Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-08-16
MORE ABOUT SUMMER RESORTS

Us AEuAA UT ANcN~NA N~Ah~N- f- aries yelping at its heels. The pa per seems to be in their way Tor some reason or other. A remark recently to the effect that PheniH newspapers would not likely be able to get the California tourists from that section believe their stories about pleasant weather prevailing in the capital city, has been taken as a serious affair and as an attempt to knock the town. Our Prescott contemporary first took the matter up with a series of snaFls al the JOURNAL MISER and now comes our Phenix contemporary, the Herald with an original editorial on the subject, which by the way was the first original article of any kind which has appeared in 1t for several days. Here is what the senile sheet says:
 Heres the knocker again The papers 10 question have devoted considerable space this summer to efforts to induce the capitalists of Prescott to provide means Of sun mer entertainment for residents of the valley, ID the hope of retaining in Arizona the hundreds of thOus- ands of dollars that otherwise will be spent annually at the coast re sorts So far as the PbcniX weather IS concerned it has for the last fort night been thoroughly enjoyable. The JOURNAL MINER not only resents our efforts to induce Phenicians to spend their money in Arizona, but goes out of it's way to east a slur on the valley climate. The J.-M. IS a thorough backbiter. It can not Tor give Pheni1 for forging to the front. IL says in effect to the people of the valley that they are not wanted at Prescott. lt tries to create the im- pression abroad that Prescott Is the only town ID the territory. It IS narrow and contracted and thor oughiy sour and cannot see beyond its nose. Otherwise it would CO., operate in a movement that would make far greater prosperity in Ari- zOua and particularly in Prescott. The people of Prescott would be justified in running the J.-M. man through their new sewer system. He needs regeneration"
 The amusing feature of the above IS the contention thSt the climate of PheniI is thoroughly enjoyable, aud no one should leave there on ac- count of its discomforts, and then ID the next sentence the contradlc- ton of it by stating that the papers Of Phenix have been pleading on pended knees for Prescott capitalists to provide accommodations in some Of the numerous cool and shady re treats found in this section to en- able them to get away from their thoroughly enjoyable climate.
 The a assertion that the JOURNAL MINER net only Tesents our efforts to induce Pbenicians to spend their money in Arizona, but goes out Of its way to cast a slur on the valley climate" is an absolute falshoOd, and simply a creation of the writers imagination, suPerinduced by a disordered liver. The JOURNAL MINER could not slur the summer climate of the valley if IL wanted to, and it has no desire odo so. It has simply confined itself to facts and existing conditions, both in Pheni1 and Prescott in what little it had 10 say on the subject. It would like to see the residents of the valley come Co Prescott and remain during the warm season, but it knows well that no accommodations that can be pro vide here would induce the great majority of them to do so. The JoURNAL-M MINER deals with this as with all other questions from a plain matter of fact business stand point and not from any damphool expressions of sentiment. If that is backbiting then 1t is a backbiter. Even our own people go in large numbers to Cali fornia during the summer. not 10 escape any discomforts of climate which exist here but for vacation and a change. We cannot restrain them from going, either, any more than Phenix papers can restrain their citizens. Whenever Phenic- ians decide 10 summer in Prescott, as already stated, they will find ample accommodations here. The creation of demand for them will induce people to provide them.
 By the way, Phenieian recently looked the ground over with this object in vIew. He con cluded it would not pay. It would pot pay Prescott man any better than he, and Prescott capitalists are not given to investments as a matter of sentiment any more than are those of Phenix. As to the JOURNAL MINER not being able to see beyond its nose, it can see far enough be- yond 1t to realize that just so long as a trip, covering a period of two or three months, to California can be made by the people of Pheuix as cheap or cheaper than it can 10 Pres colt, the tide of travel cannot be stopped here, but will continue to the former place. This is the plain fact of the case and DO amount of silly sentiment can change it, much as we would like to do so.
 
 Ex-Governor Atkinson of Georgia Is dead.