Arizona republican., 1895-06-11
AS TO PRESCOTT A Town Worth Getting
 Acquainted With. Where People Breathe
 for the Love of It.
A Sunday Trip Across a Late
 Almost stInaccessible Barrier
Scenic Features of the s. F. P. & P.. It's Solidity. Comfort and Court
 eousness of Officials.

If Phoenix people knew more about Prescott and if Prescott people knew more about Phoenix it would be better for both those towns. This was suggested to REPUBLICAN reporter who visited Prescott last Sunday. Prescott by the way which used to be farther than Los Angeles or Albuquerque is now so near that one can leave Phoenix in the morn- ing after gun up and return the same day. So the 14O miles of barren desert and almost inaccessible mountains have been nearly annihilated. One may if he takes the early morning train from Phoenix spend almost the whole day ln Prescott, but to those who do not want to get up at the unchristian hour Of 2 80, the 80 (Phenix time) accommo- dation affords glorious opportunity. The usual accommodation" train is 50 called because it is not an accommoda- tion. It generally consists of dirty caboose attached to slow and irregular freight train whose crew regards the unfortunate traveller in much the same | light as the hardly less unfortunate oc. cupant of the stock car.
 The s. F.. P. & F., accommodation which left Phoenix on Sunday morning was quite another sort of train. The attached passenger coach is handsome and comfortable one, a counterpart of those on the regular passenger trains. But the genial crew would make the traveller feel comfortable in less lux urious coach. The gentlemen who were responsible for the infringement of the train were conductor Thos. McGrath, brakemen Fred Getsey and c. F. Spen- cer, engineer D. Giilis and fireman Harry Landen. An admirable thing about the mem bers of this crew is that while they carefully perform the duties appertaining to the conduct of freight train, they spare no pains and lose no opportunity to make the existence of occupants of the passenger coach thoroughly comfortable.
 In one respect shere is an advantage in travelling, especially in the day time by this train. It's slower motion gives the traveller better opportunity to en- | | is 8 scenic route and marvel of rail- road engineering. Taken throughout it's length from the Box canyon to Ash Fork, old travellers say it is the most expensive and carefully constructed road in the Unites States. There may be brief incidents of grander scenery and more difficult engineering on other roads but on none other is the scenery so continuously grand and the engineer ing SO continuously difficult for one hundred and fifty miles.
 "They must have wanted road al- mighty bad," said 8 traveller at Skull Valley on Sunday night after having come down from Ash Fork.
 Leaving Phoenix in the morning the accommodation glided with almost ex. prees speed past we'll titled fields and we'll kept and expansive orchards until it reached Peoria. Thence the journey was across an unincidenJal des- ert, until the foothills were reached and the rugged Box canyon. The road winds along the Hassayampa, or rather hangs on a shelf of the bank of the river, whose title to the name of river at this season of the year rests only or it's broad channel Of sand, moistened by the waters hidden beneath and shim mering in the early sunlight.
 Wicken burg was broad awake on that Sunday morning. There was great ac tivity about the depot and saloons, anG l the luster of great mining camp of { quarter of a century ago seemed to have returned, and the miners say it has re. turned and Wicken burg will soon bt the busiest camp on the coast.
 When near Congress the train stopped. A tramp had Jagged it. His tongue was hanging out and he was 1T that condition described as "locoed.' He was out of water and but for that train would have been dead man. H. was taken on board and given drink Conductor McGrath would not allow himself to satisfy his thirst at once. but in safe degrees.
 He was given something to eat anC put off at Congress with much better opinion of human kind in general, and the railroad employees in particular He had gained also something else, horse sense enough to never start on twenty five.mile jaunt across an Arizona deser1 without water. He said he did not like to stop the train but he felt he was dy ing. He could see nothing and coulC only hear roar. He imagined all tht
 blood had dried out of his veins anG that the sun was burning his hair of.
 A brief description of the route would be as unsatisfactory as impossible, bu
 the changing climate may be described