Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

showing the work accomplished dur ing the past year were the salien features of the annual meeting of th' Yavapai County Chamber of Com merce held last evening. It was tho most important session by far of any held in recent years, for the deter imitation to exploit the mineral re sources and possibilities of the coun ty, is certain to result in awakened activity in that industry with conse quent influx of capital, development of mines and prosperity in a measure that is the rightful portion of tni: section of the State, but which it ha: never before enjoyed. The decision to embark upon the venture was not only unanimous but enthusiastic. The subject was introduced briefly by ] w. Mines and was amplihed by F M. Murphy, whose faith in the hidden wealth of this section has never way. cred nor grown cold throughout the many years he has been the foremost mining operator of Northern Arizona
 Monday afternoon a delegation oi about twenty members of the cham Der will appear before the board oi supervisors to urge the adoption of a proposition presented last night.
 Mining is the theme of the pro posal. A publicity campaign, unequal ed even by that presented for Oat- man, is proposed to exploit the min eral resources of this section which by experts have been pronounced the best in the State of Arizona and which may prove the best in the entire West President H. D. Aitken of tnc chamber will head the delegation.
 MT. Mines declared that he had been informed that the board of su- pervisors was seriously considering a plan of advertising the mineral re. sources of the county and he asked that the chamber give the board its moral support if the matter is carried through.
 He stated that the board mas an immigration fund which can be used for advertising any of the resources of the county and in any manner it thinks advisable. In the past year the greater part of the fund has been di- verted to the advertising of the agri- cultural resources of the county and very little has been done for other industries, practically nothing in fact for mining which the tax and assess ment rolls prove is thc greatest re- source of this entire section of the State. The proposal is to employ an efficient mining writer, noted through out the United States for his work, and thus advertise the county and get the results.
 That newspaper and mining journal articles telling of the wonderful min eral resources of this section will do wonders for Prescott and vicinity is proved by the fact that a small classi- fled advertisement in the Mining & Engineering World brought no less than fifty inquiries and mas resulted in parties locating in this section.
 w. P, De Wolf, wno advertised the Tom Reed-Gold Road district, and who made Oatman the town 1t is to- day through his articles in the mining journals throughout the nation was introduced by Mines and he told of the experience he has had in the min ing industry as newspaperman. He told of his association with many mining camps in the past Is or 20 years. He went to Oatman a little over six months ago when the town was but a village of 300 people and which after his publicity campaign, is now town of over 2,G00 souls and will soon be termed a city. There were three mines in or near Oatman six months ago, now there arc fifty companies operating. The village has grown like a mushroom and still thc people arc coming. He stated that every road leading to the town is clogged with people coming and go- ing and the population is increasing daily at an enormous rate. He be- 1ievcs as do thousands of others that publicity ilas made the change. He stated that when he first went to Oat- man he sent an article to large East crn mining journal and they wrote to him stating that they had never heard oi the place but wanted his copy any way. A very short time ago the same journal wired him for 18000 words on Oatnlan and vicinity stating that it was going to get out special edi tion.
 De Wolf expressed the belief that through publicity Prescott, because