Arizona republican., 1917-01-03

No longer can Arizona appropriate ly be entitled the Country God korgot'
 Every commercial industrial and agricultural activity throughout the state during the year just closed, cries out a strong Remuneration that Cod in creating Arizona. failed to provide it's soils and rocky lodges with riches and treasurers that are equal in wealth to those of any other commonwealth, Ar i2ona in the future will therefore un- doubtedly be known as the Country Man Overlooked"
 Arizona, in infant statehood. is now enjoying only the triples of the pros perity wave that is in view for the fu- ture. One glanceS into that future and sees the new ship Arizona rising high CT and higher on he crest of that good wave prosperity" The vision is fiVed on the progress of that ship and the wave is seen to swell and swell. grow ing in size year by year, until it ap- breaches tidal proportions and in the illusion. riding the seas with majestic proportions.
 That at least is the optimistic view of the future for this state as pro- claimed bv a goodly portion of the representative citizens citizens who have viewed the progress of the state with deep concern. They can see noth- ing but a wonderful future for the ship. it's stability to weather the some times rough and frantic seas of live lihood and blowing it's nose at last through the darkened night into port prominence
 Arizona has already taken a rank high among the states of the union in the wealth of its nroductions-of that there is no question-but even now this wealth is trivial when compared with the resources in future years.
 There have heen times, it is quite generally admitted, when tho officers of this ship have shared fears with passengers as to the stability of the ship to weather the storm. Frequent ly has the sea been heavily laden with fogs, especially in the early days. but of recent years the atmosphere has been rapidly clearing and only the sunshine is now in sight
 According to some, Arizona has out done itself in production the past year. Its mines produced more copper than in future years. it's soils for some req son were more fertile and produced larger and better crops and it's man ufacturing plants enjoyed larger out puts because of these surrounding conditions. But the optimist refuses to believe that such was the case. He is strong in his convictions that the production next year will be larger than ever before that the production in 1918 will surpass that of 1917 and so on down through the list of years. each succeeding year showing sub stantial increase over that of the pre- ceding 12-month neTiod And has he not good reasons for so believing? Are not the mines making extensive plans for greater production. the farmers making preparations for planting thousands or more acres and the man. ufacturing plants expanding2
 The value of agricultural crops in the valley last year was more than double that of the previous year. The amount of copper ore mined in the comDared with the preceding year and so it was down the line to merchants and business men in practically every city and village of the state
 Tn an effort to determine the sVc- cess enjoyed by local merchants dur ing the mast year. the Republican con- ducted an investigation of conditions A number of merchants were visited with the end in view of determining the eyact percentage of increase in tre business of tho individual firms as compared with 1915 and proviou~ voa~s. h- ave~ago of q9 her cent of those visited proclaimed 1916 to boo been the l9rrast i7 the histo-v of thei~ resDective establishments and show ing net increase that averaged