The copper era., 1907-01-10

THE Boston News Bureau), which is always conservative, gives the cop per output for Arizona for the year 1906 at 2S5, ,00O, ,0O0 pounds, an increase over last year of 44,523, 900 pounds Other authorities have placed the out put at 300, 100000 pounds, but even the figures furnished by the News Bureau are most gratifying. The same authority places the output of Montana at 36O, 100000 pounds, gain over the previous years of IS,- PAS, ,935 pounds. The output, of Michi- gan is put at 225,OOO,OO, a loss over the previous year of 100000. Ari- zona is not only second in the list,
 but in relative output has gained
 three times more than Montana. From the present outlook, and owing to the many improvements now being made to the plants, this territory will surely give Montana hard fight for first honors at the close of the pres ent year. Michigan is on the down. ward grade, Montana, considering her tremendous output and magnifi- cent equipment, is barely making a stand-off, while Arizona is just getting started. There seems to be no end of copper ore in Arizona, but until recently she has been short on equipment. However, this difficulty is being rapidly removed, and the tim ecannot be far distant when she will stand at the head of the column of all countries of the earth as a mineral producer. In other lines she is also forging rapidly to the front. As an agricultural, horticultural and stock raising section she stands with out peer in the United States. All products of the tropics or temperate zones can be produced in the great est abundance, and the time is not far distant when these facts will be known, and then we will have such a rush of immigration as California now enjoys. California is building principally on climate, though she has many natural resources, but when it comes to climate, the real genuine article, Arizona has her skinned mile, and then some. Cali fornians will deny this, but many of them know it to be a fact. Many Arizonans have gone to California to live only to be compelled to return on account of the climate. They found the climate of California too cold, too wet and too dry. California, mind you, has fairly good climate, and it sells for hundreds, and even thousands of dollars per lot, but as whole it is so far inferior to the article furnished by Arizona as to be hardly worth considering. Ari- zonan's may be little hard on Cali
 fornias chief stock in trade-climate but they are excusable, because they have long known and enjoyed the real, and only, climate on earth. But Arizona has not yet reached that point where she counts climate, so bounteously bestowed upon her, as an asset of her resources. Arizona can el1mlnSI0 IHC ClludIS duu Sllll justly maintain that she is the rich est, the best and the liyeliest subdivision of the United States, and that tells the whole story. Our wealth per capita is many times greater than any other state or ter ritory in the Union, the wages are the best on earth, and there is work for everyone, and ten thousand more than we now have. We have no really "poor people" in Arizona. Everybody is rich-if not they may be tomorrow, for the opportunities are here and await them with out stretched hands. No other country on earth has been so grandly endowed with the needs ot mankind as Ari- zona, and its future is potent with magnificent enterprises and happy homes for millions of people.