Arizona republican., 1906-09-14
TAFFF TOLD THEM
 ALL ABOUT ARIZONA
Busy Two Months Pat in by a PhOe-
 nix Booster.

With a good word of boost for Phoe- nix always on his lips and always ready to defend the rights of the ter ritory in her opposition to joint state hood. Harry w Tafe. who left here on the 7th of last July to attend the Elks grand lodge session at Denver. has re- turned home. At first MT. Taffe says the desire to boost for Phoenix, aI though in his system. was not so ap- parent as it was along toward the close of his trip The reason for his mad display of his colors was the fact that in all of the cities he visited he found not a single one where the residents of the place were not boosting their town. To him in each instance it added 50 per cent to the attractiveness of a place 10 have t boosted to the skies by those who lived there. He took a resolve that henceforth in life, no matter what he heard others do to Phoenix, he was going to boost The statehood argu- ment was natural for him, for he has lived in Arizona too long and has been too much of a patriot of the territory to pass without a loud protest to the project to join Arizona with New Mexico.
 Leaving Phoenix. MT. Tafe, accom- panied by his wife and children, went to san Diego. where Mrs. Taffe was left. while he journeyed to the grand lodge session at Denver with the Los Angeles lodge He could not say enough yesterday afternoon of the way in which the Elks were treated by the people of the Colorado city. Nothing was too good for the delegates, and there appeared to be an endless sup ply of entertainment and amusement. MT. Taffe took the opportunity while he was in Colorado to visit the south ern part of the state, where he had not been before, and spent some ten days in travelling over that section
 From Colorado he went to Salt Lake and several other cities in Utah. He then took a train for Cello. Ore. for the purpose of visiting an uncle whom he had not seen for a number of years. This uncle is engaged in operating fisheries along the Columbia river and has several very extensive plants From his uncle's place he went to Portland and later to Seattle. where he has other relatives. At the latter place he was the guest for week of Mir and Mrs. w. J. Clancy. formerly of this city. who. he says, are both well and enjoying prosperity At Tacoma, where he stopped for a time, he met Herman and William Stuhr. who are in business there and prospering That people who live there are generally prosperous was his observation, and MT. Taffe returns full of faith in the rapid advancement of the northwest. The coal iron. lumber and wheat ship ments are the life of the country and their supply seems to be inexhaust- ible.
 From the northwest Mir. Taffe went to Sacramento, where he visited the Southern Pacific railroad shops and spent a day in the decorative depart ment of the car works The infOrma- ton he accumulated is of great value to him. From Sacramento his journey was continued to San Francisco, where his father resides. It was the first visit he had made to the city since fire had laid a large portion of it bare. Places he had been familiar with were missing. and his visit there was made less pleasant by reason of always haV- ing before his eyes the destroyed city. He would rather have remembered 1t as it appeared before destruction.
 En route to the southern part of the state MT. Taffe visited his mother and several sisters at San Jose, and then proceeded to San Diego, where he joined his wife and children. The past three weeks he spent at the beaches, getting the vacation he started for when he left Phoenix.