Show arizona her capabilities doubtless that part of the united states nearest of kin to california is territory ot 0 arizona DIsco discovered vered verea and settlements made in it by the spaniards two centuries tu r les ies before the settlement of this state arizona remained armost a terra incognito till it was purchased by the united states in in isai 1854 the amount paid was at it the time regarded as ag enormous but the investment f from om the present outlook promises to be a most eel excellent lent one the adsen gadsen purchase as bis it was called was made to secure sec ure are to the tho united states a continuous from the atlantic to the pacific on our own territory tb the tho intervention of the civil war continued indian hostilities and other causes combined to set the dorkof railway building on a southern route back hack for many years and with it receded kepros the prospects of arizona Arl ari zona for the next fifteen years after the purchase population opu batio n w was as ve very slow the territory er was orga organized j iced in i 8 in 1870 tho iho entire number ofin habitants of all classes save wild indians was but of whom were of mexican birth from 1870 to the indian warb wars still interposed impediments impedimenta to settlement and made life and property everywhere insecure since the bui suI subjugation of the apaches and their retirement to reservation sand since it has lias become apparent that lipe af pf f tal tai rail rall way must musti and tand will be bo carried into and through the territory in two or three years at the farthest a nevi neil new impulse has bas been given to the movement of em emigration gra in that direction from the Z old oid states the census j just tibt list completed by the territorial authorities thia this year shows a total population of an increase of over per cent in five years the completion odthe of the railway tor connect this city by y way of arizona with texas and rind he gulf and ati atlantic antie antle states will promote rapid development and ning ring the tho merits of arizona fairly before the world and we may confidently fi cherish the hope that by the next decade bhe she will have population enough to throw onn oil her territorial restrictions and enter he union as a very vers vigorous and promising young state ex governor mccormick in the course of a speech at the close of the centennial exhibition mentioned seme facts rel rei relating atins to arizona to which the reader readers attention tio 1 is r respectfully invited some ID of f them will bearre bear repeating W eating evely everybody k knows that it is a rich m mineral n county it was not so generally eral known that a it has as fine capabilities as an agricultural countr country the valleys produce better corn than the western states says governor mccormich and taugh though ten years ago eligur cost 20 a hundred they now produce wheat enough for the army and for do domestic mettle use with some to spare the climate is like our own and renowned for its health healthfulness th the natives for vigor and longevity th the 0 total area of arizona is acres in round numbers whereof are rated as agricultural or valley lands grazing mountain and timber mineral and desert waste these acres of agricultural lands are among the richest and most reliable on the continent and have easy capabilities for the settlement and maintenance of a large agricultural population the grazing region is notably the best on ther the continent and the day is if not distant when arizona willbar will far surpass california both as to the number and quality of other her bhe she sheep epand and annual fleeces happily for the future of so nine fine and promising a country those on whom fell the responsibility of organizing gan gani izing ing its local government and society were men of brains liberal views and integrity there are no local debts to belh down the peo pie with taxes they have lave ii a ve an excellent common school system well under way in all the counties liberally and eagerly supported by toy taxation of property and comparatively ra rat ively inexpensive local governments no unsettled part of the U united n it 8 d states of offers in the opinion of the chronicle sa so great inducements for men of family and of small means I 1 wishing to make homes in a new country and to live by farming or pastoral pursuits as arizona san sun francisco chronicle bov nou 20 |