Arizona republican., 1911-11-25
MR. HUNTS PAPER HAS
 FloPPED FOR FAIR
Organ of Democratic Candidate Only Recently la..ded Splendid Work
 os Ralph Cameron.

The republicans promise many things to be done in the future by ther congressional candidates that might have been accomplished during the three years Delegate Cameron has been in congress" says the Douglas In- ternational. edited by George H. Kelly of the Kelly Press
 Mir. Cameron was kept pretty busy during the two and half years he was in congress undoing the harm done by Mark Smith during the twenty years he represented Arizona in the national legislature Cameron went to congress pledged to secure statehood for Ari- zona and he made good. While that fight was on he showed wisdom in re- training from raising other questions which might have clouded the issue.
 But busy as he was in the matter of making plain to his colleagues in congress that Arizona was entitled to statehood, he found time for other things as a glance at the record will show.
 Since taking his seat in congress Mir. Cameron introduced 506 bills and reso- mtions each of the importance to some citizen of Arizona and many of them of statewide importance. as for instance the statehood bill which was of supreme bill authorizing and ap-
 propriation of Sl00,000 for the con struction of permanent concrete brid8- es over the San Carlos and Gila rivers as parts of the territorial highway and Of interest to believers in good roads la bill encouraging the development or water on desert lands; d bill apprOpri- ating Sl50.O00 for the sinking of eS- perimentaI artisan wells throughout Arizona. with d view toward letermin- ing the location of artisan belts and the reclamation of thousands of acres Of land now desert and of which NJ: Hunts newspaper which is now fight ing MT Cameron, on May 21. 1910 said:
 Delegate Cameron's bill appropriat- ing one hundred and fifty thousand dol lars for the purpose of sinking eXperi- mental artisan wells in Sacramento and Hualpai valleys, in Mahove county and in other arid valleys in the terri tory of Arizona is a meritorious meas ure.
 What chance there may be of se- curing this insignificant sum from congress while it is running wild with its appropriations of hundreds of mil- lions for naval armament, is Very doubtful. but that does not alter the merit of MT. Cameron's proposal.
 This money would return to the people many fold. IL would make homes for thousands. It would populate des- erts now uninhabitable. or at best, habitable only under the most trying conditions. It would promote the arts of peace. and SOW blessings broadcast.
 That there is artesian water to he had in many of Arizona's interior val leys there is scarcely a doubt It has already been developed in some fav- ored localities. but those situations re- quiring more systematic and persis tent prospecting and the expenditure of considerable sums of money. are still dry and bid fair to remain so for years to come. unless some such as- sistance as that proposed in the Cam eron bill be secured.
 While all thoughts are turned upon statehood. and all discussion is directed toward the means of securing it, We suggest that it would be well for Ari- zona's boosters to get behind this lit tie artesian water bill with few tele- grams. letters. petitions and compre- hensive representations
 The foregoing are but few of the