Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-27
ARIZONA AND
 NEW MEXICO.

NEW MEXICO.
 The following articles under the above caption. appeared in the lead ing editorial column of the Chicago RecordHerald. of the goth. inst, and we copg it here entire for the bur pose of calling attention to few pop ular errors. concerning Arizona.
 Arizona and New Mexico, the last remaining territories in our oid-estab- Hshed American sense, wait for ad- mission to the union as separate states. That they ought to come in together us one state is the belief of nearly all people who have studied the facts with care and without bias. That they will nqa consent to admis- sion together as q sing-e state as long as they have hope of separate admis- sion is only too well established by recent History.
 "Given the admission Of these two states. and the nation is doomed per manently to the evils which will arise
 
 or e'Eht states in the Rocky Mount ain and Great Desert reglon, all, s3 far az one can forecast bound to re main seanty in population, and hence, under our constitution. disproportIo7- a.eiy strong in their influence upon the election os 'he presidency, in tae I1I.er branch of the federal legisla- ture and upon. the adoption Of amend -.isnts to the e3nnti.ution-its=f. Such states are deliberately endowed by he nation. 50 far as il can endow them wfi the cbaTae srtstiCs ci 'rott' boroughs.' They are a peril for the future, and will be infinitely hard to get rid of in the end r tne necessity arises.
 And yet there seems nothing else to do today except to let the two states come in separately and com plete the roster. The lower house of congress has. undsr suspension Of the rules. unanimously passed Q bill for their admission, and the rest Of the procedure will apparently be followed and the work completed by this or the next congress. Ii is one of those casgs in which common sense hope lessly submits on the principle that bad business cannot be avoided and that 1t might as well be over and done with speee.'
 The Hecord-HoralG seems to think that it would be right to deprive the people of Arizona from the same state hood rights and privileges which were granted by the government to all other territories which have 6eeB granted statehood in the pasS-
 sArizona has today population of I75.oo0 while New Mexieo's population would no doubt double that Of Ari- zoua- This population is greater in both territories than was possessed by but very few territories at the time Of their admission. Illinois, Mis- souri. Kentucky. Mississippi. Kansas Nebraska and all the great states of the middle west and west were ad- mitted as states gill less population and less taxable wealth than that of Arizona at the present time.
 It is hard to understand upon what theory the Record-Herald arrives at the dpncusien Arizona as a state would be 'bound to remain scant in pr3gulation" If the editor of the Record-H Herald will post himself on the industrial conditions in Arizona ke will find that in no section Of the eonn- try is there a better prospect for the development Of rich resources. The government is now spending many millions fin the construction Of storage reservoirs for the irrigation of desert lands which alone should insure she doubling of our present population at the present time. The development of the mining industry in Arizona was never so promising for the future as now; this week we had an object les son of the growth Of Arizona when more than one hundred men stood in line in the new rnini-s camp of Court