Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01

the United States are to be found in
this one little section. More than 1000
baby ostriches of last years batch are
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 ma
ture ostrich gives a pound of feathers
at each plucking. The annual sale of
feathers from each bird amounts to
about $37. Governor Sloan states that
the business of ostrich growing seems
capable of indefinite expansion in all
the valleys located like the Salt River
region. and that the worlds principal
supply of plumes for miladyS bonnets
may yet come from Arizona.
The territory of Arizona will make
no mean state in point of size. In fact,
only the states of Texas, California
and Montana of those now in the Union
are larger. If Wisconsin and Michigan
were united into one state it would be
no larger than Arizona, and Iowa and
Illinois 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 soufh-
western empire.
Utah is trying to get possession Of a
part of Arizona. The Grand canyon eff
fectively cuts off the northern part of
the territory, so that it is valuable only
as a grazing country and region of
indevel0pcd wealth. Recently the legis-
lature of Utah passed a memorial TO
congress in which it was set forth that
this region is owned principally by
Utah people; that the territory of Ari-
zona cannot get across the Grand can
yon to govern it; 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 ana
back to Arizona when the Utah as
SCISSOR would list them. Asserting that
Arizona gets no benefits from this
country, and that it is physically part
and parcel of Utah, though legally be-
longing to Arizona, it is asked that the
Grand canyon be made the boundary
But congress is not in mood to sub
tract anything from Arizona, and the
memorial of the Utah legislature will
find a convenient pigeonhole in which
to repose.E
1t 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 it. Major PoWel
plucks up Mount Washington and hurls
it 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 descrip-
tion. tucks away the Yosemite in a
side gorge and calls it lost. Then he
brings back Babylon and its hanging
gardens, and declares their beauty to
be mere LONELINESS as compared with
. ,,f tfff. fH1i,IT-i do. He can
only find fit comparison by peering
into the future and conjuring up VS.
ions of the New Jerusalem.
Neteorite 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 inter-
est. So is the trail worn deep in ada
mantine rock by the mOccasined feet of
prehistoric races. telling a 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 Tor
countless generations.
Arizona will start out as state with
a population of about 100000. The
actual present day values of the ter
ritory are estimated at about half
billion dollars. 1t has some sixty banks,
every one of which is SAID 10 De pros
pering. There is much promise that
the history of Southern California will
be repeated. In fact. many of the peo-
ple who helped to transform Southern
California into a land of wealth are
now going into the Yuma region on ac-
count 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 il visits the camps of tourists
and cowboys. and sometimes it. will
attempt to eat the toe, or nose or ear
of a. sleeper. It's bite is followed al
most invariably by a fatal attack of
rabies The prairie dog abounds, and
as a tempting morsel of food it is to
the Arizona Indian what the 'possum
is to the southern negro The Indian
has a novel way of capturing the nim-
BILE prairie dog. A small mirror is
placed near the mouth of its hole.
When his dogship comes out the image
is taken for an intruder, and imme-
diately there starts a one-sded fight.
While the dog engages in this unusual
battle, the Indian creeps into close
range and transfxes him with an ar
row, which prevents the little animal
from falling back into its hole.
Tomorrow-New Mexico.