Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-10
COL. PICKETT Is ON HIS TRAVELS
Thinks Much of Arizona and Knows How To Express
 His Views

Col H. l.. Pickett. of TombstoTe, who is now travelling in the east. is nothing if not loyal to Arizona, with first preference for Cochise county, more important, the colonel is not backward in telling the world all about it and whenever he drops in long enough to get his hat comfort ably hung up Arizona is pretty sure of a column or so of excellent ad- vertising in the next days paper. The latest one from Richmond, Va, is contained in the following from the News Leader of that city:
 Colonel H. L. Pickett, of Tomb stone, Arizona, called by Sunday to see Richmond, having come home af- ter an absence of one hundred and three years. He explains this some what startling statement by the fact that his father left Virginia in 1894 and went to Tennessee. where he brought up a family. Colonel Pickett left Tennessee for Arizona twenty five years ago and this is his first visit to Richmond. He is on his way to the exposition and is intensely in teTested in looking up members of the FauquieT. Pickett and Marshall fami- lies. with both of which he is con neCted. He has given furthe- evi- dence of his affection for the state by entering his son, who has just com plered a course It Stanford University 'aifOrnia, in the University of Nir- ginia law school
 Like all Western men and especial ly Arizona men, Colonel Pickett al ways has an eye to making known the achievements and merits of his own section. He is particularly in- terested in this just now because he is anxious that the people of all parts of the country should understand how strongly Arizona resents the prOpOsi- ton to make her a state combined with New Mexico while the latter ter ritOry has sixty per cent of Mexican population. In a brief interview to- day with a reporter for The News Leader. Colonel Pickett said he could talk Arizona and Tombstone all day, but that for the present he would con- tent himself with this much, which he dictated:
 Arizona is the treasure house of the West. with Tombstone as it's cen ter TOmbIOne became famous in the latter seventies. as one of the greatest producing gold and silver camps of the West. It has forty mil lions to its credit and is still produc- ing. It is the county seat of Cochise county. the greatest mineral produc- ing country of Arizona. Within a radius of twenty-five miles from Tombstone are to be found some of the largest copper mines in the Unit ed States. the most prominent of which is the Copper Queen mine at Bisbee, that has been in constant Op- eration ever since 1880 and has built up the city of Bisbee, the richest and largest city in Arizona. The payrolls in Bisbee are from four hundred and fifty to five hundred thousand dollars per month.
 Arizona has doubled it's copper pro- ductiOn in the last three years. It stands now as the second territory or state in the production of copper, and it also doubled it's population in the last decade smoothing that no Oth- CT state or territory did.
 sIts citizens are unalterably Op- posed to joint statehood with New Mexico, and voted it down at the last election by S7 per cent vote. It | hopes, at no distant day, to be ad- | mitted to single statehood and will then be numbered as one of the rich l est and most prosperous states west l of the Rocky mountains"