Weekly journal-miner., 1915-10-20
BOSTON|ANS READ OF PRESCOTT
 AND COWBOYS
WILLIAM M. WARREN WHO VISITED HERE DURING FRONTIER DAYS IS THE WRITER OF ARTICLE.
(From Tuesday's Daily)

(from 1ueSdayS s Daily)
 An interesting article on Prescott and Cowboys" appears in a recent is sue of the Boston Sunday Herald. It was written by William Marshall War ren, who spent few days in this city during the last Frontier Days celebration. Warren's article was re- ceived by F. B. Wood, who is pro- cessing the new exhibit for the Chamber of Commerce. It is as fol lows:
 Western Saunterings."
 At Las Vegas, fifty miles east oi Santa Fe by crow flight and 100 by winding rail, they told me of an inn pending meet of cowboys; all kind 5 of stunts were to be pulled off; you couldn't afford to miss it. I wanted to wait. For that Las Vegas country is not raising prunes and pippins; it is home territory for Buffalo Jones and men of that make. The cowboys that buy their Stetsons in Las Vegas do not belong as yet to any vanish ed type. When Jones gathered the party he took into widest Africa to show an untamed fauna how handily Americans can rope and tie, he just asked few of his neighbors to go along. But I could not well wait Be tween meets, Las Vegas has no nat ural wonders to amuse the tourist; its one volcano blew its head off long ago, to the detriment of much excel lent grazing land. Well, then - this came as a tip from man that knew-"if you want to see the sure enough-real thing, you had better run down to Prescott over the Fourth
 At the Grand Canyon I was talking with Captain Hance, now a benign septuagenarian, but in earlier days an Indian fighter who for years together never had his head beneath roof; he is the man who built the first trail down the Grand Canyon wall He considers himself judge of cowboys accomplishments. 'Prescott?' said he, I am planning to go myself. In my life l never saw such bulldogging as they had last year
 That settled it. I came into Pres colt past Point of Rocks, Saturday afternoon, the 3rd of July. The train had extra coaches full to the aisles and platforms with a bright-colored crowd There were whole families with baskets and single men empty handed; there were ranchmen, rang CTS, roustabouts, fraternal orders in oriental costume; there were fakers and singers, Mexicans and Apaches.
 "On the red and blue posters, Pres colt called itself The Last and Best West Do not infer, however, that Prescott Is rough and raw. It lies mile high in the mountains and it has a glad hand for cowboys. One side of its plaza still goes by the name of Whiskey Row. But Prescott would not think of exchanging itself for any equal extent of Newton or Cam bridge. It is laid out as if the pion- eers had expected that the Federal government, sooner or later leaving the Potomac for a place with a real climate, would inevitably pitch on Prescott. From the shaded square at the centre of the city the streets ran north and south, east and west; even the residence streets measure from lawn to lawn a full 100 feet. Public water, always the problem in Ari zona, is partly drawn from springs near by, partly pumped up from Del Rio, the source from which the Santa Fe hauls the water used in the hotels at Grand Canyon. Bank buildings and hotels, an opera house and hand some club, schools and churches, all are built in good taste. The only ia miliar feature that a Massachusetts man would miss would be a few blocks of wooden three-deckers. In Prescott they do not know what the word means. "Westerners are still making jokes about the Eastern culture stuff and all that. But the only framed pie 1 lures of European cathedrals and such things 1 ever saw hung in railroad station were in Ash Fork, the lonely junction, where you change cars for Prescott. The Apaches seemed to like them. I attended three-hour business meeting of the Yavapai County Cattle Growers Association. For mutual courtesy and parliamen- tary conduct of business, even in dis cussing mountain lions, it might have been a model for a deacons' meeting at the New Old South Church in Cooley square And at Prescott's i union service in the Elks' theatre Sun day morning, the scholarly address by former Governor Sloan followed and ! preceded nusic taken straight from