Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-08-02
Scenery and Resources Should Be We'll
 Advertised
What a Florida Visitor Thinks Of
 Prescott

It will prove of interest to residents of Prescott to know the sentiment of eastern people with referenc to this part of Yavapai county, as explained by E. E. Cheney of Jacksonville, Fp- .rida.
 MT. Cheney is member of the visit ing stockholders of the North Ameri- can Exploitation Company, and with Father A. Kaehlin of Shelbyville, In diana, arrived here a day in advance of the main party. For climatic reasons they left their friends at Phoenix and came to Prescott. Thursday Father Quetu took the visitors to Granite Dells, and showed them the country in that vicinity, and MT. Cheney, who is an enthusiastic photographer for his own delectation, returned to town loud in his praise of the beauty and grand eur of what he had seen.
 To a Journal-Miner reporter he said: "You people out here ought to be ashamed of yourselves. You don't seem to know what you we got in the way of natural wonders, and I am sur prised that you have not made use of your magnificent advantages. have taken about forty views of the Dells and the Point of Rocks, and I can honestly assure you, never was more pleasantly surprised in my life.
 f'I cannot understand what you are thinking of, or rather what you do not think of, when you neglect to adver- tise that beautiful stretch of country. Where is your board of trade, and why don't you start something7 A well managed body like a board of trade can increase your population 9 per cent within the next two years if it will set out in the right way to show the people what you have right here at your very doors.
 1.-The Garden of the Gods is not in the contest with that beautiful and odd formation out here right at hand, and why you don't use this to advantage l cannot understand. Beautiful does not express it when talking of that little bit of country. I have travelled quite a distance in my own country, and have never seen a more at tractive spot than you have, almost within a short walk of your town.
 "'What do I like about it7 Well, it is different from anything else that I ever saw. One drives over an arid stretch for a short few miles, and all at once drops down into steep grade and into a running stream, trees, and yer dure that is Of itself a picture. Stand, ing about as if they served as senti- nels and guards of this beautiful oasis are those magnificent columns made by nature, that you call Point of Rocks. It is simply beyond description, and l cannot conceive how you will allow this splendid feature of your country to remain unknown.
 eff we had any such spot where l come from, every traveller in the Un- tied States would know about 1t. It g worthy of any effort you can make to advertise it. It is the one most at- tractive feature of my trip in the west, and I would not have missed seeing 1t at any cost. Photos of this beautiful place will be an attraction in my home in Florida after my return. have taken about forty views, and l can promise you that this addition to my collection will prove the most strlk- ing portion of it, and I have taken views myself from all over the world.
 You say for me that you need a good live board of trade. Let people know what you have here in the way of scenic attractions. Tell them about your mines and your cattle. Send out statistics about your fruit, Verde val ley, isn't it, that furnishes such fine fruit2 That's what I mean. Get in the swim. That one place, Granite Dells, with its surroundings should bring thousands of people here to see 1t, and you can bring them if you will set about it.