Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-05-17
SIGNS OF THE TIMES!
The Healthy Condition of Prescott and Iayapai County From . Stand
 point Of Industrial Lie,
4 New Telephone Line to the Mines Home Building in this City and
 Other "Stra~s,'


 nation from the past of feeling oi Insecurity that for so long held iis material development in the bal ance. as 1t were, Is passed. With its future now there faces it everything that is bright and promising. and better than all of this, the town is assuming such phase of permsn cut development that is so slrikingly indicative oi influence and promin- epce as to be the cause of very fsE- orable comment.
 Today we are permitted to men- tion some of ihs many improve ments inaugurated in touch with tke times, sud among them the follow ing are especially significant and as affecting the commercial import ance of this particular city, and as a business center likewise, of the vast mining region of which we are the center.
 Today work was started by Presi- dent Wright of the electric com psny. on a telephone line from Pres colt to the Crowned King, an under taking which 1t xill take at leas. two months to complete, and call for the expenditure of several thousand dol lars. The new line will be the means of placing Prescott in direct aud convenient communication with Groom creek. the Seuator country Crook canyon. TuTkev creek and the Bradshaws, aud besides all this II will afford many people in many of these localities the means of making direct and rapid purchases from this city, a fact which our business men should appreciate aud grasp with favor. On the complet'on of this line there will unquestionsblY come to thls center trade which otherwise in many instances we do not or could not reap.
 AnotRer good indication of our iu- ternal life Is before us in the matter of home building snd the number of uew structures with which the town has been blessed in the past year. To place a fair valuation on real es- tate transactions and houles that to- day are to be sOen going up will run up inlo the thousands of dollars Over forty residences have beeu built during the past year and tWenty-three aIe goIng up at present Many people are also desirous 1i making this city or its immediate vicinity their summer home, appIe- ciating as only the stranger does, the exhilerating balm Cf pine clad atmosphere that is tempered mildly ant as just about right
 As to this city particularly, there has, 1t Is true, been one great draw back to its progress ID the past, that to a certain extent has reflected on it generally, and that is the wster questIos. Happily, however. this problem is being solved, and while tLe croaker may croak. the practical features of this controversy are so convincing, however, that facts must prevail over theories. and it can be said that today more water is avail able for public service than st any time Tn our history as a munlcIpal tody. The period of drouth the country is going through today is the worst ever experienced in the life of this section, but nevertheless must 1t be said IS the supply of water from the new works one of the most abundant also the city has ever been blessed with. With the water works problem now so satisfactory, the construction of a sewerage system will b. followed by other internal improvements. and in short the city which has for sD long been stand jug on its own foundation. will push aside the past, aud reap from the position it holds, pro linence aud wealth that it IS destined to har- bor. More mining money ID the past three months has been on the ground here than in all the years of the past. which gives us s pivotal station in the field of future mining 1 transactions that no other section ! of Arizona can boast of.