who have lived forty years fin Arizona
 as a territory say they prefer forty years more as a territory rather than joint statehood with New Mexico. Must we submit to the "big stick" or VIII we get square deal?" TOP OX,e1, .sJxrv xn-