Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-20

SutleS are so cledfly 1eflned--li IS
 rather enhanced by the fact that you , are expected to visit upon the v.'fy ing Views your minds may hold and to
 when the spoken word or written
 pase may give expression, Su"a care
 nl scrutiny that not one msy find
 favor except it breathe the spirit of
 the peoples rule.
 My charge is 10 an Of you. repub- licanS and democrats alike for l
 know you are all inspired by the
 same love of country and state. the
 same patriotism, the same lofty mo- tive for the sacrifice of time involved
 in your attendance here: but want
 10 say 10 the democratic members ut
 this legislative body. that upon yoir | shoulders rests the lions share of the 1 burden. You are the ones whose | pledges touched the Arizona chord Of ! human sympathy: you are the repre- 1 sentatiyes of the party which made and into whose charge and keeping 1 has been entrusted the constitution O' | our state. your overwhelming major | fly. expressive of the pedple's ap- | proNal of democratic achievement and | popular confidence in democratic sin | cerlty, affords you fun power to | erystallize into intelligent law the I peoples will: upon you and upon the l party whose cOlOTs you fly will be visited the peoples appreciation or | condemnation You can not shirk. | or evade. or minimize the responsi- ! bility you have assumed: nor. on the ] other hand, can the glory it is in your reach to win. be dimmed by the | soPhistries of cunning foes
 have perfect faith in your ability, your conscientiOusness and deter l imitation have entire confidence
 that you will carry your commissions back to the people of your respective counties discharged Of every item. promise you that you will find in me ready and an enthusiastic co-opera- tor--in some measure, l trust. an aid
 l-aboring thus in the common cause and for a common purpose venture the prediction that the conclusion of your labors will mark the beginning
 or an era of public hopefulness, con
 fidence and enthusiasm far exceeding
 the brightest dreams vouchsafed in
 the past to Arizonas optimistic, un-
 eonquerable pioneers.
 Condition of the State
 In natural resources and the posses
 sion of latent possibilities, Arizona is
 bounteOusly blessed. Her acres are
 broad and fertile, her mountains and
 streams rich with mineral wealth: her forests are well-nigh virgin: her skies are blue; her climate as of an other Italy; her balmy air beats health on it's never receding wave; her people are honest, hardy, self. reliant, and brave. Thus endowed, all things are possible 10 the forty-eighth state of the union. Whatever of ills there may be-industrial. financial or social-there is that wherewith 10 right them: and with all these assets to show against the liabilities of fast passing handicaps. [ feel justified in reporting to you that the condition { of the state is good
 Recent reports from almost all see ! tions bring the news of bOunteous ! rains with which to gladden. the | hearts of husbandmen, and remove ! the fear of a season Of drOuth from 1. the minds of the stoCkmen. The l metal markets of the world give i'm ! petus to one of ArizOna's greatest in l dustries by announcing the steadily I rising price of copper. a condition | which will doubtless remedy the l slight falling on. during the past l year, in the production of this min | eral which finds it's natural habitat !! in our wealth-laden hills. and oc- ] casiOn renewed activity on the part l Of pros pectors. developers and pro I mOters, and reawakened confidence 1 on the part of investors.
 r,la snf of he worlds greatest irrigation systems, ] insuring an abundant supply of life | giving water for the fertile acres Of | the Salt River valley; the approach | ing completion of another, of its i kind unparalleled in the union, giy- ing like assurance to the favored l farmers Of Yuma valley; the opening ! of the Parker Indian reservation and | the allotment and reclamation Of the | splendid body Of land included there | in; the promising prospect of Simi- ! lar development on a scale of great | magnitude in Pinal county; the de- yelopment Of artesian wells in San | Simon and Sulphur Springs valleys in the south. and Verde valley in the | north, and scores of other projects ] of greater or lesser magnitude, and l widely distributed over the state, Tor | the impending and storage of water, i combine to give certainty to the De- lief that Arizona will soon take her place as the chief agricultural sec | tion Of the union, and that her cities and towns. keeping pace with rural will grow and expand | and develop into mighty centers of population Ada 10 these proofs oi material prosperity, the fact that during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, three new banks Opencd their doors, and that the bureau Of vital statistics reports an increase or SSS in the birthrate of native Arizonans, including forty-seven pairs of twins and four sets of triplets, and you will not wonder that l am delighted to report that the state gives evidence of excelling in many directions and industries.
 As to the public institutions Of the state. I can only report in a general way. as it has not been possible for me 10 give 10 the various institutions, as vet. the critical examinations they should have. and concerning which shall have more 10 say hereafter. For such information as they afford, l