The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-09-26
JAMES HOwEY-THE PRESCOTT COURT
 HOUSE, ETC.

we nave been pleased rom time to time
 to copy extracts from J W. Robbins letters
 to the Chicago Inter Ocean, but none has giv-
 en more pleasure than the following, in which James Howey, one of Prescott's best citi-
 zens, is complimented for in dustry, we also copy what he has to say about our fine court
 house and sketch of WhippIe and its officers:
 A good livery stable would pay here, and
 hotel IS needed. The town Is practically
 without hotel. It has an abundance of eatiag-houses, and transients live here on the European plan; viz, sleep out doors, and eat where they please. In a small black smith shop on Cortez street, next to the finest brick business block in the place, can be found early in the morning and late at night, big, muscular Englisbman, who by hard blows on the anvil, has accumulated enough to buy the handsome property next door. The building is two-stOry brick, cornering on the plaza, and built originally for hotel, and adjoining it, and belonging to It, are some of the finest residence lots in the city. The good fellow who owns it, James Howey, has been working these years in the hope of gong back to his aged mother in England, with pocketfull of money, and he seems possessed strongly with the idea that
 SOMEBODY "FRoM CHICAGO
 will want 10 buy it. A man whose good energy and muscle, Inspired by the love of his mother, could hammer out such prop erty as this in six years deserves a lift from anyone who can give it, and I cheer fully furnish his address to any who may be looking this way for investments. These opportunities for business investments I have noted, must, of course, depend largely upon future growth. Business, I judge, has fallen of in the last two years, but there are reasons competent to explain this without inferring any rctrograde movement in the progress of the town.
 Prescott has reason to be proud of her S60,0O0 Court House, as we'll as of her 1000 school-house, her $l0,000 theater. aud, the other and numerous proofs of the manner in which she has conQuered dis tance and isolation. Prescott is 1000 miles from San Francisco, 800 from Salt Lake, 300 from Santa Fe, and several hundred miles from any other American town; but the sense of isolation is lost in the many attractions of which the town can boast. Good order prevails in the town. and there has not been, during my five weeks stay here, to my knowledge, a single breach of the peace.
 "With such growth as I shall expect to see, many opportunities for good invest ments in business will be found here. Just now an recommending man might do A good banking, or, more accurately speak ing, good brokers business As an ex- ample of the way the business is conducted by these banking institutions here. may note the fact that S2 is charged for a SlO0 draft on New York or San Francisco. while on the same day you mus. pay $2 to get the l currency on the same Craft Money brings rom or per ceDt per month with good security, avaifab' for limited amount of oans. Where the business finds its chief | bonanza, n',wever, is in advancing on bull Ion oi r,uyirg it. A mining man informed ne .-day that he had just discovered that v cost him on an average So per $100 to ship his bullion through the bank.
 In closing my last letter from Prescott, l I am reminded that have said but little in | all my letters of
 FORT wHIPPLE, which is the most attractive feature of Pres | cott, and also that have no room left now l in which to supply the omission. In a | future letter on army and Indian affairs, | 'hall have better occasion 10 do so. To the | of Captain Haskell and | other members of Genl. WIlcox's staff, and | he courtesy of Supt. Booth, is your cores ,ondent indebted for the tender of the use # the military telegraph lines in the Terri | ory, and to other officers of the post for 1 'ther courtesies' pleasant to remember, but l f0 anumarafo