Weekly journal-miner., 1915-11-03
YAVAPAI COUNTY AS
 SEEN BY OUTSIDER
(From Thursdays Daily.) (By F. B. Wood)

described as a paradise on earth the nonresident reader will know it is a lie and if the district is not described as miniature heaven then the read CT, perhaps this time a resident of the district, raves and says that his country is being knocked 1 will try 10 give description of your county or rather the parts of it l have seen as it appears to me
 Yavapar county is in Northern Ari- zona. It is on the map of Arizona and you can recognize it by the name that is printed in large letters across its middle. Some maps show it as a large pink smear, others have it in some other color but in all maps yet produced 1t is there and in this patch of color you will see other patches of color. These are. the National For est Reserves. This county can easily be reached by the Santa Fe railway or over the excellent auto roads. The Santa Fe will take you through Selig- man, Ash Fork, Prescott, Skull valley, Kirkland and Congress Junction, all Of which are towns of greater or less importance in Yavapai county. There are inland towns also, and no one gets a true impression of the county until these and the town of Jerome OH the United Verde & Pacific rail way, and Clarkdale, on the Cedar Glade branch line, and Humboldt, Huron, Mayer and Crown King on the Prescott & Eastern and the Brad shaw Mountain railway, have been visited.
 A trip over the roads and highways or this county is worth while. If you are looking for a fruit, stock, grain. hay, hog, dairy or some other kind ot ranch or mine you will find the pos abilities great here for the earnest worker. If you see the country for pleasure it will be one journey that will never be forgotten. You will see the fields. farms and orchards, hills and slopes covered with beautiful trees and shrubbery. You will see producing mines and mines opening up on the mountains; rivers and streams and wonderful cliff and cave dwellings of an unknown people. By looking at the map you cannot tell all this but there are 8,l50 square miles of this enclosed by the boundary lines that keep Yavapai county from slip ping over into Coconino, Gila, Mari copa, Yuma and Mohave counties in Arizona. A small per cent of Yava- pal county is owned by private peo- pie, large percentage by the United States government. From the gov ernment portion people are sold graz ing privileges and wood and post per mits are granted at cost based on the expense of maintaining the ser vice.
 There is a little bit of everything in the way of natural wonders and seen ic attractions to be found tucked away in Yavapai county. The Finnie soda springs; Montezuma well, Montezuma castle and the cliff dwellings in the Verde valley and the Castle Hot Springs in the south central part of the county.
 The wonderful mines in Yavapai county are too well known to need any comment. Agriculture has not come into its own as yet in Yavapa; county. The valleys are sparsely set tied and practically no effort is being made to use the foothills. Yavapai will in time have its true agricultural merit recognized. A coming industry is fruit growing. Already in places the possibilities in this line can be easily seen. Fruit growing properly conducted is proving to be sound and very profitable industry. The fruit grower can raise anything he wants in this country. The orange, lemon, grapefruit and fig are success ful in some parts. The grape, apple, pear, quince, peach, apricot and other deciduous fruits are grown on the commercial scale. There are now thousands of acres of suitable orchard land lying idle but the time will come when all the valleys and foothills will be growing the fruits they should be. But there is plenty of room left for raising hogs, dairy and beef cattle, sheep, grains alfalfa and vegetables.
 To sum up Yavapai county briefly, I should say: Area, S,l5O square miles; topography, mountainous with numerous rich small valleys; transpor- tation, the Santa Fe, United Verde & Pacific, Prescott & Eastern, and Brad shaw Mountain railways; population, l8,0O0 souls; schools, above the aver age; churches, plentiful; principal towns, Prescott where tbe annual Northern Arizona Fair and the From tier Days celebrations are held and