Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-05-08
DOG IN MANAGER POLICY.


 The Phenix Enterprise, which has been the avowed enemy of Yavapai county for some time, never missing an opportunity to give this county a stab in the back, continues its opposi- tion to the presidential visit to the Congress mine for no other apparent reason, except that it is in this county and that F. NJ. Murphy is interested in the mine. Its scheme is to get the presidential party to stop in Tucson, and then occupy the time intended tor the trip to Congress. Of course the proposition, to any one except the editor of the Enterprise, IS perfectly ridiculous when it is known that the train will pass through Tucson about midnight when the members of the party are supposed to be asleep. One of the objections urged by the Enter prise against the visit of the party to Congress, is that it might be con- strued as an attempt to use the chief executive for mercenery methods on account of the recent sale of the mine. Of course this excuse is very far fetch ed, and the inconsistency of it is dem onstrated in the columns of the En- terprise, by its persistent and repeat ed reference to the great benefit ex- pected from the Salt River valley by his visit. In fact to read the Phenix papers generally one could not but form the opinion that the only inter est taken in the presidential visit is the dollars and cents worth of adver- Using they can obtain from it. Almost every reference made to his visit con- tains some allusion to the pecuniary advantage which they expect to obtain from it.
 The Congress mine has just been sold, hence there is no intention on the part of those interested in getting the presidential party to visit it, to attempt to get him and his cabinet to buy it. Mining is the most promi- nent industry of this territory by all odds. For this party to come to Ari- zona and never leave the Salt River valley, and to carry back with them the impression that all there is of Ari- zona is an oasis of a few thousand acres in a barren waste of desert would certainly be very misleading and would be an injustice to the ter ritory. All of the distinguished gen. tlemen composing the party have seen rich grain and pasture fields in the east and are thoroughly familiar with such scenes, but probably not half dozen of the entire party have ever seen well equipped mine and mill and will see nothing in their entire trip which will be of greater interest to them.
 When the president and party left Washington last Monday, their ob- lective point in Arizona was the Con- gress mine, in Yavapai county, the richest county in the territory, and barring accidents it will arrive there on schedule time next Tuesday morn. ing, May z. After thoroughly in, specting one of Arizona's greatest bull lion producing mines, looking through its eighty stamp mill and witnessing the manner of extracting and separa- ting the precious metal from the en- vironments in which it was placed by nature, taking in the cyanide plant and seeing the process of ex- tracting and refining the gold, the party will take their departure fol California where it is due on the morning of May s. On account oi the special arrangements made by the Southern Pacific railroad for theil rapid transportation it gives them a few hours lee way which will be spent in Phenix, as they pass through that place. Of course everybody in the territory rejoices that they will have this opportunity of stopping there fo1 short time, as it is one of the garden spots of the territory and will afford them an opportunity of witnessing what wonderful transformation can be made of desert by water and in telligent industry.