Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1890-12-03
BEAUTIFUL PRESCOTT.
It's Magnificent Scenery and Match less Climate Beautifully Por-
 trayed.

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 delphia, being, as will be seen, from the
 pen of Rev l.. W. Meany, Episoopa-
 iisn minister at tais place. II Is war-
 thy oi perusal, not only by strangers,
 but by our own citizens as well
 From Inc Rev I. J Glynn, who,
 under our good Bishop, may be sand ,o
 have begun the choyoh's work in tiiis place, tho readers Of the Standard of
 the Cross have learned something oi
 shis part of the world but have heon
 so struck with its situation and sur l roundings, that am induced to believe
 a short letter up the subject may not
 prove gnlnteresting to your patrons.
 rhe town IS reached by the Prescott
 k AFisoaa Central Railway, which 1 connects with the Atlantic < Pacific
 road at Prescott Iancuon, point
 seven,y-ioar miles distant. almost due
 north The trip through this valley Is
 extremely interest ng and attractive, in
 a scenic point oi view, throughout. ! Abeat three miles from the town. the | railway skirts the eastern edge of tha valley. To ihe west at some coasiders.
 bic distance the mountains Fisa in pre-
 cipitous ehffs ot granite. with jagged
 and irregular sky line, as though they
 had been mltsen into fragments with
 the hammer oi Thor, and descend by 1 irregular terraces ieto the plain, pre-
 senting ayiee, which for its msgnid-
 eence and sublimity Is well worth Journey across the continent to behoid.
 On the east gigantic masses of granite
 are heaped up, stretching away for
 miles. and extending along the line ot
 the road for more than mile. The surfaces oi the most oi these have been rounded and plaued smooth hy the sc. ton of the ar and water. while here and there rude obelisks are standing in every conceivable position, some up right and others leaning at almost every angle. Piles of shattered fragments occur at intervals. and from the inter stioes in the rocks, wherei they can
 md 8 place for their roots pines, dwarf
 oaks and other small trees, lift up their
 heads, adding to the beauty of their environment and seeming to rejoice in the glory ant nagnifcence of their home. This scene can be hkened tO nothing but tae ocean m a storm; the rounded powders are the mighty bil- l lows, the debris takes the place of these 1 pillows when shattered aud spent, and l the Obelisks with their scored sides, l brilliant in the rays of the setting sun, as the traveller views .hem when pass ing in the evening train. are huge ice | bergs tossed to and fro, battered and | broken through he violence ol the | waves. The prismaiic hues oi water | and ice are, alone, wanting to render | the simile perfect, and the excited im agination easily supplies this lack. From this place, called the roint oi rocks" Prescott Is approached through 1 a lovely valley iysvereed by ! small l stream, afoag winch there appears luxnri nt growth ol walints-end cct ionwoods, clothed 'in ,heir aatnnnal roacs, rel eyed by the dark groen Q Be i pine, and the emerald oi the dwsEl oaks. wit in a mile ot the tow, ca the east, Fo't whipple Is pictarsqaely located on the rolling hills bounded iy a low rdge q mountains.
 Prescott Ijseli lies partly upon '.ii, and partly m the coutlnuation of tho vslloy by whlch it's approached Im- mense pines aTe satfar,d ihro gliou', and am told where st uow stands wss once forest, such as now extead, to- W ard the west and southwest Tor mere than twenty miles. beginning. seI 1 almost w4thn the hmits ot tir cily Toward the northwest. weird granite butt,s rear up their meade. now fash ng ia tho sunlight, and again frowning as tbe ehadOws chase each ] In the foreground of this picture stand he giant pines. finding an anchorage Dotween ,he mighty bo glders aud huge masses ol rock, which the towering ,uttes appear, at some prehistoric period, to have shaken from themselves n anger and hurled headloGg down heir Hanks Wooded mountains iu egular ranges encirele the town in very other direction, and form S pro. eoting wall from the wind and storm The climate is as near perfection as eaa e found on earth the summers de- ghtiully cool. mosquitoes and other ests unknown, and the winters neither ,ng nor severe. The sun shines rightly more than three hundred days | the year. and inhaling the pure air . with the resiuous exhalations the pine is restoration from the dead ' , the afflicted censumptiye, and de- ght to the healthy and strong. It Is ot necessary to say that the health of 4 he place IS excellent. for how could it II 3 otherwise with such surroundingsi ,r } altitude is . 500 feet, bsia, neither "a Q great to eausa dangerous shock to e. e enleebled system oi the pulmonary
 others invalid, nor too little net 60 ace it beyond the reach of malarious
 miasmatic influences. Al Prescott is. moreover, well built, idently fouTishing and as Ausy Ss ve of bees. Valuable mines cf the ecious metals and copper are m it's ,inity, and contribute to its prosper 2. The population, all Amsricans, is | out three thousand. Three and fcur so .s' gons coupled together, drawn by 'h' ,ms of fourteen, sixteen or even as 1 ,es my as twenty horses or mules, laden l .hrich ore on their way to the place my shipment, nd with all kinds Of sup me es on their return trip, are no unu- v II sight in the streets. There are client public schools here, gas and otric lights--those sure opponents of dern progress and enlightenment or