Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-12
TIMELY IDEAS FOR
 CIVIC IMPROVEMENT
Valuable Suggestions Made by Various Speakers Before the Monday
 Club Yesterday
(From Tuesdays Daily)

N''AO' HoN SAONH pIou4RI
 ously; and, harried by labor union dissentions, strikes, disease that
 threatened to reach the epidemic stage, with business atrophied on all sides, what happened to the besieged San FEanciscansl ,..
 The merchants, realizing that their immense stocks, fourth in value among those of all the cities of the Union, must have larger market, convened meeting on short notice at the Merchants Exchange, raised sum of $7,249,OOO, in precisely two hours and pledged a total of 7,5OO,- 900, to invite the world to their city In 1915, when it might see the un- rlvalled advantage of living at the Gateway of the Pacific.
 In March, 1911, seventeen of the bitterest rivals among the merchants, elubbed their advertising and dates together and made ready for the fin est Fashion Show ever held in any American city. It cost. in all. over $lOO,O00. When the opening day came, it rained; same every day for ten livelong days and nights. with such vigor that ladies without gon- dolas could not get near the show windows.
 The nearest thing to a complaint that l heard was: ''Well, the farm CT is certainly getting his innings, but we will ease him of the coin produced by this deluge, if we "sit tight " The foregoing seems good enough paralled for has not Prescott gone through its fiery ordeall Did it not emerge fairer and more efficient ? Has ii not raised money to blare forth to the world in trumpet tones. : Prescott, The Place to Live9"
 Le us get busy and bring those who would live to "The Place to Live" And lest they be scared away, let us tell them that we are the wealthiest as well as the health jest and most slightly little city in the world; that the balsam of our pines will cure their disorders and that in our pure mountain spring water and braeing atmosphere we have the nearest thing to the Foun- tain of Life that can be scared up Tn this weary vale of tears.
 Let us, every time we want to send money away for goods, show the local merchant the tog or implement we are in the market for. ask him to get 1t for something like the price advertised; then sit back and watch the local dealer get busy. See if, when the out-oftown stream of coin is diverted into its logical channel, taxes do not become lighter, prices lower and credit infinitely better.
 The very fact that Prescott can stand the drain of these tens of thousands of exported dollars yearly IS the best proof of her prosperity Educate the merchant to believe that you will give him an even break with the eatalog man and others of his lk, if he, in his turn, will promise 10 buy his produce as much as pos 'ible within our Yavapai county gates and l am a prophet without sincerity f. during the next six months, ours will not be a better, more thriving, happier Prescott.
 Preach this gospel of patronizing 1ome stores to your husbands; hatter heir prodigiOus supply of gray matter md ask them to try it out for a req 'onable term of m6ntns. Unless l nm a sad ass, property in Prescott, | 1t the end of the experiment, will be worth something as collateral at your banks and the merchants will be en- outraged to buy a wider range of | stocks at much lower price, besides being able to take advantage of their discounts.
 This is "Civie Enthusiasm in axcelsis
 Bury the pangs of regret that we Ire not reaping banknotes by the latful as we did when mining wealth oiled in few years ago. Good old Favapai's mining wealth mas not yet been scratched through the. eutiele
 Mines will boom again.
 When the other fellow gets a pros oective buyer from the East, don't mock his hold in the ground just be- :ause you have one to dispose of Tote fair in the mining matter just IS you must do with the merchants. Such little examples of petit larceny rave sent millions rolling away to'