Bisbee daily review., 1909-09-07
CRUISERS WILL START LONG
 VOYAGE

According to the Los Angeles pa pers great doings were had at the Hassayampa club meet in Los Angeles last week. At Venice on Hassayampa day number of speeches and toasts were offered and among the number who addressed the jolly gathering was Col H. L. Pickett of Tombstone. The following are the remarks of the as printed.
 If there is one thing lnat gTves me
 exquisite pleasure above all others 1t
 is to be accohded the privilege of talk
 ing upon the resources of the sun
 kissed land the gem of the Rockies,
 known now as the Territory of Arizona
 but next year (1910l will be the new
 state of Arizona When that time
 comes if there is place on earth ar
 ound which angels love to hover and
 birds to sing their sweetest songs, it
 will be the new state of Arizona.
 When the forty-seventh star is add 
 ed to the flag of the nation which will
 be next year 1t will be one of the most brilliant in the galaxy of stars that constute the flag of our country. The subject assigned to me is Arizona when it becomes a State" and the time given me is so limited that 1 can ony touch the high places in describing its wonderful resources. It will then, as now lead all the states in the Union in the production of copper, to say no- thing of its production of the precious metals. Much is being said now in the particularly iE Portland and Seattle, in regard to the production of gold in Alaska, claiming that 1t was $22 ,o00, poo for the last year. I said to my friends in Seattle and Portland that while it is a fine showing for Alaska, yet away down in the Terri tory of Arizona, in the extreme south east corner there is a county called cochise, and that its county seat is that produces more dol ars and cents in copper annually than he whole territory of Alaska.
 Arizona when it becomes state will not only lead in the production f mineral. but will lead in the rais- ng of ostriches. Then, as now. it will ave the largest ostrich farm with nore birds, with more beautiful plum ge and more beautiful women to use hat plumage than any state in the nion. When that time comes Ari- one will lead in the production of he orange-that is, in the quality of he orange, for now when the orange rom the state of the Golden Gate and he orange from the Peninsula State f Florida are selling in the New York iarkets at $4 box, the Arizona range brings $S a box. 1t is high ompliment to California to say that
 is able to produce oranges that will ring on the market even one-hah the alue of the Arizona oranges.
 "As 1t has been announced that a ance is to succeed this meeting, I ill not keep my bald headed friends, Tho are so anxious to dance, in sus- ense any longer; but will say to hem that when we have our next an- ual meeting the bill for the admis- ion of Arizona to statehood will lready have passed the congress of he United States and have been igned by the president and that the principal discussion before us then will be the ratification of the bill or our admission and then my bald headed friends who are so anxious or the dance this afternoon can lance all night, and, if it will add anything to their pleasure, I will join hem in that dance"