Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-01-10

of fast trains, crossing the countr!
 at fifty miles an hour are accustomed
 to dismiss the subject of it's possibil
 ities with the remark Nothing to i
 but sun, sand and sage-brush" and
 have even heard some of them call il
 the abomination of desolation without
 really knowing a thing about it. Ii
 those same people obtained their i'm
 pressions of New York from the req,
 end of train they would say it con
 sisted of nothing but tenements anc tunnels.
 Cities are not usually included un' der natural wonders, but think any.
 one who sees Bisbee will admit that
 it is a natural wonder, unique among
 the cities of the country, built where a
 city was never intended to be built
 and surely the approach to Prescott
 from the north is vision of Swift
 zerland. I never saw Switzerland
 but I know that's the way it ought to look even if it doesn't.
 As an art asset, there are few
 things equal to the mission at Tue
 son, standing white and solitary and lovely between the desert and the sky; worthy to be compared with the Tai Mahal and other world famous build ings, but I have heard of a man who had to ask three people in the hotel at Tucson, before he could find out just where it was.
 We have three characteristic struc- lures typifying our three historical epochs, which have been called the aboriginal or Indian, represented by the ruins at Casa Grande, reminder of a race long since dead and gone, then the exploratory or Spanish epoch with it's memorial in this mission at Tucson and lastly the reclamatory with the mighty Roosevelt dam, fitly called a monument to the courage, daring and resource of the American" '"
 Then think of all the romance sug- gested by the mere mention of the name of our capital city-a name giv- en by an inspired Englishman to com memorate its rising from the ashes of that old prehistoric race, who first made irrigation canals in the Salt River Valley and appreciated it's many advantages for agriculture. Every time we say that name we cannot help but dream about those old peo- pie, and try to imagine their wonder could they see the risen Phoenix.
 I think it would be a good thing for us Arizonans to cultivate little of the psychological attitude of Calif- ornians. No defect in their surround ings is ever admitted. There are few who haven't read descriptions of their "amethystine mountains" and. that lovely transparent blueness is indeed beautiful, but I think not so beauti- full as our own. changing, colorful, opal tints. The drive from Redlands to Riverside is known the country over, but who, outside of our locality, has heard of the drive from Kingman to Oatman, just as lovely. If Bould- CT Springs was in California, there wouldn't be a person in the country who hadn't heard of it, and stories would be written of the strange place where the very rocks which Mudje- keewis threw at Hiawatha in their memorable battle, are still lying on the ground, visible to everyone living in the old Kingdom of the North west Wind.
 We must correct the prevailing inn pression that every thing pleasant IS in California. Why, last summer one of the ladies who went to the coast from Kingman told me she was talk ing with a friend there who said, "Isn't it wonderful to be in Calrtor- mia? You can't go anywhere in the state that isn't cool and lovely Tn summer, but if you want to know place that is simply unendurable, Just 20 to Needles, Arizona. Is not that a distressing story?
 If we were true inhabitants of Cal ifornia, when the wind was blowing little more than is really desirable, as it does sometime Gust among our selyes) we would see possible com, ment rising in the strangers eye, ana quickly forestall it by speaking first' and say, "Do you feel that delicious hreeze? We have such glorious "lnos here in Arizona, and they biow all the germs and cobwebs away iha' is what I mean by the California at titude I think we should cultlvate. Again, if any mention is made Of the ocean. which we would have to ad- init we lack, we should do as they would. and say, "Oh, yes, the ocean is indeed beautiful, but have you seen omr Castle Hot Springs or our CHI dwellings older than ancient baoyioh and much less expensive, our marvel ous petrified forests, the Painted Des- ert or our mountains, of which IT. yin Cobb says, "If they were m ocot- land, Sir Walter Scott and nooDy Rurns would have written about them, .nd tbev would be world-famous, and tourists from America would come and climb their slopes, and stand up-