Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-11-16
Beautiful Scenery, and Crooked Railroad.
A Travellers First Impression Of the Great Copper Camp
 Of Jerome.
By Dr. J. Waterloo DinsdaIe.

%, 1904, arrived at Jerome Junction an hour later where we changed cars, taking the United Verde and Pacific railroad to Jerome. The train was al- most ready to start, but one of the passengers had desire to refresh the inner man, and the conductor was kind enough to "wait while he ate'' and judging from the length of time he took for his repast, he must have had a good dinner and very empty stomach. On our return we took din ner at the hotel and hen fully realized why our fellow passenger fingered so long at the festive board.
 In due time our fellow passenger with satisfied expression made his appearance. The hotel man rushed out ahd yelled 'Ietergo" we all scrambled aboard and away we went. For the first few miles the road was smooth and straight, the scenery tame, then we began to climb. How the little engine did puff and snort, up and down, around and around the noun tains like a serpent. On one side the high rugged mountain, on the other the deep yawning canyon; in the dis tance the cliffs or walls of the canyon chiseled into picturesque shapes by old Father Time, painted in the most delicate tints by the hand of Mother Nature, reminded one of ruins of once populous and beautiful cities.
 1 have travelled extensively through this country and in countries of the old world, have seen many fine works of engineering, but none that surpdss- es or equals the fine engineering work on the United Verde and Pacific rail way from Jerome Junction to Jerome, a distance of 26 miles. From the time the train struck the mountains till it reached Jerome 1 don't believe it had a chance once to straighten its If full lentgh, for every time l looked out of the window, and that was almost con- stantly, the engine, and often one or two cars were in view. Then the en- zine would disappear from my view. would look out the opposite window and see it disappearing around a curve on the other side, then back again and so on until we reached Jerome. This road certainly is the "crookedest, snakyest, shakyest" road 1 ever trav- eled.
 We have read of and seen beautiful cities on a hill-Jerome is on hill or hills, but the adjective beautiful cannot be appropriately applied to this city on hill, for of all dusty, dirty, ragged and jagged places Je- rome takes the cake. It made me dizzy to l )ok up at the houses on the steep mountain side. In some places the mountain was dug out-a level place just large enough to set the little house in-and then the many steps to reach the little home. felt as if had got on ''time machine" and travelled back five centuries. The depot is almost half a mile from the business part of the town, and that half mile is down grade-very down grade-so much so that we found it difficult to keep our seats in the bus. We had the feeling we were taking toboggan slide. We stopped at the Connor hotel. The genial and oblig- ing clerk, MT. Jim Sweeney, gave us comfortable. pleasant rooms. After getting settled ID our rooms, we start ed out to see the town and to complete the arrangements for the rest of our trip. First we visited drug store (the drug store people are supposed to know everything worth knowing) met one of the firm, Mir. Tarr, very affa- bIe and obliging gentleman. Mir. Tarr had taken the trip we anticipated, and was prepared to give us the informa- tion we desired.
 We called at Dr. Coleman's office, had a pleasant chat with the doctor, who is very popular and busy man
 
 The doctor advised us to take pri- vate rig with a driver in preference to the mail or stage. We called at the livery, found team and driver would cost us something less than trip to tho Grand Canyon( q visited the Grand Canyon few weeks ago) or the Holy Lands. Not being related to the great Cooper King" Senator Clark, and not possessing very fat pocket book, we decided to take the stage to Camp Verde and trust to getting a rig there to visit the other places. Having completed our arrangements for the next day, we looked around for an eating place. found nice clean dining hall kept by Mrs. Bell, who was very courteous and obliging. The dinner was we'll cooked and nicely served.