Arizona republican., 1907-12-26

ling an excess of rather better than | $3, 100000 over world renowned Gold field
 | If our slow and modest old Yavapai
 district. with its matchless climate | t5000 feet above sea leveD its rolling lpraries, its warm fruitful valleys. its
 numerous streams of clear, pure water,
 and its limitless wealth of minerals. possessed the alert intelligent driving,
 resistless mining population that in
 habits the scoriac desolations of Gold | field-if Yayapai had Goldfield's ire
 pressible mining population to get
 out and holler for her and carry her guidon at the front of the fray. her loutput would be quickly doubled and
 her name would echo round the world
 They are nice quiet people up in old Yavapai and good Christians, but you can't call them wide-awake. hustling. | lup- to-date miners-not if you care what -ou sa-
 RIOT HOG. OR DIE At Goldfeld of course it's an i'm perative case of root hog. or die. but they are all rooters. from Rootville- been roofing most of them. ever since they crossed the Mississippi-soldier of fortune fearless and tireless facing
 the thirst and desolation of the scoriac deserts with heart for any fate. And they have regenerated Nevada. They have kept her on the map. They found her a state in name only. hang ing by the eyelids, hungry and despis-
 ed. with only quarter the population of Arizona. and they have given her | a high seat in the congregation of the hopeful and made the world resound with the fascinating romance of her
 great expectations.
 IL takes character to do that. but Goldfeld has got character to burn. |. Cripple Creek in the greatest gold camp in the western hemisphere. Goldfeld is the greatest in Nevada.
 Bisbee is the greatest copper camp in Arizona.
 Cripple Creeks output for 1906
 (latest corrected government report sl5.sO0.OOO. Goldfield's output for 1906
 (latest government report. s7.026. 154.
 Both s22,s26.5Ss.
 Bisbee's sworn output, 1906. $23, s32.5Ss.
 Excess of Bisbee over both, s9O6.-
 3s4.
 few simple figures like that some times reveal a surprising quantity of judgment day truth, the existence of which was never suspected by lots of
 smart people, and tables of such com
 parative figures are handy things for a Christian family to have in the
 house.
 All the world knows that Colorado is a great mining state. but only a
 very small part of the world yet real- izes that Arizona is a much greater
 mining state-that if all the gold. sil tver and lead mines of Arizona were wiped out of existence it's copper
 mines alone would make it much
 greater mining state than Colorado very much greater-about I3 millions greater
 Yet Arizona has been so modest and
 silent about 1t that over in Los Ange-
 les. where Arizona buys the greater part Of her store goods.' the people think that Bullfrog a more important
 mineral producer than all Arizona. | That's because Bullfrog gets out and hollers," and lets the world know what
 she has got. It's a good plan. Bull frog is onto her job and an O. K. camp. all right. and it would pay Ariz-
 ona big to get onto Bullfrog's fascinat- ing curves and learn to peddle But Guobe. the smallest of our four great copper camps. could put the whole | output of Bullfrog in her eye and never fetch a wink.