Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-08-14

 only yet in it's infancy. Tho mineral wealth fthc Bill Williams country and the section east of Phoenix is jus. beginning to be uncovered. Prescott Is not ss far from these sections ns Den yer i, from Durango snd Cripple Creek, yet Denver is recognized as be ing tho business and financial center of Colorado. They have fine streets and schools. and possess all those nd' vantagcs which men seek for tho To. cation If their families. Prescott is equally as well situated. and IS as equally as desirable place ,o reside in except for a few things. He criticized the streets, which, hc said, ought to bc paved and declared that the best investment for Prescott today is Q steam roller.
 Then Mir. FInncy sdvcrtcd to what he termed the most important feature of his remarks. He stated that Pros. colt is not as well known as some of its citizens may think. The fund raised for the Publicity committee was inadcquatcly small, and every man ought to contribute towards it. II ought to have advertisements in the Denver Republican, Kansas City Jour nal and all the mining papers. The aim of the people snould be to forget iavapai county if they wish Prescott, to he the center of Arizona and sup. ply the Bill Williams Fork country and Pinal county. Referring to the question of publicity. the speaker stated that the Journal Miner K the livest thing in the community, and do. ing moro in advertising 1t than any other agency. He declared that it ought to be supported by the club and every business man, and that tho com munity could well afford Co contribute 5000 year to it in order that it might be able to publish n full page of mining news every day and send men throughout tho country to write up it's resources. Tho Journal Miner, hc al. dcd, ought to bc in every club and in every hotel in the large cities of the United States. In concluding. the speaker again urged the people to get together and sst aside their petty diff fcrcnccs.
 R. x. Frcdcricks was the next speaker. He stated that in all his travels hc had never found climate or citizenship equal Co that of Pres. colt. and he was proud to bc mem. Der of the community. He paid n dc. served compliment to the pioneers, say. ing that were it not for them, those who have come here in recent years would not have been able to locate here. Referring to tho proceeding { speakers remarks, he stated that he and his associates first tried tO make Prescott ths finacial center and nay ing succeeded, their next ambition wal to make 1t the financial center of northern Arizona. AS n result there are $3,O0o,Oo0 of deposits in the Prescott banks. Give us n little time said he. and we will make 1t the financial center of tho entire Terri tory.
 W. $. NorveI, the National bank cx amincr, who is now in Prescott, was one of the guests. When called upon he blamed Mir Fredericks for it, bu, gracefully remarked that if Prescott, contained many men like Mr. Fred cricks nc would like to live here. He knew of no cleaner institution in tn, United States than the Prescott Ma tional bank, and If Prescott continued to establish such institutions 1t would certainly be the financial center of thu Territory.
 Pertinent and interesting remarkI were also made by 0. Longacrc, Jr. Robert K. Porter, Mr. Clark, W. F. Glenn, Paul Hastings. MT. Thompson Paul Burks and W. A. Drake.