The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-03-11
NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA.


That New Mexico and Arizona
were not admitted to Statehood at
this time will not quench the ardor of
the enthusiastic boosters for these
territories.
It is regrettable that those who
have been tireless in their efforts to
gain their point must be content to
wait.
1t is never a pleasure to wait hong
for anything much desired. Hope
deferred maketh the heart sick but
1t is as inevitable as the rising of
to-morrow's sun that these territories
will INCREASINGLY persist in their de-
mands, and as certain that they will
be granted.
The development of New Mexico
during a decade has been nothing
short of marvellous, and to those un-
familiar with its vast resources and
possibilities, the study of conditions,
and causes for this remarkable exhi-
bition of progress, should prove an
interesting and instructive pursuit.
During the past two years many in
structive articles have appeared in
the columns of this magazine bearing
upon the resources of New Mexico
and Arizona and pointing out the de-
sirability of locating and investing
capital in both territories.
1t is OUR intention to still further
advertise this section of our country,
and yet more firmly emphasize the i'm
po1-tance of Investigating the grounds
upon which both territories make
their claims to be admitted to the I'm
ion. Statistical data is dry reading.
Figures convey little to the minds Of
some. 1t is when the story is told In
word pictures, by men who know the
facts, that the whole world most read
lily assimiIates the truths intended to
be conveyed.
We shall give prominence to these
territories because we believe in them
and the great possibilities before them
and are convinced that the eyes of
the country will shortly be centered
upon scenes of extraordinary activi-
ty in this section.
Thousands are emignating from the
Eastern states to New Mexico and
Arizona each month. Land is ad-
vancing in value rapidly. There are
a thousand avenues where men and
money can jointly produce enormous
returns.
No better example could be pre-
sented of achievement under condi-
tions that try the souls of men, than
the history of New Mexico and Ari-
zona.
manic forces that propel men upward,
ever upward, conquering superstition
and ignorance by the power of reason
and education.
In the wake of long years of desper
adoisr4, when might was right, and
the bullet settled sharply and for all
time the controversies that were in
evitable under the conditions that
then existed, is found body of law
Ls II,
erected schools, churches and hospi-
tails. and can justly claim to admins
ter the laws of our Land as efficiently
and equitably as in any section of our
country.
New Mexico and Arizona are not
BAN en- wastes; great stretches of
country lacking in everything which
makes for comfort and convenience
The progressive cities and towns stud
ding these vast tracts of country tes-
tify to the sobriety, earnestness, and
eneI gy of a people who are as truly
American as the New York pIutocrat,
who knows far too little about the
sacrifice, the fortftude, the unf1inch-
ing devotion to principle, which has
made possible the creation of civil
lization where existed but yesterday
the remnants of a people steeped in
the traditionalism and ignorance Of
centuries or mhSgOvernment and deS-
potism.
New Mexico is in reality New Mex
leo. The 1angIkor, the procrastination
of the Mexican is giving place to the
animation and promptitude of the vir-
lie American, and it will be but a
short time before the passing alto
gether of this picturesque figure from
the scenes of activity which follow the
onward march of modern commercial
ism. Not in our children's day. but in
our own, we shall mark the develop
ment of the vast resources of these
territories concerning which the world
at large knows practically nothing
1t will be our pleasure to record
from month to month something of
the progressive movement under way
which we predict will eventuate In the
creation of two states that will fig
ure largely in the recorded history Of
the industrial and agricultural tri-
| umphs OF the Southwest.-The Great
Southwest Magazine