Arizona republican., 1906-06-23
VISITING JOURNALIST
 SPENT FRIDAY HERE
Editor ROscowsr Gathering Data for a Series Of News Letters.

Phoenix was visited yesterday by well known eastern newspaper man who is in a position to do this valley and territory a great deal of good and has the inclination to do so. The vis- itor is A. Roscower editor of the Head light. published in Goidsboro, N. C. He is taking a trip designed to cover the entire west and consume about two months It is partially for recreation and partially for business and self education by personal investigation. MT. Roscower has lived in GOldsboro for about twenty years and is well known among the eastern journalists. In planning this trip he has arranged for the publication of a series of let ters descriptive of his travels, in arsyn- dicate of about q hundred newspapers. He will not begin the publication of his letters until he returns home, devoting all his time travelling to sightseeing and the taking of notes. Mrs. Roscower and his stenOgrapher accompanied him through the middle west Colorado and as far in the southwest as Fl Paso when it became too warm for their en- joyment in strenuous travel and they returned home.
 Since they left him he has visited southern Arizona and Sonora, going as far south as Guaymas. That city. he says, is too hot for any use and when he reached Phoenix yesterday morning he thought he was in a summer resort Before night he knew it and wondered if summer resorted here all the time. But seriously, the heat did not disturb him nearly so much as that of many other places. He leaves Phoenix this morning for Prescott. Williams. Flag Gt Ia Td nn Ca hot r.ir over he will go via Yuma and the Sal ton sea to Los Angeles, thence up the coast to British Columbia and east a part of the way through the Canadian provinces.
 MT. RoscOwer's purpose is to de- scribe as fully as possible the resources and prevailing climatic conditions of each section he visits. presenting facts and figures, rather than stories, for the benefit of his readers. In that way those sections which offer the most in ducements are apt to benefit largely He is giving particular attention to farming sections for he says that through his portion of the south land is high and there are many seeking homes in the west where land is cheap CT. He charges nothing for the pub licity thus given, except the trifing expense that local officials may put themselves to in showing him around. Yesterday morning early he made him. self and his mission known to Com missioner of Immigration J. w Cren- shaw and Secretary Van der Veer, of the board of trade. Those gentlemen at once ordered up an automobile and devoted the better part of the day to showing MT Roscower the available points of interest in this vicinity. Tn the forenoon they rode around the city, visited the capitol then crossed over to Grand avenue and the fair grounds and on to the beet Sugar factory. re- turning by way of the Indian school. Late in the afternoon they took another ride east of the city, going out via the asylum and through the irrigated dis trict showing the actual application of the water to the lands. Returning they took a spin down the Yuma road and got back to town in the early evening MT. Roscower expressed himself as very much pleased with what he had seen during the day