Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-02-14

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 der such favorable circumstances for a disastrous 'conhagration as this one. The building itself, dry as finder, and lined with paper and muslin, and joining almost on row of equally dry wooden buid ings in direct line with the high wind blowing, it seems almost ml- raculouS that the brave fremen were able to hold the flames m check. Never before have they ac- complished such good work as at this fire, although .their work Las always been good and effective. Had they lost control of the fire there Is no one who can even que 's where the destruction would have ended. Property owners of Pres colt have reason to be proud of their volunteer fire department, and very many of them to-day have abundant reason to feel very grate- ful 10 it.
 It lacks now only a few days of oue year since Grover Cleveland was inaugurated president of the United States. It has been fifteen months since he was elected to the position. During all this time there are those who have done nothing except to try to get an official sp- pointment, only to see at lass some one else appointed to the coveted position. They spent their time and substance, as well as considera- ble borrowed substance from other people, together with a very small amount of physical energy, (al- though this does not count much) in chasing phantom which at the last flies from their reach. IL is putting it mild to state that this class of people are unworthy of of ficlal position. It is the man who goes about his business and who makes the hunting or seeking of official position secondary consid- eration, who will fill the position successfully. Men of energy and business tact do not wait around for political lightning to strike them and those who do seldom ever get hit by bolt from the Washington administration.
 California boasts of her varied climate. That one can leave a sec ton of perennial summer sand in a days ride can reach almost perpet- ual snow. Arizona is equally favor ed with climatic conditions. In the northern part of the territory, near Flagstaff, the peaks of the San Francisco, rear their lofty heads, to an altitude of about I3,000 feet above sea level, and here is found the nearest approach to perpetual snow in the territory. Snow rc- mains there until July and August, while it not unfrequently happens that they receive new mantle again in October. These are about seventy-fve miles from Prescott, the altitude being about 7,6OO feet greater than in Prescott. Only twenty or thirty miles in the oppo- site direction from Prescott, at Wal nut Grove, the altitude IS 2,0O0 feet less than here, and while dur ing our coldest spell here this win ter the thermometer one morning registered a few degrees below zero, the coldest weather experi- enced at Walnut Grove was four degrees below the freezing point, as unusual temperature for that section as 1t is in Prescott for the mercury to reach zero. A few miles further south where the altitude Is still less a region Is reached where there is an entire absence of frost the entire year. The possibilities of this territory for fruit growing have never even yet been dreamed of by most enthusiastic citizen. The key to these lgreat possibilities will be eventually found in water storage.
 "A Further Decline in Silver. It Reaches the Lowest Point Ever Known" Such was the heading over an article recently in re CT ence to the price of the white metal. On the day following or second day afterwards the following significant headline appeared: Slump in Wheat; It Drops to the Lowest Figures Known" A comparison of the prices of wheat, cotton and other commodities with the price of silver during the past twenty years will discover that the princi- pie staples of the country have de- clined just in proportion as silver has been enormously reported to fall, but in reality as gold has risen. It seems nothing could be made plainer than the fact that this dem onstrates, to wit, tn at in reality silver has not declined, but gold has advanced. The purchasing price of silver today is as great as it has ever been. 1t will purchase us much wheat, cotton or other commodity as ever, while the pur- chasing price of gold has been greatly increased. Silver should be restored to its former position as money metal, and it would not be long until this country would re- turn tO it's former condition of