Arizona republican., 1905-11-08

From a Car Window" It was writ ten by one Davis, whose other names are Richard Harding, the entire az
 gregatiOn being parted in the middle. MT Davis is a very successful author, one who derives dollars where most of his critics are glad to get pennies, and he must write very entertainingly for he has launched a good many books, and it is only fair to admit that a great many people read them. It is no crime that MT. Davis wrote such book, for the title conveys his ideas exactly. The fault is with the readers who will not bear in mind that Mir. Davis ideas were gleaned entirely from a car window, not from an actu- al investigation of things by personal contact with conditions. The only un- fortunate thing is that men of such talent should be permitted to write books that only give partial informa- tion, even when they pretend no more. All that they say may be true, but their failure to mention lot of things is what gives the bad impression. for the car window tourist only sees the novel and picturesque. He never sees the resources of a country, and can not if he wants to.
 The publicity that Arizona wants is not of the car window sort. Neither does the advertising literature entire ly satisfy, even if it is read and di- geSted for only the man who visits Arizona in person and makes an inves- tigation can have knowledge of her resources. Were it a land like the great middle states all level and ara ble and devoted to agriculture, one could visit a township as a sample, and then multiply the acreage by the number of townships and get a fair idea of the meat in the cocoanUt. But Arizona is entirely different. To visit it in a way to really know what is here, one should spend three months, or at least one month in Arizona, and seldom stop over night in the same town. Every county has it's own pe culiartieS and it's particular resource es, though mining perhaps overshad- owS every ether. One to know Arizona in mining way must take long side excursions, sometimes by rail and sometimes otherwise, into not only one
 but some six or eight different coun- ties. To know her stock possibilities he should not merely view the pas | lures of the Salt and Gila valleys, but he should ride on horseback from Phoenix to the Mogollons and from Florence to the Mexican line. To know | her agriculture and its possibilities he | should not only visiit the farms in the
 Gila and Salt river valleys, but he | should visit the hundreds of valleys both great and small where there are from one to some dozens of farms and room for a hundred times as many,
 all the way from Douglas to the Lit
 the other way.
 | Arizona is best known by her points 1 of interest for tourists and it is only l just to say that the tourist seldom i takes the trouble to see even these. | The Grand Canyon has finally gained | recognition as the greatest show on 1 earth, but how many tourists ever see l the petlified forests, the wild scenery | of the Mogollons, the cosy little farm
 houses that nestle along the Verde, the
 drive to Roosevelt, of a days journey
 through a country as interesting as the
 Yosemite, a score of interesting mining
 camps that could ba mentioned. nest
 ling away in the hills, as those all
 along the line of the Prescott & East
 ern and Bradshaw railroads. and in
 the mountains O Cochi-e. Pima, S1n- 1 ta Cruz and Graham counties. even away from their principal county | towns? How many tourists ever take
 the side trip to Globe, in the midst
 of a region of the greatest interest, or how many have climbed the San Francisco peaks or traversed the range