Bisbee daily review., 1910-07-03

NOW mat statenOOo Is an dSsureo
fact, and her hong and stubborn fight
has been won. Arizona takes her
rightfui place as a commonwealth OF
the great Republic and her star now
shines In the old flag.
Much injustice has been done the
new state In Withholding from her
Tor so hong this tardy recognition of
her fitness. but she torgets all this
now. her eyes are looking forward
and her thoughts, her aspirations and
her hopes are all of the Future and
the Past is as a tale that has been
told.
ARd yet Arizona has nothing in her
past that she would alter. nothing
that she would forget There is no
page in her history as a territory
that she has cause to blush for, or
that she would have erased.
Her early settlers. her pioneers.
were men of action. men of achieve
ment. men who wore the red badge
OF courage. men who have reclaimed
and are reclaiming today state
destined 20 be among the very rich
est in the Union.
Situated in the center of one OF
Arizona's richest agricultural and
mining districts is the thriving town
of WILCOX.
To the west of her lies the Win
chester range Of mountains. TO the
east lies the Dos Cabezos and TO the
north and south stretches the rich
sulphur Springs valley.
In the early days Of her history
Wilcox was a cattle town and the
most important shipping point in the
southeastern section of the territory.
In those days the range was wide
and bounded only by the horizon.
Fences were unknown and unthought
of and cattle of many brands ranged
over tAe valley at will until the year
IL roundup. when Wilcox added TO
her wealth in proportion to their in
crease.
Today these conditions are in a
measure changed. With the ntrodue-
ton OF the gasoline engine and the
knowledge that through the length
and breadth of the valley an mex
haustible supply of water lay within
easy pumping distance of the surface
there came about a new order OF
affairs. new modus vivendi. The
homesteader and the rancher came
and with him same the pumping
plant. the irrigation system. modern
methods of farming and the ineyita-
BILE but necessary fence.
There may be some who regret
this new condition and long for the
good, old cattle days when the
range was free and unbounded. but
on the whole Wilcox rejOices in the
change and this new order which
has Increased the wealth tenfold Of
The country lying around and in the
same ratio has added 10 her business
and her importance as a supply cen
ire until today as one Of her citizens
said with pardonable pride. "she is
doing as much business as any town
ten times her size in the United
States.''
The claim that the water supply
lying under the valley is inexhausIi-
bic is made advisedly and cannot
be disputed.
The Southern Pacific railroad has
had a pumping plant installed at
Wilcox for thirty years, and never
in all those years has there been any
noticeable diminution of the supply.
This we'll is down a depth of but
% feet and within four miles of the
town there is a pumping plant with
well 50 feet deep which discharges
SOC gallons of water per minute.
When one thinks of this great vol
ume OF water, and of the ease and
cheappess with which it can be OBJ
tanned and utilized on a soil wonder
fully rich and fertile, it begins to
dawn upon him what possibilities are
in store for this valley and he can
the better understand and sympa-
thize with the feeling of optimism
which fairly saturates the business
men OF Wilcox, and which voices
Itself in the humblest of her citi-
zens
As the day closes and the
sun sinks behind the western peaks
the scene from Wilcox is one OF
panoramic glory.
The rugged Dragons are siihouetted
against their background of flaming
sky IN lines that only the hand OF
the divine Sculptor could chisel and
in the east soft purple mist steals
over the Dos Cabezos, like incense
from censor swung by an unseen
hand. Slowly. almost impereeptibly.
the shadows cast by the canons and
guIches on her SCARED sides are
sOftened and blurred by the violet
mist creeping over her; the stars
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