Weekly journal-miner., 1912-02-21
QFrom Fridays Daily.)

feet yesterday at 1:4O. A number or his friends including Mayor Gold water, R. N. Fredcricks, William III. Doyle and Paul Burks, saw him off, on his way to the Grand Canyon, whence, after spending today, he will leave for Chicago.
 Every Santa Fe and Harvey House official along the line will look out for the English statesman's comfort in every way possible. The manager of Fl Tovar will make Sir Gilbert his guest at the Grand Canyon where he will remain during his stay on the rim, driving to Grand View and other places easily accessible. The speech made at the Prescott Chamber of Commerce, Thursday, Jan uary { and the informal but brilliant talk made at the Yavapsi Club smok. CT, Wednesday night, after the pre- scntation of the Arizona quartz watch chin, will be the only ones during Sir Gilbert Parker's whole trip in Amcrics. He has absolutely refused tho often repeated invita-. tious to address civic bodies and clubs in a score of cities in the United States and Canada. The Chi. cago Press club will entertain Sir Gilbert at luncheon next Monday at l2. At this function, which will be attended by all the leading newspa. permen of the Windy City, Sir Gil bert has promised Secretary Fraser that he will say good things of Pres cott at every opportunity.
 London and provincial English newspapers, containing reference to the Prescott visits, are commencing to arrive. The private secretary of Sir Gilbert will send the Chamber of Commerce a package of these clip. pings, in which the Yavapai Club, Castle Hot Springs, Phoenix and the peerless mountain climate of the Mile High City are mentioned frequently. Upon his arrival at London, he will send the Chamber of Commerce n large number of government publica. tions dealing with agriculture as practiced in different parts of the British Empire.
 Sir Gilbert is the author of q sound text book on agriculture, a few copies of which he is also sending to his friends among the Yavapai farmers. When he arrives in England, he will give interviews to several of the Lon don papers, in which he will take occasion to remind the fagged of Great Britain of the joys of living in the mountain region of Northern Arizona, of which Prescott is the center.
 On leaving, Sir Gilbert handed the following letter to Mir. Fraser, sec. retary of the Chamber of Commerce of the Mile High City:
 Dear Mir Fraser:
 I cannot leave Arizona without ex. pressing to you as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce my apprecia- tion of sll the kindness that have received since arriving in Prescott seven weeks ago. The friendliness which dictated the invitation I re. ceived from you at Lakewood, New Jersey, to visit Prescott has been . constant quantity, and from first to last I have been the recipient of . most tactful and generous hospitality at the hands of the citizsns of Pres. colt and of Arizona generally. The object of my visit to Arizona has been achieved. came to got better health, and have got 1t. I have suffered much for years from . malarial trouble and was prostrated by 1t when I arrived in New York. Since coming here I have felt my. self steadily growing better and stronger, and I attribute this happy change to the incomparsble climate of Arizona. Most of my time has been spent at Prescott and Castle Hot Springs, and can truthfully say that l have not received such benefit from air and conditions of soil and climate though have made very many journeys in the time since 1898. My thanks to Arizona are not, therefore, perfunctory and my con viction that I would be benefitted if did como has been abundantly full. filled. I am convinced that you have hero in Arizona a sanitorium for this continent; and I am certain that in Prescott you have all in the way of climate and altitude which should make this town successful rival to the great Swiss resorts. It is evident that you have not the extremes of heat or cold that exist in Switzer. land hava awnav;an.aJ ....- ..l....