Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1893 — STATEHOOD FOR TERRITORIES. [ARTICLE]

STATEHOOD FOR TERRITORIES.

Bills to Admit Many of Them—N*w Mvalco's Many Resources. It Is probable that tbs committee on Territories will report a bill for the admission of Utah to Statehood within n few days. Mr. Joseph, a member of that committee, said that tho bill would be reported, and added that before the close ol the present session bills for the admission of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma would be reported favorably from his committee. He also expressed great con-, fldence that all four of tho bills would become laws. Referring to New Mexico, from which territory ho has been a delegate to Congress for the last ten years, Mr. Joseph said:' “Thereis not a State or Territory In the United States that has so many or so rich and valuable mineral resources as New Mexico, or that can successfully compete with her in the quality of her fruits or grains. Wo have silver, iron, copper and coal in inexhaustible quantities, while the copper ore et ntains enough gold to pay for the mining and transportation of tho whole, and the gold quartz also contains a good proportion of silver as well. Then* m addition to an unlimited supply of bituminous ahd anthracite coal, we have whole mountains of natural coke, something that is to be found nowhere else in tho country. At the World’s Fair we have recently beaten even California, not in the quantity but in tho quality,. of our fruit, while we have carried off first premiums against the world at tho same Fair on our wheat and oats. Al) we now need is Statehood.”