The copper era., 1906-02-01
MARK SMITHS APPEAL.
An irnpassiOned Protest Against JOinture.

Delegate Mark Smiths appeal to the house before the passage of the joint statehood bill was one ot the most eloquent during the day. Dele gate Smith said in part: ''The president without giving any reason whatever says there has been too much time lost and both territories should be put together and it ought to be done. On the floor or in the committee there has not been one single man who has given reason why it should be done and whatever reason they have has not been dis closed for the shame ot bringing it to light It was found by this con- gress that it was impossible to gov ern a great territory because of the mountain barrier between them and the chairman of the committee de- nies the report of every engineer that has ever seen that mountain range when he makes the assertion that it is beautiful rolling plain" MT. Smith reviewed the hardships that arose when they first became citizens of a territory. Smith con tinued: "A gentleman spoke of senators from other states I ask him what would be the condition of the republican party today if it was not for the sage brush senator's of whom he spoke with such contempt, who have been of such ability and of such character as to throw back in the face of any man represented on this floor. any such asperations.
 "If it was not for your sage brush senators having saved your party time and again, and yet you are dis turbed with the fear that Arizona, with a single democratic representa- tive on this floor, might send demo- cratic senator. You are afraid, but | it is not anything but a political make shift. If you were not afraid | of politics, what would you do about | it?
 ''The territories of Arizona and | New Mexico are neither safely one way nor another, and any man who would make the assertion as to what | the political complexion of any new state would be as big fool as the one who prophesied that any geueral would lead the armies of Russia to the sacking of Japan. Any man who thinks that any one state will be what they expect, if they look at history, will see that they are mis- taken. The great republican party is afraid to trust the people of the United States. What are they afraid of? Is it want of patriots? The first blood shed on the battle field of Cuba, from which the present president of the United States gain ed much of his prestage, was by "Bucky" O'Neill. Would to God he was here today to add his protest against the action of his colonel. [Applause.]
 My destiny has been with these people. I have been working until my hair is whitened, and at the end, the statehood measure having passed three times through this house and once under suspension of the rules, our hopes are to be dashed to the ground, after twenty years of strug- gle, and sixteen years after it's first success I find myself today pleading the twentieth time with members of congress to prevent a statehood of the kind they wish to dish out to the people of the territory of Arizona" " [Great applause on democratic side.]
 Professor Douglas had visited Douglas, Bisbee, Cananea and Mo- renci before coming to Globe, and at all of those places he found condi- tions satisfactory. The extensive additions to the Douglas shelter are nearing completion and the effect is already apparently in an increasing output of copper. The production of copper last year was in excess of S6,- O00 900 pounds and will be larger for 1906, probably reaching 100, 100000 pounds. The ores smelted at Doug las come chiefly from the Copper Queen mine at Bisbee, which easily maintains it's position as the largest producing copper mine in Arizona. Concentrates from the Phelps-Dodge mine at NaCoZari, and the ore pro- duct of the Imperial Copper com pany, Pinal county, are also smelted at Douglas. The United Globe mines are supply a large tonnage of sili- cious Ures.-Globe Belt.
 John Boyle. general manager of the Mountain Mining company, arrived in Kingman last week and