El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-14
Former Governor OF the State Calls Attention
to the Wonderful Richness Of the New
State, Unfamiliar to the Traveller,
Who Sees Only the Desert
On Railway Main Lines.
Z By JOS. G. Kibbey, Ex-Governor Of Arizona.)

II SIIONA does not readily yield her
- secrets to the casual observer
and hasty view Is almost sure
70 impress a false notion Of it upon the
careless one. A glance at any map pre-
pared from official data graphically
discloses that some natural conditions
must obtain here that do not elsewhere
In the southwest Arizona, as q. part Of
that extent Of country which we usU-
ally designate as the southwest was
early explored by the Spanish-upOn
the independence Of Mexico it was
part Of that republic. and in 1S49 and
1853 became a part of the territory Of
the United States by cession from Mex
leo. At the time Of the cession, however
there was little, OF practically no set
element of that part Of the ceded ter
ritory now included within the bOun-
daries Of arizona
Arizona stood almost isolated IN Its
desolate solitude until the recent years
Of American enterprise and hardihood;
and the earlier estimate Of Arizona IS
the one yet too commonly accepted by
those who have not given It close at
tention. And the mere wayfarer may
feel himself justified IN this estimate
as he journeys across the broad extent
Of its territory, for to him the desert 4
is almost all that presents itself to 4
his view as he hurries across its con {
fines. When the transconunental rail- Z
ways thar traverse the territory were /
built their projectors 1t seems, regard (
ed Arizona as a mere obstruction TO /
the passage from the east and middle
west TO the Pacific TO be got over by
Ia
without any reEard whatever TO the
possibility Of Arizona, or OF any part
Of it, ever contributing anything 70
them In the way Of traffic. Hence Il
viii be obserFed fthat practically on I.
neither OF the two transcOntinenta1
lines, the santa Fe and the southern
Pacific, was there a single point that
was either the point OF or-sln or the
destination of any traffic. and
that condition even TO this day largely
prevails
Neither the Southern Pacific nor the
Santa Fe pass by OF through q. single
productive mining OF agricultural set
tlement within the territory ElaEstaII,
" llliams, and other towns whose chief
Industry IS the lumber business are not
exceptions to the rule, for they are To-
Gated on the railroad for the sake Of
the transportation 1acilues, even
though those may not In other respects
have been the most convenient lOca-
tons for the manufacture Of lumber.
1t Is not strange, then, that the tray
bier through the territory should gan I
so little knowledge Of the vast re-
sources Of Arizona and the extent Of
their Development
Since the construction Of the main
ines Of the transcOntiuental roads,
branch roads have been constructed TO
-ne points q proaucJloni as. az Lords
burg, to Clltons 1lorenci and the Dun
saD country az Bowie, 10 the upper 3
Illa agricultural settlements and 10 :
Slobe and that immensely productive I
b. nran-1 :" Ter a. IN IDe1
Lnd that mining section; at Benson, to ( :
8isbee, Douglas. AOgales and that rich I :
country; at Tucson to neighbOring 7
mining districts at Red Rock, to the r
Silver Bell mining district; at Mari
.Opa, 70 the salt. River valley and the !
apidly developing mining regions on +
ne Clla; AZ ASH t OK, to Prescott Je- S
ONE congress, Wickenbergs Crown q
Alngs the BradshaWs, and on out to- p
yard the Colorado river through the f
ich mineral section I'm northern Mari
Opa and Yuma counties; at Flagstaff Z +
nd Williams, lumber roads out to the / r
Orests; and at Kingman, to rich min [ +
ng sections in that vicinity. 2
Big Railroad Earnings. n
While the transcontinentaI roads p
rlglnally Ignored the possibilities OF %
roIlIaDle traIIic within the territory, 2
mas since developed that one OF them Il
5porls a larger net earning per mile a
Its road in Arizona. than in CalifOr- a
Ia The resources Of Arizona are an I "
ealing 10 the railroads as a profitable
ED for construction and operation. r,
Notwithstanding that to the mere way 3
airing observer the territory seems Ii
srren- and des0late. -
Mining constitutes q great part Of n
he story Of the present DEVELOPMENT Il
Arizona but not all OF Il, for Arf- r
INA Is a territory Of varied resources z b
In 1899 the last available figures the 4 r
reduction Of copper in the territory I p
as valued in refund numbers at $40 I M
10000 and Of gold $4,000 ounces and In
liver $4,000 ounces. The fdes r~a ~
lils throughout the eastern states that nj
ming IS IN any given locality merely "