Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-12
Arizona.

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| Correspondence Of the ALEXANDRA GAZETTE j
Prescott, A. T., Sept, y ARR ,no IS COW
attracting great dea of attention m. d.
servedly 90. Less understood asa MS
| represented more, perhaps. than any otper
| part of tho country, cursed for gears by
Indian warfare and white out!awry, aud
isolated from commercial centres, it is not
strange that its advantages have becn q long
capabilities so little understood ;ho latest
| researches prove that the ezteul anu fich
mesa of its mineral deposits place it in the
| foremost rank IA producer ci precious
metals. while the fertility Gifts aoil il liz val
| leys for agricultural purposes cannoL be ex-
celleG anywhere, while its mountains aud
great plains are covered with nutritious
grasses making is the stock-raisers paradise.
Ia fact Arizona cannot be exceled as graz
ing country (tbo losses last year were only
II per cent.
Normal condition Of the climate is that Of
May. Day by day the richest sunlight bos-
SONS in the most genial atmosphere replete
| with the purest ozone. TIE air is pure,
dry, constant, geniei and nvfgoratiug.
ner of Yarapai county, Arizona, for distance
of nearly three hundred miles, is 10 be found
the great natural wonder of tha continent,
the Grand Canon Of tbs Colorado, which
your writer had the pleasure of visiting
few weeks ago, up IRON the depths
of which the great Colorado looks
from its narrow bed. 6,794 ieet be-
low the esrth's surface. TO the t8inking
stars at midday, and nature surpasses the
widest fancies Of art in The magnificent
grandeur of its work. immense domes and
pillars, each . mountain in Itself, and vast
castellated piles OF rock, irregular aud pic.
turesque in form, are scattered ard tumbled
with sxtravagant abandon at places in the
basin of this great southwestern river, while
laundering in its marble canons and gigan.
tic sir ces thousands Of feet into lis earth
ren. course, the waters Of the great river
go roaring to the ocean. Stand where ia
waters break with Sphynxlike silence asever
echoed back the grating Of Chsron's keel
and gaze skyward-on either hand tower
such batiements as the lagions Of Lucifer
might have stormed in assaulting thu cita
dels OF the celestials.
The precipitous heights on each side might
be the walls of two worlds just coliding
In vain l stroYe to measure and master the
immensely Of the scene. AS we'll might one
strive to measure aud master the mpene.
trable enigma of infnity. With each failure
weird, undefinabie dread takes possession
of ones self and soul.
Prescott, the capital city OF Arizona. is
splenaidly situated to become large city,
commanding as distributing point very
large area of productive mineral, grazing.
and timber land.
A few evenings ago Witnessed one of the
most beautiful sunsets ever saw. A grander
or more gorgeous picture 1 never beheld.
Some clouds had been lowering over the
bald peaks ofgranite mountain in thin feecy
folds AS looked, flood of variegated
light purple, azure and gold transformed the
passing beatty. The soft yermiiion glow
of evening, the faintipg wall of dying day,
the mountains fringed with the green velvet
of enduring pine and blue in natures eter-
nal drapery, their summits wreathed in
corouet OF effulgenoe and glory, blending
the liveliest tinselling of the skies in such
manner as to produce q scene, which the
eve may see, but which the. tongue and
mind cannot describe.
No painter, not even the diVineiy gifted
Raphael, could match this scene. In the
Corcoran Art Gallery at Washington,
gazed upon Charlotte Corday behind her
prison bars, till woman, celestial with un-
earthly beauty and brow of imperial, in
expressble agony looked at ne with daunt.
less, but bewitching appeal. Here was the
cumination of human genius in painting
picture, but the magic limner that paints an
Arizona sunset touches the canvas with di.
vine fingers.
To one of imaginative temperament the
belief could easily come that such q blend.
ing of light and glory is fashioned after that
which floods the eternal morning, and the
day that has nSnigbt. B.
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