Year: 1876

To he People of Arizona:

 Ever since the announcement made by m,

 some weeks ago that I should be a candi

 date for Delegate to Congress at the election

 in November next, I have endeavored tt

 shape my private business, so as to take tho 1 field and commence the tour of the Terri

 tory on the first day of September. I finG | it impossible to do this, and notwithstand

 ing the qualification it would give me to be

 i'll the next Congress, that 1 might take | part in the deliberations and action of tha, body on the Public School question and in

 the resumption of specie payments, and on

 the increase of the Army of the United

 States so that you may settle the Indian

 question speedily and forever, so far as hos

 tilities are concerned, for these reasons and

 some others, particularly, the construction

 of the Southern Utah Railroad to the Col

 orado of the west, thence to Prescott, Tue

 son and Guaymas, which predict will be done within five years, giving us the short route to the East, this together with the es- tablishment of United States Assay office at Prescott, so that the bullion product of the country about us might be stamped and made available for commercial purposes, right in our midst, which would be of great advantage to the Territory, and again, first, last and all the time, an effort, high min ded, honorable and just effort to acquire by liberal purchase, enough of Mexican Terri tory to give us control of the mouth of the Colorado river, to open to us the;gateway to the sea, to control the Gulf of California and enable us to have therein good commercial marine, these are some of the objects to be attained by, and will spring from proper Congressional legislation, and are explana tory of my desire to work for two years at the Capitol of the Nation.

 Within the last two years we have made such rapid strides in population and ma terial prosperity that conjecture staggers as to what we shall be ten years hence. Ari- zona contains such unbounded mineral wealth that the widest dreams of her pro- gress are as likely to prove true as are the predictions of sober and timid calculation, her iron, coal and salt, her lead and copper silver and gold, these constitute material and imperishabIe wealth, to which the world pays tribute, and such wealth is about us in every direction. This part is known and the tide of migration sets. toward us and you cannot stop it. Let us welcome then in the brOadest and most liberal manner, the anxious father and hopeful mother, the tiny faces that peep beneath the old wagon, sheet, the barefoot boys and brown checked girls that have followed the foot-sore cattle for thousand miles, let us give them a gen eral welcome and strive to show that here We all pull together for the common benefit.

 With half a regret that my busi- less affairs will not allow me to carry out | ny purposes and hopes in the coming cam 'aign, but striving still to assist in promot- ng the public as we'll as my own private interests and taking off my hat and making ny best bow to my neighbors and friends nd fellow citizens, respectfully withdraw rom the campaign as a Candidate for Dele ate to Congress. CC BEAN.

 Prescott, Arizona, August 10, 1876.