AZ Resources

If you run into someone from Arizona and you want to make small talk, ask them this:

What are the five C's?

If they were educated in Arizona and paid attention in elementary school, they should be able to rattle off:

Cattle, Copper, Citrus, Cotton, and Climate

Those are the main resources of the Grand Canyon State. Here are some other bits of trivia (in case you're ever on Jeopardy):

• More copper is mined in Arizona than all the other states combined, and the Morenci Mine is the largest copper producer in all of North America.
• Bisbee, Arizona, is known as the Queen of the Copper Mines because during its mining heyday it produced nearly 25 percent of the world's copper. At one time it was the largest city in the Southwest between St. Louis and San Francisco.
• Bisbee is the nation's southernmost mile-high city.
• The amount of copper utilized to make the copper dome atop Arizona's Capitol building is equivalent to the amount used in 4.8 million pennies. (Who counts this?)
• Arizona grows enough cotton each year to make more than one pair of jeans for every person in the United States.

Can you tell I like my adopted home state in the desert southwest? I love the beauty of the Midwest--specifically Ohio and Michigan where I lived years ago--but I have come to appreciate the uniqueness of Arizona.

Come visit. Just don't come now because it's still over 100 degrees.

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