The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1910-09-17
BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO. ARi-
IONA.
Col. Pickett Addresses the HassaY-
ampa Club.

recent Hassayampa banquet in Los
Angeles, according to the press of the
Angel City. won the admiration of
those who heard him We reproduce
the speech as reproduced in Los An
geles press. 1t is good reading as fol :
lows:
L 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 to
the new state of Arizona.
The star of Arizona statehood has
already risen above the eastern hor-
izon and by the time we meet here
to celebrate our next annual meeting
it will have asce nded 10 the zsnith of
its glory, and by its great brillancy,
it will have bedim med tie brightne IS
of al of the other forty six stars upon
the f.g of the nati5n
"The state. of A. 'izona. although
next to the youngest in the Union,
will lead all other states in many re-
spects, in too many to be pointed out
in ten minutes asst sned me tonie hit,
SO l shall have to content myself in
referring to only few.
1T will be the greatest copper pro-
ducing state of the nation, it will con
tinue to lead all other states in the
prod Of copper, as it has been
doing for the last several years with
the exception of one year. In Cochise
one company that lead other com
panies in the United States in the
production Of copper; it paid six nil
lions in dividends; this. remember, was
in the county of which the historic
Tom bstone is the county seat. and
around which the whole county re
wolves. Go a little to the north of
Cochise and you will find Olifton and
Morenci that have produced their
many millions In copper and are still
prsducing. Go west from there to
Globe, and you find the largest copper
area in the new state of Arizona, aud
while yet in its infancy it is predicted
oy those well versed in the product
of copper, that in a dozen years it will
not only be the largest copper pro
ducing 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
U nited Verde. with its twenty four
millions to its credit, the largest single
copper mine perhaps in the world.
While in the northern part of the
state, you will find Mohave county wit
it's Gold Roads and Tom Reed gold
mines and to the south of it, Yuma
with its Northern Star mine
these two counties extending from the
boundary of : Utah to the
northern boundary of the repu bile of
Mexico, form the golden axle around
which the new state of Arizona re-
wolves.
"It has the largest artificial res |
ervoir in the world. the great Roose
velt dan that will irrigate more than
200. 900 acres of the great Salt River
valley, a valley which in richness is
by the world famous
valley of the Nile. The Laguna dam
On the Colorado river that will irri-
gate similar number of acres of |
Arizona's rich alluvial soil. which will |
furnish thousands of the crowded east. |
fThe citizenship of the state of Ar
iona 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 pat
riotic citizens than the state of ArI-
zona. Wherever you fnd an Arizon-
an, you find patriotism oozing out of
his every pore. When the Spanish |
war cloud began to hover over the |
n alton, it was Ariz ona that furn ished !
the first volunteer company ready for
duty; it was Arizona that furnished |
the first volunteers for that regiment |
famous throughout the world known |