Arizona republican., 1905-07-16
Prescott HOROrS a DiStin-
 guiShed Journalist
MIR. WILLIAM E. CURTIS
The Famous Washington Correspond ent, Traveller and Author, HaKes
 an Inspection Of the Northern
 COunty's Great Mineral Resources.

Prescott, Ariz. July 15.-CSpeciaL)- William E. Curtis. Washington cor respondent of the Chicago Record Herald one of the best known and ablest of the newspaper corps at the national capitol was the guest of hon Or at a smoker given by the Yavapai club tonight. Mfr. Curtis is making a tour of the southwest and is incident ally giving the Record Herald the re- suits of his observations MT Curtis has travelled widely and has written entertaining accounts Of his travels an this and foreign countries with which the reading public is familiar.
 On his Tresent trip he is travelling by private car and is accompanied by Mrs Curtis. MT. Burrows. his private secretary. MT. W. H Simpson and son Tracy. and MT. H. Fl. Moore MT. Simpson is advertising agent for the Santa Fe system at Chicago and has accompanied the party from Denver and MT. Moore who is one Of the Santa F'e coast lines passenger agents joins the party at the Grand Canyon for the
 California tour.
 Before coming to Prescott the party
 visited the petrified forrest and Grand Canyon arriving here last night This
 morning the party took a trip over the Prescott & Eastern branch line by spe- cial train to Crown King accompanied by MT. F. M. Murphy. General Super intendent Drake. General PassenEer l Agent Jones and Messrs. C. F. Finney and Cyrus Robinson of the Arizona U Nas at the site Of the new shelter at Val Verde the construction of which is now in progress and MT Curtis was much impressed with the magnitude of l the plans outlined by Messrs- Finney l and Robinson as well on account of the ' large expenditures contemplated as be- cause of the large supply of ores which are shown to be available by the un- | dertaking of this notable enterprise | The smoker tonight was we'll attend ' ed by PrescOtt's leading citizens most
 of whom have known MT Curtis l through his writings for years. MT. | Curtis has expressed himself as great | ly- pleased with ArizOna's advanced state of development and with the sub
 stantiaI evidences of prosperity iu
 Prescott and the country visited to-
 day The party will leave Sunday morning fo< Coronado and later ou ! will visit Los Angeles. san Francisco. the Yosemite and the Portland expo , sition.
 Mir Curtis is not only one or the foremost journalists or his time but is
 2 distinguished author and traveller Among his works are The TIbbaises I Folks "A Summer Scamper- The EIife of Zachariah Chandler" Children of the Sun Capital of spanish -kAmerica." ''The Land of the Nihilisc. t.Denmark, Sweden and Norway" The I True Thomas Jefferson The True I Abraham Lincoln ''The Turk and His Lost Provinces" Between the Andes and the Ocean, Today in France and Germany The Yankees of tle East DO and "The United States ana Foreign :, Powers" In addition he has written | hand books on a variety Of subjects and has collected much matter relat-
 ing to Columbus and the discovery of America. He is a member Of nearly all the learned societies in Washington
 and of several in Europe He was a ] president of the famous Gridiron club | Much of the work Of MT Curtis was
 accomplished while he was young
 man.