By David R. Berman
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With territorial status, increased private investment, and considerable help from the federal government, the territory began to grow. In the 1880s and 1890s Arizonans focused on attaining statehood and obtaining favorable federal policies on silver production. They also looked at social uplift issues, long-term problems growing out of economic development, and short-term problems affecting the health of various sectors of the economy. Early Settlement and Political Patterns What is now the state of Arizona existed as part of the New Mexico Territory from 1850 to 1863.
The most common source of domestic migration in the early 1890s and early 1900s was the Midwest, especially Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. On occasion there were also relatively large movements from other western mining states. 27 Migration of miners also occurred on a seasonal basis. 28 The movement of Mormons from Utah into the Arizona territory, which began in the late 1870s, was another significant migration. Church leaders organized the migration to create a chain of Mormon communities that would extend into Mexico.
The giants of the industry, the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific, and their affiliated lines were quick to flex their political muscle when the occasion required action. Sometimes they simply paid off troublesome territorial officials. One account has it that when Safford was governor the president of the Southern Pacific Railroad gave him $25,000 to influence members of the legislature in the railway's interests. Safford, reportedly, found that he only had to spend $5,000 to achieve the objective.