Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-07-10
A VISITORS VIEWS.
Captain Hardy, the Veteran Ari- zonan, Tells of the Beauties of New Prescott.
He Also Touches on Politics and
 Statehood and Gives Expression to Some Very Forcible Opinions.

bO Ilo AIlDOnd IlopuuiiCdIl, SpcdhluS of his recent visit to Prescott has the following to say of the new town and of the people who built it:
 One year had passed and gone on my visit last week and I beheld a pic. turesque city, city that is credit to Arizona and city that is up to date. Some of the finest buildings on the continent, in fact in the world. The first building to attract my at tention was the new Hotel Burke, a building of rare architectural success, a building whose outward appearance will equal any building in America, and the finish is up to date. It is in a style to please the traveller, the min ing man, the miner, the most fastidi- ous. If you go to Prescott be sure and try Hotel Burke. There are also other fine buildings and blocks of of them. The Bashford building is one of the great triumphs of the building and architectural art, beauty and durability combined. I could mention fifty buildings that are up to date but one more at least must mention, that is the building now going up for the new First National Bank of Prescott. There is nowhere on earth a more tasteful, more neat and substantial building. It is in teresting to see those massive blocks of granite lifted in place. I noticed and counted spme fifty stone cutters and learned that they came from Fol som, Cal. Their work was proof that they wera.xs6asters of the art. Some of these massive blocks of gran ite weighed nearly forty thousand pounds and were about ssixteen feet long. Nearly one thousand tons of this beautiful grfnite will be hewn and lifted in place by immense der ricks,srThen the brick work is of i'm ported, pressed, fancy colored brick it's daisy of a building. There are several other fine hotels besides the Hotel Burke and fifty, at least, fine buildings that will attract the notice of a stranger.
 Near Prescott is an inexhaustible supply of building material, extensive beds of clay that make firm and lasting brick, are less than one mile from the city limits and mountains of granite of superior quality not two miles from town. While watching the stone cutters I noticed that the granite was very firm, free from .Srscks or spots, d light coie2 and iu Sact equal to any granite to be found oh ni earth. While noticing this beau tiful granite l could not help think ing that if the better class of inhabi- tants could gain power to elect leg islature of practical men, men of worth, men of economy, men that are above selling out for few paltry dollars, they would pass an act locat- ing at least few of those convicts from the Yuma prison near Prescott, build a corral around one of those small granite mountains and set them to making something out of nothing, Quarry, hew and dress for export granite. Build a permanent prison that will be a credit to Arizona and the country in general. In our pres ent political status we are in the mud at a dry time. We are controlled by party made up of nihilists, anarch- ists, socialists, populists and demo- crats. They have the number and political strength to control the terri tory for years to come.
 met a member of congress few days since. I asked him why we were not admitted as a state. He said we did not show ourselves to be competent to maintain statehood. We were over three millions of dol lars in debt and nothing to show for | it. Taxation Is extreme and still you are running in debt. The last ses- sion of your legislature created an in debtedness of over S360000, mostly poodle. You run things on an ex- pensive scale and don't care for your credit. Your counties are mostly run on an extravagant scale and if you were admitted to statehood you would elect a governor and state officers that would wreck the state. They would elect senators and a member of congress that would be disgrace to the union. In fact I do not be. lieve that the party in power would ! frame a constitution that would be approved by congress. No, it will be years before you can remove youI political atmosphere, at best" Thus spoke member of congress that had served in congress five terms.
 Detroit. Michigan, the home of NJ Quad, who was the author of that presumably excruciatingly humorou; department of the Detroit Free Pres, called the Arizona Kicker, has fol
 the past few years furnished nor, capital for investment in various way. in northern Arizona than any city il
 the United States in proportion to it
 population. After all "Mr." Quad'
 humor may have been the cause O