Weekly journal-miner., 1915-01-13
TIME FOR STATE
 TO ASSERT HERSELF
(From Saturdays DaiIy)

and Castle Hot Springs.
 During his absence he saw some what of a strenuous time, having met Secretary McAdoo, who was en route to open the San Diego Panama Pa cihc exposition, attended a meeting of the leading business men of the state at Tucson, and participated in the proceedings of the Arizona Chapter of the American Mining Congress at Phoenix, of which he was made vice governor.
 MT. Murphy is personal friend of Secretary McAdoo and had some important business with him con corning the future welfare of Arizona and Prescott in particular. He says that his interview with the distin- guished representative of President Wilson was of a very satisfactory nature, although it was impossible
 o obtain the consent of the secre-
 ary to return by the way of Arizona
 nd stop over for a few days in the state because he had to go from San Diego to San Francisco on mis- sion of national importance.
 The business men who met at Tue son with the view of organizing a state association for the intelligent md vigorous pushing of Arizona en-
 erprises and the return to a sane ,hannel of business, adjourned with
 ut accomplishing the proposed re- sult, it being the concensus of opin-
 on that the objects sought to be accomplished by such an organiza-
 ion could be best furthered through he agency of the Arizona Chapter )f the American Mining Congress.
 Speaks at Banquet.
 Mir. Murphy arrived at Phoenix
 ust in time to practically step from
 he train into the big booster ban luet at the Adams hotel, and had scarcely arrived on the scene of jol- ity and business when he was call d on for an address, which duty he performed in his own inimitable man. ler by telling the assembled multi .ude that while parades and shout ing were all right as dessert, there was big business on hand for Ari- zona that could only be accomplish
 d by consistent, dilligent and wig orous activity. While it is admit ted that you have one of the greatest valleys on earth, you must not lose sight of the other material interests of the state if we arc to progress to he high point of our capacity as commonwealth" was one of the epi- grammatical expressions of his short address.
 Took Leading Part.
 At the meeting of the Arizona Chapter of the American Mining Congress Mir. Murphy took lead ing hand in organizing what he thinks will be a vital force in the de and improvement of the resources of the state, and in this he was made vice-gov- ernor, to serve with MT Twitchell, who was selected as governor. All that was lacking in the perfection of a complete organization was the selection of a secretary, and the or ganization is now busy trying to se- cure one of the biggest and broad est business men of the state for this very important position. Mir. Mur- phy was called home before he could finish his work with the other officers in the direction of selecting a secre- tary, and yesterday, to fulfill prom ise he mailed written synopsis em- bodying his idea of the kind of man necessary for the position and giving his views as to what the objects of the organization should be. His opinion is that now is the time for the greatest organized activity that has ever characterized the people of this state, if they expect to achieve the destiny that they so much de- sire, and if the Arizona Chapter follows his advice it cannot we'll help making rapid progress in the right direction. He believes, i'll short that statistical data should be secur- ed covering every possible avenue oi business and politics-something of a definite character upon which to base a working fabric that has foundation as solid as the rock of ages upon which to stand. He would secure facts and figures with rel erencc not only to mining, but along all other lines which would enable the active management of the organi zation to at any time place its fingers on the proper key to manipulate al fairs successfully, to the end of con summating a great, industrial, em- pire Of activity such as must char acterize any commonwealth which