Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-21

 ters, General Otis goes squarely on record as being opposed to the union of Arizona and New Mexico as one state, and announces his advocacy of single statehood for Arizona at an early date.
 Today copies of these letters were obtained. They will strengthen the cause of those who are opposing the jointure of the territories, and for that reason are printed in full that all the people may learn their contents. They are as follows:
 Otis on Record.
 LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2, 1906. Col. J. H. McClintock, Phoenix, Ariz.:
 Dear Sir: Referring to the question of statehood for Arizona, you person. ally well understand my views in re, not; therefore I embrace this oppor- tunity to put them in writing, giv- ing you permission to make public use of my letter if occasion requires
 My position and that of the Times may be summed up succiently in few clear paragraphs:
 l. Some years since, when the ques tion of statehood came up in the ter 
 not an advocate of single statehood, for reasons then given, and which seemed to me legitimate and adequate. Nevertheless, we declared repeatedly, even at that time, that when the proper time should arrive, the Times could be depended upon to advocate the separate admission of Arizona as a state of the union. I have always believed that q standard of popula- tion should be established by congress for the admission of territory into the union. and that a fair standard would be the minimum number of pop ulation required by law for the cleo tion of a member of congress in a con gressional district This would be reasonable, because it would place a territory seeking admission into the union upon a footing as to popula- tion with a congressional district as recognized by law. Arizona now has a population greatly increased over what she had when statehood was op- posed because of lack of numbers.
 2. When the agitation for joint statehood-the union of Arizona and New Mexico into a single state-came on for discussion, we strenuously op- posed the measure as being unjust to Arizona. anomalous anG unnecessary, and as ar attempt to force an unnat- ural union between political communi- ties with widely divergent interests and with populations inharmonious and uncongenisl to radical degree. We opposed the proposed Jointure for another and perhaps more important reason, viz, that these territories, once united into a state, would never in all probability, be divorced through the action of congress, thus leaving a repugnant political feeling to stand indefinitely, or as long as the nation shall exist. Such a step, once taken could not and cannot be retracted; and thus two territories, each immense in area and with important and extensive natural resources peculiar to each would be bound together in an intol erable union, to the detriment of both The further and sufficient reason was urger tha the joint state thus pro posed to be formed would he too ex tensive in territorial area, and each segment of it would be retarded SC riously in it's material development by the drawbacks enumerated. Stil further, it was urged that these two political bodies, necessarily out O. harmony with each other in no smal degree, could not be welded into 1; single state with any well-groundeC hope that common and harmoniou; state government could be created The incongruous state legislature thus created would be apt to take oI the characteristics of a bear garden.
 For all these reasons have, in tht Times, strongly opposed joint state hood, firmly believing the measure no to be for the true interest of eithe Arizona or New Mexico.
 3. The effort to bring in these terri tories as single state having failed in congress, now comes the practica and logical question. Shall Arizon; have single and separate statehood My answer is, yes, she is entitled to i on the merits and in the near future In the first place. here population hai greatly increased and IS steadily in creasing Her natural resources ar extensive and valuable, and are bein; developed more and more each year She has mines, of gold, silver and COT per: she has well-defned deposits 0 coal; she has timber, building stone agricultural and grazing lands, liv stovk and other valuable ant wealth-producrns resources, requirin only the intelligent application of car ital, energy and wcil-directed labor t produce immense yields and add vast ly to the wealth of the territory, and c the state when admitted. Many of he fertile valleys, even though arid dul ing all the centuries that have gon before. are susceptible of irrigation and with it will produce crops in grea abundance and of immeasuTable value The government has turned its alter to the vast alluvial plains and extensiy valleys, and is pcttins into effect tn beneficent system of natural irrig; ton, by the construction of immens irrigation projects, the completion C which will reclaim and bring unde cultivation a vast area of fertile lanC equal possibly, as you say, to the are of all the cultivatable land in souther California, excluding the extensive In perial country. It is not difficult to SC H-<-