Arizona republican., 1910-03-17
CITES NEVADA's EXAMPLE.
He Thinks "25 Mile Limit" Measure Will Not Be come a Law and Phoenix May Continue to Quench Her Thirst

John M TIlurztSu. former United =<tstes -cuetyr from the state of NesrasEz. and now one O( the IessI rlZhts gF %e-g York Crrr- arrived in Tsfss-euIE ve4te-day zs the chief c0iIn- zlT ggr Frsncfs Rudolf Mayer. head sC fs,s south GiIz land and irrigation lg15e-r In q hearing to be held be- fore tos land office March =. he 1-Ill esGearOr rg strsighten out the tsnsie f,etvee1l 1lr- Mayer and his sssOciates and tn- Southwestern Fruit and ITTi- z,zffDn company. which lays claim t0 similar water rights with tine hackers yf r/ Giis project
 The former senator was accOnpan- jed by the Hon. Charles Mayer prominent lawyer Of NeH York. UhO is also interested with his sons. Francis and Carlos in the Gils pro Ject. Col. r. H wOOdworth whO vas the instigator Of the original project tO build a reservoir on the South Gils above Sentinel. has been here for several days. Colonel Wood worth started a company in 1887 and about s3O0.0e0 was spent on the
 project which then lapsed for some ycars. but was revived last year by
 
 Paris and the heavy investments of three banking concerns of France in the undertaking
 Mir ThurstOn continues actively in- terested in. and well informed on po- litical matters. He was asked last night for his opinion on the measure now in congress. which the people or the more populous districts of Arizona fear will deprive them of their morn- ing eye-openers and their evening night caps He does not seem to think that Arizona need fear that congress will deprive her of the means of quenching her thirst just be- cause there are so many Indian res ervations dotted across her territory. He said:
 Tt has been suggested to me since my arrival in Arizona that the state hood bill contained some provision prohibiting the sale of liquor within a distance of twenty-five miles of an Indian reservation. This is a mis- take: the statehood bill does not at tempt in any way to bind the people of the new states in the matter 0f the regulation of their own local af- fairs. as to the sale of liquor. or otherwise.
 The proposed legislation referred to is q separate bill that passed the sen ate. and is pending in the house com mittee. It is separtse measure, ap- plying in general terms to the sale of liquor in the vicinity of Indian reservations. and when it was intro duced and considered by the house committee the application of it to the situation in these two territories on their becoming states. was evidently not thought of.
 Public attention having been called to it. I think it is most improbable that any such legislation can go through Of course the proposition to keep the Indians from getting liquor appeals to the members of congress. and undoubtedly influenced their action on this measure. Now that attention is called to the op- eration of such bill in Arizona and New Mexico. 1 feel certain congress will let this legislation lie over and permit the new states when they come into the union to regulate their own matters of this kind.'
 In regard to statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. Mir Thurston said:
 Ever since Nevada was brought into the union and remained with very small population. and had equal representation in the senate of the United States with such great com monwealths as New York and Penn sylvania there has been a great deal of opposition to bringing in any more western states with what is consider ed in the east as an inadequate population and with interests. as they claim. not sufficiently developed to justify statehood.
 Tn many important matters of leg islation we always find the western people differing somewhat as to meas ures with eastern people, and this is particularly noticeable on the tariff question. It has been very strongly shown in the last special session of congress in considering the tariff bill. that there is a good deal of diversity of opinion on the interests affected by tariff.
 New England and the middle states have been largely dependent on a protective system covering their own manufactured products. and have been little inclined to shape tariff legis- lation for this, without exactly re- garding the particular things covered by tariff which more immediately affects the western states. And on