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Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-05
PLAYERS ARRIVE
 AND SIGN FOR SEASON
From Sundays Daily.)

George McMillan, who last season held down the first bag for a Kansas City team, and John Mckinney, of San Francisco, who plays behind the bat, arrived yesterday and signed with the Prescott baseball team for the season. NIT. Mckinney played last season with Bobby Davis, tae latter pitcher, and both are said to be a fine working team. This morn ing Manager Merritt of the local nine and Pitcher Davis will go to the grounds to outline repair work, which commences tomorrow morning in earn est. Two days will be required to fix the grounds, when active practice will begin and continue until the season opens on the 30th, when the first game will be played between Prescott and Flagstaff. The public is cordially invited to witness the new organization at work.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-05
AUTHORITY ON DRY
 FARMING EXPECTED
Director of Agriculture of Wyoming To Visit Yavapai County as Guest
 Of Chamber of Commerce
(From Tuesdays daily)

Scarcely a month has passed since the Prescott Chamber of Commerce got down to "brass taeks," and in that time wires have been laid that will bring the current of prosperity humming through the whole of Yava- pal county, domain larger than the states of Connecticut and Rhode Is land, with a total population hardly greater than that of a solid New England village.
 By far the most important of the publicity items worked out to date is that looking to the mobilization of the so-called waste lands under the most scientific tenets of Dry Farm ing. This campaign started just three weeks ago and through the hearty cooperation of John T. Burns, executive secretary of the Interna- tional Dry Farming Congress, the StINACCcs 1Oi lch Ndy Sy VI IT, V. (. Cooke, State Director of Dry Farm ing for Wyoming, who has for the past twenty years raised phenomenal crops from lands not half so fertile as those of Yavapai county and who is also recognized as the foremost ex- ponent of scientific dry farming in the world.
 Dr. Cooke will arrive in Prescott next Sunday and will, during his stay, travel over all the dry lands of Yavapai county, analyze their soils, give several talks at meetings of farm CTS in the different eenters and let Yavapai county know specifically just what it's possibilities are in this most important industry.
 After tine Doctor goes back to Wyoming, he will locate the best
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-05

equipped man obtainable, for this county, to work a dry farm expert ment of, perhaps, forty acres.
 This will cost the Chamber of Com. merce, judging .hy experiments else where, not less than s4,OOO for the year.
 Circulars, stating the scope of the project, were sent yesterday to Je- rome, Camp Verde, Dewey, Kirkland, and Jerome Junction. At these cen ters meetings will be held next week, the dates to be announced later, if the degree of support as offered war rants them. "'
 Already, prominent citizens inter- ested in this matter have started to enlist the enthusiasm of farmers and landowners in Dewey, Jerome, June tion and Kirkland, and the Chamber is assured of support from the other places named.
 When it is stated that Dr.. Cooke has demonstrated the praetieability of raising crops of nearly every char aeter desired on his four experimental farms in Wyoming, at attitudes 1000 feet higher than any in Yavapai county and with a rainfall two and one-nalf inches short of ours, the prime importance of this work may be faintly grasped.
 Moreover, MT. Burns has written that the interest manifested in this movement by the Prescott Chamber of Commerce, marks the first enquiry ever made by a public body in this Territory; further, that, in his opinion, "when Arizona awakes to her agri- cultural possibilities, she will be one of the very richest states in the. west.' ,.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-05
COMM|SS|ONEROF IMMIGRATION
 APPOINTED
Secretary of Chamber Of Commerce Is
 Selected
From Tuesdays pailyl

At yesterdays monthly. meeting of the Board of Supervisors, the appoint ment of N. A. Fraser as Immigra- tion Commissioner was made, and an appropriation of 5000 was authorized for publicity purposes, in accordance with the act of the last legislature, which created the office. Mr. Fraser is secretary of the Chamber of Com meree and his appointment follows as the result of a recent meeting be- tween officers of the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Super visors.
 Other matters taken up were the report of the various officers of the county. The accounts of the treasurer were checked and a balance of $107,- 469.7S was found on hand. The re- port of licenses collected for the quarter by the sheriff showed a total of $3,230, which does not include the liquor licenses due on April l. The statement of the superintendent of schools showed that the sum of s26,- 365.5s mad been disbursed for the quarter.
 The consideration of bills occupied the rest of the session yesterday. It is expected that today and tomorrow will be taken up in passing on hide bounty claims, there being on hand several hundred sealps of various breeds of animals.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-05

What the views of New York
 and Texas upon the question may
 be has nothing whatever to do
 with Arizona's right to it's own
 views.
 ''The last few words of this de- elaration are the only accurate DOT tion thereof. Arizona unquestionably possesses a "right to it's own views. '" No one desires to interfere in the slightest degree with the freedom of thought of this youthful and import ant section of the Southwest. But freedom of thought and the right to assume the powers and responsibilities of Statehood are two very different things.
 "Let it not be forgotten that our Federal system eontemplates a Union of equal States-equal in intelligence, in rights and privileges, and in the capacity of self-government. Arizo- no as a Territory is governed by the nation. As a State she will con tribute to the government of the whole nation, notably in the Federal Senate, where. her two representatives will exert an equal power with the representatives of New York, Hin Ois and California. Today Arizona stands an applicant for Statehood. and Congress wisely named as one condition of the granting of this status the important proviso that her proposed constitution should be sat isfaetory to Congress and to the President. To be sure, once admitted to Statehood Arizona could change her fundamental law as she willed, snort of running counter to the Fed eral Constitution. But the prelimin- ary test amounts to much more than the mere drafting of a document which can pass muster at the mo- ment. The drafting of a constitution is a prime test of the ability of the citizens of a Territory both to gov ern themselves and share in the government of the country.
 So, indeed, has the condition work ed out. Arizona has enthusiastically adopted a constitution, which is blat- antly radical and frankly revolution ary. In applying the recall to the judiciary, her citizens have taken a step which shows either a profound ignorance or a dangerous disregard of a fundamental American principle. In either view it is the clear duty of Congress and the President to in- sist that Arizona wait and that the supreme right of Statehood be with held from her until such time as her citizens can give proof of their ability to share in the government of a great nation. In the meantime Ari- zona will continue to have the right to her own views; and the nation will retain its sovereign right to ad nit or exclude any applicant for Statehood whom it sees ft.'
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-05
SERIOUS TROUBLE REPORTED AT
 NELSON <.
Employees of Lime And Cement Works On
 Strike
(From Tuesdays daily)

Serious labor troubles are believed to be imminent at Nelson, on the Santa Fe, among the Mexican em- ployes of the lime and cement works. ees of the lime and cement works, and in answer to telegrams from Deputy Sheriff E. Barendon, of that place, Deputy Sheriff Keeler left for the scene of trouble yesterday after noon. The adviees are to the effect that all employees, estimated at forty, have started a strike, and threaten to destroy the property and make life insecure to the few Americans there. Immediate assistance is re- quested, the officer stating that he is much alarmed over the attitude of the Mexicans.
 About a year ago a similar out break occurred, but through the vigil anee of the officers of Seligman, and with the assistance of the men on the ground, serious trouble was avert ed by arresting the ringleaders and them out of the country on the first train that passed through.
 Nelson is a small station west of Seligman, and has no regularly es- tablished railroad agency, all trains for passengers being Jagged. But two Americans and their wives reside there, representing contractors for wood and lime, and a young lady, Miss Fairehild, who teaches school for a class of thirty Mexican children.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-05
STOP YOUR WHINING

An erroneous idea, based purely upon comparison with bonanza days has gotten abroad, helped on it's mis sion, unfortunately, by the citizens and merchants of this Gem City of the Hills, that we are having dull times in Prescott.
 This fallaey, insistently mulled over in the minds of our townsmen, mas become such an absolute fetieh, that the comment, "busfness is bad" is banded even across the counter to strangers with money in their pockets and a kindling idea to make their homes in our unrivalled pine -girded city -.(
 A canvass made during the past week reveals the fact that eight of the principal merchants of Prescott have had q larger turnover in their business this year to date than dur ing the same period in any year since coming to the city. Others. who would not make such optimistic com parisons, admitted that, during the past month things commercial have given indications of an upward trend.
 In only one ease was the report pessimistie and when the argument was boiled down to the first analysis, it was revealed that the ledger bore too heavy burden by means of the levanting of sundry residents who had lived not wisely, but too well.
 This sort of thing has to stop. and now, as every indication points to a return of greater prosperity, let us shake off this ghost of apprehension that fills the brain with useless fore bOding and atrophies it for "sawing wood,'' and BOOST PRESCOTT.
 Every knock is a good boost when made at home, but the man wno knocks Prescott to the prospective inhabitant. of Yavapai county is no asset, and sooner or later his pessi- mism hurtles back on him like boomerang and, in time, brings the very "hoodoo" he had fathered on his own affairs.
 No one loves kicker long.
 As Josh Billings says: "If you can't lick lem, jine lem" .I
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-05
NEGOTIATING MINE SALE.
(Fron Fridays Daily)

Ed. Shumate left yesterday morn ing for the Salome country on the A. & c. railroad, where he will meet mining investors who are to examine several quartz claims in which he is interested, to enter into negotiations for the sale of his interests. He will visit the placer beds, recently taken over by E. c. Bailey, where his associate, Charles Anderson, has a camp.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-05
CLIMAX MILL RUNNING.
(FFem Sunday's DailY.l

Ed Parsons, who arrived yesterday from the Climax mines on the Has sayampa, stated that the mill was running steadily, with heavy results in gold bullion and concentrates, and mine work was showing up better than ever in the history of the prop erty. The general belief is ex- pressed by miners eOnversant with development that it is destined to be a very profitable. undertaking.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-05
PLAN A BIG TRAFFIC LEAGUE

CINCINNATI, O., April 3.-Trans- portation and traffic officials repre- senting nearly all the prominent rail roads of the country met here to- day to discuss the proposed formation of a National League of Transports tiOn and Traffic Clubs. The new or ganization expects to have a member ship of 10000 railroad men. ,:.1 g..
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-05
TURNING THE GRINDsToNE.

The Daily Globe, owned by Geo. w. P Hunt, president of the Constitu- tiohal convention, thinks it sees an Ethiopian in the wOodpile in the eff forts of Akers to raise a public sub seIiption for the purpose of sending himself and a couple of political cronies on a pleasure Junket to Wash ington. Here is what the Globe says regarding the scheme which is peeul- iarly Microscope:
 "Either we are going to get state hood during the extra session or we are not. Prominent progressive Re publican and Democratic senators and representatives have assured us that long delayed justice will be done Arizona at the coming session. Con gress will have the power to grant statehood if the President does not disapprove the Constitution and MT. Taft has assured Arizonans that Con gress will be given an opportunity to pass upon that document. By the terms of the enabling act the Presi- dent has the power to prevent Con gress from considering the Constitu- tion; if he elects not to use that power, it is indisputably his intention to aequiesce if Congress says we shall come into the Union.
 "But the Phoenix Gazette, which did valiant work for the Constitution during the last six months, now eoR- tends that it is necessary that a com uittee consisting of its proprietor, Eugene Brady O'Neil and Frank Avis, be returned to Washington for the special session. Two weeks ago upon the return of the same gentlemen from the national capital, the Gazette published their statements to the ef- feet that it would be impossible to. defeat statehood during the extra session and that Arizona would be state within sixty days.
 "It is manifestly unfair to the peo- pie of Arizona for the Gazette and the Statehood committee to conceal from the people any information they may have regarding any possibility that statehood may be defeated in the extra session, for it is presumed from recent events that they. nave such information, else why this clam or to raise sufficient money to pay expenses of these gentlemen in Wash ingtoni ..-. ..., 90.
 "The Daily Globe sincerely and honestly believes that Arizona will be admitted to statehood by the ac- tion of the Congress which convenes on April f. At the same time it be- lieves that someone should be on deck in Washington to represent the Territory, because of the failure of Del egate Cameron to fulfill the pledge he made the people last fall that he would work for the approval of any Constitution that Arizona might adopt -.-
 However, this paper does not be- lieve that Messrs. O'Neil, Akers and Avis are entitled to trip to Wash ington at the expense of the people, to whom the Gazette is appealing for funds There is nothing of envy or jealOusly in the attitude of this paper, but It does believe that if a delegation be sent at the public ex- pense, it should be a delegation rep resentative of Arizona, not of one community. It should be a delega- tion of men of both political parties whom the people can rely upon to
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-05
PREscorT's PEERLESS CLIMATE

Prescott is in the midst of a series of beautiful days flooded with gold en sunshine To the "tenderfoot, - their charm never ceases to allure, but we give them little heed, as they are our regular climatic diet at this and nearly all other seasons of the year. ..-s.
 The gentle zephyrs waited from the Mogollon Mountains steep tneIr tonic virtues in the balsam of our pines, again emphasizing the fact, so after forgotten by the old resident, but ever apparent to the visitor, that Prescott has the best climate for out-of-doors life in the United States. if. not in the world.
 We forget, in considering the other blessings in the cOrnueopia Nature holds out to us, that this is a most valuable asset in the welfare and up- building of a community.
 Other cities, with half our advant- ages, with extreme temperatures both in summer and winter and other eli matological handieaps, are reaping a golden harvest from wealthy, fagged- out men and women from more trying zones in our broad commonwealth.
 It is in our comparatively low per centage of humidity that we stand pre-eminent among the cities of the world. Our relative humidity is very low at all seasons of the year, at times remaining for weeks even at 12 per cent.
 In, fine, the climate of Prescott challenges comparison with any health resort in the world. It enjoys an altitude 75O feet lower than that of Colorado Springs and thirty feet higher than that of Denver, while our annual mean temperature of 53', or some 8 higher than both the cities mentioned, both being noted all over the world for their curative powers, only heighteus the eompari- son in our favor.
 Moreover, in 1909, Denver had 149 clear days, 15S partly cloudy; Colo rado Springs, 200 clear and 1O9 part ly cloudy, while our city in the pines showed an official record of 24l clear days and only A partly cloudy.
 The local Chamber of Commerce has already grasped the importance to our fellow-citizens, of these data and has realized that it is only necessary to notify the wealthy of our Union of the. advantages we have to offer for an all-the-year climate par ex- cellence. It is having printed 10000 booklets covering the climatic, and other features of our life, in order that the world and his wife may journey hither aud share with us these blessings.
 Other matters tending to bring the visitor to our doors are in process of exploitation, but this alone, within the next six months, will fill every desirable place of abode in the city and county with visitors from all sections of our prosperous land.
Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-05
VERDE VALLEY
 VOTES DRY
(From Tuesdays Daily

At the local option election last Saturday the Verde valley voted against the sale of liquor within a radius of one hundred and forty four square miles. No returns have been received from Aultman precinct Camp Verde voted 43 dry and % wet and Lower Verde r dry and 3 wet. Owing to the small number of votes at Aultman the returns from that precinct cannot change the re- suit.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-07-11

county truck growers have quit bet
ting that ii will rain enough during
the season tn make the CORDS They
viii irPigHle their tracts aud make
certain Some of them are already
pumping @ater from fhe creeks and
river and have planted 4 second crop
Of potatoes and corn. Both are i"et
coming UP and unless the Neosho
river and the deep creeks OF the coun-
ty 60 dry, these crops Will be made
whether it rains or not The method
Is simple and comparatively inexpen-
siye. The water pipe inc replaces
the eas Pine line aud y gasoline en-
ene does Che work.
Allen comfy is not a desert by any
means and neither are the southeast
ern portions Of the state which are
adopting irrigation 1t may be there
viii be an abundance OF rain next
season, but if there is not. the truck
grower viii be safe and SO VIII many
Of the general farmers
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-07-11
FARMERS NO LONGER WILL GET
ON RAIN.
Intensified Farming Salvation Of Kan
sas When Gas Gives Out.

Allen county, Kansas, truck grow
ers are through gambling with ma
ture. The next crop that goes in will
not be on a bet that it viii rain. The
growers are going to place their
msney on sure thing. The prac.
tieal failure of the vegetable crop, es'
pecially potatoes. has proved q severe
blow to the truck farmers who had
engaged Ia this industry on a large
scale this season and intensified
farming" a term which has heretofore
sounded too "hifalutin' to he enter
tanned seriously has become the sober
and earnest study Of the Alien county
truck farmer.
With the decline Of the oil and gas
production, there was no other all
Tentative save back to agricultural
pursuits. While Allen county has al.
wavs been well to the front agricul
tnraiiv. its reputation was largely up
held bv few OF the faithful who de-
clined to lease their acres TO the OIL
and gas companies and persistently
titled the soil. A large per cent OF
the farmers yielded TO The lure OF gas
conpany's gold and witt their farms
bringing in a comfortable yearly roy
altv sat hack in their easy chairs and
let the soil so to waste
But il is an incontrovertible fac'
that the gas fields are gradually
playing ont, no matter how sincerely
regrettable q Kansas MAI may feel
To make such a statement and the
dollars no longer roll in from the gas
and oil companies 10 the owners OF
lands in the Upper Neosho valley. The
soil that was once productive OF
wealth from above and beneath its
surface now promises returns only on
condition that IL be scientifically
titled. and the meter that once clicked
Off the farmers royalty as he sat IN
ease beneath the shade OF the old ap
ple tree Is stnled The plow and the
cnltivator henceforth win measure
tho land owners profit ana the farm
er has come to realize this fact.
The result is that the easing from
scores of old wells. oh and gas. Is be
inc nulled ard iunked or sold 20 drii-
ers IN the lower Kansas aud Okla,
hQma lfl9s.
The rsfner has deserted his easy
'rhslr and ne iR scanning Ihe reperts
on Intensified farming and the buiie,
tins issued by Secretary Coburn that
he may intelligently prepare himself
for the forthcoming contest with ns-
mre. He purposes 10 combine the
.knowieige he has gained through per
snnal experience with that cleaned by
he experts through scientific expert
ment Tie must do this 10 replace the
lost profits from the on and gas in
dnstry with new returns from aerl-
culture. The loss OF one has created
the demand for the other aud it VIII
be met In many eases, salt water
from the oil and gas wells has conn
teracted the natural fertility of the
soil and the farmer must tnrn TO scien
tnc methods to restore il to its
primal state.
summed up. the "on belt" and the
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-07-11

"gas belt" of Southeastern Kansas
find their only salvation in 3'ecoming
the corn and the wheat belt or as an
alternative. the truck and irpit belt.
Trucking is becoming one Of the
most Important industries When the
gas began 20 fall. the snleiteFs began
to look for other locations. Likewise
The smeltermen Many OF them who
had been thrifty and saved their
money, bought and leased small tracts
1t the beginning Of this season and
began truck farming. Their number
was augmented by the regulars, or
those who have been following truck
farming for several years. The pro
tracled drouth brought n crop failure
and now the truck men are telling
how, with potatoes AZ 81 & bushel and
none in sight at that price, they could
have Cleaned up had they exer
elsed a little foresight.
The foresight win be exercised
next season. In other words, Allen