Arizona republican., 1911-11-13
"How to Restore Prosperity"

mates are that more than five thou
sand people heard the speakers
Very evidently the people of Tucson
like the people of other communities
are deeply interested in the issues OF
this campaign.
The republican candidates most in
diligently dwelt upon the problem
which is paramount to all other
questions in this campaign: How
to restore prosperity in Arizona"
The residents of Phoenix do not
appreciate, as do the residents of
other communities, that the restora-
ton of prosperity in Arizona has be-
come a question of overshadowing
Importance. No community prospers
unless its laboring population is en-
ployed and there is a steady demand
for labor Phoenix, which has been
building two houses for every work
ing day during the past twelve
months. is so prosperous that there
is here only a slight realization of
the depression which exists in many
parts of the territory.
Nearly everywhere except in Phoe-
nix and the Salt River valley, there
is a slack demand for labor
The few big. fully developed mines
they are doing it by working the ore
hitherto developed. They are not
doing much new development work
Consequently they are not employing
any extra men. In Bisbee, Clifton,
Morenci, Globe and Jerome there has
been a marked decrease in popula-
ton during the past year.
Not only are the payrolls short by
approximately thirty per cent, but in
some of these great camps the total
population has decreased in still
greater proportion. In Globe. for ex-
ample, where three years ago there
were more than $1,000 people, there
are today scarcely 5000.
Not only are the big, well de-
veloped mines employing fewer men,
but there is little employment for
men in the development of new
Here, indeed. is where
the shoe pinches. To a very large ex-
tent capital has ceased to come into
Arizona.
Granting that the comparatively
low price of copper accounts for part
Of the existing depression. it cannot
be truthfully said that it accounts
Tor the main part of it. For at
present prices the developed copper
mines are, as we have already point
I'd out, paying satisfactory dividends.
It is acknowledged by everybody |
hat there are more attractive copper
properties undeveloped in Arizona |
han anywhere else in the world.
gold properties and I'M
developed gold districts strongly in
lite capital
Why is it that money is no longer
agerly seeking investment in Arizo
Ia?
We have the potential resources, as
vas set forth in the great resources
dition" of The Republican on Novem-
er o, LOT the CEtdllOil VI d NdSl
realth in Arizona Idle capital was
ever so abundant in the east.
Why is capital laggard in seeking
o develop these resources which
.rizona so attractively shows?
Among intelligent men who have
ad occasion to learn the reason why.
here is but one answer: Just at Is
resent, capital is afraid to come in
D Arizona Capital is afraid to come, II
ecause it believes that Arizona is
ii
Every intelligent man knows that
ne modern method of doing business T
through a partnership of many in
estors who seek for mutual protec-
on and profit by joining them t
elves in a corporation.
But the word has gone out to the '
-orld that "AriZona is hostile to