Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-07-29
Even Prospect Holes Affected
by the General Boom
BUT NOT In GREAT DEMAND
The Republicans riiRlnq Cores.
pondenf Now al 1inaman prepar.
ing TO Visit Chloride, One OF fhe
Richest and riOSt Extensive
ninlng Districts In All the
Territory.

Kingman, Ariz., July :o-(Special
correspondence of The Republican,
Five O'Clock Sunday morning at the
Phoenix freight depot of the S. F. P.
& P. railroad.-The air Is cool, crisp
and altogether delightful to a man
who has just put in a busy week in
FEoenix. Life is once more worth
living and with the prospect
of journeying northward into a
cool country is distinctly 50. Leisure
ly stepping on board the freight train
wouldn't hurry or put on any "hus-
tie" today for kings ransom-your
weary and heat-worn correspondent
remembering that some fellow says
keeping cool is merely an effort of the
will resolves to make that effort
Then it strikes him that making an
effort is in the nature of work and as
he is out for holiday he declines to
make anything like an effort in any
direction whatsoever, but will simply
let things slide. He is cool now, which
is good, and he is going where he can
keep cool during the whole twenty
four hours of the day, which is better
Just after sunrise, at o'clock, we
pull out and at Glendale get a chance
of a good breakfast. Don't want any
| breakfast. Had some ice-cold cante-
loupes and cup of coffee at Coffee
AIS" at 4:30 a. m. and am now engag-
ed in getting up an appetite for big
dinner in the evening, wfe.e-deli-
cious ttfought-it is cool.
Leaving Glendale the sun climbs
apace and begins to assert its power.
For some distance ann afraid of the re-
currence of the Old we'll remembered
symptoms, but succeed in banishing
them, and at Kirkland, on the hills to
the west of the track, there is blessed
shower falling. A gentle, cooling
breeze from this grateful downpour is
waited toward US, and getting out in
front l sit with my mouth wide open
all the way to Prescott greedily swal-
lowing big chunks of a deliciously
cool and inyigorating atmosphere.
At Prescott Sunday evening 1 en-
joyed a nights rest, which the trace
of Irish blood 1 confess 20 tempts me
to say 1 shall remember at one of the
red letter days Of my existence.
Indications of the present activity in
the mining interests OF the territory
abound on all sides at Prescott. A
good many men identified with well
known and established mines were in
town over the weekend and they were
without exception in a CHEEKY and
contented frame of mind. The crowd
of prospect owners were as sanguine
as ever and there is not a man in the
town who, not being the owner of a
mine or prospect himself, doesn't know
man that knows a man who has inst
the very identical thing that the other
fellow tfrom the east or eIsewberel IS
looking for. And here let me call at
Pention TO matter which is seriously
retardlng the Advancement of the min
ing industries of the territory. Not
one alone but every one of the men
met who are. seeking investments
complained that owners of prospeets
and ''holes in the ground had clean
lost their heads over the attention
which has of late been directed to the
possibilities of mining enterprise in
Arizona. Prospects which a few
months ago could have been acquired
on fair and reasonable terms have
sky-Sigh, in fact, are
quite out of sight, and where
hundreds would then have been
accepted thousands and
N some cases tens of thou
sands of dollars is the greedy
owners estimate of the present value
If his undeveloped claims.
1t is sincerely to be hoped thaf such
owners will come to their senses be-
ore grievous setback is adminis-
cred to the prosperous outlook which
low exists. Already several eastern
capitalists have left Arizona without
the investments they came
lere fully prepared to make, ana as
me of them, on the eve of departure.
himself to me, they do not
propose 20 come back again until the
stern logic of common sense has had
ime to assert itself 1t is surely
worth the serious consideration of the
,wners of prospects whether by the !
curse they are taking they are not
ommitting financial suicide, and asI
aid before, giving the territory a set
Jack from which it will take years to
As on my last two expeditions I con-