Year: 1879

The Prescott Enterprise, of Deoem- Der 28, charges TIE CITIZEN with be- ing bitterly hostile" to Prescott and Yavapai county. We are sorry the new editor of the Enterprise should adopt this old refrain, and we are al- most willing to believe the words have been run in by his printers from some undistributed matter left over by the old regime We are not bitterly hos tile" to Yayapai county but are par ticularly friendly to that and all other sections of Arizona. The trouble is that Prescott has been cursed with un- principled men, at times, who are con- stantly sending out through the press and over the wires false statements calculated to do mischief and mislead strangers. These statements appear in California and other newspapers, and THE CITIZEN, having a reputation of honesty and reliability, deems it neces- sary to correct such statements. Only the other day the San Francisco Bul. letin, copying from one of the Prescott papers, said:

 The population of Yavapai county is over twenty thousand, it's area is sixty thousand square miles, more than half the whole Territory. It pays about half the entire Territorial revenue, and next year will pay more than half. It contains at least half the entire popu- lation of Arizona

 The Enterprise sent this wholesale he broadcast, and the leading journal of San Francesca ignorantly but hon. estly copies it. The natural result will be some innocent stranger will invest his money in a worthless mine or dry ranch around Prescott, and lose it. We earnestly advise all capitalists intend ing to invest their money in Arizona to carefully examine the different sec tions before investing. This section shrinks from no scrutiny. During the past year several millions of dollars have been invested in Pima county, and in the face of the vast influx of population and money here, THE CTTI- ZEN has been extremely cautious to avoid saying anything to unduly excite the public mind We have alienated friends and injured ourself by perhaps undue caution. But we have seen such misery and wrong caused by excite ment over mining and investment in new sections on this coast, and prin- cipally led on by unprincIpled news papers of the class of the Prescott Enterprise, that we had rather err on the side of caution, However, during this year of 1879, as our nunerousI mills get to work and 0Sf ore bodies are opened up, we intend to devote our self carefully to post the outside world on the results.

 In the meantime let us suggest tol this present Legislature to vote solidlyl in favor of bill for a new and honest apportionment on a new census of thel Territory. As Yavapai county claims to. have at least half of the entire population of Arizona" her delegation in the legislature should certainly bel in favor of such bill, and as the Pima county delegation will joln in, the bill could be easily passed by an Over- whelming majority. And there shouldI be provision made in the bill for the most careful supervision and proof of the census taken hereunder We never want another census from Yavapai county returning every Indian and every graveyard occupant in the county and then using up some directory from abroad, to supply the proper number of names. You are a precious lot, gentlemen of Prescott.