Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-15
SALUTATORY.

Taking it for granted that great many
 if not all, patrons of the Arizona MINET
 (daily, weekly and job department, have al
 ready read and paid due attention to thu
 "Valedictory" of our excellent friend, Gen
 eral T. J. Butler, late editor and propriatol
 of the MINER, which appeared in the last
 weekly, and to his "Good night" printed 1T
 last Saturdays daily, it only remains for u, to confirm Mr. Buffers dual announcement
 by stating that we have, by purchase, be
 come proprietOrs of the ARIZONA MINER ss-
 tablishment, ground, houses, presses, type
 good will, everything, in fact, and that it is
 our intention to so act and live that when
 our summons comes to surrender the estab-
 lishment into other hands--if ever 1t
 from any other individual save death, Gen.
 eral Butler will not have to say and feel that
 bis kind assertions regarding our ability to
 publish good paper were not warranted by
 succeeding facts and developments. The
 paper has always borne good reputation,
 and one which we never shall, knowingly,
 sully. To gain possession of it has cost us
 heavily; to keep it where it has almost in
 variably been kept since it was first started,
 on March 9th 1864, ahead of all other Ari
 zona journals, in good looks, enterprise,
 honor and devotion to the best interests of
 the Territory, will be our aim. It is now
 almost two years since the writer of thls dis
 posed of the establishment to General But
 Ter. Arizona was not then the country that
 it is now not by "a long shot," At that time
 the Indians had just been conquered and,
 although "Peace had spread her white wings
 over the Territory" faith in her continu-
 ance was not universal; prosperity was not
 general, and few of the people and success
 full business enterprises that now gladden. the land could be enumerated. The entire Ter ritory has progressed, is progressing and will still progress until we shall have to write of her advancement as a sovereign State of the American Union, and, it is with pleasure we state the fact that no County of the Territory has grown as has our own Yavapai no town has kept pace with her chief town, Prescott. Go wherever you may in our county, you will ind hard working, honest miners, farmers, ,tock-raisers, etc, men who will tell you hat they are doing we'll and are satisfied. The wild Indian is no longer a terror in the | and, nor are our people any longer depen- lent upon Government contracts for labor md its reward. We now have quartz and ,ther mills, furnaces, thousands of domestic | nimals and can boast of the products of 'ur mines, farms, stock-ranges, etc, with pride that is not born of vapid i'm ginings. And Prescott, Great Cesar. how he town has spread itself over this admir- ble site during our two years of shepherd fife. Look at the brick palaces erected by ;, P. Head X O., L. Bashford tS Co.,, Howey nd others, and say if we are not honestly mazed at the wonders wrought during our hort spell of Rip Van Winklenessl Look [ her hundreds of neat cottage homes, here nd there, among the pines and oaks and ny if she is not favored, favorite, live and town9 The painful blackboard as disappeared, and in its place we have ood and 6-horse coaches, which arrive ere and depart thrice per week, with mails Id passengers. The old roads and trails | we undergone great improvement. But ese are not sufficient; our wants now de- and daily mail service upon our principal utes; the establishment of many new l utes, etc, etc, to the work of securing { hich the MINER will be most happy to de- ,te its columns And now in order to keep pace with our wn and Territory and progress generally {
 this Centennial year, we hereby inform , 'erybody and his wife that we have enlarg- i the DAILY MINER, to just double its prev S us size; that we have reduced the price of C le Weekly from s7 to S5 per year, and will large it, also; it is our set purpose to make ,th editions worthy such pecuniary and her support as we shall, most surely, need, carry out such costly enterprises as we | we mapped out, for our own benefit and ( at of our Territory. In order togain these a ry necessary supports, we (J. H. Mar Il n and c. w. BeachO both practical printers a d impracticable writers, promise to publish h live, independent newspaper V d to turn out better job printing than can f
 done at any other establishment in Ari- t na. t It pleases us to be able to state that the " omoters of the Prescott Literary As i. citation" have good reason to hope that b ey will, shortly, have it in their power |, purchase lot and erect good brick G ilding thereon, for the use of the public a large. This hope arises from the fact :, 1 It leading business men and property n n 'ners here have promised to subscribe, h erally, for the accomplishment of ot good purpose. Rev. J. F. Merrill H