Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-08-14
ARIZONA'S SCENERY.
Her rich mines, her hOSpltabls people
 and hSr evidences of antiquity.
EI-Chiei JuCtCs H. C. GOOdins tells the
 Los Angeles Express of them all.

In recent interview by the Los
 Angelas Express Judge Fl. c. Good
 win, formerly Chief Justice of this
 territory. sad very many pretty, but l truthful things, about Arizona
 Among other things said of the ter
 ritory he had the following to say
 of this section: Prescott was the
 former capital, and is the center oi
 the best mining district Money
 there is rather free; 5000 was raised
 in very short time 10 celebrate the
 Fourth of July. On Sundays when
 collections are taken up at the
 churches the rule is nothing les:
 than a quarter from that up. Every
 one owns mine tor prospect,
 which makes them feel just as rich) l While 1 lived there l had occasion
 to hire a man named Jack to saw uE
 some wood. l went out to see how
 he was getting along. Before I had
 passed a word, Jack rather paralyzed
 me by saying in the most bushes: like way, Judge, let me sell you a
 gold mine Jack had prospect and ! thought 1t was a mine, and felt as
 rich as if it had been & mine. l was
 a tenderfoot and hadn't yet learned | that a gold mine could mean less than a million.
 Prescott, tor hospitality, summer climate and scenic beauty is unex- celled From the window of my courthouse chambers, in one view on a straight line. l could take in
 throe points of great interest - Whipple Barracks, Point of Rocks and the San Francisco Mountains, eighty miles away, though Appar- entlY only hfteen; the pretties, group of mountains in the United
 States. The picture of them forms part of the great seal of the terri tory.
 "The new railroad from Ash Fork to Prescott and Phenx Is delightful to travel over. It is substantially built at great expense, and passes over aud on top of the mountains, through a clear, pure atmosphere, and gives an cyer-Varying view. Ari- zonA IS remarkable for the purity of the air and the stretch of vision that it gives At one time. while going by stage from Casa Grande to Flor enee, we distinctly saw and discussed four separate storms at the same time, and it was sunshine all around uz. We could see IOO miles in one direction snd eighty in another A MaucOpa station the headlight of the locomotive on the Southern Pacific can be seen before 1t gets t0 Casa GFande, gweaty one miles away. The track theFe is perfectly straight and perhaps the longest stretch tn the county.
 When asked iu regard to the scenic attractions of the territory, Judge Gooding replied. Well, to bo brief, shero is in the northern part of the territoFy the Grand CAnyon of the Colorado, a chAam in the earth that e1ceis ln stupendous yastness any thing li ka it on the face of the globe. ' ben the Fetrihed Forest Is won der. ] have walked ua PetFhed logs sixty fest long and three feet in diameter Toe homes Of the Clia Dweliers awaken wonder And pro found reflection. By taking a drva over good road through a grand oid pine forest. from FlAgstaH. eight milss eAst, one of these places, homes uf the Chn DwellsFs, ean bp seea. You suddenly come upon a drop in the earth t00 feet deap and siHiecu miles loag. the sides of which are pitted with the old homes of the ancient people. ln midWinter the fragrant breath of spring, aud ths song of birds come up from tue depths below. The tsrritory alsounds in sonderful physical features that when they become known and lacili ties Tor travel make them accessible. wlli cause it Co swarm with tourists. Tue White mountains of Arizona. of which many people have never heard, are much grander in propor- | ton aud scenic beauty than the White mountains in New HAmp. shire, and tho Natural Bridge in favapai county excels the Natural | Bridge of Virginia. But the wonder l of wonders, to my mind, is the svi- | dences of antiquity of that country. Some parts of it look as ancient as Old Time make you feel like you | were in far of country and away back before time began to be count l ed. At one time l held a term of | court at St. Johns, in Apache coun- ty. While walking in the outskirts of the little semi Mexican, Mormon. American village, I picked up pieces ot painted pottery exactly like those sxhumed from Herculaneum and Pompeii. Again, the remains of old cities and the old canals in the Salt River Valley, prove that population and civilization existed there before Columbus discovered America, and possibly coeval with the beginnings )f Egypt and Asia. No one has ever been able to fix the time or account Tor the manner of the extinction of he ancient peoples. Arizona is the oldest as we'll as the newest inhab- ted portions of our country"
 
 Temperance RsvIVaIs.