Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-27

land in this county. Arizona today is
 producing more copper than any other
 state or territory in the United
 States and producing copper at a bet
 ter profit than any other section.
 As to tho growth of population that
 must necessarily depend on industrial
 progress. Let us take tho one couD
 ty of Cochise and look at this growth since the taking of tho last census
 in the year 1900. In that year the
 number of registered votes in sais
 county vas less than two thousand
 and for the last year the registration
 showed moro than 7.s0O. In 1900 the
 tax rate of this county was s4.2o on
 the one hundred dollars valuation; for this year the tax rate Is s2.0o on the
 one hundred dollars valuation.
 The last decade has witnessed
 thc development of the greatest
 copper mines known in the eoun-
 try. These are those owned by the Calumet & Arizona company and the
 Sbattuck-Arizona company in the War
 ren district: those developed by the
 Imperial Copper company in Pima county; the mines in the Globe dis trict and last but not least the mines in the Courtland district. Globe has more than quadrupled it's popalaticn since the last census was taxen. A, Imperial where there was nothing 1900 there is now flourishing pdpa- iation of more than two thousand.
 As 9 result of the government ir.l gation works at Roosevelt the Salt River valley has greatly increased i1s population and prosperity duEns the .ast five years and real estate has .aI plauy instances doubled in y1iuati.n.
 Not only have these sections of the territory grown and prospered danng the last decade, but in every eoun5y and city in the territory there has been substantial growth.
 The Record-Herald fears that the new states would remain for years disproportionately strong in the cleo, tion Of presidents and in the senate of the United States. Arizona and New Mexico would become no strong CT in this regard than many of the present states; for instance. Arizona i with it's population of 175.oOo (2o0,- GOO would be nearer the correct fig ure) would wield no greater influence ! than Nevada with it's 75.000 people; Delaware with its 1S4.O00 would have the advantage of Arizona in the mat ter of disproportionatc influence in the senate and the same may be said Of Idaho with it's population of only 1Se.000. Montana has q population one-third less than the present pdtn- q Iation of New Mexico Maine. one of the original colonies. has only been able to gain q population of 702. 900 during ali the years of the nation. Both Arizopa and New Mexico will ex- eeed this during the next ten years New Mexico's population is the equal of that of Ne Hampshire or Vermont, while Arizona has nearly as many people as Utah. while New Mexico has much mere Wyoming has a of only 10O.000-about half hat of Arizona. Rhode Island has population of only 45f.00O, not enough more than New Mexico to make prom inent any undue influence over that state in the senate.
 If the editor of the Record-Herald was acquainted with the great re. sources Of the two remaining terri tories and the energy and intelligence of their citizens he would no longer talk about rotten borough" states when they were up for discussion in ! oonnectiof with statehood i SWINGING BACK