The Coconino sun., 1919-06-27
ARIZONA A LAND OF
 OPEN OPPORTUNITIES
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 This article is intended to suggest some idea as to what opportunities Arizona has to offer to real men and real women. To offer to men and women of real energetic spirit, and the will to do the very best which can be done with respect to every chance which does present itself in line with the mental, physical, material, and other true advancement of those men and women from their present posi- sition to a higher plane of life, with all the joys and pleasures in life which will surely follow as to that advance.
 To the real men and the real wom- en, Arizona can point with pride to her large mining industries; to her large cattle and sheep interests; to her forests and milling interests; to her large and successful irrigation and reclamation projects; to her busi- ness and trade centers; to her public improvements made and in the course of construction. On every hand there can be pointed out the results which have been attained by those who have not slept alongside of opportunities waiting to be used to individual ad- vancement.
 Arizona can greet newcomers and suggest that they look at the assess ment rolls of the state. She can tell them that with a population of about 350, ,000 people those rolls show an as- sessed valuation of nearly one billion dollars. Can tell them to compute the per capita of people to values upon those rolls, and find three thousand dollars of value for every man, wom- an and child in the state. No man will tell them that those values are inflated to deceive newcomers. You will hear many statements from those who came to Arizona sole | ly because of it's apparent opportuni- | ties, who reached for them, caught and held them and now say:
 q came here without cent; now have a job, home, some Liberty bonds, and bank account"
 If the man who investigates looks to the mountains, he may at first do so expecting to find a mine shaft upon every side hill within his view. He has heard of Arizona's mines and mining industries as the basis of that expectation. Yet, in fact, that same man could travel long ways, trav- erse many hills, and go over many mountains, before he could find the mining properties which make up the values upon the assessment rolls of the state as part of the totals above given. If he investigated still fur ther he would find those who would tell him, and truthfully too, that the surface has only been touched in | spots. Tell him also that the mineral weath of the state was practically an unlimited quantity. That it was not so long ago that the first pick went into the ground as the start of what is now reality. That man knows the truth of this statement. The oppor- tunity is here for him, it is up to him to take it or leave it. He has only to start as the other pioneer miners started if he will. No he can not start that way, many of the hard ships incident to early progress of those pioneers have been removed, never to return.
 That same stranger or his neighbor may look for the herds of cattle and sheep. He has heard about them; "where are they?" is the question in his mind. They are in fact in the state; but like the proverbial needle in the haystack, the finding is a hard matter. There is so much space in Arizona for the development of that stock industry, that the possibilities are still open in untouched places. Looking for opportunities the same stranger hears of Roosevelt Dam and reservoir, and sees it's results. If he looks and investigates he can see the millions of other raw land acres, just as fertile, just as susceptible to irri- gation, and finally just as produc- tive as any land under the Roose- welt project. That project is men toned as an illustration. There are others equally as successful in the state. There is present the means for still others and many more. All that is wanted is the man with the will, with the same persistent energies of those who forced along to present re- suits under those projects, and that man and his associates will likewise be successful.
 If any of those strangers who are really looking for opportunities are without present means, even then to those it may be said that Arizona pays as much and more for honest muscles used in honest labor than any other state in the Union. Compared to it's population it spends more good money in public work, public build- ings, and other public enterprises than any other state.
 To that same man it can be truth fully said, the start is here for you; it depends upon your efforts to thrift and saving from what you can earn, as to whether or not you can step into a better place among the many oppor- tunities in Arizona. other than the wages from your labors.
 The opportunities which Arizona off, fers are such that no man or woman possessed of the energy and will to do for themselves, need be grumbling of the fact that he can not make a living, if not more, in Arizona.--Tax- payers Magazine.