Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-06
Arizana Enterprise.
FLORENCE, DECEMBER 6, 1890
PRESCOTT.
PEN PICTURE FROM A MAsTERLY
 HAND.
Which Graphically Portrays --- Prescott and SurroundIngs---Its Beauties
 and Advantages.
Rev T. J. Glynn in Standard of the Cross and
 (,h1rph

readers of the Standard of the Cross have learned something of this part of the world; but have been so struck with it's situation and surroundings. that 1 am induced to believe a short letter upon the subject may not prove uninterestng to your patrons. The town is reached | by the Arizona Central Railway, which | connects with the A. X P. road at Pres colt Junction, point seventy-four miles | distant, almost due north. The trip through this valley is extremely interest ing and attractive, from a scenic point of view throughout. About three miles from the town, the railway skirts the eastern edge of the valley. To the west at some considerable distance the mountains rise in precipitious cliffs of granite, with jagged and irregular sky line, as though they have been smitten into fragments with the hammer of Thor,nnd descended by irregular terraces into the plan, present ing a view, which for it's magnifcence md sublimity is well worth a journey across the continent to behold. On the east gigantic masses of granite are heap ed up stretching away for miles, and ex- tending along the line of the road for more than mile The surfaces of most of these have been rounded and blamed | smooth by the action of air and water, i while here and there rude obelisks are | standing in every conceivable position, some upright and others leaning at al most every angle. Piles of shattered 1 fragments occur at intervals, and from ! he interstices in the rocks, wherein they can find a place for their roots, dwarf oaks, pines, and other small trees, lift up their heads. adding to the beauty of their environment and seem to rejoice in the glory and magnifcence of their home. This scene can be Ekened to nothing but the ocean in q storm; the rounded boulders are the mighty pillows, the debris takes the place of these pillows when shattered and spent, and the obel- isks with their scored sides, brilliant in the rays of the setting sun, as the traveller views them when passing in the evening train, are huge icebergs tossed to and fro battered aud broken through the viol- ence of the waves. The prismatic hues of water and ice are, alone, wanting to render the simile perfect, and the excited imagination easily supplies this lack. From this place. called the Point of Rocks" Prescott Is approached through a lovely valley traversed by small stream. along which there appears luxuriant growth of walnuts and cottonwoOds, clothed ill their golden aGtumnal robes, relieved by the dark green of the pine, and the emerald of tue dwarf oaks. Within mile ot the town, on the east, Fort Whipple is picturesquely located on the rolling hills, abounded by a low ridge of mountains.
 Prescott itself liet partly upon a hill and partly in the continuation of the val ley by which it is approached. Immense pines are scattered throughout, and l am told where itnow stands was once forest such as now extends toward the west and southeast for more than twenty miles beginning, yet almost within the limits of the city. Toward the northwest, weird granite buttes rear up their heads, now flashing in the sunlight, and again frown
 ng gloomily as the shadows chase eact )ther across their weatherworn fronts
 n the foreground of this picture stand
 le giant pines, finding an anchorage be
 Seen the mighty powders and huge masses of rock, which the towering buttef lppear, at some prehistoric period, tC lave shaken from themselves in angel and hurled headlong down their Hanks Wooded mountains in regular range:
 ncircle the town in every other direction md form protecting wall from wind anC torn. The climate is as near perfection , IS can be found on earth; the summer
 delightfully."- cool, mosquitoes and othe Jests unknown, and the winters neithe ong nor severe. The sun shines brightl, nore than three hundred days in th' ear, and inhaling the pure air perfumeC with the resinous exhalations of the pin
 5 restoration from the dead to the affiict d eonsumptivc, and a delight to tn
 ieathy and strong. It is not necessary } o say that the health of the place is ex sellent, for how could it be otherwis with such surroundings? The altitud
 $ $500 feet, being near too great to caus
 ! dangerous shock to the enfeebled sys . em of the pulmonary or others invalid nor to little not to place it beyond tn
 sach of malarious or mlasmatic Tn huences.
 Prescott is, moreover, well built. evi lently hourishing and as busy a ga hive c bees. Valuable mines of the preciou metals and copper are in it's vicinage, an - contribute to it's prosperity. The pop ulation, all Americans, is about thre thousand. Three and four wagons cou pied together, drawn by teams of fourteeI
 sixteen of even as many as twenty horse or mules. laden with rich ore on thei way to the place of shipment. and wit all kinds of supplies on their trip, are n
 unusal sight in the streets. There ar |, excellent public schools here, gas an
 electric, hghts-those sure opponents ( modern progress and enlightment. The ol dinary wages of the laboring man var
 from S2.50 10 S400 per diem, and withi
 two miles from town men are earning { |. much as from S10 to $15 day washin \ out the gold from placer-dirt, along th ' banks of little stream that flows throug
 the city.
 The church is here, as you know, ;
 last, and there is a prospect of speed
 growth for it that cannot be eXaggerate'
 Large congregations of refined and ele
 gant people. as well as of those not blesse by fortune. attend the services twice c Sunday, and there is the some vitalii about their religious earnestness us is c,
 hited in their business vacations. Stel
 are being taken for the erection of
 church building. for at present there
 none, and we have to meet in the Bapti church, which is temporarily unoccupie !. by them, and is rented by our people. A - opportunity is here presented of aidir
 those who are aiding themselves, and
 any of your readers are willing to "con
 over and help us" with their substanc
 they will be rewarded with assured al
 speedy returns for their loan to the LOT
 by witnessing the extension of the de = Masters Kingdom in this choice SD
 upon his earthly footstool.