The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-09-26
Millions Of Wooded Acres.

Al AIlAOud, ueSp1Ce the vast reaches
OF 2treeless desert, there are millions of
acres Of timbered land belonging to the
present age instead of the prehistoric:
It is the. prehistoric past of Arizona,
however, that holds first .thrall for the
Scientist and student. Arizona is an
Gent Of days not only geo1ogically, but
antnropologically. Traces Of people
who persisted ages ago have left their
relics in that region. Even now some
of the curious Indian tribes inhabiting
Arizona dwell in cliff cut abodes, make
and use pottery of very ancient pat
tern and .havea habits and. customs,
rites and ceremonies which may have
come: down from q period already an
Gent when the. Oldest. Egyptian mum
my was placed In his ceremeints.
There's nothing new about Arizona
except the 10000 people who inhabit
the coming state: Most Of them who
profess any religion are Morrnons. The
Roman Catholic church comes next
in number of commandments: Jesuit
schools in the territory date from 1857.
| Jamestown. Va, was settled only 800
years ago: Plymouth welcomed, though
not warmly, the pilgrim fathers, moth
ers and children in 1920 Do Virginia
and Massachusetts wear extra feath-
ers to plume themselves upon their an
tquity as antiquity goes in America !?
Very: well: Pluck a large ~ fowl = for
Arizona's pluming, for: in $780,. nearly
a century before Jamestown and
Plymouth, the Padre Marco de Nizan
| and his Spanish followers came up
from the south and explored Arizona
The next year Coronado led an expedi-
ton through the heart Of the arid zone
| into Utah looking. for: the: traditional
| seven. cities of Cibola. These Span
| iards found that the ancient Aztecs
had made settlements in Arizona and
| worked the copper mines. Later the
Spaniards worked the mines, long be-
fore Captain John Smith was saved by
Pocahontas or. Captain. Miles Standish
was cut out by John Alden. ~.-''': ~
Has a Mind of Her Own:
After the Mexican war Arizona and
New Mexico We're coded by Mexico to
the United States, except a southern
strip, which was acquired In 1858
through the Gadsden purchase In
1868 Arizona was divorced. from New
Mexico and became separate terri
tory. The recent effort of the admins
tration to force remarriage was
something, as we. have seen, not to- be
3tstood for'' by. Arizona, who has a
mind Of her own. -
All things come to those who wait
long, enough. Arizona has been knock
ing at, the doors. of the: republic for
admission these twenty years past: In
1891 she went SO far as to frame and
adopt d state constitution, but Uncle
Sam: refused to accept her@asz anew
fstar. Politics, 1t is said, makes strange
=. bedfe nows.: Politics has tried to make
4 bedfeAowss Of New. Mexico. and rArl-
zona-on distinctly American, the 9th
Ter largely. .Mextcan--but IN this in.
Stance has not been successful.
I Now that Miss Arizona IS to come
Into tie fold as: q maiden lady 1t is
fpleasing 's'to know :: that she ts5s.big
enough to take care Of herself. The
new. statee-!iitts WIFI be a state in a few
7 months no doubt is about $50 niles
T square, It's shape being; approximately
rFSquare. !sRailroads are building: rapid
a}ly through the Btate.s Tourists, too; few
!: 1ts{s@tFue, go tossee the pehi6ed forest
and the Grand, canyon jig Increasing
!, numbers. When Arizona. sends a paail
Eof Senators to Washington they may may
ten Us things about their wonderful
Estate. of which We, have not dreamed
i me new State Is Democratic ii poll
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