"The seal of the State shall be of the following design: In the background shall be a range of mountains, with the sun rising behind the peaks thereof, and at the right side of the range of mountains there shall be a storage reservoir and a dam, below which in the middle distance are irrigated fields and orchards reaching into the foreground, at the right of which are cattle grazing.

To the left in the middle distance on a mountainside is a quartz mill in front of which and in the foreground is a miner standing with pick and shovel.

The seal is often described as depicting Arizona's "five C's" of Copper, Cattle, Cotton, Citrus, and Climate.

The official Arizona State Seal was designed by Phoenix newspaper artist, E.E.

[7] The official seal was decided after a long debate at the Arizona constitutional convention and established with statehood in 1912.