Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

1 gonal marks (ideally of course. not
 strictly. there are no such perfectly
 straight lines in nature) our
 l GREAT ARIZONA COPPER BELL. That is where a greater part of our
 population live and probably always
 will and delve and earn their live-li- hood
 The great copper belt contains at present and must forever contain the
 greater part of the population of Ari-
 zona. It is a broken mountainous re- zion. the most extensive mineral zone
 on earth. 400 miles long, from go to 75
 miles wide. and besides copper it con tains many great and valuable mines
 of gold and silver You don't hear much about the gold and silver at
 present because the noise about copper
 drowns their song. but they are there all right and the people who work
 them have to eat just the same as
 honest farmer gets the everlasting
 cinch on the rest of humanity, every
 body has to eat.
 Douglas, Bisbee. Tombstone. Clifton.
 Morenci. Globe, Jerome. Prescott.
 Wickenburg. Kingman, are cities with
 in the Arizona copper belt which con-
 tain an aggregation of about 100, 900
 people engaged in mining. They are
 intelligent, industrious, and very pros-
 porous Spiritually they are a high
 class people and go in for churches and schools. and social clubs and golf
 clubs. and science clubs. and Carnegie
 libraries and the whole list, but they are all afflicted with one physical fail- ing: they get hungry and want to eat threA times a day just like the> hu- man who inhabits the rest of the world. And that is where the honest simple minded, simple hearted Salt River valley farmer and fruit grower comes in for his share of the profits of copper mining. He makes, say quarter of a cent clear on every orange he ships to New York or Chicago, but he makes a cent and a quarter clear on every orange he can sell near home.
 We are soon going 10 have a great increase in our irrigated acreage in the beautiful Salt River valley, sur rounding rose-scented Phoenix and within three years the population will double. Already the tide is setting hitherward and the completion of the government dams and ditches will see it at the flood. l look to see the in crease in land values keep an even pace with the increase in population. or perhaps run ahead of it, in fact I expect to see wild boom in land val ues as soon as the new government T city demonstrated. There will be room for all and a chance for all to make and those who come first while land values are low will make fortunes by the increase.
 We need workers. not spectators and capitalists-men and women with a little money and lots of energy to settle upon the land and cultivate it. and raise food stuff for our home mar ket. for our great army of miners now in that marvellous Arizona Copper Belt. Within three years there will be two mouths to fill in that copper belt to every one there now. That means a home market and top notch prices for every bit of food raised in this Salt River valley I am confident I will see about 100000 new people in that great Arizona copper belt within three years and that, with the opening of the new irrigation ditches, should bring 50.0OO new people to the Salt River valley. Let them come. there is room for them and they will not be There will be work for them all and it is workers we want, not in valids nor capitalists nor spectators. Independent workers, you understand. not hired people. Men and Women to settle on the land and work it and pro- duce food stuff to feed our miners. There will soon be 100000 people to feed in that great copper belt and at fifty cents a day from each for the