Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-05

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The signing by President Taft OF the
| bill giving statehood to Arizona and
| New Mexico brings the United States
roster to forty-eight commemorative.
The signing of the bill was made an
interesting function at the White
House. The delegates to congress
from the territories, William II. An
drews of New Mexico and Ralph 81.
Cameron of Arizona, were present, as
well as Senator Beverage and other
friends Of separate statehood.
A pen made Of New Mexico copper
and Arizona gold failed to show up in
time to be used, but Postmaster Cen
eral Hitchcock had a gold pen. Mr..
Taft had signed William H." to the
statehood bill when "BulT' Andrews
produced quill pen, and the president
wrote Taft" with that and then
switched back to the Hitchcock pen to
write the approval and date.
Under the bill New Mexico and Ar1-
iona cannot be admitted to the Union
until next spring. The territories, how
ever, can go ahead this summer and
elect delegates to constitutional con-
ventions. The constitutions will be
sent to the people of the territories on
referendum and then Will go to con-
gress and the president for their ap-
proval. Even if congress fails to act
on the constitutions the states will be
admitted automatically sixty days aft
er March 4 next.
One Democratic, Other Republican.
The political aspect of the new states
has long been figured upon, and Arizo-
ma is regarded as normally Democrat
&c and New Mexico solidly Republican,
though both give small pluralities.
Delegate Cameron is the first Repub-
lican TO be sent to congress by Arizona
in more than twenty years. New Mex
leo. however, regularly returns Repub-
licans
New Mexico has already summoned
a constitutional convention and antic-
ipates no delay, as the Republican par
ty of the territory is very conservative
and energetically opposed to socialistic
ideas. The constitution is likely to be
conservative and is sure to be one that
will meet President Taft's a prevail.
1t is proposed to have the constitution
adopted by the people in time to lay it
before congress in December. New
Mexico will be Republican by 5000 to
10000 in Il total vote Of 10000.
Santa Fe, the capital of New Next
co, is known as the oldest city in the
United States and has Il population of
more than 5000. In this latter re-
spect it resembles the Arizona capital,
Phoenix
New Mexico is a land of broad
ranges, where hundreds of thousands
of cattle and countless flocks of sheep
browse, where fields of grain wave in
the healthful breeze, where orchard
trees bend under their weight of fruits
and where the rocks lay bare veins of
precious metals. Here may be found
as profitable large ranches as any in
the country and innumerable small ag-
gregations Of cultivated acres whose
owners sit comfortably upon shaded
verandas while their servants till the
field.
Scattered by the way are sleepy
Mexican villages, ancient Indian pueb-
los, still inhabited, and those older
abandoned ruins which give to the re-
gion its peculiar atmosphere of mys-
terry.
Resources Unlimited.
Arizona is only a trifie smaller in
area and population than New Mex
leo and exceeds in area the following
ten states combined: Rhode Island,
al
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Yer
mont. Maryland. West Virginia and
South Carolina.
Its resources are unlimited, and its
mountains are the repositories of gold,
silver, copper, lead, onyx. marble and
precious stones. It contains nearly.
100000 acres of grazing land, much
Of which is a perpetual pasture, I'M
known to frost or snow, on which are
maintained vast herds OF stock.
Its valleys comprise an area Of more
than 100000 acres of land. which.
when brought under cultivation. give
marvellous returns in grain. fruits and
other products of the soil. there being
in the southern part eleven months Of
growth and in some sections per-
petual season of seedtime and harvest,
yielding annually the maximum OF the
soils productive power. 1t contains
the largest unbroken forepT Goa in the
United States Il
The worlds most successful medi-
cine for bowel complaints is Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy. 1t has relieved more
pain and suffering, and saved more
lives than any other medicine in use.
Invaluable for children and adults.
Sold by all druggists.