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THE WILLIAMS NEWS
rattle and agriculture. It is not at
all improbable that within ten
years from now the last-named in
dustry may by no means be the
least, but the chief of these which
contribute to the progress of the
territory. As far as horticulture is
concerned, Arizona stands today
about where Southern California
was twenty-five years ago, when we
were just emerging from the "cow
country" era. Life and property
are as safe today in Arizona as they
are in any section of the United
States, and indeed far safer than in
many of our large cities. The terri
tory has of late been filling up with
n class of intelligent settlers from the
eastern states. With the introduc
tion of a system of national irriga
tion of the arid lands of the Uncle
Sam, not Governor Murphy brand
we may see in Arizona during
the next decade, a development
somewhat similar to that which has
lieen witnessed in Southern Califor
nia during the past twenty years.
It may, therefore, safely be grant
ed that in population, in natural
resources and in social conditions,
the territory of Arizona is ripe for
statehood. Doubtless a majority
of its citizens desire statehood.
The opposition to the admission
of Arizona coming from the Los
Angeles Times, was in the nature
of a surprise. Arizona and Cali
fornia are closely allied in trade
relations and social intercourse.
Their interests are in a great meas
ure mutual. The advancement of
Arizona means more business for
California and the admission of
Arizona to statehood means a rapid
increase in population and taxable
wealth.
. The Los Angeles Times is at pres
ent engaged in issuing a special
Arizona mining number, which has
been most liberally patronized by
the people of Arizona. The object
of this special number is to invite
capital to A rizona. There is money
in this special edition for the Los
Angeles Times. Probably among
the number who have signed for big
contracts are many democrats and
republicans. The Times does not
stop to draw the political line when
it means money in the cash drawer
of the Times-Mirror company, but
when the entire people of Arizona
unite in an earnest effort for state
hood, and have banished political
differences to the four winds, the
Times steps in and says "Most of
you are no good, you are democrats,
and for that reason you should not
1 admitted to statehood."
This line of reasoning eminates
from a pinched and drawn intellect
and the Times has proved itself
that it is no friend of A rizona, when
"a friend in need is a friend in
deed." The Los Angeles Times, the Her
ald and the Examiner all have a
large circulation in Arizona. The
two latter mentioned papers are
Staunch friends of the territory,
while the Times glories in the fact
that it is against us.
The people of Arizona will not
oon forget.
POPULATION OF COUNTRY.
The final census report of the
population by sex, general nativity
and color of the several states and
territories was issued October 11.
This last bulletin of the series
covers the entire country. It shows
that the males number 39,059,242
and constitute 51.2 per cent of the
total population in 1900, while the
females number 37,244,145, or 48.8
percent. There is a slightly larger
per cent of females now than ten
years ago.
There is a difference in favor of
males in the present census of
1,815,097, as compared with an ex
cess of males for the equivalent
area in 1890 of 1,5GO,370.
There has been an increase in
the total population of 13,233,361,
or 21 per cent since 1890, made up
of 6,744,179 males and 6,489,452
females; an increase of males of
20.9 percent and in females of 21.1
per cent. There are 65,843,300
native ersons and 10,460,085 for
eign born persons, the latter ele
ment constituting 13.7 per cent of
the total population of 1900, against
14.8 per cent ten years ago. The
foreign born show an absolute in
crease during the decade of 1,151,
994, while the native born have in
creased in ten years 12,081,637.
As to color and race, the popula
tion in 1900 is made of 66,990,802
white persons and 9,312,858 colored
persons, the latter figure compris
ing 8,840,789 persons of Negro de
scent, 119,050 Chinese, 85,986 Jap
anese and 266,760 Indians. The
corresponding figures for 1890 show
a total of 55,166,184 white persons,
7,488,789 persons of Negro descent,
126,778 Chinese, 14,399 Japanese
and 273,607 Indians.
The colored element constitutes
12.2 per cent of the total population
in 1900, against 12.5 per cent in
1890.
The white population shows an
increase since 1890 of 11,824,618,
or 21.4 per cent, and the colored
element as a whole of 1,409,013, or
17.8 per cent.
There has been an increase dur
ing the past ten years in persons of
Negro descent of 1,352,001, or 18.1
per cent, and in Japanese of 71,587,
or 497.2 per cent. The Chinese, on
the other hand, show a loss of
7,728, or 6.1 per cent, while the In
dians have decreased from 273,607
in 1890 to 266,760 in 1900, a loss of
2.5 per cent.
Of the total white population
56,740,739 are native whites, con
stituting 74.4 per cent of the total
population, and 10,250,063 foreign
whites, or 13.4 per cent of the total
population. Native white persons
are in turn subdivided into 41,053,
417 of native parentage and 15,
687,322 of foreign parentage, con
stituting respectively 53.8 per cent
and 20.6 per cent of the total
population.
The native white element has in
creased 23.3 per cent and the for
eign white only 12.2 per cent since
1890. The native white element of
foreign parentage has increased
relatively twice as fast as the native
whites of native parentage. Los
Angeles Herald.
THE
WILLIAMS
DRUG
COMPANY
Take Care of Yourself 1 1
- These pleasant days and cold nights are
the forerunners of sore throat, grip, bron
chitis and pneumonia.
Don't neglect the slight cough. We
have just received a consignment of 'White
Pine Cough Syrup put up in 25 and 50 cent
packages. This is the best cough medicine
on the market today.
We also carry all the patent cough medi
cines. All fresh stock. Nothing ' carried
over from last winter.
Try a bottle of our Rheumatic OiL
Best Equipped Mill and Box Factory
in the Southwest
MONTHLY PRODUCT. 2.000.000 FEET
Saginaw & Manistee Lumber Co
TO. F. DERMONT, General Huufw
WILLIAMS, j ARIZONA
MANUFACTURERS OF
Arizona Soft Pine Lumber, Timber, Box Shooks, Lath,
Mouldings, Cut Door Stock and Siding
WE ARE SHOWING THE
LARGEST LINE OF
Shirt Waists, Ladies
Tailor-made Suits,
Jackets, Wraps, Wrap
pers and Skirts ever
shown in Williams
It will pay you to
look them over
before purchasing
RLSalzman