El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-31
KNOCKING FOR STATEHOOD
By Frederic j.
Hoskin.
NetU Mexico, Land Of
Turquoise Sky.
Arizona, With It's Vast
Resources.

! now growing to maturity, and the best
/ Matching and growing records of South
/ Africa do not surpass those made by
/ the Salt river growers.
The feathers are among the finest in
the world, and the profits are large.
( The birds are plucked every eight
months, and mature ostrich gives a
pound of feathers at each plucking.
! The annual sale of feathers from each
| bird amounts to about S37- Gov. Sloan
| states that the business of ostrich
! growing seems capable OF indefinite ex-
| pansion IN all the valleys located like
/ the Salt river region, and that the
worlds principal supply of plumes for
milady's bonnets may yet come from
| Arizona
Embraces Large Territory.
The territory of Arizona will make
/ no mean state in point of size. In fact,
only the states of Texas, California and
I Montana, of those now in the union, are
/ larger. If Wisconsin and Michigan were
/ united into one state il would be no
( larger than Arizona, and Iowa and Iii
nois together are not greater in size.
| The New England states New Jersey,
Delaware Maryland. Virginia and West
Virginia might all be placed within
/ the confines of this great southwestern
empire.
/ Utah is trying to get possession of
| part of Arizona. The Grand canyon
/ effectively cuts off the northern part of
/ the territory, so that IT is valuable
only as a grazing country and a re-
gion of undeveloped wealth. Recently
| the legislature of Utah passed memo
rial TO congress in which it was set
forth that this region is Owned princi-
| pally by Utah people; that the terri
tory Of Arizona cannot get across the
Grand canyon to govern ii, and that
the cattle, sheep and horses grazed
there are owned by tax dodgers. who
drive their herds and flocks into Utah
when the Arizona assessor comes
around, and back to Arizona when the
Utah assessor would list them
Asserting that Arizona gets no bene-
fits from this country, and that II Is
physically part and parcel Of Utah,
though legally belonging 10 Arizona, 1t
is asked that the Grand canyon be
made the boundary But congress is
not in a mood to subtract anything
from Arizona, and the memorial of the
Utah legislature will find a convenient
pigeonhole in which TO repose.
Beauties of Grand Canyon.
It is useless TO attempt to describe
the splendors Of the Grand canyon
Every great American descriptive
writer has exhausted his vocabulary
in trying TO picture IL. Maj. Powell
plucks up Mount Washington and hurls
1t into the canyon, and 10, the waters
are unchecked; then, figuratively, he
throws in the Blue Ridge. and still the
raging Colorado goes its way
Charles Dudley Warner, wearying Of
description, tucks away the Yosemite
in side gorge and calls it lost Then
he brings back Babylon and it's hang
ing gardens, and declares their beauty
70 be mere nominees as compared
with the canyon OF the Colorado. He
can only find fit comparison by peer
ing into the future and eonjuring up
visions Of the New Jerusalem.
Meteorite mountain, with its crater a
mile across and a furlong deep. pre-
sumably made when some comets core
hit the earth, is ever an object of in
terest. So is the trail worn deep in
the adamantine rock by the moccasined
feet of prehistoric races, telling story
OF millions OF travellers before the age
of tradition The irrigation canals of
prehistoric races still may be traced by
deep worn burrows in solid rock, where
the quiet flowing waters ran on for
countless generations
Population of 100000.
Arizona Will start out as a state with
a population of about 100000 The
actual present day values of the terri
tory are estimated at about half bill
lion dollars Il has some 60 banks,
every one of which is said to be pros
pering.
There is much promise that the his
tory of southern California will be re-
peated In fact, many Of the people
who helped transform southern Cal1for-
MIA into land of wealth are now go
ing into the Yuma region on account
Of the opportunities that offer there
In the wild sections of Arizona there
is a peculiar little animal known as
the hydrOphobia skunk. In its quest
for food it visits the camps of tourists
and cowboys, and sometimes it viii
attempt to eat the toe, or nose, or ear
of a sleeper Its bite is followed al
most invariably by a fatal attack of
rabies.
The Prairie Dog.
The prairie dog abOundS, and as
tempting morsel Of food 1t is TO the
Arizona indian what the 'possum is to
the southern negro. The indian has a
novel way of capturing the nimbie
prairie dog. small mirror is placed
near the mouth of its hole When his
dogship comes out, the image is taken
for an intruder, and Immediately there |
starts a onesided fight While the dog !
engages in this unusual battle, the in |
dian creeps into close range and trans /
fixes him with shot which prevents |
the little animal from falling back into
its hole.
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