Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-03-21
{. D. MERRILL
PAYS TRIBUTE
To THIS STATE

III IHlU u IHIL
Charles D. Merrill, in the Rural
World, published in Los Angeles, un-
der the heading. ARIZONA Our Pales-
tine" writes most entertainingly of
this state. Mr.. Merrill says
On a crystal morning in the spring
of the year you are off for Arizona.
Gliding swiftly through a hundred
miles of lovely towns and charming
orange groves Of greater Italy" past
the blossoming almond groves OF
Beaumont and down the long slope to
that vast deep bowl of alluyium which
we call richer Egypt" through sixty
miles of distracted "Old Mexico" on a
train packed with poems and guarded
by soldiers; over the Colorado river at
Yuma; you are then under the flag
and in the limits of Our Palestine"
See America First
In a few hours, you have had u
glimpse of the most rapidly developing
portion of your country and at the
same time the added pleasure Of a
visit to four foreign lands" You
have proven that i'll seeing America
first you may see the better than othe:
lands" also.
You discover that it has pleased God
to give to our people all the natural
advantages that make possible here,
the reproduction of the better and the
best of every other land ON the globe.
You traverse with delight in this
empire of the southwest. our new
Italy, our better Egypt, our modern
Palestine, and you are proud OF the
enterprise that has made them modern
and new and glad of the humane spirit
that makes them SO much better than
the old for the homes of men.
Vision Clarifies
AS a traveller you step into the Dor
ders OF Arizona and ask, What is here
worth while" and your vision clari-
flies in that Srystal air and your heart
warns IN that earnest workshop of
society where new and better state
is forming. And you read, as of old ii
was written; Thy God bringeth thee
20 good land, of wheat and barley
of vines and fig trees, of olives and
honey--a land whose stones are iror
and out OF whose hills you mayest dig
brass-a land in which thou shalt not
lack anything"
In proof of that prophecy fulfilled
Just glance at the table OF statistics on
the opposite page of the productions
OF Arizona in 1916.
Check up row. as you traverse a
thousand miles of this strange and
marvellous state, some of the things
you cannot find anywhere else. for II
is legitimate for the tourist tn seek
novel and special things as well as to
see and enjoy all the common ana un-
usual
Forehead to the Sun
You are now in the youngest state in
tho mi Ia
be the Best. While constructing some
Of the greatest reservoirs in the world
10 conserve water for all the people
this newest state also tore down all
the saloons in her borders, so that
While you are walking on soil that is
Done dry OF alcohol you are at the
same time upon the best watered state
n the Union, in the proportion of its
irrigated acres to its number of in
habitants. Arizona is walking with her
ioiehead toward the sun, both in moral
and material things.
You are now traversing the Oldest
state, III settlement and civilization
OF all our As commemorative. 1t is
worth your while TO see these ruins OF
cities and houses and waterways that
go back Of the Toltec and the Aztec
more than a thousand years INTO the
practical for hundreds of years in low
er Arizona, and il is fitting this state
should 5e pre-eminent in water stor-
age and use
II is richest in indian lore and leg
ends and recent history of the tribes
OF American aborigines
The map OF the state shows fourteen
indian reservations, and almost ever,
county is named for tribe
The descendants of some of the
greatest tribes still remain, as NaVa-
los and Apaehes. and the many aban.
doned army posts show the long ana
fierce struggle by which these "hil
tribes were overcome in the making
OF our new Palestine
A vast variety of Indian dwelling.
ana articles o. art AID Industry ar,
here, cliff dwellings Hopi stone houses
/ hogans and wickiups. baskets pottery
blankets, silver ornaments. You vii
never forget the native faces Won Sc,
III the different villages, ranging from
| the sheep to the tiger
/ Arizona has the most ipterestin,
/ deserts OF all the world IN their strano,
1 :esetatlon and curious animals. Abou
/ her mountains are tints and colors an,
\ contrasts under cope OF crystal SIX,
that never fails III sun Or stars The,
nave become known to the world as III,
anodyne for the nerves" of civiliza
! tion--the balm of hurt minds-na
/ lures sweet restorer.
Arizona has the greatest mines !,
our country. They yielded % per cen
more Of metals in value than any otbe
state last year. 1t has the largest pin
forest in the world.
Apache Trai!
Tho oldest
I America Is the Apache trail. 1t lead
you over the most terrific Jungle q
volcanic mountains to the greatest ar
uflciai lake in the wOrld-the Roose
| veit reservoir, so miles long when FIJI
anu four miles wide. Not to visit
would seem to be disloy:,l to your gov
eminent which built the cam.
Arizona has the oldest and fines
mission In our country The missio
history reveals its fifty missions an
pueblos at the end of the sixteent
century. For 800 years the Apach
tribe raided these valleys and mission
until our army conquered them in 1877.
Arizona claims the most sunshin
and finest winter climate of any Dor