The copper era., 1910-09-09
Col. Pickett's Tribute to the New State.

Hassayampa banquet in Los Angeles
Thursday, according to the press of
the Angel City, won the laurels and
and admiration of those who heard
him. We reproduce the speech as
printed in the Los Angeles press. 1t
is good reading and is as follows:
81 know of no higher compliment
that could be paid an Arizonan or one
that is better calculated to stir his
enthusiasm and patriotism than to be
called upon to respond to the toast
of the new state of Arizona.
"The star of Arizona Statehood has
already arisen above the eastern
horizon and by the time we meet here
to celebrate our next annual meeting
it will have assembled to the zenith of
its glory, and by its great brilliancy,
it will have bedimued the brightness
of all of the other forty-six stars upon
the flag of the Nation.
"The state of Arizona although
next to the youngest in the Union will
lead all other states in many respects,
in too many to be pointed out in the
ten minutes assigned me so shall
have to content myself in referring
to only a,few.
SIT will be the greatest copper
producing state of the nation, it will
continue to lead all other states in
the production of copper, as it has
been doing for the last several years
with the exception of one year. In
Cochise County at Bisbee, last year
there was one company that lead all
other companies in the United States
in the production of copper; it paid
six millions in dividends; this remem-
Der was in the County of which the
Historic Tombstone is the county
seat, and around which the whole
county revolves. Go little to the
north of Cochise and you find Clifton
and Morenci that haye produced
their many millions in copper and are
still producing. Go west from there
to Globe, and you find the largest
copper area in the new State of Ari-
IONA, and while yet in its infancy it
is predicted by those well versed in
the production of copper, that in a
dozen years it will not only be the
largest copper producing section in
the state of Arizona, but perhaps in
the world. Go from there to the
northern part of the New state to
jerome, where you will find the
United Verde, with its twenty-four
millions to it's credit, the largest
single copper mine perhaps in the
world. While in the Northern part
of the State, you will find Mohave
County with its Gold Roads and Tom
Reed gold mines and to the South of
it, Yuma County with its North Star
mine, these two Counties extending
frUm the Southern boundary of Utah
to the Northern boundary of the Re-
public of Mexico, form the golden
axle around which the new State of
Arizona revolves.
SIT has the largest artificial re-
servoir in the world, the great
Roosevelt Dam, that will irrigate more
than two hundred thousand acres of
the great Salt River Valley, a valley
which in richness is un surpassed by
the world famous valley CT the Nile.
The Lagupa Dam on the Colorado
river that will irrigate a similar num-
Der of acres of Arizona's rich alluvial
soil which will furnish thousands of
homes for the homeseeker of the
crowded east.
THE citizenship of the state of
Arizona is excelled by no state in the
union, we have more fair women and
brave men to the square foot than
any spot on this earth. No state ever
did, or ever will have more patriotic
citizens than the State of Arizona.
Wherever you find an Arizonan, you
find patriotism oozing out of his every
pore. When the Spanish war cloud
began to hover over the nation, it
was Arizona that furnished the first
volunteer company ready for duty: it
was Arizona that furnished the first
volunteers for that regiment famous
throughs out the world known as the
Rough Riders commanded by the
gallant Roosevelt; they were the first
to get into battle and the first to win
a victory. They were the first up
San Juan Hill in that memorable
charge, forced the Spanish army to
capitulate, and covered themselves
with glory, and made a president of
the United States. Arizona will be one
of the largest, one of the most
resourceful, one of the most attractive
ell the-states -in the -nnion,- and
when the forty-seventh star represent
ing the State of Arizona, is added to
the flag of the nation, it will be one
of the most brilliant in the gallexy
that constitutes that flag"
"Land of the New State of Arizona.
Imperial land,
How proud thy mountains rise.
How sweet thy scenes on every hand,
How fair thy covering skies.
But not for this, Oh. not for these.
l love thy plaius to roam.