The Coconino sun., 1924-08-08

/ Motto. In 1863, the year Ari-
zona was set off from New Mexico,
she adopted "Ditat Deus, which
means "GOd En1iches1
S.-Flower. The legislature of Ari-
zona adopted as its state flower the
sequoia cactus.
9.-Boundaries. Utah and Nevada
on the north; Mexico on the south;
New Mexico on the east; California
and Nevada on the west.
1O--Counties. Fourteen.
11.-Capital. Phoenix, population
29,053. Situated on Salt river. The
territorial capital was moved from
Prescott to Phoenix. The old capital
was situated in the Pine mountains in
the extreme northern end of Arizona.
| Phoenix is a prosperous little city IN
Salt river yalley-one of the richest
| in all of the great southwest.
12.-Dimensions. Area, la, 1856
| square miles; extreme length, 800
miles: extreme breadth, 395 miles.
| 13.-Governor. G. w. P. Hunt (dem-
| ocrat), elected for two years; term ex-
pires January, 1925; salary, $500.
14.--Presidentia Vote. Harding,
37,O16; Cox, 29,546.
15.-Population. 1920, 333, ,903; 1910,
204 ,554; increase, 129,549.
16.-Rank in Population. Forty
sixth state.
17.-Cities over $4,000. None.
18.-Foreign Born Population. En-
glish 1882, Scotch sos, Irish 1905, Nor
wegians 337, Swedes $50, Danes 39S,
1 Belgians so, French 394, Germans
1916. Poles 261, Austrians 484, Hun
garians ZIP, Russians 816, Italians
1851, Greeks 329, Roumanians 81,
! Asiatics 397, Canadians 1862, Mexi-
4 cans 6O,242. All others 1887. Total
population 333 1903. Total native Amer
/ lean born 255,S04 The predominant
foreign-born element in Arizona are
i Mexicadls.
19-War Record. Civil War. AS a
state Arizona, of course, has no war
history during the Civil War period. 1t
4 came into the union on February Ia,
i1912. However, the Southern Histor-
ical Papers refer to an act OF the
Confederate States congress, approved
by President Davis on January IL,
! 1852, which organized Confederate
territory out of Arizona. This terri
4 tory included the whole ante-bellum
area of New Mexico, excepting the
4 northwest corner north of the Coloras
do river, which was ceded to Nevada.
World War-Arizona furnished o,-
377 men.
! 2O.-History. The history of Ari-
zona, being originally part of what
Is now New Mexico, reaches far back
; of the written records of man. Its
prehistoric story is told in the very
silences of the cliff dwellings. 1t is
| read on the ancient pottery and the
relics dug out of the tofnbs of pas,
hoary in its age. Strange sensations
come to him who stands in the pres
ence of these monuments OF an age So
4 dim and distant.
| The arid sand dunes which marx
| the face of Arizona's plains were once
| inhabited by the Aztecs, or Toltecs, az
| some would call them. This was the
original and first civilization in the
great southwest. 1t was a civilization
| remarkable in many ways. The ruins
| of their walled cities, their inrpregna-
BILE homes carved out of the granite
cliffs. theif. aduedhcts that reveal adj
yanced engineering skill, their vas'
tcommunal homes piled terrace on ter
raee-these ruins tell the story of 3
vanished civilization far advanced II
MANY of the arts and sciences. Whence
they came and whittier they went arr
questions met with profound hush
There is no answering voice from oti'
of that remote age.
It is only known that these abor
igines had been partially dispossess
ed bv the invasion Of tribesfnen from
the north. AS early as 1880 the Span
iards established a military post a
what is now Tucson. Here began thu
second period Of Arizona's civilization
Other settlements followed IN rapis
succession. Before the middle OF th'
seventeenth century the valleys of tn,
Santa Cruz and its tributaries teemet
with q population engaged in mining
and agriculture. About this time tht
Jesuit missionaries and Spanish in
dustry began vast operations in th
lyallev Of the Colorado twas durinl
this period and even down in late
wears that the blood-thirsty Apache
and their allied confederates worke'
havoc among the settlers. Along tn
| Colorado still exist remains of cathed
rails and cities built by the peoples o
this second civilization.
From this time on until 1863-th
later history of ArizonaL-is connecte
S with that of New Mexico. The great
:, er part Of the Arizona of today be
S longed to the first. cession made t
y the United States in 184S. That par
t of it lying sonths of the CHA rive
Twas a part. of the Gadsden purchas