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Show ilTAH NATiVf SON TELLS Of ARIZONA "Ariaosa will likely not be admitted into th nnioa until after the preaiden tial election of 1912," (aid H. M. Lewis of Phoenix. Aria., today. - "The new constitution will eliminate the recall of the judiciary, though personally per-sonally I think that it sbonld remain in. "Arizona i destined to become one of the greatest states of the union. Its immense copper deposits and other mining min-ing Interests are hut a small part of the resource of the state to be. The irrigated lands are among the richest in the world in productiveness. The ir rigation projects already- completed and iimler way will make it one of the great agricultural atate of the country. " Mr. Lewis ia one of the leading riti-zrne riti-zrne of Phoenix, and is heavily interested inter-ested in cattle raising and farming, aa well a other bunineaa. Me is paying a short visit to Utah, his native state, and despite the fart that he has lived in Arizona more than thirty year he still has a warm spot in bis heart for Utah. To thia state his father and mother came in 1847, being in the second sec-ond or third party of pioneers to reach the Great 8alt Lake valley. A few year later the family moved to Richmond. Cache county, where Mr. Lewi wa born a little ' over forty years ago. Thirty-two years ago the Lewis family fam-ily moved 4o the Halt River valley in Arirxna, making the trip by ox team. tte'Shn Mwa- fj ljesifW--ajabAavs4 many visit to this state, hi last being about three vear ago. la (peaking of Salt Lake City last aight Mr. Lewi said: "The growth of this city in the last few years has been something wonder-ful. wonder-ful. Kspeciallv is this true of the fast three years. There ean be no question aa to the future of Bait Lake City. It is hound to grow until it is one of the leading cities of the country. It natural nat-ural advantage and the rieh country tributary to it are such that nothing that I can think of can keep the city from growing by leap and bound." Mr. Lewis talked reminiscently of the early davs in Utah a he remembered them, of what Salt Lake City looked like over thirty year ago, and of the great ebange that had been wrought in the west. He discussed frankly the political aituation in Arizona. "Though we have been knocking at the door for statehood for twenty years and feel that we are entitled to become a part of this great union," he said, "the constitution of the proposed state, in my opinion, will have to be amended amend-ed to eliminate the recall for the judiciary." judi-ciary." Mr. Lewi rrew enthusiastic, in discussing dis-cussing the irrigation projects completed and proposed in Arizona. On of the object of his present trip to Utah i to visit hi lister, who lives in Ogden. Hi father, John M. Lewis, died several year ago, but hi mother. Martha J. Lewi, lives with her son at Phoenix. |