Bisbee daily review., 1910-11-20
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
 OF ARIZONA SET FORTH

As to northern Arzona. 1t possesse.
 in the Moso.lon pine forest what is
 said u be the largest cont nuou'
 area of virg n timber in the United
 States with an average width of $ X 1 ty niles, containing some of tho l finest and largest specimens of ths D ne family on the cont nent. Walnuts ! oaks, juniper, and cedar cover thu princlp pal mountain ranges. SycamorS
 ash. walnut, maple, willow and cotton wood grow along the water courses
 Of course there are some who com plan about Arizona and gye it . black eye. It would indeed be strange If there were no "kickers." First there is the climate. It is true that n the middle of summer the ther
 mometer runs along daily above the 100 degree mark, but the air is so , dry that the sensible temperature is far less than it Is in the Atlantic Coast cities during the summer months. A temperature of 11S degrees
 st Yuma is less oppressive than one
 of 9S degrees in New York. Persrira.
 ton is easy. and this s great ad-
 vantage to health, cooling the body by evaporation and eli minating worn
 out waste material through the pores.
 The air Is full of electro ty and out s de of the irrigated regions is ab
 solutely pure. When an animal d ;es
 in the mesas its body does not turn
 to corruption but dr es up and blows
 away. A ride over the mesas of Ari-
 zona ss as exhflaratng as goblet of champagne. When a person dies there who is less than a hundred years of age the cause may be at tributed to one of two things-wh g.
 key or lead. It is no wonder that con- sumptives are beg nnfng to frequent the territory. They make a mistake
 however. in gong to Phcenix. with its irrasating ditches, and consequent moisture They should seek the hrid plains, the foothills, or the mountains.
 Oh. yes, there gre, of course, rer. ties in Arizona. If you are. afraid of bugs you would, perhaps, better stay away, although the microbes n the air of a large city are a thousand mfnt" in Arizona These include tar antulas. cent;pedes. scorpions, rattle snakes. giia monsters and n northern Arizo1a the hydropaobia skunk, which has an unpleasant hablt of biting people cn the nose when they nlr-s. l. ed by cowboys than the rattle snake. who is a gentleman, and gves yon a far warning. may add that I on- ly saw two or three rattle snakes during the five years I was in Ar. zoual having my hand within a foot of one coded to spring w1hie was gathering Indian relics, As for taran- tulaa my wife, who spend the same period Of time in the sunkisSed land her first tarantula after returning to Los Angeles. It was across Alameda street. with in a few blocks of the center of the city.
 When I was in Arizona the main interests were silver minng and eat tie aising- Since then silver has sven place to copper, and cattle raise ing is rapidly giving way u horticu,- tuTe. The construction of the great Roosevelt dam marks the beginn ng Of a new era for Arizona The Salt River valley has already begun to compete with Les Angeles in "a sing alfalfa and dec1duous fruits and oranges and mandates. This. after all, is only going back to ancient history. Some of the modern canals in centrhl Arizona follow the exact lines of ancient water ways used hundreds or thousands of years ago by the early inhabitants, who disappeared in such mysterious manner
 In concluding this chapter I quote the following deserved tribute to the hardy pioneer of Arizona. who blaz- ed the way fer the present state. It was written by Charles A. Shsbell, a pioneer Arizonan. who went to Tucson in 1862. who was one of the early day sheriffs and served several terms as county recorder of Pima county also holding other offices
 My thoughts insrncdvely surge back to the old times when our days were days, of watching and our nights seldom brought us rest. It trave's back and the mAestones are the bloody graves of innumerable friends and companions who fe1 by the mer- lclless hand of the Apache Their names will now have no more s'gn'fi- canoe to the world than th'se oa the headstones in the cemetery of a strange land. bu | the pioneer who shared theer hardships and lived to glory in ther memory, each one fa- miliar name will reveal the stirr ng scenes they shared. In those days we were band of brothers. The strife for honor, p7sitAon and wea'th carried little weight with us Fr'endshin meant an that the word impi' 'es: and even yet. though selfish career may, seemingly. drive us apart yet. when the occasion requires. the bond of