Arizona republican., 1914-06-25

Seldom is finer tribute paid to any city than that paid Phoenix in the last edition of Sunset Magazine. Walter Woehlke, the writer of the Pulse of the. West" articles, contributes the fol- lowing beats" to the current boost literature:
 The Evolution of Arizona.
 The old order is changing in Arizo- na. No longer is the cowboy undis- puted waster of the swinging sage brush plains-except in the Western Drama" of the nickle shows. He has discarded his gun, signed the pledge and is feeding alfalfa to his steers just like the plain Kansas farmer. Tucson. once upon a time a rollicking. hic coughing oasis of the cattlemen, has turned it's earnest attention to the peaceful chicken and it's products. eel ebrating Egg Day. with vim and de- vout fevor to aid the cause of home in dustry. So far removed from the old en days is modern Tucson that it en- listed the services of a noted archaeol- ogist and historian for the great pa geant of the Pubelo Indians to be held this fall. Phoenix is living up to it's name. In the fact of the international business depression it continued throughout the winter and spring to put up more new buildings than any city of it's size in the west Part of it's radiant prosperity was drawn from the broad acres of the Salt river val I ley, from the government irrigation enterprise which has the smallest farm unit and the highest yield of all | the Reclamation Service projects The broadest smile on the Phoenix face is due, however, to the fact that copper | has steadfastly refused to drop below | thirteen and half cents per pound. When every copper mineWorks full crews in three eight hour shifts. when i new millions in capital are steadily | flowing into the development of the l porphyry mines. the greatest copper state in the Union can well afford to l compose it's features in horizontal rather than in vertical lines.
 l Still, the old-time flavor has not en- l tirely departed from the picturesque | state. In a recent roundup near Met = calf one stockman shot and killed an- I other according to the time -honored code even though the milling herd con- sisted of nannygOats instead of COWS. l Bands of wild horses still roam the high plateau in the wild northern re- zion along the rim of the Colorado's | wondrous chasm. but even there the | footsteps of modern progress are vis- 1 ible. The old game of selling the wild horses has been killed. No longer will | a procession of innocent purchasers pay cash down, come out to round UT the bands of branded equines shier
 wilder and fleeter than deer and depar, richer In experience only. Forty-tWt
 indictments found by an unromantic federal grand jury have spoiled the
 lucrative sport.
 In the good old days of Geronimo
 and his painted fiends it was the own.
 CT of the horses who suffered by tn,
 raids; in modern Arizona the publit
 has to be protected against the horse fowners' wiles. and the descendants O
 the fierce Apaches are squattin,
 peacefully beneath cotton plants scalp
 ing bolls instead of palefaces.
 AS to copper, these are the Geolog
 cal Survey figures giving the produc
 tion for 1913: Arizona 04,27S, ,00
 pounds: Montana. 2S5, 5,719000 pounds
 Michigan. 155,715,000 and Utah, 14S.
 057,000 pounds. Not only has singl
 state passed the 400 mllion-po
 mark. but next year Utah will hay
 passed Michigan. and the three lead
 CTS among the copper producing state
 will all be in the Rocky mountain re
 zion.