Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
PRESCOTT I H [ CONVENTION
 CITY
ASSESSORS TO MEET HERE AGAIN; BIG RAILROAD MEETING ALSO ON BILL THIS SUMMER
iFrom Fridays Daily.)

malnta1nlng Its reputation as the con vention city of Arizona the current year. It is already foregone con clusion that the state meeting of the Arizona assessors and boards of su- pervisors will meet again in this city in September This same conven- ton met here last year, and was so we'll entertained that Malcolm A. Fraser, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, already has assurances enough to make him believe that nothing on earth can keep them from meeting here again this year
 Flagstaff recently got busy on this score, which was the incentive for MT. Fraser and others to commence to size up the situation. Tom E. Campbell, one of the three state tax commissioners, is also boosting for Prescott, and the tax commission has the balance of power in fixing the place for the meeting. MT. Fraser when asked yesterday as to the status concerning this meeting said that over half the assessors of the state were already in favor of Prescott. This has inspired the Prescott bunch of entertainers to get busy already with plans for the occasion. The meeting is second in importance to any that is held in the state. It lasts ten or more days and brings to the city in which it is held all the county assessors and members of boards of supervisors at one of the most i'm portant official gatherings held in the boundaries of the state. The printed proceedings of the meeting held here last year have just been distributed in pamphlet form among the big tax payers of Arizona. It Is a matter of note that the assessors and super visors who met here last year went away unanimously singing the praises of the mile-high city, and if they meet here again this year each and every one can mark it down now in the crown of his hat that Prescott will be or the job overtime to make them think their entertainment last year was mild compared to what they will receive this time.
 Big Railroad Meeting.
 The meeting of the assessors is only one of the big gatherings al ready practically assured for Prescott the coming summer. It has been practically assured that the twelfth semi-annua1 meeting of the operating officials Of the Santa Fc railroad sys- tenn, known as the Loss and Damage committee will also be held here in July. This will bring to Prescott 80 or more of the high officials of this line of railroad, representing the coast lines of the system, and the coast lines include the system from Albuquerque to the Pacific coast. The eleventh semi-annual meeting has just finished its session in Phoenix, and last Saturday F. P. Cruice, assist ant general freight and passenger agent, had number Of the officials in Prescott introducing them to various prominent people. Among those here were II. II. Francisco, general freight and passenger agent; NJ. w. Reed, representing the legal depart ment of the coast lines; s. NJ. Salt marsh, car accountant; ]. l.. Hubbard, l general superintendent of the coast 1 lines, and A. NJ. Reinllardt, another prominent official.
 Drake Speaks.
 At the meeting ill Phoenix w. A. Drake, general manager of the 5. F., F. & P. lines, with headquarters in Prescott, extended the welcome of this state to the assembled railroad men in an address which was desig- l mated by the Phoenix papers as a little sermon on the need for d more | cordial cooperation, first on the part l of the employees themselves, and second, between employees of the road and their patrons. Mr. Drake point cd out the fact that the interests of the carrier are so intcrwoven with | those Of the patrons that it is ncces- sary that the patrons be served in the best possible manner.
 The organization known as the | Los and Damage committee has been in existence for five years, its princi- pal object being an accumulation of data with reference to the expense of the railroad on the scores indicat- ed. It was stated at the Phoenix meeting by Chairman Hubbard that the rough handling of loaded equipment carries heavy penalty in the claim account the loss from this source being 58 per cent of the total amount paid out.
 Since 1909, owing to the work of this committee, the claim payments of the coast lines of the Santa Fe ,.ra-a -aJ,r-oJ f-o.,, com nO0 1