Arizona republican., 1914-12-13
THE MINES OF ARIZONA

too much for Prof F. Phillips head
of the Texas state bureau of eco
monte geology, who injected a great
deal of spicy humor into his remarks
and put the whole convention into
spasms of laughter and by the time
he got through you would have
thought that Michigan was an old
disused copper kettle. His salient
points on both Texas and Arizona
were too good for our readers to
lose, so herewith repeat them. His
enumeration of Texas resources were
las follows:
Enough iron ore to keep a thous
and smelters going a thousand years
Enough coal TO burn the world to
cinder.
Enough natural gas to illuminate
the universe
Enough oil TO grease the wheels Of
the gods and lubricate the mills OF
the gods"
His remarks concerning Arizona
were equally apt and are embodied
in the following:
Enough gold and silver to pay the
national debt.
Enough copper to plate the sun
moon and stars.
Enough lead to weight down 8
Kansas cyclone.
Enough natural beauty to make
! the creator stand in awe of his owl
work
DR. Phillips has a wonderful funt
of knowledge especially pertaining Il
his own state He at one time talked
silver deposits of Texas He named
every one of them, gave the exac
location, geological formation, min
eralogical combination, the average
of quicksilver contents, the amour
of work and owners name of every
group of claims. Surely cleve
feat of memory.
! On Tuesday the main topic unde
discussion was that of taxation Hon
Thomas E. Campbell opened the dis
cusson but he was a great disap
pointment He commenced will
nothing and finisehd with less. If h
did know anything of his subject h
carefully hid the fact No one woul'
have patented his ideas even if h
had expressed them. If he show
the same brilliancy on the tax com
mission, then all the turnips in tn
VALLEY will turn to brilliant diamonds
and all the farmers in the valley vii
become immensely wealthy Come
Tom. we expect more of you thai
this
AS regards the subject of minin
taxation, the general bent appears /
make it more complicated and tangl
ed and instead of elucidation NOR
points, ways and means are suggest
ed of taxing than ever. Before an
well defined plan can be established
it seems that all those puzzling way
of taxation should be set aside an
the two most fundamental princi
pies established as a basis that q
net income 1t really appears tina
the further this point is got ava
from, the more difficult will tn
problem become.
The evening session was devoted t
the necessity of organization and il
importance was set forth by Secre
taries Callbreath and Wolcott. TheI
is very little question Of organZatio
being an absolute necessity for Ar
IONA So far We have had no unit
Of purpose; we have been a hous
divided against itself and mining IN
terests have suffered accordingly.
is surely time for us to awake an
be up and doing and protest emphat
icallv' against some of the freak an
, insane laws levelled at mining an
the only way to do this is throug
organization and as one speaker r,
: marked at the meeting, That II
mining industry gets much less a
from the federal government tina
the agricultural industry. for the res
son that the farmers have organize
and have worked for what they haI
got. The miners have been lax
this respect. However. there are re-
sons for this: the farmers haven
such fool laws enacted against the
, as the mines have. Some of OF
lawmakers, both in the states and /
the capitol have an alteration ar
frame laws that are deterrent to SUI
cessful and legitimate mining. NJ
Walter Douglas read a most INTEL
gent and broad paper upon legisls
ton in Arizona However he was