Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-18

the uncertainties of rain as they do sn the East. where the crops are so often subjected to droughts that burn them up or to floods that drown them out and when you have neither floods nor droughts, the rains so often come. when you don't want them. and when you do want them there is often an exasperating tardiness about their coming. The ranch business about Tucson is quite extensive and profit able. Cattle. sheep, hogs and poultry are produced not only in sufficient quantities to supply the home market which is considerable, but furnishing for export not less than $40,OO0 of stock
 The great wealth of Arizona is in the bowels of the earth. Mining. es- pecially in the southern half of the Territory, is the foundation industry lust as farming is in the State of Illinois. The mineral respnrces of this region are simply immense: gold. silver, and especially copper. abound throughout the entire southern par- ton Of the Territory. The output of these metals for the year has been gold about $5.000,000, silver and lead nearly s6,000,00 and copper about s54.000,0Oo, so that the total output or these metals for one year exceeds the vast sum of s65,000 GOO. It may be- truthfully said that the mining in terests Tn Arizona are yet in their in- fancy. This is readily seen from the great and growing increase of the out put, which for the last year in copper alone, exceeded twenty-five per cent over the year before. Tucson is not only the metropolitan city of the Ter ritory, but is situated in tze very se1- ter of this vast wealth, thereby not only insuring it's stability, but also it's rapid growth and development.
 The city is well supplied with churches. The Methodist Episcopal Church has a fine church and par. sonage on one of the main avenues of the city. and in the center of the resident population The Presbyte- rian and Baptist churches are prepar- ing to erect new buildings The Epis- copalians have neat and attractive building, and the Congregationalists have a plain but comfortable place of worship. The Roman Catholic church. which represents the largest portion of the religious population has a large and elegant buildings, well located and well maintained. All these churches are growing and seem to be in healthy and prosperous condition.
 The public schools of the city are of high order. There are five mod ern school buildings of which any city might be proud, s50,000 in bonds have been voted for a new High School Building. The Territorial Uni versity, a young but growing institu- tion, is located within the city limits Within it's beautiful campus there are a number of stately buildings, aggre- gating a cost of more than S200 900. and well adapted to the work of the university. Last year there were 200 students in the classes The school is well equipped with every facility to insure a good practical education along the lines of highest importance to the youth of this Territory. It is not only provided with the regular classical cur riculGm of the average college, but also has connected with at United States Experimental Station, 8 School of Mines, a Manual Training School and a mill for the reduction of ores. These and other branches of special instruction are well manned by corps of professors that would be credit to any school in the land. The cost of maintenance is about S65,o00 annually. Forty thousand dollars of this expense is borne by the general government and the balance by the Territory. An elegant building has re gently been completed at cost or s32 900 for the combined use of the museum belonging to the unicersity-
 The Carengie Free Public Library of the library and very extensive is well housed in building costing
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