Show N W W a it t A el t ue when the house ol 01 rep Ps passed the statehood hill bill on abill pi it 19 after a debate that lasted lastel three and one half hours the good people ot fur f ur enterprising territories ling in tit the southwestern pat pait t of the united states were in a position to sit st up and communicate with the flag weavers we aveis for if there Is no to hitch in to tc po pegram grani old glory will next ses session aon unfold itself with the additional 1 ide of having had two tuo more added abed to the forty five which now fill the field of blue oklahoma Is taking in ardlan territory while new mexico enill 11 lose au its identity by being absorbed bed b arizona it is all the result of a bitter battle on the part of 0 the Wester neis cis for the tile rights which statehood bestow s there was grim and violent opposition political and personal in fit the flight tie tae voto vote in the house when A hen the bill passed was declared strictly a pirty party one the state of oklahoma must perfect its stipulated str state e oiga illation and on march 4 1906 m anny ay iy send to the house five members and tuo to the senate this bill appropriates nione sets aside public lands for a school system and prohibits pluvial marriages the conditions relating tn the admission of arizona are about the same except that arizona will rhoose choose only two natives ta tives it will be admitted six months after the tile op approval of the act if its citizens organize a state government in compliance with law at that time the capital cf of oraa orna is fixed at guthrie until 19 11 that hat of arizona will be santa fe arizona arizon will be the second largest state in the union its combined arpa area will aggregate square miles texas leading with squire miles new now york state with its square miles might be lost to sight in the wide domain of its new sister oklahoma Is not much larger than new york having square miles to her credit in population arizona is sadly lacking but under the inspiration of statehood the wise statesmen of arizona maintain that a few years will see her in close competition with all of the western states tho the population of arizona ib Is 11 and that of oklahoma there Is almost a square mile of land for every resident of the new state of arizona I 1 artificial irrigation will immense tracts of waste lands dirleg the next few years crops at aie e birge wherever he rever cultivated wheat and alfalfa are raised in immense ses of vegetables every 1 known nonn variety is grown fruits ripen re idal a and n d grow to considerable size including oranges lemons limes peaches it ip P pies apricots figs dates olives and berries there Is also a groat great cattle industry in this tory upward of head now grazing over the groon green fields of many thousand acres in minerals arizona Is very brodt productive IC millions of dollars have been invested n in smelting smelling sm elting crushing and mill inc plante plants it Is estimated that th the e J product of the tile rames mines yearly dearly exceeds tucson is tho the principal city it has six churches five newspapers pas gas ice lee electric light and water works some of the principal places in the territory are Pho phoenix onix tombstone prescott globe nogales tempo tempe florence Ilag and yuma new mexico Al exico which arizona aa as a state will absorb was organized in 1850 though it was settled in new Ill mexico exico Is larger than great britain ld ii eland lieland three tin es as large as all new england E and equal in area to new now penns evanta and arid ohio combined vast mountain ranges interact the territory and tho the climate is semi tropical the peaks run high into the heavens hea veng including castilla Cast ca atilla llla peak feet taos 0 mora truchas bruchas Tru chas 13 Ji il carlta and brady feet fee the plateaus are revered covered with wild willi gramma gramin a and other grasses but are art abild and desolate toward d the west sage brush pinon and stunted s cedar cover some of these those pa plains ains fully four fourt tee cen nil million lilon acres are in mountains and four million arc irreclaimable lands leav deserts or g razing ing thirty nine million acres of irrigable r domain fully two tio thirds of the territory Is open oien for settlement the rio grande flows miles through tho center 0 of new NOW 1110 mexico alco gold and silver mines are worked at many points and with inith profit there aro are also large depo deposits siti ot iron copp copper or lead and zinc among the tile chief chlof cities are sauta santa fo fe feet above the tile sea with a beautiful climate las vegas the river of denver albuquerque with its railroad ralli raili oad machine shops employing two thousand men nion socorro Soe orro devoted to mining silver city with smelting and reducing works las as cruces fruit raising and farming and doming deming and stock shipping the territory has several railroad intersecting it before the government purchased oklahoma from the indians it occupied the central portion of the indian territory a great fertile county toward which white Fett settlers lers in other states had always looked with envious eyes the tile land was purchased from the creek indians and thrown open to homo home seekers in 1839 9 a wild company of people gather lib on its borders in 4 hat fiat year ready to rush rusl forward at the tile starting gun to reach the most fertile sections of the country which uncle sam was ready to bestow the opening of the grant payne payl ic and other adventurers were repulsed by states troops who patrolled the frontier during the administration of president fl harrlson arrison the opening of acres of creek land aras was proclaimed also acres u of seminole land guthrie Gu thrle the now thriving city arose la fit legs w than a day with ahall tants oklahoma signifies signi fles beautiful country and wag waa rightly named it Is a paradiso paradise a boomers paradise again rightly termed tho first gov ainor was nias george W steele appoint ed ell by the president oklahoma Is about the size of ohio and Is bordered by texas Colo colorado rudo kansas and the indian territory green valleys great forests of oak and streams make up tip tho the country some of the plains are treeless and arid arid principally in the west but tile other sections make up in richness what the western lacks many ninny indian tribes supported by the government ern ment roam roani over the tile unsettled bee u alons of the terri territory tor upon the ies the indians are well to do to farmers and are gradually cultivating ap a taste for and industry the of oklahoma was or 11 Cd the ear after it was vas settled sett lod and has u grown gron in fourteen auais with amazing rapidity its cities rival those of the east and excel many of tho the other western cities in enterprise and accod accommodations fodat toil indian territory was inas old before Ohl oklahoma alionia wa was wai i bom boin yet it today to day is absorbed by the grolln grow grou ln ing infant somo some of the principal places in oklahoma are guthrie Gu thrle oklahoma city kingfisher norman E edward el rono reno frisco reno city ater and union city indian territory was ica with louisiana from fiance in 1803 it was not settled however until twenty four years latar being practically founded by the creek indians Ind Inns As its name signifies it was set apart by the united states for the indians a territory in which the tribes might pursue their natural course free from the influences of the whites but under government there Is little snow or cold during the tile winter months no days or weeks of rain just a stin silvery ery unbroken spring which leads to a long and hot summer though the heat because of the dryness of the air Is never e excessive ces cos sive new york herald |