Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1920-02-22

placed this advertisement, prescott,
Mile High City, All Modern Convent
neces-Best Climate and Water in the
| State, in the different parts of the
city, has not told the truth? Are not
| paved streets one of the modern con-
veniences? Yet Prescott which, ac-
cording to statistics. has more wealth
for its size, than any city in the United
States. has not one paved street. Flag
staff, not onehalf the size of Prescott,
| boasts of paved streets.
| Health Seekrs, looking through the
atlas of the United States in past
years, found that Prescott was to be
their Promised Land. Arrived here
| (but any doctor of Prescott will tell
you) numerous wealthy health seek
ers, have Immediately sought a more
up to date health resort, because their
doctors last Injunction was: Don't
| rode over rough roads. see that the
| town is Clean Earnest seekers after
health, they could not stay-the roads
were too rough, the unpaved streets
are too unSanitary.
The business man, who displays his
wares is dismayed when the breeze in
the summer and spring blowing over
the unpaved streets deposits dus, over
his carefully arranged display, causing
much annoyance and extra work.
! If we have paved streets, it will
mean electrically lighted streets and
these two modern conveniences will
eventually bring modern hotel. which
we need badly, and which would ac-
commodate hundreds of summer re-
sorters. who have, in the past, been
disappointed and have had to leave
town on account of the lack or proper
accommodations.
If tourists heard that the mile high
city. whose natural surroundings are
wonderfully attractive, possessed
paved and electrically lighted roads
within the city. innumerahie more tour
lists would make Prescott one of their
stopping places. and thus increase rnc
prosperity of the place a hundred per
cent
Prescott is. and will remain, if we
so wish it, the commercial center of
northern Arizona; her banking is the
soundest, she has the most up to date
store. but if we are backward in this
one regard (paved streets), we will be
less progressive in other things, and as
matter of course we are going to
lose out
Next June, Mt. Vernon and Pleasant
streets are to be paved. and if resi-
dents see our great necessity-can't
you, Business Man?
The Santa Fe depot neat and mod
ern, tells the newcomer that he has
arrived at real live western town.
but when he reaches Gurley, our prin-
c1pal street and sees a river of mud
or. in dry weather. is greeted by a
whirlwind of dust, he is quickly disil-
lusioned
Business men of Prescott, Give your
town something in return for the sliv-
ing she has given you for many
years. You will be compensated bv
the gratitude. not only of your con-
temporaries. but of your posterity. for
your wholesome interest. in co-opera-
tive community Improvement they
viii say. Behold, his works live after
him
q am sure that the Young Writer'S
have been thinking that Helen Fin
layson, whose letter was published in
our first iseue, was a Senior We
might still think were Freshman"
not signed TO her manuscript
BY MOONLIGHT
1t was nearing Il o'clock, a beautiful
moonlight night that we started from
the little Californian station 20 the
ranch. / had time for only a fleeing
glance of the small town with its old
stately houses, large trees and sloping
green lawns all of which gave one
such a spooky feeling, the fleet
buggy horses and easy riding carriage
carried us rapidly into the pine