tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73867532737807085732024-03-18T20:58:22.945-07:00 #PrescottAZHistoryAnecdotes of Prescott History Brought to Life From the Pages of Old Newspapers and Other Sources.Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.comBlogger285125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-71582318387596125142024-03-10T07:17:00.001-07:002024-03-18T19:00:19.642-07:00Jerome's Great Fire of 1898<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeHLgLgSUDTU8FtqMt-RHHoMGhob5FVp6ZqObtVfKo9bU6PueqgJG9suPP3E9w8T5x_m7z4QF_5nhzy0-4N-oxRXWz-w8TGzJ2m_CkUXt21Y6KydP7NsdJgj0vmGfc7wbCt1PxQvD8NHZ5fPlQ3OdhXCHuY8VLqcsEZzpnkIlRXlYY27kTlozWeaHCH9nc/s695/Jeromes%20Great%20Fire%20of%201898.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="695" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeHLgLgSUDTU8FtqMt-RHHoMGhob5FVp6ZqObtVfKo9bU6PueqgJG9suPP3E9w8T5x_m7z4QF_5nhzy0-4N-oxRXWz-w8TGzJ2m_CkUXt21Y6KydP7NsdJgj0vmGfc7wbCt1PxQvD8NHZ5fPlQ3OdhXCHuY8VLqcsEZzpnkIlRXlYY27kTlozWeaHCH9nc/w400-h256/Jeromes%20Great%20Fire%20of%201898.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One year before the fire;<br />almost all of this would be destroyed.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Journal-Miner described it as “one of the greatest calamities in the loss of human lives and destruction of property that has ever occurred in the territory, and it may also be said in the West.”<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just before 7AM, Sunday September 11, 1898, the first fire alarm rang. A “shack” in the Italian quarter, in back of the Grand View hotel was engulfed in flames, but as people were first arriving to fight the blaze, it was already spreading with shocking speed, “licking up building after building,” the paper described. “The flames swept with such rapidity and fury, that it was simply bewildering.” Firefighters stared in dumbfounded horror as they didn’t know where to start. “Strong and brave men faltered in performing [their] solemn duty…but in the frightful scenes which faced them [they hesitated].”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By 9AM, in the stretch of two short hours, five full blocks were nothing more than a smoldering ruin. Witnesses described it as a “horrible panorama” as the fire spread in a half-dozen different directions. The immense heat alone caused combustion where flames had not yet touched. “Nothing was spared,” the paper continued. “Structures of the most substantial and approved material were consumed as though they were tissue.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The wind carried burning embers as far as 200 yards igniting house after house—even wagons caught fire this way. “Dynamite was resorted to, but it availed nothing,” the paper explained. “The water supply was inadequate and was only effective on a few remote and isolated buildings.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The scenes enacted are said to have been pitiable in the extreme,” the paper described, “particularly so among women, [who] watched in tears [as] their homes [went] up in smoke. Little children clung to their mothers in terror of the dire calamity.” Most of the 2500 residents now owned nothing more than the clothes on their backs.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Many men and some children are missing,” the paper reported. Eight charred bodies of unidentified people were found initially, and it was feared that the number would double. The United Verde company lost at least 50 rental homes that were valued at $2000 each. Also lost was the hospital. “Much merchandise and other valuable goods were removed to places on the hillside," but the heat became so intense that they still caught fire. Nearly everything was destroyed in the end. Even the brush on Cleopatra mountain was burned all the way up to the peak.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One man lost $1800 in paper money when his wallet fell onto the floor of a burning building as jumped out of the window to save his life.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: small; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKITnjDZNVCTaQNYpGRTCNqkok1x1ndXIsX6gmtMnneMwRhzyM1sYHWv-RfQpEFrNe5v0brxnxhu4TUyl9eDYgrG1L9lgH0_u1MD1qqO51gIhG96DAOExJOcwOfSW4qs0SQU2lPJRAmCjYyBmygDdA2mNDbc7c_ZAcgg1sahl7p7KklcmikycsINPVl7g8/s4750/Humboldt%20Suffers%202%20Conflagrations%20in%203%20Weeks.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2875" data-original-width="4750" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKITnjDZNVCTaQNYpGRTCNqkok1x1ndXIsX6gmtMnneMwRhzyM1sYHWv-RfQpEFrNe5v0brxnxhu4TUyl9eDYgrG1L9lgH0_u1MD1qqO51gIhG96DAOExJOcwOfSW4qs0SQU2lPJRAmCjYyBmygDdA2mNDbc7c_ZAcgg1sahl7p7KklcmikycsINPVl7g8/w200-h121/Humboldt%20Suffers%202%20Conflagrations%20in%203%20Weeks.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2020/09/humboldt-suffers-two-conflagrations-in.html" target="_blank">Humboldt Suffers Two Conflagrations in Three Weeks</a></span></span><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">The story of two disastrous fires that occurred in Humboldt, AZ only three weeks apart in the summer of 1910.</span></p><div><br /></div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most buildings only had nominal or no insurance coverage. The Connor Hotel was valued at $40,000 (or $1.4 million today.) Other destroyed hotels included: Grand View hotel, $25,000 ($850,000 today); the Jerome hotel $20,000 ($678,000 today); the St. Charles hotel $6500 ($220,000 today); and Mrs. Boyd’s boarding house $6000 (over $200,000 today.)</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Con O’Keefe, owner of one of the biggest mercantiles in town, lost $50,000 ($1.7 million today.) In fact, over 200 businesses of all types were complete losses.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Many versions of how the conflagration started were bandied about immediately. One of the most popular theories was cited by the Journal-Miner: “the most acceptable [version] is that a company of Italians were having a ‘blow out’ that night and in the course of their carousals, threw lighted cigarettes around carelessly, one of which ignited some waste paper near a can of gasoline which caused an explosion and set the building on fire.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As popular as this theory of origin was, the owner of the suspected house wrote the Journal-Miner insisting that his place was not where the blaze started. He insisted that no one was in a drunken row there and there was neither gasoline nor a gas stove on the premises to explode.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fifty refugees from Jerome arrived in Prescott—mostly women and children. “In each and every case so far in arrivals, nothing but the backs of sufferers is to be seen. They tell the story over and over again that the town is wiped out, and with it, they also have lost it all." Still, building contracts were being signed even as the embers continued smoldering.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prescott’s response to her sister-city’s catastrophe was both immediate and compassionate. “The Bashford-Burmister Co., Sam Hill, and other [Prescott merchants] have sent over 100 tents to the scene, and in addition to that…a subscription is being circulated and liberally engaged,” the Journal-Miner reported. A meeting of sympathetic Prescottonians was held at the Hotel Burke. It was decided that five prominent men would travel to Jerome the next morning “and report by wire the condition and needs of the people to fellow committeemen, who would immediately act and forward them the necessities desired,” the paper explained. A telegram was sent to the crippled town: “If the sufferers of the Jerome fire are in need of assistance, the people of Prescott are ready and willing to do all in their power. Answer immediately." </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When the committee returned from Jerome, they reported that there was already “a small army of men preparing to rebuild on the burned district.” </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In total, the loss was listed at $366,200 (or nearly $12.5 million today,) of which only $113,750 (or $3.85 million today) was covered by insurance.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB5BLBndsAv6ihSdoTybqjB_NkuS9xE9ddnQu0RwcZzW16duM9Thc4DuX8Nk6ep4jLo27Eeor-nHb9AZsY52LqKbrBjZP_tHzLwKIR-ZqD94kiBvhsefwY7-Qo2v8b1Z5XLVV54FQkqTGHZ1CmWC4x6fxYoq-xZ9RXOjM__-52F2fAsEwtzfEnp-1YVq-C/s7680/Jerome%20Sanford%20map%20PNG%201898%20main%20jaurez.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7680" data-original-width="6510" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB5BLBndsAv6ihSdoTybqjB_NkuS9xE9ddnQu0RwcZzW16duM9Thc4DuX8Nk6ep4jLo27Eeor-nHb9AZsY52LqKbrBjZP_tHzLwKIR-ZqD94kiBvhsefwY7-Qo2v8b1Z5XLVV54FQkqTGHZ1CmWC4x6fxYoq-xZ9RXOjM__-52F2fAsEwtzfEnp-1YVq-C/s320/Jerome%20Sanford%20map%20PNG%201898%20main%20jaurez.png" width="271" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Map of Jerome, 4 months before the fire.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4334jm.g001581898/?sp=1&r=-0.853,-0.046,2.707,1.311,0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">(CLICK HERE for the Library of Congress zoomable version)</span></a></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the heroes of he catastrophe was Dr. EW Dutcher whose burns were severe enough for him to develop cerebral spinal meningitis and his ultimate death. “His death, under the circumstances, has caused a universal feeling of sadness to pervade the town,” the Journal-Miner wrote, “as he gave himself as a sacrifice in trying to save the property and lives of others.” From the start, Dutcher thought his wounds would be fatal, and he specifically asked that his daughter, (to whom he was greatly devoted,) NOT to be sent for, so her memory of him would be “as he was in health and not as he [now] was, disfigured by his injuries.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The United Verde copper company constructed several temporary houses for their employees which were to be later replaced by “substantial and neat cottages.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“So many new buildings are in course of construction in Jerome that the town is beginning to take shape again,” the Arizona Republic reported. “Contracts have been let for the erection of many fine buildings in the near future.” Several businesses would now build concrete structures. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Merrill Bros. Mercantile replaced its building with a stone and brick structure with an added third floor for offices and lodgings.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Lumber is coming into Jerome thick and fast,” the same paper observed, “and new buildings are going up in all directions. The secret societies who lost all their property in the recent fire are active in taking steps toward again fitting themselves out for the transaction of work.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Photographs of the town before the fire are bringing big premiums,” the Journal-Miner reported. “Dr. Hawkins collection of views was entirely destroyed and the negatives consumed in the flames.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As the town was rebuilding, “several of the property holders on Main Street [talked about] setting their buildings back farther than before when they rebuild, which will straighten out the street and make it wider,” the Weekly Republican revealed. Dave Conner asserted that his new hotel building would be far superior to the old one. His rebuild still stands. Con O’Keefe would replace his old mercantile building with one three stories tall.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By mid-October, one visitor described Jerome as “the busiest place he ever saw. It is a hotter town than it was during the fire!” he exclaimed. The new livery stable would be complete in no more than twenty days.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i></i><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By the end of October, the town of Jerome single-handedly consumed all the area’s ready cut lumber. Dozens of buildings were waiting for material, but this shortage would soon be corrected, and by the end of the year Jerome was back to its bustling self.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIufVX1QDAwvDN6wkXItR-xO7FSq5oCsU1JUrpUXn2SGr_VSkZyRM1vmzhH46WXqCS0ftmg_2a1zetPmrUtLn6j7ij9xu_EAHjcdFRtdRfCwKdXgCN2JsCyVPwBT1L-qnhQtlXT369Qkxl3YcuKDrc_XHN-hod_VlIBplRBHzyUklqh6YGmRQZ-jTOYlWV/s1800/Jerome%20Dec%2017%201899.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1433" data-original-width="1800" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIufVX1QDAwvDN6wkXItR-xO7FSq5oCsU1JUrpUXn2SGr_VSkZyRM1vmzhH46WXqCS0ftmg_2a1zetPmrUtLn6j7ij9xu_EAHjcdFRtdRfCwKdXgCN2JsCyVPwBT1L-qnhQtlXT369Qkxl3YcuKDrc_XHN-hod_VlIBplRBHzyUklqh6YGmRQZ-jTOYlWV/s320/Jerome%20Dec%2017%201899.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">15 months after the fire,<br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Jerome more than recovered!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0000ee; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0rd5qlNI1TPLCbdB4k0UHIWaq693xdktSAcsu1TEJILQLpWYAiJAY-ut_W_JkWaftRtRNDpIDYOFAFAzEYNunzdHuhr-eLjZ2R1KAlGDoGINsNHZK7CPjwksPjAM0dcsOhKy97Y9esVI31UbCgb3w4-_lOa5g927YPSBoaO-nS5KejDGORjQksZyDUt7H/s625/1888%20Great%20fire%20b4%20great%20fire.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="318" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0rd5qlNI1TPLCbdB4k0UHIWaq693xdktSAcsu1TEJILQLpWYAiJAY-ut_W_JkWaftRtRNDpIDYOFAFAzEYNunzdHuhr-eLjZ2R1KAlGDoGINsNHZK7CPjwksPjAM0dcsOhKy97Y9esVI31UbCgb3w4-_lOa5g927YPSBoaO-nS5KejDGORjQksZyDUt7H/s320/1888%20Great%20fire%20b4%20great%20fire.png" width="163" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2021/06/1888-great-fire-before-great-fire.html" target="_blank">1888: Prescott's Great Fire Before the Great Fire</a></span></div><div>
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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp92s2JdlzxQvUPzIhUbI3Z2TVOGyeL9_XdFcNhXspphFX1xYXS9NPDrrEGeC-3_v4MSjrsw_2R0KZSxizlQcBkcI-Tl442wKR5pG0qG5TXUzQNsAOx3SxCA10RyAjwaxsrl2C7NgAp33f/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-05+at+4.01.55+PM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="115" data-original-width="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp92s2JdlzxQvUPzIhUbI3Z2TVOGyeL9_XdFcNhXspphFX1xYXS9NPDrrEGeC-3_v4MSjrsw_2R0KZSxizlQcBkcI-Tl442wKR5pG0qG5TXUzQNsAOx3SxCA10RyAjwaxsrl2C7NgAp33f/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-05+at+4.01.55+PM.png" /></a></div><i><br /></i><i><br /></i><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Follow </i><b>PrescottAZHistory</b><i> on Instagram</i></span><br /><i><br /></i><i><br /><br /></i></div></div></div></span><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>SOURCES:</u></b></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner 9/14/1898; Pg. 1, Cols. 5-6.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Weekly Journal-Miner <span style="font-family: inherit;">9/28/1898</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1</span>, Cols. <span style="font-family: inherit;">8-9.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Weekly Journal-Miner <span style="font-family: inherit;">9/14/1898</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">3, Col. 5.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Weekly Journal-Miner <span style="font-family: inherit;">9/14/1898</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">7.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Weekly Journal-Miner <span style="font-family: inherit;">9/21/1898</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">4</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Weekly Journal-Miner <span style="font-family: inherit;">9/28/1898</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">9.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican 9/13/1898</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">3</span>, Cols. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1 & 2.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly </span>Arizona Republican <span style="font-family: inherit;">10/13/1898</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">4</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">3.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Arizona Republican<span style="font-family: inherit;"> 10/27/1898</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">3</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Arizona Republican <span style="font-family: inherit;">10/15/1898</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">5</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">2.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><p><br /></p>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Jerome, AZ 86331, USA34.7489107 -112.11377166.4386768638211578 -147.2700216 63.059144536178849 -76.9575216tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-82393858962781959242023-12-17T07:43:00.002-07:002024-03-09T08:52:58.532-07:00The Snow-Mageddon of '67!<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK3XnVfcja83iEJYQQwxnE6kcUho5T0wPtEmSDeM7C23Tt-DbUiw_dVMtZtczq2N964eA5ts0LETaf2lVpBiJSZN1VznOHjBbMVXiv31Hm4k1DO3nFqqSvvtInrewbTgBVpL6iNj8qlto4C5DIjrQLcnbfENLnfCcl7hH6grdLJm7z50guJ976dxYUEKwX/s960/Gurley%20St%20Snow%201967%202.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="960" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK3XnVfcja83iEJYQQwxnE6kcUho5T0wPtEmSDeM7C23Tt-DbUiw_dVMtZtczq2N964eA5ts0LETaf2lVpBiJSZN1VznOHjBbMVXiv31Hm4k1DO3nFqqSvvtInrewbTgBVpL6iNj8qlto4C5DIjrQLcnbfENLnfCcl7hH6grdLJm7z50guJ976dxYUEKwX/w400-h303/Gurley%20St%20Snow%201967%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Consensus knows that Prescott gets snow, but it almost never lasts long—often melting away before evening. This was the reasoning behind the city selling off its “excess” snow removal equipment. But then in mid-December, 1967, a below freezing cold-snap accompanied by four waves of heavy snow eventually produced 72 inches with drifts measuring up to 10 feet. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Ironically, it was the city of Phoenix that sent ten snowplows, at its own expense, to help with the crisis.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It all started Tuesday, December 12th when 18 inches piled up—already the storm was the biggest blizzard in twenty years, but it was only the beginning. “Trucks and trailers jackknifed across Yarnell Hill…prompting law enforcement officials to close White Spar road to further traffic,” the Prescott Courier reported. Additionally, a four car pile up occurred on Black Canyon highway as “a Texaco tanker overturned on the embankment, with the ensuing chain reaction involving three other vehicles.” Fortunately, there were no injuries. (The Black Canyon closure was significant because Interstate 17 had not yet been constructed.)</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">So many people were using the phone that many had to wait a full minute before they even got a dial tone. The Prescott airport closed at noon and would remain closed until after Christmas. Schools closed Wednesday the 13th, and would not reopen until 1968. Sheriff Al Ayers declared: “If we get anymore snow, we may have to declare this a disaster area.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A decade before it became popular, citizens band radio was utilized to garner information from isolated areas. One sheriff’s deputy was required to transport a woman in labor to the Prescott hospital. The sheriff’s office called upon its Jeep posse to deliver food to outlying areas such as Lynx and Groom Creek, Walker, and Diamond Valley--where one officer had to temporarily abandon his vehicle to complete the vital deliveries on foot. One 8 year-old, asthma-suffering boy was brought to Prescott from Lynx Creek Estates to allow quick access to the hospital if need be. It took seven hours—until 8pm, for deputies to reach his house.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Often only a bulldozer was able to break through the tall snow drifts. Due to Prescott’s lack of snow removal equipment, her citizens came to the rescue. “Private individuals and firms have been operating magnificently,” the sheriff said. “They’re putting their own equipment out there, and it’s getting torn up.” Many civic-minded college and high school students called the city asking how they could help.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGEzxQuvPXmgqsvaRabtjYQNE6g07PsTn5W6TW0aM4-SA7gfufGO5bOr6KLPQbWTDJkW4heXOfmOaQzXXj69A-Pih6d2A7nH_My7u8yRDGxHS0zqISFoBUgewer7GHSUcpRtCUhckpXaospvJhgarDAuqP8jzWCpv5jkx4S0gfEAjs6bvNS2tGFGL0wMc/s452/PIC%20snowed%20house%20and%20car%20AZR%2012:23:67%20p3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="452" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGEzxQuvPXmgqsvaRabtjYQNE6g07PsTn5W6TW0aM4-SA7gfufGO5bOr6KLPQbWTDJkW4heXOfmOaQzXXj69A-Pih6d2A7nH_My7u8yRDGxHS0zqISFoBUgewer7GHSUcpRtCUhckpXaospvJhgarDAuqP8jzWCpv5jkx4S0gfEAjs6bvNS2tGFGL0wMc/s320/PIC%20snowed%20house%20and%20car%20AZR%2012:23:67%20p3.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Cattle farmers were caught in a dire state as their livestock was stranded in the snow. “We can’t get in [to feed them]; they could be wiped out,” one worried.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Our biggest problem is fuel,” the sheriff related. “People [in the outskirts] are running out of butane gas.” Helicopter owner Ralph Martin was asked to check on the welfare of some of the ranches.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The temperature rose only slightly above freezing and nearly no melting occurred. “Prescott was virtually isolated from the state,” the Courier described. “Mail had not moved in or out of town in over a day.” Highway 89 south into Phoenix was open only to vehicles with tire chains. Black Canyon highway still had only one lane of traffic open. “Highway 79 [now 89A over Mingus,] was virtually closed to all but official or emergency traffic.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">City Engineer Louis Bombardieri told the Courier “that the city’s clearing equipment was working on a 24 hour basis, but [no] more than one or two pieces were rarely in operation. ‘They last about half a day,’ he said, ‘and then they break down.’” </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Prescott Shopping Center (at Gurley and Thumb Butte road,) closed all of its storefronts, including the Fry’s grocery store, due to safety concerns. Every roof was sagging dangerously. Indeed, three people were hospitalized after falling through a plastic skylight there, while trying to clear the snow from the roof.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Then more snow fell. The total on the ground was now 38 inches. Over two dozen aluminum store canopies collapsed. Saturday the 16th, the sheriff’s office went into “emergency mode” and began hiring more privately-owned heavy equipment to help. Saturday night gusting winds and frozen temperatures caused huge snow drifts that covered over places where the snow had been removed.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy5IX5_LjL977gNye8gBY1VjLuR_4wV27zTObdlvok0Es8pOH1t3ufnAWfiNDFGnWb58of2o0N2qTGTxvgBQc15ph75epoCFNlGbAx6C8C-RRuGyAH_cQJx_T0E0w8DYzs33wLpWTCXbDweRyHXdufuuHXVChEfuIXG7zGg365_7F9keaV16p_tPjEjz10/s503/PIC%20%20Snow%20fort%20Jan%209%20'68.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="503" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy5IX5_LjL977gNye8gBY1VjLuR_4wV27zTObdlvok0Es8pOH1t3ufnAWfiNDFGnWb58of2o0N2qTGTxvgBQc15ph75epoCFNlGbAx6C8C-RRuGyAH_cQJx_T0E0w8DYzs33wLpWTCXbDweRyHXdufuuHXVChEfuIXG7zGg365_7F9keaV16p_tPjEjz10/s320/PIC%20%20Snow%20fort%20Jan%209%20'68.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">As the Prescott hospital began to run low in its blood supply, ten pints were dropped from a plane at the Prescott airport before a deputy ran it to the hospital. That was hardly the hospital’s only problem. The roof over its kitchen was sagging two feet from the weight of the snow. It was the forest service that came to the rescue in this instance, providing equipment for a “field kitchen” that was erected in one of the hospital's recreation rooms.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A caterpillar bulldozer left for Cherry Saturday night and didn’t arrive there until Sunday morning. It was the first sign of outside civilization the small burg had seen in five days. As for Route 89 heading north, the Granite Dells weren’t reached until 5:30 Sunday afternoon. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Although Sheriff Ayers originally stated that more snow could well require a declaration of a disaster, when the second blizzard came through, he reconsidered. He was now reluctant because of the cost, and that local control of the situation would be lost to Phoenix. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“[Sheriff’s] officers answered a variety of emergency calls, including several women bordering on childbirth. In one instance, lawmen could only get to within 100 yards of one mother’s house, so they carried her out in a kitchen chair and took her to the patrol car,” the Courier described.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">All roads out of Prescott required chains on tires and every merchant that carried them ran out quickly. Black Canyon Highway was still restricted to only one lane Sunday.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">After its roof caved in, the Hassayampa Food Market began utilizing its Jeep (equipped with tire chains,) to make deliveries. Roof failures were many including the Pepsi-Cola warehouse and the Western Auto store. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">While trying to remove snow from an awning, Mrs. Yancey Lewis fell 18 feet to the ground breaking her back and arm. Two other women fell with her, but were not seriously injured.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Sunday night brought heavy freezing rain and sleet which took down even more roofs. The Arizona Republic reported: “Three roofs caved in on the town’s famous ‘Whiskey Row’…and at an airplane repair shop at the Prescott airport.” </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Garbage trucks could not maneuver on any side streets. The city recommended burning what could be, and either storing perishable trash in the garage “or possibly put some of it out on the snow for the birds,” the Courier suggested. The rest was to be condensed (cans flattened, etc.)</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkscW3HG_ElQ1NdzEIxXVWlrny_u1YpBGHHslsTyXCshSjbTyC_9OkLjmz_yYVj1Sikb6qvnLhlR__qs2lgKj81KaRLXyVI8TonBPOSIwDHc74gbkl-uVb1WwtJ9Uv5gu8FU5vXBc9obRnBMBFyxtBff8Ppe_0aRhRt5r0H9G77e9SW69Cea3b_d8j07T/s400/1915-6FtSnowDroveLions.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="400" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkscW3HG_ElQ1NdzEIxXVWlrny_u1YpBGHHslsTyXCshSjbTyC_9OkLjmz_yYVj1Sikb6qvnLhlR__qs2lgKj81KaRLXyVI8TonBPOSIwDHc74gbkl-uVb1WwtJ9Uv5gu8FU5vXBc9obRnBMBFyxtBff8Ppe_0aRhRt5r0H9G77e9SW69Cea3b_d8j07T/w200-h130/1915-6FtSnowDroveLions.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> <a href="http://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2017/01/1915-6-ft-snow-drove-lions-onto-ranches.html" target="_blank">1915: 6 Ft. Snow Drove Lions Onto Ranches--Hardly a Colt Survived</a></span><p></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Citizens of Prescott found out that some large mountain lions and bears were still in the forest when deep snows forced them out of the mountains.</span></p><div><br /></div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-variant-caps: normal;">Finally, the Yavapai County Supervisors declared the entire county a disaster area. Mail deliveries had not been made to residential areas since the first snow fell five days before. Likewise, the Prescott Courier could not be delivered. Despite the last two weeks of a year providing some of the best advertising revenue for any newspaper, the Courier would not publish another edition after December 17 until the next year. (<i>Trivia: I</i></span><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">n 1967 the Prescott Evening Courier decided to </span><span style="font-size: medium;">publish</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> a morning edition instead, but went back to an evening edition in ’68.</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">)</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">More snow fell the 17th. “Prescott has received 42 inches of snow since the storm began,” the Arizona Republic reported. “Officials said the town was completely sold out of overshoes and tire chains. They said wreckers in the area were even bogged down so deeply they could not operate.” Snow drifts reached ten feet tall.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Supplies began to dwindle and grocery stores implemented quotas of milk and other supplies. More air drops of blood were made to bolster supplies at the hospital. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Then another eight inches of snow fell bringing the total to 50.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Prescott was another community in which most merchants forgot Christmas sales and fought to prevent collapse of their buildings under loads of heavy snow,” the Republic explained. When asked how holiday sales were going, Ed Getrost, manager of the Sprouse-Reitz store, proclaimed: “It’s gone to hell! I’m busy mopping up water leaking through the overladen roof and hoping that the stilts we have put in will prevent the snow and roof from collapsing on us.”</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lhC39zW4Wst-i64d2NIlQBt2y8phmtTzVUPwIKc92OItRijhVPzFjsI7qnjP8F8EZk82gKKi4FmOVWB0zxhQ2qEpJ0YjU9CcrRptgQPoUnzvwhysX98IHTBB7tXpFFGzLNcfdoWWAfYgCSYKDPcO_dMpp-CZEFgX8Hhs5ax3-SMjIs08mKNsreKHf5wv/s800/PIC%20Snow%2067%20AZR%2012:21:67%20p53.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="800" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lhC39zW4Wst-i64d2NIlQBt2y8phmtTzVUPwIKc92OItRijhVPzFjsI7qnjP8F8EZk82gKKi4FmOVWB0zxhQ2qEpJ0YjU9CcrRptgQPoUnzvwhysX98IHTBB7tXpFFGzLNcfdoWWAfYgCSYKDPcO_dMpp-CZEFgX8Hhs5ax3-SMjIs08mKNsreKHf5wv/s320/PIC%20Snow%2067%20AZR%2012:21:67%20p53.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Prescott borrowed 10 pieces of snow removal equipment from Phoenix on December 19th for ten days. The $30,000 cost, including wages for eight workers, was paid by Phoenix (about $242,000 today.)</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The snow depth topped 5 feet at Prescott,” the Republic reported on the 20th, ”with rainfall during the day [</span>that]<span style="font-family: inherit;"> flood[ed] the downtown. Volunteers and jail trustees labored to keep street drains cleared of snow to let the runoff escape.” Even Western Union announced it would only accept messages of “direct emergency” in Prescott.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A number of pronghorn were found dead in the Chino Valley basin due to the storm and the state Game & Fish Department monitored the situation, ready to provide supplementary feed for </span>the wildlife,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> if and when necessary.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">White Spar road from Congress Junction to Prescott finally opened to all traffic on the 22nd, but Highway 89A to Jerome would not open until the 28th and even then “the highway department cautioned against its use except in emergency circumstances,” the Republic reported. The Christmas Eve edition of this paper cited Prescott's snow total at 72 inches--a full six feet!</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It took until January 2, 1968 for the Prescott Evening Courier to relate the story in retrospect: “Several have said that it will cost as much as the fire at the turn of the century.” On one ranch 18 head of cattle broke through the ice and drowned in a pool of water.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Sales have suffered throughout the town,” the paper continued. Ken Thompson, City Manager, estimated the cost at upward of $30,000 and that did not include damage to property and streets. He believed it would take a minimum of 60 days to calculate it all. “Parking meters, usually bringing in $150 per day had not been checked for two weeks.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The city gradually returned to normal by the first of the year, but “the big snow of 1967” is still well remembered by all who experienced it. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">SOURCES:</span></u></b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Arizona Republic, 12/29/1967 Pg. 30, Col. 3.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Prescott Courier, 12/14/1967 Pg. 2.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">IBID. Pg. 1, Col. 6-8.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Arizona Republic, 12/16/1917; Pg. 7, Col. 4.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Prescott Courier, 12/17/1967; Pg. 1, all columns.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Arizona Republic, 12/17/1967; Pg. 2, Col. 2.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Arizona Republic, 12/20/1967; Pg. 1, Col. 8.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Arizona Daily Sun, 12/18/1967; Pg. 1, Col. 8.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">IBID. Pg. 20, Cols. 1-2.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Arizona Republic, 12/19/1967; Pg. 20, Col. 5.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Arizona Republic, 12/18/1967; Pg. 13, Col. 1.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Arizona Republic, 12/20/1967; Pg. 10, Col. 1.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">IBID. Pg. 19 Cols. 1 & 2.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Arizona Republic, 12/22/1967; Pg. 37, Col. 2.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Arizona Daily Star, 12/23/67 Pg. 16, Col. 7.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Arizona Republic, 12/24/67; Pg. 2, Col, 1</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Prescott Evening Courier, 1/2/1968; Pg. 1, Col. 8.</p>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com1Prescott, AZ, USA34.5400242 -112.46850256.2297903638211523 -147.6247525 62.850258036178843 -77.3122525tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-57886867590601654232023-09-03T07:12:00.003-07:002024-03-08T18:27:31.745-07:00Payson's 'Oldest Continuous Rodeo' Claim Proven False<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnlSnp9pABthwNL0EdHePYEg0ZoWF4iF5UAXLiengFMsiKZiMvMmHe6rdkDMAq8VreJwY-NsuF8-AE7kaisccszOMjmsZRZ7Q4jvORxMRV7PM72WjSJ2A7oVr3kI2c-JLvnJohOnGVR1B1D3sWtV5FP8CHH2S_8eEe2kDtiU5fh7LXjbKrcWiszXHlJUh/s225/Payson%20Rodeo%20Logo.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnlSnp9pABthwNL0EdHePYEg0ZoWF4iF5UAXLiengFMsiKZiMvMmHe6rdkDMAq8VreJwY-NsuF8-AE7kaisccszOMjmsZRZ7Q4jvORxMRV7PM72WjSJ2A7oVr3kI2c-JLvnJohOnGVR1B1D3sWtV5FP8CHH2S_8eEe2kDtiU5fh7LXjbKrcWiszXHlJUh/w320-h320/Payson%20Rodeo%20Logo.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Payson, Arizona claims their rodeo is the "World's Oldest Continuous Rodeo since 1884." It's a contention that relies largely on oral legends. However, a review of the historical newspaper records refutes the assertion.<span><a name='more'></a></span><p></p><div>The area that would become known as Payson was settled in 1882 and was called Union Park, although residents and newspapers referred to the area as Green Valley. In 1884, the town got a post office and the moniker it enjoys today. Still, it was a tiny town with one mercantile, one saloon, and a population of 40 ranchers and gold miners, along with their wives and children.</div><div><br /></div><div>Looking at every surviving Arizona newspaper in 1884, there were two events involving horses in the Payson area worthy of any newspaper coverage and both were horse races.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuauHaY65FwDkUTeGR2OuElzcXCZAwT2IA8FrsngV0weej5PJ2WIDIJ-TyMDRkRJyMhZeH4yBwsdyFVjcPuUzGDjAzrlgPexYyBQCxfYkt3IinIfRFIa6k7NoXQ80NaTOVAoEc4APt_7WSRYMiqBY9pCOZT9vGmcm5PTmBzaXU68xdorjETWAqwqOjiOCz/s544/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-02%20at%2011.54.21%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="544" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuauHaY65FwDkUTeGR2OuElzcXCZAwT2IA8FrsngV0weej5PJ2WIDIJ-TyMDRkRJyMhZeH4yBwsdyFVjcPuUzGDjAzrlgPexYyBQCxfYkt3IinIfRFIa6k7NoXQ80NaTOVAoEc4APt_7WSRYMiqBY9pCOZT9vGmcm5PTmBzaXU68xdorjETWAqwqOjiOCz/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-02%20at%2011.54.21%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AZ Silver Belt 6/28/1884 Pg. 3</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwu5Ds8RfXgOO5agge3lpfqGsY1RXq8Z4jMOqtvIF4XOIALzBnyZmL7S_koQh9GUCa2O2rnoj-6l7o1xf8SXbmvsOxMbKoUxAjtP4UD6xQU6hqhlwKPHoO4OAsaXxSj8QdX79KmGfwx_7W8AI_qIBXLHbRwmz-0iVRu50zHtEgzcwYKl0WMnG2lIksoAce/s554/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-02%20at%2011.56.37%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="554" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwu5Ds8RfXgOO5agge3lpfqGsY1RXq8Z4jMOqtvIF4XOIALzBnyZmL7S_koQh9GUCa2O2rnoj-6l7o1xf8SXbmvsOxMbKoUxAjtP4UD6xQU6hqhlwKPHoO4OAsaXxSj8QdX79KmGfwx_7W8AI_qIBXLHbRwmz-0iVRu50zHtEgzcwYKl0WMnG2lIksoAce/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-02%20at%2011.56.37%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AZ Silver Belt 12/6/1884 Pg. 3</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>According to newspaper accounts, from 1884 to 1896, Payson only featured horse races, and horse races are NOT rodeo. There are no horse races at rodeos, and there certainly isn't bronco-busting or calf-tying at a horse race. Indeed, the training of the animal-athletes, as well as the humans, is entirely different. It would be like comparing swimming to diving because they both utilize a pool.<div><br /></div><div>The current Payson rodeo website exclaims that since 1884, they "haven't missed a beat." However, even if one allows Payson to count their horse races in their "continuous rodeo" claim, it still was not consecutive. The following year, in 1885, people showed-up for the races at Payson, but ended up going to Globe instead:</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiSrbNZljmUinMAd8Hlk6g5BSQuJb8BypYpSApVm9_187lOq85QoU1CMx8-z3a3Me86mGBf-jkJrXAz-NxAtfbDuIa7fKJTl4dlgt7EL4c81ayAJk6lnseZmB8NsR31zlTDfvHC7InQaG_UCI4G67FCsa_DE5vEumWoesX8u5xSGOYe-l7TISMEf8hAZP1/s549/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-02%20at%205.42.44%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="231" data-original-width="549" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiSrbNZljmUinMAd8Hlk6g5BSQuJb8BypYpSApVm9_187lOq85QoU1CMx8-z3a3Me86mGBf-jkJrXAz-NxAtfbDuIa7fKJTl4dlgt7EL4c81ayAJk6lnseZmB8NsR31zlTDfvHC7InQaG_UCI4G67FCsa_DE5vEumWoesX8u5xSGOYe-l7TISMEf8hAZP1/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-02%20at%205.42.44%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AZ Silver Belt 7/4/1885 Pg. 2</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Evidently, this population of 40 ranchers and miners had more pressing concerns--like trying to eke out a living in the naked wilderness of the 19th century! <i>(After all, the Indian conflicts were still unsettled at this time! How much spare time did this this scant population have to plan an annual regional event?)</i> It is rare for a newspaper to report on an event NOT happening, but the citing above is one exception.</div><div><br /></div><div>The following year, 1886, there was one newsworthy event involving horses, but again, it was racing.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYTbJgDuVzRMmQTKPZipd25TFfvFMtTw8f7-Ba8BHRtiVq3rUNTfqOj_CtMwUWWfaa6mAkQN_o5NqUtAiK_7Unxo9BDT9KxBXlELE6z6gLB0ZPBTCLsZIoHiTmavjkBWiGNCJGezkVO7RLiV-jpOKm3d16tsQfLIuj3gQXFYqgpZ0qtggC66llQBn6dfEK/s610/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-02%20at%206.15.31%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="610" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYTbJgDuVzRMmQTKPZipd25TFfvFMtTw8f7-Ba8BHRtiVq3rUNTfqOj_CtMwUWWfaa6mAkQN_o5NqUtAiK_7Unxo9BDT9KxBXlELE6z6gLB0ZPBTCLsZIoHiTmavjkBWiGNCJGezkVO7RLiV-jpOKm3d16tsQfLIuj3gQXFYqgpZ0qtggC66llQBn6dfEK/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-02%20at%206.15.31%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AZ Silver Belt 6/26/1886 Pg. 3</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>Come 1887, there was no mention of any event involving cowboys or horses in Payson in the newspaper--even in the Arizona Silver Belt of Globe, which regularly published local Payson events. In 1888, however, there was an event that everyone would consider a rodeo, (FINALLY!) However, it was in December of that year, five months after Prescott's first.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEKqUartlZBDVuNz_-1L2geAFucLWs7MEZdtgP6ZwwHI3Fqfewies57JxsMNUxFcPXmHa51G5gpFrILr5tzYZpUFc9B0A-YjqqB_DFfw9MQkcwesGc1GX8WXdYvFvkl6CjiHSl-drimzAk15BElelgKiSHbxJJtJ1q9Dh6IKRgKEky2PAVs_4yWc8fr4Fa/s291/World's%20Oldest%20Rodeo%20Was%20Not%20Yavapai%20County's%20First%20.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="291" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEKqUartlZBDVuNz_-1L2geAFucLWs7MEZdtgP6ZwwHI3Fqfewies57JxsMNUxFcPXmHa51G5gpFrILr5tzYZpUFc9B0A-YjqqB_DFfw9MQkcwesGc1GX8WXdYvFvkl6CjiHSl-drimzAk15BElelgKiSHbxJJtJ1q9Dh6IKRgKEky2PAVs_4yWc8fr4Fa/w200-h157/World's%20Oldest%20Rodeo%20Was%20Not%20Yavapai%20County's%20First%20.png" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>RELATED:</i> <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2020/06/worlds-oldest-rodeo-was-not-yavapai.html" target="_blank">World’s Oldest Rodeo Was Not Yavapai County’s First</a></span></div></span>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i>The story of the first rodeo in Yavapai County which occurred 4 weeks prior to Prescott’s World’s Oldest Rodeo.</i></span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Although newspaper coverage of the 1888 event was extensive, the following years contained no mentions of any event involving horses or cowboys in Payson in those early years at all! While this admittedly does not prove that an event did not happen, it certainly does nothing to prove that it did. Oral history has its place, but it's hardly as conclusive as newspaper reports.</div><div><br /></div><div>The following years had no mention of any Payson event involving horses or cowboys in any surviving Arizona newspaper: 1889, 1890, 1891, 1893, and 1895. In 1892 and 1894, only horse racing was mentioned. Indeed, in 1891, the Arizona Silver Belt reported on the Prescott rodeo, but offered nothing about any Payson event that year--this while the Silver Belt was regularly reporting Payson's daily rainfall totals! <i>(Payson is much closer to Globe than Prescott. Indeed, Payson and Globe are both in Gila County.) </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4vn-YGsoOdN7eO-Zs0evuyjKWwDEyUW501oeNUTUDT9yBwH2tWT8uQfIL25Ec6J3EjxP7-9NwvsYEdfpMwG4LKd5aQJYSwUL2VlvKze94QsAP37wove2OsqLxjhdmPROe5n-P4ij-bh-_YuWAHXjWDqyrW2X6X_aj-iuuxWTtVogPUAmv_DCMs_xrSGxN/s696/Prescott%20rodeo%201891%20AZ%20Silver%20Belt%20(Globe)%207:18:1891%20p1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="696" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4vn-YGsoOdN7eO-Zs0evuyjKWwDEyUW501oeNUTUDT9yBwH2tWT8uQfIL25Ec6J3EjxP7-9NwvsYEdfpMwG4LKd5aQJYSwUL2VlvKze94QsAP37wove2OsqLxjhdmPROe5n-P4ij-bh-_YuWAHXjWDqyrW2X6X_aj-iuuxWTtVogPUAmv_DCMs_xrSGxN/s320/Prescott%20rodeo%201891%20AZ%20Silver%20Belt%20(Globe)%207:18:1891%20p1.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AZ Silver Belt 7/18/1891 Pg. 1</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>In '92, a man was killed in Payson when one of the race horses dashed into the spectators and landed both front hooves onto his chest, crushing the life from him instantly. </div><div><br /></div><div>By themselves, these complete lack of mentions would not be conclusive evidence. However, a reason for this deficiency of early newspaper coverage is ultimately explained in the Williams News on August 29, 1930, Page 3:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRrTOznd87h8NTOUjt7LMC9mZLg03oJDI6A348quEp6mhIFEuDQpY6Ln4BJaiSiTFGTa6GdASkMg3SVOem_reI9BB9UTVhkkJVo85OMWaaNENrkIdKjye9oEcFzVDZAvmXbkmRhzumY6huCzleXmMBPLHRYYaKUIckQaLARvq9oI5wLYYllIk8ahg-QPc7/s377/Payson%20rodeo%20Wlms%20News%208:29:1930%20p3%20c4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="377" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRrTOznd87h8NTOUjt7LMC9mZLg03oJDI6A348quEp6mhIFEuDQpY6Ln4BJaiSiTFGTa6GdASkMg3SVOem_reI9BB9UTVhkkJVo85OMWaaNENrkIdKjye9oEcFzVDZAvmXbkmRhzumY6huCzleXmMBPLHRYYaKUIckQaLARvq9oI5wLYYllIk8ahg-QPc7/s320/Payson%20rodeo%20Wlms%20News%208:29:1930%20p3%20c4.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>If the 35th annual Payson rodeo occurred in 1930, then the first occurred in 1896--eight years after the Prescott rodeo began in 1888! </div><div><br /></div><div>Some have suggested that the reason why Payson's rodeo is the "oldest continuous," is because Prescott skipped at least one during the war years. That claim is simply and wholly untrue. </div><div><br /></div><div>For the United States, World War 2 began December 7, 1941. Prescott had its usual rodeo in '41, but the first war-time rodeo would have been in 1942. </div><div><br /></div><div>From July 4th of that year:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ZnbKjRSanqTQIaifqDtKJiS1cH2jJjzp6LKDAZuF5Tf6pqXKpRgAPXxfALMRTNfd9W8IBCEysZcliIZA8r4BUBCEU6rBWWuUp8pmQIY-x2U3HDPgjMm1KjhaVRfkbuazHzeNjJngbLLC3fv8uNBEJ9OLFSqw6DeFxtlniOMmhgfIFbXGk0O2t2RblKT_/s964/Prescott%20Rodeo%20proof%201942.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="964" height="46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ZnbKjRSanqTQIaifqDtKJiS1cH2jJjzp6LKDAZuF5Tf6pqXKpRgAPXxfALMRTNfd9W8IBCEysZcliIZA8r4BUBCEU6rBWWuUp8pmQIY-x2U3HDPgjMm1KjhaVRfkbuazHzeNjJngbLLC3fv8uNBEJ9OLFSqw6DeFxtlniOMmhgfIFbXGk0O2t2RblKT_/s320/Prescott%20Rodeo%20proof%201942.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>July 5th, 1943 describes "the largest crowd in history" attending the rodeo events:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5JpHvlqh-KSh13NNKHMG1b2oHepCcwXIogs1-B4I2l0abOYOh3jYzOKmd4kURn2tH-Nkx1_vTzhH9-dZYNMwdNqUDvH4K9KguKhYMFoqHVEf41baWC6V32VDHhQdTWlpeiSeS0enKUTTUFcllqcd_-u4e1SZylFTVT51FtUiSadzkg5j7Ag0XYLeT9WPf/s876/Prescott%20Rodeo%20proof%201943.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="876" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5JpHvlqh-KSh13NNKHMG1b2oHepCcwXIogs1-B4I2l0abOYOh3jYzOKmd4kURn2tH-Nkx1_vTzhH9-dZYNMwdNqUDvH4K9KguKhYMFoqHVEf41baWC6V32VDHhQdTWlpeiSeS0enKUTTUFcllqcd_-u4e1SZylFTVT51FtUiSadzkg5j7Ag0XYLeT9WPf/s320/Prescott%20Rodeo%20proof%201943.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>From 1944, "Rodeo thrills crowd":</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qhC9MY67QLeKYnQYIxe4swkpfFKHt2Pnb9kKeFLkNHBcB5jU4b9OqPWDgOWwVFNHSoWGoOcbbTWyTV2XdqsajS45cGiIdFQFCYEjykq_yvY9xamtGFQajTrx54qvnc6pQb_DnxRSfvPI0oaf4YGl2v-AXrgg3cyKkBqJZqLFj96Vx2JEE69JQJ-JV-Pf/s1035/Prescott%20Rodeo%20proof%201944.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="1035" height="72" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qhC9MY67QLeKYnQYIxe4swkpfFKHt2Pnb9kKeFLkNHBcB5jU4b9OqPWDgOWwVFNHSoWGoOcbbTWyTV2XdqsajS45cGiIdFQFCYEjykq_yvY9xamtGFQajTrx54qvnc6pQb_DnxRSfvPI0oaf4YGl2v-AXrgg3cyKkBqJZqLFj96Vx2JEE69JQJ-JV-Pf/s320/Prescott%20Rodeo%20proof%201944.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>July 4th 1945:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HoUaHX5pQ5X98L9kcfa9PUXBuLOIeEgbyHE-BJ7EaxspYpbty3zrfEkr51YEKAOXK45BR3PxGsNEFIGq7Hg8Ty4VURzDpMtezXA64uZhEt98dYpqQlWhuSnvUjzl5UPG62ZJoPMfDEucpqrE4hJnM3dJVGd8i268BQMU2y_s0fnUpGk9e9hEZ3aPUR3-/s974/Prescott%20Rodeo%20proof%201945.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="974" height="87" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HoUaHX5pQ5X98L9kcfa9PUXBuLOIeEgbyHE-BJ7EaxspYpbty3zrfEkr51YEKAOXK45BR3PxGsNEFIGq7Hg8Ty4VURzDpMtezXA64uZhEt98dYpqQlWhuSnvUjzl5UPG62ZJoPMfDEucpqrE4hJnM3dJVGd8i268BQMU2y_s0fnUpGk9e9hEZ3aPUR3-/s320/Prescott%20Rodeo%20proof%201945.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Perhaps one meant World War 1? (July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918):<div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEAnZpRwDzHYVXbvRHhgmnSX6Meny9b60Ka5Rr_EPtGkYpsO4sr3rc86uPorij1n-1VGu4KKz7l_Z3lAToQxGs3yUShJd-Z9UltXfvWXDF9Juo2Q_MrHVtNqE29tEk1EU51Ufe8Y5PLIURWVsNFUL0pU2fXDcj44khhojUhTJIlGJwytBHGY-S4WGU-XtU/s759/Rodeo%201915.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="759" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEAnZpRwDzHYVXbvRHhgmnSX6Meny9b60Ka5Rr_EPtGkYpsO4sr3rc86uPorij1n-1VGu4KKz7l_Z3lAToQxGs3yUShJd-Z9UltXfvWXDF9Juo2Q_MrHVtNqE29tEk1EU51Ufe8Y5PLIURWVsNFUL0pU2fXDcj44khhojUhTJIlGJwytBHGY-S4WGU-XtU/s320/Rodeo%201915.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 8th, 1915</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8bNmVLJ9g2HrDF3ypOilRiQjrfd9NzD7ViMkOj1svjq-KbgykR72Ohghb0UEuNF1kD0DdHQxuZNPkp-Ao82wgEpbwC6rx6ETzvNs39pNmTUcQdT2iITM_82ZtiyaGjvFbvXWA3vo84SKgKTlJUAf0KVZ-toUmjQA8j9Sl-fLViK6FQmDiAcDIfaOdXuZ/s764/Rodeo%201916.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="764" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8bNmVLJ9g2HrDF3ypOilRiQjrfd9NzD7ViMkOj1svjq-KbgykR72Ohghb0UEuNF1kD0DdHQxuZNPkp-Ao82wgEpbwC6rx6ETzvNs39pNmTUcQdT2iITM_82ZtiyaGjvFbvXWA3vo84SKgKTlJUAf0KVZ-toUmjQA8j9Sl-fLViK6FQmDiAcDIfaOdXuZ/s320/Rodeo%201916.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 5th, 1916</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNLZ4OLaJetKbnpJwEjA9ate1uaRgmDasaArz4VtI2D4rQsP-0jWk2JC9Ou3kfOLG0qub24HzaX6-xETCGlZOBKkigpBmLqnj0UgKrn4VnQbovi7S8ZXlN8dbq1pgCCPUXGhmsFbd7L86XjFA3p5mT93dFGwcR-uqGhfARyWADeyoX9OFBBXqXpGwOvB7j/s1073/Rodeo%201917.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="1073" height="58" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNLZ4OLaJetKbnpJwEjA9ate1uaRgmDasaArz4VtI2D4rQsP-0jWk2JC9Ou3kfOLG0qub24HzaX6-xETCGlZOBKkigpBmLqnj0UgKrn4VnQbovi7S8ZXlN8dbq1pgCCPUXGhmsFbd7L86XjFA3p5mT93dFGwcR-uqGhfARyWADeyoX9OFBBXqXpGwOvB7j/s320/Rodeo%201917.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 4th, 1917</td></tr></tbody></table><div><div><br /></div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKF0VxyPxI742IaqdrvI6_1b2VMPdn8ISy-0ZSkiJo8oESvUjwSYG-Bi1Ao4HcXwCbSzWSwcX8RpnwXYq_cAPvM9iNml5hXC-bWdiLaR9LNN-aeyHMUFUeXl8FTWuBTDS0Eg59QOXj0UNflo8YXZnSdie1Hasd-XQpYwx0hDJQkHJisTQTRW8rGMxkHVp/s1129/Rodeo%201918.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="1129" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKF0VxyPxI742IaqdrvI6_1b2VMPdn8ISy-0ZSkiJo8oESvUjwSYG-Bi1Ao4HcXwCbSzWSwcX8RpnwXYq_cAPvM9iNml5hXC-bWdiLaR9LNN-aeyHMUFUeXl8FTWuBTDS0Eg59QOXj0UNflo8YXZnSdie1Hasd-XQpYwx0hDJQkHJisTQTRW8rGMxkHVp/s320/Rodeo%201918.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 10th, 1918</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Even during the depths of the Great Depression, it was the Prescott rodeo that "never missed a beat." </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr0E5f_z1uYc0FaxQzm0RmJZjOjd1H_VGVubzkNp8Sv9WAefLeBZjzmU7wv3PlLCsnOKLJF-PwtIgAbrkeVzSV6Fqtq1YPj1ZF7OcBAMArRHZS29dfvWcQdCDuS75j-13UeM-5ep4qCbU4gErj9P8nhg1IynJMlmh3Xqux0WfR7Frlr3UjhGRmJLNPbVio/s587/rodeo%201932.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="587" height="98" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr0E5f_z1uYc0FaxQzm0RmJZjOjd1H_VGVubzkNp8Sv9WAefLeBZjzmU7wv3PlLCsnOKLJF-PwtIgAbrkeVzSV6Fqtq1YPj1ZF7OcBAMArRHZS29dfvWcQdCDuS75j-13UeM-5ep4qCbU4gErj9P8nhg1IynJMlmh3Xqux0WfR7Frlr3UjhGRmJLNPbVio/s320/rodeo%201932.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 4th, 1932</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div>In 1933, Will Rogers himself came to Prescott's rodeo:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDEa47-xF8quOIUZkvykOU6QUttAJGTs30YmJIus7n6SJY_aJkXMt6KKcZUPRX9ohSuB1_TQSCVS_Nwa1Pry_GVmVkh7D_EzQX_h7pw9Qe2hTyIdJeNsrjWwFBxtcsMWgZUxYc6pnkeHOaNcZ78LgimtpAYAP7xwRt4AVFb-ER5N7RYd1dKPlLiRB5nMmO/s803/Rodeo%201933%20Will%20Rogers.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="803" height="67" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDEa47-xF8quOIUZkvykOU6QUttAJGTs30YmJIus7n6SJY_aJkXMt6KKcZUPRX9ohSuB1_TQSCVS_Nwa1Pry_GVmVkh7D_EzQX_h7pw9Qe2hTyIdJeNsrjWwFBxtcsMWgZUxYc6pnkeHOaNcZ78LgimtpAYAP7xwRt4AVFb-ER5N7RYd1dKPlLiRB5nMmO/s320/Rodeo%201933%20Will%20Rogers.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd7HSmwdPUGDgyacG4eubZRJaXJklN2bafCaiBsDxDhdceK7NQqVJEOmoIoUwoMaJcLyo6LDahwxDtEwFzytGST-eDwGDyRg5s1vW9NzYLJCOKpI7IfZjweLHkAzfDWHMuZIvPhJi_t8eEdQ1KI9MWw0wCtW_HKoh8k_7E6viSHBy7rdJaM4BumqQth2L5/s448/WillRogersVisits1933FrntrDays.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="307" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd7HSmwdPUGDgyacG4eubZRJaXJklN2bafCaiBsDxDhdceK7NQqVJEOmoIoUwoMaJcLyo6LDahwxDtEwFzytGST-eDwGDyRg5s1vW9NzYLJCOKpI7IfZjweLHkAzfDWHMuZIvPhJi_t8eEdQ1KI9MWw0wCtW_HKoh8k_7E6viSHBy7rdJaM4BumqQth2L5/s320/WillRogersVisits1933FrntrDays.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>RELATED:</i> <a href="http://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2018/07/will-rogers-visits-1933-frontier-days.html" target="_blank">Will Rogers Visits the 1933 Frontier Days</a></span></div></span><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: verdana;">The true story of Will Rogers' surprise visit to Prescott, Arizona in 1933 to visit Frontier Days.</i></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Indeed, the popularity of Prescott's rodeo only increased during these times of economic strife:</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUIC9fhJ825BZPQVCEacUwl9PFagKNeBImLzkvC3AbPHrCnQWh-VL8KysZrOhgG0-kjP7gKVoTyw9YY4ZvTylvncuaIJe8WYeZxLbsKIi55rCbFHVv5LJBaaZOad8xl04UcCP7953CcZSD_g2YMY1aaVMaqpWzOrvS-jJ9v0tKGX1fhq3TfH09ERYN5PKT/s732/Rodeo%201934.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="732" height="91" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUIC9fhJ825BZPQVCEacUwl9PFagKNeBImLzkvC3AbPHrCnQWh-VL8KysZrOhgG0-kjP7gKVoTyw9YY4ZvTylvncuaIJe8WYeZxLbsKIi55rCbFHVv5LJBaaZOad8xl04UcCP7953CcZSD_g2YMY1aaVMaqpWzOrvS-jJ9v0tKGX1fhq3TfH09ERYN5PKT/s320/Rodeo%201934.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jul, 4th, 1934</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBcIsaooNkNST4OMmZRB9TMOk6CmJzsJGAJZwFVmo6RV6GBv4LVIXHnVtY6NTSoqH5UvnsEyuosoaU46kHEDhSjSMGW--rpyjgcqfApN229EqRrhkz8vWlUrQurXJ2LEVvedg070JjelxVJ9aKxuk1DRfoHVSAXLeYIpx05Qgmm_QFaJONoDYfZXlSnTk/s1016/Rodeo%201935.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="1016" height="66" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBcIsaooNkNST4OMmZRB9TMOk6CmJzsJGAJZwFVmo6RV6GBv4LVIXHnVtY6NTSoqH5UvnsEyuosoaU46kHEDhSjSMGW--rpyjgcqfApN229EqRrhkz8vWlUrQurXJ2LEVvedg070JjelxVJ9aKxuk1DRfoHVSAXLeYIpx05Qgmm_QFaJONoDYfZXlSnTk/s320/Rodeo%201935.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 3rd, 1935</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>The fact of the matter is... </div><div>Payson's claim relies heavily on oral, not published, history. Newspaper accounts prove that it's the Prescott rodeo that's the world's oldest continuous rodeo. It is Prescott that has "never missed a beat." And Payson's claim to "world's oldest continuous rodeo" could be a potential infraction of trademark laws! More than the mere opinion of Prescott residents, it was the judgement of the US trademark court that Prescott was the first professional, continuous, "World's Oldest Rodeo."</div><div><br /></div><div>Payson's rodeo website makes one other claim: that it's the "best small town rodeo in the world." While some in Yavapai County would consider this contention equally dubious, it's certainly harder to disprove.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>(This author would like to give a "shout-out" to the late Danny Freeman. According to long-time followers of Prescott history, Danny proved this same argument decades ago in his book covering the first 100 years of the World's Oldest Rodeo. Mr. Freeman, who passed away in 2003, is recognized as the authority on the rodeo. Unfortunately his revelations did not cause Payson to change its claim, and this author needed to discover the truth for himself.)</i></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><div>**********************************</div><div style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Now Available!</span></div><div style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Books by Drew Desmond and Brad Courtney:</span></div><div style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">"Murder & Mayhem in Prescott"</span></div><div style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">"True Tales of Prescott" </span></div><div style="color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="546" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4YNUtMaLgCpWDyRiJm7inULwr0Z1EB_8NZuhK0frLqXuyBbE0VRi793RT9KWr1WI0YoRygIocwi8W7OrUuy2p7TOgJSLnJHBp4t-fdRfoU0QIHXjtk-maVg5tBlSJi4s6WO_V0xk3i5R-QG6dLenXu9O59RKFst3buR216MyidpLUn_g1zQgsfoj-Uo_O/w400-h288/1921%20Rodeo%20Several%20more%20events.png" width="400" /></a> <span style="font-family: inherit;">In anticipation of the great 1921 event, Grace Sparkes wrote: “Oh boy! Can’t you hear the grinding of the old chute doors, the smell of clean horse flesh and the general atmosphere of the town just percolating with Frontier Days?"</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, just the year before, it was thought that the World’s Oldest Rodeo had run its course. There wasn’t enough profit in 1920 to hold the show in '21, but a group of businessmen and townspeople started a new fraternal organization which would be called the Smoki (Smoke-eye) People. They held a fundraising fair called the Way Out West Show May 26, 1921 to raise money for the rodeo.</span></p><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not only did the rodeo go on, but it was able to upgrade. This was the first rodeo to utilize a public address system. The “electric announcer…carried [one’s voice] to every part of the grounds,” the Weekly Journal-Miner revealed. It involved the latest technology of the day costing “several hundred dollars,” and the same style was being utilized by US President Wilson.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anticipation for the event grew in June: “The Prescott Frontier Day show is rapidly coming to be known as the best advertised thing of its kind in the country," the newspaper trumpeted. "Posters announcing the show are…[even] found in New York and other eastern cities.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“One of the most striking announcements of [1921’s] show is to be seen at the Sam Hill hardware company store.” They erected an arch over the front counter, decorated in red, white and blue that was adorned with the welcoming slogan, “Stay Cowboy” and “Prescott Frontier Days.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Many storefronts spruced up their exteriors in anticipation of the crowds. “Throughout the city, the business firms generally are repainting and remodeling their display windows,” the Journal-Miner observed. TH Bates, the exclusive photographer of the event that year, declared: “There is more improvement going on in Prescott today than I have seen in ten years.” </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“All the beautiful flags used by the state fair [were] hung around the business district,” the paper detailed.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Spectators got a free program, void of advertising, courtesy of the Journal-Miner. The paper used all-caps to point out that it was the “ONLY OFFICIAL PROGRAM” and it was “PRINTED IN PRESCOTT.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The world championship of bronco-busting wasn't confined to Arizona cowboys only; New Mexico and Texas also sent contestants.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrcZhaDzavh2WN4U7c4NxyiVYA0nvBmzLWLNbf6q1p-bppSXu6Id2cKrS0IkkoZVt2-wyWg4_j0qD1-WoB7jWZEkqF7RqZ-s670QJJblIhlwpA3TPbOiIjW1bOMge5o_Frbb6phR6AKfjy9DIJvvZDAJ87Pf5-DwxBpV62EM_H_bpyGaOynza-fFY4Bt8/s713/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-01%20at%205.28.03%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="713" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrcZhaDzavh2WN4U7c4NxyiVYA0nvBmzLWLNbf6q1p-bppSXu6Id2cKrS0IkkoZVt2-wyWg4_j0qD1-WoB7jWZEkqF7RqZ-s670QJJblIhlwpA3TPbOiIjW1bOMge5o_Frbb6phR6AKfjy9DIJvvZDAJ87Pf5-DwxBpV62EM_H_bpyGaOynza-fFY4Bt8/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-01%20at%205.28.03%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ad for 1921 Frontier Days in the<br />Arizona Republican.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The rodeo of a century ago featured events no longer held today. One of these was the Wild Horse race. For the 1921 rodeo, the unbroken equines were captured at a place surprising to us today: “From the remote reaches of Mingus mountain,” the paper detailed, “there have been snarled, enticed, and finally corralled, the meanest, orneryest <i>[sic]</i> lot of wild outlaw [horses] that have ever trod the range.” Thirty feral horses were captured by the same cowboys who would be competing upon them. These races were held daily and were described as "one of the most sensational events of the program and is sufficiently interesting and exciting [enough] to keep the grandstand crowds on their feet, busting first with laughter, and then excitement, until the last man comes across the home-stretch.”</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Contestants had two helpers to hold the wild horse in place (by the reins only,) at the start of the race. When the gun sounded, the cowboys first had to get their saddle on the savage equine (which produced the laughter.) They then had to race it over a half-mile circuit.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It took 20 minutes to get the wild horses out on the track for the final feature event,” the paper described. They finally entered the arena, "protesting vehemently.” </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">A few of the horses seemed to calm down—until the gun was fired to start the race. Immediately, “the race turned into a riot… Some of the horses started too soon. Some didn’t start at all. Some went one way and some another. Nobody in the audience knew who won the race, but the judges did,” and they awarded first prize to Cheyenne Kiser. Kiser was one of the cowboys that brought the wild horses in.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kiser, who was also the defending bronco busting champ, “chucked in his five bucks with nine others toward the purchase price of a cow and won the critter in the informal warming up roping contest,” the paper described. After selling it for $60 to a butcher, he entered every contest that required an entry fee. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unfortunately for him, one of the broncos got the best of him, threw him off, and he was disqualified from the coveted diamond studded medal and the $1200 first-prize money. However, Kiser did make history that year by being the only cowboy to win the bareback title three years in a row. No other cowboy had ever won it even twice in a row.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Journal-Miner sponsored a six-mile bicycle race which started at “the top of Fire Box hill” and finished at the fairgrounds. “Bill Brown, the demon messenger boy of the Western Union,” finished first with a time of 19 minutes, 46 seconds—averaging a speed of nearly 20 MPH! “The car carrying the officials never did catch up to him,” the paper quipped. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bob Gonzales lead at the 2 mile post, but a flat tire knocked him out of the prizes. Another rider, Fortino Lopez suffered a head-on collision with a car two miles shy of the finish. “He got bruised badly,” the paper reported, “but hobbled to the south gate of the fairgrounds and finished on foot, using the bike as a crutch.” </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0W_jUPT2opykgwSEN7lg8xdclpc7mLW9eISi_Ga6lPk4D_PNhpWxIcxQygxaHKqxzYN5xLs1ten3IzH2ctVXRK1PAPbhAvJ23bnw3JvIR3w_tQqZWfEyWObjPzyIhVvRfsFZ3pz6dm01cm6TKv8L6RMrvzEVER01PSWgtN7TJYNovEFlge8NMneK_o36Q/s700/1921Birth%20of%20the%20Smoki.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="700" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0W_jUPT2opykgwSEN7lg8xdclpc7mLW9eISi_Ga6lPk4D_PNhpWxIcxQygxaHKqxzYN5xLs1ten3IzH2ctVXRK1PAPbhAvJ23bnw3JvIR3w_tQqZWfEyWObjPzyIhVvRfsFZ3pz6dm01cm6TKv8L6RMrvzEVER01PSWgtN7TJYNovEFlge8NMneK_o36Q/w200-h120/1921Birth%20of%20the%20Smoki.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2018/12/1921-birth-of-smoki-people.html" target="_blank">RELATED: 1921: Birth of the Smoki People</a></div></span><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i>The origin and early history of the Smoki people of Prescott, AZ.</i></span></p><div><br /></div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There were several events that have since been retired, including bareback bronco riding, and bull roping. “Cow Pony Races” required “neck-reigned cow ponies which [were] actually used for rough cow work and have not been worked out as races horses.” </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The “Cowboys' Pony Express Race” covered one and a half laps on the fair's half mile track.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">An event which premiered at the 1921 rodeo (and according to the Arizona Republican, the first time it appeared in all the Southwest,) was the “Orojana race.” A bull was escorted into the arena, where cowboys were lined-up on horseback, ready to lasso it. “Walter Cline won a good start and as he shot past the bull, his rope dropped surely over its horns and he had won the prize,” the Journal-Miner explained.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One light-hearted event was a complete surprise when Arena Director Lester Ruffner brought out seven chickens and shooed them around the arena in a race. The crowd cried fowl (foul) and was disappointed that the event, (and the chickens,) were not introduced, robbing them of the chance to wager on the race among themselves.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sen. Ralph H Cameron arranged for a US Air Force airplane to do a fly over on the last day of the event. A true spectacle back then, it flew about downtown and the fairgrounds for two and a half hours.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then there were the parades (plural,) for one was held each day of the event. The parades were “under the direction of Gail Gardner, one of the prominent young stockmen of Yavapai County,” the paper remarked.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prizes were awarded for parade entries. “The most attractive prize to be given in the parade is the cowboy’s high-class, hand-stamped, silver mounted saddle” for “the horseman appearing in all four days parades having the most handsome and best outfit and horse and displaying the best horsemanship,” the paper related. It was made by the Arizona Saddlery Co. and was displayed in the Biles-Lockhart store window. “The award of prizes will be made on July 5th, and the winners will parade and be photographed before the central grandstand.” That year:</span></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">J Van Dickson of Skull Valley won the saddle. (More about that in a moment.)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Prettiest Girl in the parade, Estelle Robinson, was awarded a pair of silk hose. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The oldest cowpuncher, Harry Morris, won a case of Budweiser. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The ugliest cowpuncher, Logan Morris, was given a brand new, (and apparently much needed) silk shirt. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The contestant who came the longest way, Homer Squyers, won a new pair of shoes.</span></li></ul></blockquote><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Stetson hat was the prize for the cowboy who entered the most contests. Lee Robinson and Cheyenne Kiser tied for first and evidently had to arrive at a deal on their own. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two “baby bonds” were given; one for "best fancy girl outfit" and the other for “Pioneer cowgirl.” </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A box of chocolates was awarded to the youngest cowgirl, while</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> t</span>he youngest cowboy in the parade,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Jurrie Dendy, "will now proceed to light up,” the newspaper deduced. The </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">10 year-old was awarded </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">a carton of 200 cigarettes.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As for the saddle won by J Van Dickson; he</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> did not keep it long. Instead he traded it to Frank Stephen’s father who lost his cherished saddle in a fire in Oatman. In return, Dickson received a horse. Both were described as being satisfied and it was thought that the beautiful saddle, and the story behind it, would be great advertising for Frontier Days in Mohave County.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; 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font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">SOURCES:</span></u></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 6/22/1921; Pg. 3, Col. 2</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 7/6/21; Pg. 5, Col. 6</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 6/22/21; Pg. 5, Col. 3</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 7/6/21; Pg. 5, Col. 7 </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 6/22/21; Pg. 5, Col. 2</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IBID. Col. 5</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 6/29/21; Pg. 3 C6 </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IBID. Pg. 1, Cols.1-2</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IBID. Pg. 3, Col. 4</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 7/6/21; Pg. 3, Col. 6</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 6/22/21; Pg. 5, Col. 4</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 7/6/21; Pg. 1, Cols. 1-3</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IBID. Pg. 3, Col. 2</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 6/29/21; Pg. 2, Col. 6</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IBID. Pg. 3, Col. 6</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican 7/3/1921; Pg. 7, Cols.4-5.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 7/13/21; Pg. 2, Col. 1</span></p><div>IBID. Pg. 3, Col. 1</div>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Prescott, AZ 86301, USA34.5659245 -112.46490836.2556906638211558 -147.6211583 62.876158336178847 -77.3086583tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-30493932821782396742023-03-26T07:29:00.001-07:002023-05-28T15:22:29.170-07:00The Forgotten, Lost Town of Val Verde<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXleNNWNu_lQYD_Xof1HZsca76ooZBd3RCzhhosDVTc7zdgnn7yKOvNk7xFA42bJN2ru0FZSeb3arhga3D2r6yvwI3lxyn0IyXqFisDefJorx0HteRP2MYX_8rB_IMUlCJlQ-uhu6PZbw70fh7p3iLj-B4fOpWtZ9DIsm2Q63ENRwtGYEEp2h4OMYXig/s526/Val%20Verde%20Smelter%20Headline.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="433" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXleNNWNu_lQYD_Xof1HZsca76ooZBd3RCzhhosDVTc7zdgnn7yKOvNk7xFA42bJN2ru0FZSeb3arhga3D2r6yvwI3lxyn0IyXqFisDefJorx0HteRP2MYX_8rB_IMUlCJlQ-uhu6PZbw70fh7p3iLj-B4fOpWtZ9DIsm2Q63ENRwtGYEEp2h4OMYXig/w329-h400/Val%20Verde%20Smelter%20Headline.png" width="329" /></a></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The evening of September 24, 1904 was windy, and the smelter’s open building provided some relief from the heat of the furnace. Around 9pm, as part of their routine, workers wet-down the furnace and began to remove, or “undrape” the liquid slag. This time however, there was too much of the by-product and the slag poured out of the furnace too quickly for the men to control it. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It spread over the floor, in front of the smelter,” the Weekly Journal-Miner explained, “and the molten slag, coming in contact with the water, caused [an] explosion, sending the hot metal all through the building; setting it on fire in a number of places.” While there was an abundance of water on hand, it was impossible to check the progress of the blaze as the strong winds fanned the flames. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not only was the building doomed, but so was the five year-old town of Val Verde. <span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It all started July 13, 1899, which was a happy day for the mining community of Yavapai County. The Val Verde Company announced that they would construct a smelter “on the line of the Prescott & Eastern road at the Aqua Fria Falls,” the Arizona Republican reported. “The site selected is a good one and the construction of a smelter…ought to prove a paying investment…[as it’s] the only large and modern custom smelting plant in the West.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the costs of mining was the cost of transportation to the nearest smelter for processing. Now that this smelter was being constructed, Yavapai County’s lower grade ore would become profitable and a renaissance in mining was expected.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was hoped that the construction of the new smelter would cost $100,000 and would take only months to complete. However, the final cost would be three times that amount (about $10.6 million today.) An additional $10.000 was paid to the railroad to construct a 1.5 mile spur which, according to the Oasis, met the P & E main line near the Bowers ranch.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The latest in smelting technology was purchased from the Colorado Iron Works of Denver and would be delivered as soon as the railroad spur was completed. Originally, a 100 ton per day furnace was going to be purchased. Instead, a furnace with twice that capacity was ordered.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Although construction was taking longer than hoped, by mid-September, the Val Verde camp had 40 men working on the grading and framing of timbers. Telephone lines were being installed and “foundation excavations were complete,” the Arizona Daily Orb reported. “A number of buildings are also rapidly taking shape at the townsite adjacent to the smelter.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Weekly Journal-Miner noted that “ten large buildings on the townsite have been prepared and work commenced on five of them.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On November 1st, the same paper proudly exclaimed that the smelter was “equaled by but few in the United States, and surpassed by none in the world…” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Originally the townsite was known as Sybil and was plotted-out a quarter-mile north of the smelter in early October, 1899. Governor Powers visited the site around that time.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In mid-November, the paper reported that “the name of the town at the Val Verde smelter has been changed from Sybil to Hecia.” However, there was never a post office using either of these names.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Albert L Waters, metallurgist, inspected the smelter in November, 1899. He told the Arizona Star Belt: “At the smelter site there are laboratories, officers’ houses, a boarding house and bunk houses. I was advised that the company will not allow gambling…and will keep saloons from opening” on company property.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The plant consists of a well-built and roomy building containing a Mitchell blast furnace of the very latest design,” he continued, including “a big No. 7 Connorsville blower, a 100-horse power Corliss engine, an automatic sampler, and other machinery. The entire plant is equipped with car tramways by which nearly all the transportation to the works will be done by gravity.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEi4XaHP2SWsGlSgC_29lroalFAgAtznbT-eCutSYSTCoVRJydb6VyU1QaB8GkO-l8Tzuc_w3fxPx9-pTUHd0EvlKuC753qgn7rJ1odxhfAaj4ZqoKOuQEnSh5E2XL0Z3suAuRASYd4QHrycHfYBXH6rNfN0BA-2KvHwutDUU7ZTxM5yVvwtVHVRfHXg/s350/Before%20Prescott%20Valley%20There%20Was%20Massicks%20bardge.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="209" data-original-width="350" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEi4XaHP2SWsGlSgC_29lroalFAgAtznbT-eCutSYSTCoVRJydb6VyU1QaB8GkO-l8Tzuc_w3fxPx9-pTUHd0EvlKuC753qgn7rJ1odxhfAaj4ZqoKOuQEnSh5E2XL0Z3suAuRASYd4QHrycHfYBXH6rNfN0BA-2KvHwutDUU7ZTxM5yVvwtVHVRfHXg/w200-h119/Before%20Prescott%20Valley%20There%20Was%20Massicks%20bardge.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2019/11/before-prescott-valley-there-was_10.html" target="_blank">Before Prescott Valley There Was Massicks, AZ</a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i>The history of the ghost town Massicks, AZ and the man who founded it: Thomas Gibson Barlow Massicks.</i></span></p><div><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unfortunately in Early November, “the laboratory and assay building and entire outfit for [the] same, including one of the most expensive balances made, was entirely consumed by fire… The total loss [was] about $2500,” the Journal-Miner reported.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the end of 1899, a visiting Journal-Miner reporter was impressed: “No expense seems to have been spared to make it complete in every detail.” The tramways were “equipped with automatic dumping appliances for the cars and the ore and coke is loaded into them automatically and emptied in a similar manner. In addition to the tramway…an elevated road has been constructed for use by teams bringing in ore from adjacent mines. Over 300,000 feet of lumber was used in its construction. All the timbers are large and capable of sustaining great weight.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“An elaborate and complete water system” was constructed to serve both the plant and the new town, and was “now rapidly being built,” the paper continued. A mammoth 30,000 gallon tank was installed “on top of the hill where the town is located.” A series of fire hoses was placed “at convenient places throughout the plant,” and pipes were laid out to provide water to every house in town. The assay and laboratory, which were destroyed by fire were rebuilt and refurbished. The scales were replaced with “the most expensive kind made” and could “almost register the weight of a pencil mark on paper.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Val Verde company also built an office, a fine two story boarding house, and a commodious two-story bunkhouse with a capacity of sixty. The company also plotted-out a large tract of land for town lots. However, the company was running out of money which was needed to purchase the ore and other ingredients necessary in the reduction process. The Standard Smelting and Refining Co. would eventually take over, but the smelter kept the old company name.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On January 1st, 1900, the first post office opened using the name Val Verde. JL Davis was appointed postmaster. Still, it would be two more years before the smelter would begin operating.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">October 1901 saw the first baby born in the new town—named Val Verde Delaney. “The public is waiting with great anxiety for the next bulletin,” the Arizona Republican cracked, “which will probably tell whether it’s a boy or a girl.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It took until January 1902 before the furnace finally blew in for the first time. “Everything was running in full blast and apparently very satisfactorily,” the Arizona Republican observed. The ore came in on the railroad which ran right along side the building. It was then shoveled into a powerful ore crusher set to smash it into two inch pieces before moving on in the complex reduction process. In September, a concentrator plant was constructed 300 feet south of the smelter and the electric light plant started up.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Business boomed for the smelter and in February, 1903, ores were being processed from outside Arizona. A few months later, the smelter had so much ore, “that a second furnace [was] put in…to meet the increasing ore receipts,” the Republican explained.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Bradshaw Mountain Copper Mining and Smelting Company bought the smelter in January, 1904 for $175,000 (nearly $6 million today.) In February the smelter was closed down for some repairs and upgrades. When it restarted, it operated 24 hours a day.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The new company desired to increase its capacity to 1700 tons per day expecting to be able to furnish two-thirds of that amount from their own mine. A new tramway was run to the town of Middleton. 200-300 men were being employed in May ’04 and it was expected that the smelter operations would eventually require 600.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWKovChm71EIhtzONQCUZg_6uDWdOD3qah2tT480ozcziBVl-yvy_ELjW_8pymkC0ao0Zn0wjlTW2f3aY_r4FBf0V78nRn4hrf1gWwMwusJaXN2QLx4KtM3usFhByRnfrd3tUHM6Sb3dKFG1lnnbTwY4V3IKf9U1MVjjIIXUzr4BpaV81g4HZeFAEYoA/s444/Headline%20Val_Verde_smelter_burns_to_ground_WJM_9_28_1904_p3_c4.pdf.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="329" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWKovChm71EIhtzONQCUZg_6uDWdOD3qah2tT480ozcziBVl-yvy_ELjW_8pymkC0ao0Zn0wjlTW2f3aY_r4FBf0V78nRn4hrf1gWwMwusJaXN2QLx4KtM3usFhByRnfrd3tUHM6Sb3dKFG1lnnbTwY4V3IKf9U1MVjjIIXUzr4BpaV81g4HZeFAEYoA/s320/Headline%20Val_Verde_smelter_burns_to_ground_WJM_9_28_1904_p3_c4.pdf.png" width="237" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">But disaster struck that fateful September night when the exploding slag started the conflagration. The extra heavy timbers used in its construction burned so hot that the interior machinery melted! The loss was $100,000 more than the $60,000 insurance. Many men were injured from the exploding slag, but incredibly, none seriously.</span><div><br /><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The importance of the Val Verde smelter to the mining industry of this section was never fully appreciated until it burned down,” the Journal-Miner lamented. “Some of the properties which shipped their product there for treatment have been compelled to close their mills, while others have had to seek a new outlet and taking it all in all, it has proven a serious blow to mining in this section.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Management already had a new furnace on order and it was hoped that operations would be running in as little as 90 days. Instead, it would be the end of February 1905 before a different company would be formed to erect “an entirely new and modern smelting works near the location of the former plant,” the Journal-Miner reported.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1905 the Arizona Smelting Company stepped in to build a smelter, but not in Val Verde. “The location of the new smelter has been staked out [and] plans prepared for the moving of all houses over the brow of the hill, closer to the railroad tracks,” the Journal-Miner explained, “and the building of new brick quarters for the officials; these to be located on the high point of ground south of the proposed smelter site.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The new smelter would spring-up a new town around it and it would be called Humboldt. In October, the same paper announced: “The Arizona Smelting Co. now has its main offices in Prescott, but will later have the headquarters at Humboldt which is situated near Val Verde.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, the new Humboldt smelter would not blow in until March 17, 1906, nearly a month after the town was officially recorded.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8tTB6f11zJ2xL-d0ZRMC_PPXxwKZoaxfqIyONiAp9ALodr8oF8ynQO1sNklkyOugsiL-1V585eT6lOw4r9oyhGC2pg2mCaT6L2TNjNLxDuLWACNsS_d8wxG7ZxqHTCnu0p8qGU2wJ1ErrxvXwT8nN-soGU3I3llZQKdmZOY49OUBqHo9PcuLrSvvwA/s772/StoryBehindDewey-HumboldtModern.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="772" height="89" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8tTB6f11zJ2xL-d0ZRMC_PPXxwKZoaxfqIyONiAp9ALodr8oF8ynQO1sNklkyOugsiL-1V585eT6lOw4r9oyhGC2pg2mCaT6L2TNjNLxDuLWACNsS_d8wxG7ZxqHTCnu0p8qGU2wJ1ErrxvXwT8nN-soGU3I3llZQKdmZOY49OUBqHo9PcuLrSvvwA/s320/StoryBehindDewey-HumboldtModern.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> <a href="http://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2017/10/story-behind-names-dewey-humboldt.html" target="_blank">Story Behind the Names: Dewey-Humboldt</a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i>The early histories and the explanations for the names of Dewey and Humboldt, Arizona. 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font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>SOURCES:</u></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 9/28/1904, Pg. 3, Col. 4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican; 7/14/1899, Pg. 1, Col. 6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican; 7/16/1899, Pg. 1, Col. 6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oasis (Arizona AZ); 7/15/1899, Pg. 9, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 11/1/1899, Pg. 2, Col. 5</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 7/19/1899, Pg. 2, Col. 6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 8/9/1899, Pg. 1, Col. 5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 9/13/1899, Pg. 3, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Daily Orb; 9/16/1899, Pg. 3, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 9/27/1899, Pg. 4, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 11/1/1899, Pg. 2, Col. 5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Silver Belt; 10/5/1899, Pg. 7, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 9/27/1899, Pg. 3, Col. 5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 11/8/1899, Pg. 1, Col. 7.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 11/15/1899, Pg. 3, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Star Belt (Globe); 11/16/1899, Pg. 3, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 12/27/1899, Pg. 2, Col. 5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 12/20/1899, Pg. 4, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican; 4/23/1900, Pg. 3, Col. 3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican; 10/16/1901, Pg. 5, Col. 3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 3/19/1902, Pg. 1, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican; 9/24/1902, Pg. 3, Col. 2-3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 11/12/1902, Pg. 3, Col. 3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican; 2/16/1903, Pg. 3, Col. 3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican; 5/26/1903, Pg. 3, Col. 4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 1/27/1904, Pg. 1, Col. 7.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 2/10/1904, Pg. 4, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 3/9/1904, Pg. 1, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 5/18/1904, Pg. 3, Col. 6-7.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 5/18/1904, Pg. 3, Col. 5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 8/24/1904, Pg. 5, Col. 5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 2/22/1905, Pg. 7, Col. 6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 12/28/1904, Pg. 5, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 6/7/1905, Pg. 7, Col. 3.</span></p><div><br /></div></div>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Humboldt, Dewey-Humboldt, AZ, USA34.5025924 -112.2398926.192358563821152 -147.396142 62.812826236178843 -77.083642tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-67456176685567958852023-02-05T07:37:00.000-07:002023-02-05T07:37:05.086-07:00The Mammoth Senator Tunnel<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzdooV9zwgjsMpZ3bO8HFMXYPYOliesQuGo4wbbbDsMFWcXMhPmW3BEx9X2YLAxN33U2ZyHl0RJndwpkbvVw6MWlxRVYrx0vVStrjWB-COPwJ24jiKrWRM5pFdYAVn_cpNLUAgv0ENIvJ2BhUNu1FwmForux5gzuS40M3PbxHbWZGg6oB9JdpB0T8E1Q/s662/Senator%20Tunnel%20cvr%20photo%3F.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="662" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzdooV9zwgjsMpZ3bO8HFMXYPYOliesQuGo4wbbbDsMFWcXMhPmW3BEx9X2YLAxN33U2ZyHl0RJndwpkbvVw6MWlxRVYrx0vVStrjWB-COPwJ24jiKrWRM5pFdYAVn_cpNLUAgv0ENIvJ2BhUNu1FwmForux5gzuS40M3PbxHbWZGg6oB9JdpB0T8E1Q/w400-h205/Senator%20Tunnel%20cvr%20photo%3F.png" width="400" /></a></p><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the early prospecting days of the 19th century, the Senator and other adjacent mines were thought to be a bonanza of gold ore. They were worked down until they reached water and work was given up. However, in early 1905 a plan was announced that would completely revive the Mt. Union section of the Hassayampa mining district.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to the Weekly Journal-Miner, many thought that Phelps Dodge and Company “had practically withdrawn from this section,” but the opposite was true. The Commercial Mining Co, a subsidiary of Phelps Dodge, had been “quietly buying up mining properties in the vicinity of the Senator mine,” the Journal-Miner revealed. They intended to reach these veins from underneath with the construction of a “humongous” tunnel.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The plan was to “drive the [tunnel] clear through [Senator] mountain and cut a number of well-known ledges, which exist there at great depth,” the paper explained. “The project of a tunnel through the Senator mountain is by no means a new one, as the question has been agitated from time to time for years and has been pronounced by mining men who have examined it as not only feasible, but practical with a reasonable prospect of encountering large bodies of ore.” (“Senator Mountain” is west and slightly north of Mt. Union.)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Arizona Silver Belt newspaper added that after the Senator vein was reached, work would continue next to the Ten Spot claim. Additionally, the company hoped to place “a concentrating plant at the mouth of the tunnel, from which latter ore cars will run out so as to dump the ore right into the bins of the concentrating plant,” the paper stated.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The massive project started in February, 1905 and it was expected that eventually 500 men would be employed there.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of the supply for the project would be procured from nearby Prescott—about 12 miles away. The Weekly Journal-Miner was excited at the prospect: “Not only would the inauguration of this enterprise give employment to a large number of men, but its consummation would prove the means of affording facilities for the economical working of a large number of properties in that section, which make a good surface showing.” Still, when the project was first announced, “it was received with somewhat of a skeptical mind.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Major AJ Pickerell was named manager of the project and he explained to the Prescott paper that it would be “a continuation of the old Senator tunnel [and] driven at least 600 feet further east” to meet with the Ten Spot mine several hundred feet [below] the surface. Practically an underground distance of 2000 feet will be opened, and…this tunnel will crosscut several other leads known to exist…”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Max Alwens, who had a Mercantile in Maxton (which served the Senator mine,) told the Journal-Miner that the water flume from the Hassayampa was being repaired “and the dwellings and other buildings were put in repair.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6lrxjPrWqZzIewoMVU4-fF9R0zq2zAQYtdVK9t25vA_GDJ1nBDc1wDnudG6a4H0uFHWPA8Rp0WJH_No29xtel7s01uPhQUvj2D8be7aoZ1IWBQEoZy69Gz8KdMyGhUMgtlPbYECTyhji5VxhtQl2ymXCUaL_s1jWKSiqkpe6na5JhbKcmYdxLrmb4zg/s883/Receipt%20Max%20Alwens%20Merc%20near%20Senator.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="883" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6lrxjPrWqZzIewoMVU4-fF9R0zq2zAQYtdVK9t25vA_GDJ1nBDc1wDnudG6a4H0uFHWPA8Rp0WJH_No29xtel7s01uPhQUvj2D8be7aoZ1IWBQEoZy69Gz8KdMyGhUMgtlPbYECTyhji5VxhtQl2ymXCUaL_s1jWKSiqkpe6na5JhbKcmYdxLrmb4zg/s320/Receipt%20Max%20Alwens%20Merc%20near%20Senator.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In early March, the Sam Hill hardware store manufactured a 2500 foot, six-inch pipe to pump fresh air into the latest work area. The following week an equally long iron pipe for compressed air was installed. Fourteen men were actively constructing the necessary infrastructure.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When this preparatory work was completed, the expansion of the tunnel continued in earnest. By mid-April it was reported by the Arizona Daily Star that “the air drills have started up in the Senator tunnel…[and] three 8-hour shifts of men are steadily at work.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Bisbee Daily Review explained: “The Senator tunnel was started…for the purpose of striking the ore veins that crop out on the surface, at a great depth. A better natural tunnel site could not be found in the county than the Senator mountain.” Over several years the Senator mine produced “many tons of rich ore” and it was hoped “there [would] be ore to keep milling for years to come.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another important function of the tunnel was to drain the water in the shafts above. It was known for years that rich gold ore existed under this water and now it could be extracted.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In early 1906 “the north drift from this great tunnel, on the Ten Spot vein, exposed a ledge eight foot wide [vein] of fine concentrating ore, while the south drift on the same ledge has exposed two feet of almost solid galena ore,” the Arizona Daily Star reported. “This remarkable showing will stimulate deep mining throughout the district, and the coming season will see hundreds of men at work on the various groups mines,” it predicted.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By March 1906 the tunnel had grown to 2700 feet. “The shaft on the Ten Spot vein is being sunk to connect with the tunnel,” the Journal-Miner related. Then “work will be resumed on the main tunnel and continued until the Treadwell, Cashier, Snoozer and other parallel veins are encountered.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjka2qEnjMgdON8KTh2P99q4Kyq3ihUqyHKicoO0XfHFZ8WoiVeyBYqdnnBo8RjJgJPqmsrm9ToJm3jhmjLSKDC3c01XoKThWPpJ3uXAGGbP50aOD_bjG57hAx9LBohwaHslC_tdzEqD09FWdUfeY8OLERMJO3RZbKVeyaKOGGS_f7of5zY4NaICBtPA/s620/Story%20Behind%20the%20Place%20Name:%20The%20Bradshaws%20Tiger%20Mine%20Stamp%20Mill%201915.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="620" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjka2qEnjMgdON8KTh2P99q4Kyq3ihUqyHKicoO0XfHFZ8WoiVeyBYqdnnBo8RjJgJPqmsrm9ToJm3jhmjLSKDC3c01XoKThWPpJ3uXAGGbP50aOD_bjG57hAx9LBohwaHslC_tdzEqD09FWdUfeY8OLERMJO3RZbKVeyaKOGGS_f7of5zY4NaICBtPA/w200-h139/Story%20Behind%20the%20Place%20Name:%20The%20Bradshaws%20Tiger%20Mine%20Stamp%20Mill%201915.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span><i><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></p>ALSO ENJOY:</i> </span><a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2020/06/story-behind-place-name-bradshaws.html" target="_blank">Story Behind the Place Name: The Bradshaws</a></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i>The story of William and Isaac Bradshaw’s adventures in Yavapai County and the history of the ghost town Bradshaw City.</i></span></p><div><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When the Treadwell vein was reached in June, the Journal-Miner deemed it “richer than the initial discovery…” Work on clearing out the ore continued and there was even a survey completed to run a railroad spur to the tunnel entrance in 1907. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In August 1907 the Snoozer vein was reached at a depth around 1000 feet. “The water in the vein will drain through the tunnel, which will facilitate the work sinking the shaft,” the Journal-Miner described. The Snoozer vein also became larger at depth. “The vein is now 150 feet in depth, and the pay streak…is holding out well and increasing in copper and gold values as depth is gained.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eventually three separate ledges were discovered by the Snoozer extension. By March of 1908, the tunnel had reached a distance of 3000 feet, and was “being pushed ahead to open other promising ledges,” the paper divulged.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was observed that all the various veins became even richer at depth. However the gold near the surface of the mountain was giving way to an even richer deposit of copper.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Work on the Snoozer paused for several months until late in 1911. In November of that year, “expert examination of underground conditions,” was made, according to the paper. A drift was constructed to de-water the tunnel before work started toward the Cash mine.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Cash mine was only 200 feet from the Senator tunnel and its owners reached an agreement with the Commercial Mining company to make a crosscut at the 1800 foot distance of the tunnel. According to the Mohave County Miner, just like all the other veins, they “encountered a small streak of ore which they followed and…the streak widened gradually [to the] proportions of a bonanza.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By 1913, the Bisbee Daily Review reported that the tunnel was “more than three-fifths of a mile in length, and a drift was run to the Cashier vein, which [was] intersected by the tunnel some 3000 feet from the mouth.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In September 1915 the tunnel had reached a length of 4500 feet; “from which a drift [was] run to tap the main ore shoot of the [burgeoning] Snoozer,” the Journal-Miner revealed. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">By July 1916 the tunnel was 4800 feet long and “a vein of a 12% copper ore has been exposed,” the paper exclaimed. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the early surface mining days of the Senator and adjacent mines, they were gold mines. But the Senator tunnel revealed that the gold was merely a cap for an even richer copper deposit underneath. “It is now believed that the Senator mountain is a basin of copper, and its capping [of gold] has been a delusion from the day the mine [opened]. The situation is evoking very much surprise,” the Journal-Miner noted. Three years later the tunnel tapped-out and the post office closed in 1918. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdTAFARuGsJ_pmQqHIZE6fVWTp6r9sjWin1IQWqi6ijAUlm68kuX8NTB5Ly1VE9iY9bG0t086uSXqEC_2OjHUECcBedibt_FAkUHZYUiK06bgoVFfNzR6rjUnIFYHMQ30RZmNWqHbu85nR0IsCUGf6bdt0ILHycNzIPioOzCQAuWU5G-y6JDeoQiXgWA/s383/Senator%20mine%3F%20tunnel.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="383" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdTAFARuGsJ_pmQqHIZE6fVWTp6r9sjWin1IQWqi6ijAUlm68kuX8NTB5Ly1VE9iY9bG0t086uSXqEC_2OjHUECcBedibt_FAkUHZYUiK06bgoVFfNzR6rjUnIFYHMQ30RZmNWqHbu85nR0IsCUGf6bdt0ILHycNzIPioOzCQAuWU5G-y6JDeoQiXgWA/s320/Senator%20mine%3F%20tunnel.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, as soon as the Senator tunnel proved successful back in 1906, another tunnel project was begun underneath the nearby Storm Cloud mine group. 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-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>SOURCES:</u></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 1/18/1905, Pg. 8, Cols. 1-2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona SilverBelt; 1/26/1905, Pg. 3, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 2/1/1905, Pg. 1, Cols. 3-4</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 2/22/1905, Pg. 7_c3</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 3/8/1905, Pg. 8_c1</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 3/15/1905, Pg. 8_c4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Daily Star; 4/13/1905, Pg. 8_c4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bisbee Daily Review; 8/17/1905, Pg. 2_c3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Daily Star; 1/19/1906, Pg. 3_c2-3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 3/7/1906, Pg. 4_c5-6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 6/20/1906, Pg. 7_c3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 5/6/1907, Pg. 7_c3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 8/7/1907, Pg. 8_c2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 10/9/1907, Pg. 6_c6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 3/4/1908, Pg. 4_c6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 11/8/1911, Pg. 2_c3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mohave County Miner; 6/1/1912, Pg. 3_c3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bisbee Daily Review; 1/5/1913, Pg. 7_c3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 9/15/1915, Pg. 4_2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner; 6/28/1916, Pg. 2_c4.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><br /></div>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Senator Mine, Arizona 86303, USA34.4161372 -112.41183436.1059033638211559 -147.5680843 62.726371036178847 -77.2555843tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-18570227891591882722022-08-28T07:17:00.001-07:002022-11-30T12:32:56.116-07:00Embezzling Postmaster is Redeemed (1875)<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24LcPvZpaf9-006TQ6LXswZxQWQjsEC1ul20jKeFCK3u0z7HUbyFlGsQQYlSnQhIKzDwHIIClAEeoAAo3OowcJ26Mm9-Xr-4rOBwusX5hphtSC0Mf9WZ69NSKV62HHG7WrHGDN0yrguZTV0hLOIG2BhwnBk8AL1NJlLscb_0gzXKh5J9aPgjnO-dKAw/s469/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-27%20at%203.11.59%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="469" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24LcPvZpaf9-006TQ6LXswZxQWQjsEC1ul20jKeFCK3u0z7HUbyFlGsQQYlSnQhIKzDwHIIClAEeoAAo3OowcJ26Mm9-Xr-4rOBwusX5hphtSC0Mf9WZ69NSKV62HHG7WrHGDN0yrguZTV0hLOIG2BhwnBk8AL1NJlLscb_0gzXKh5J9aPgjnO-dKAw/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-27%20at%203.11.59%20PM.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">James S Giles was a highly-respected and true pioneer of Prescott, Arizona. He was one of the party that accompanied Governor Goodwin and Secretary McCormick to the territory in 1863. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee during the first Territorial Legislature, he introduced most of the first basic laws known as the “Chapters of the Code.” He was elected Speaker of the House in the second Legislature. Lately he had been the postmaster for Prescott, so when he absconded with nearly $10,000 August 14, 1875, it was a bombshell.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Still, there would be a happy, yet poignant ending.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There were some signs of trouble previous to Giles abrupt departure. Five months earlier, the Weekly Arizona Miner, (the primary paper of record for this tale,) was receiving a large amount of requests for information about Prescott and decided to to ask Postmaster Giles why these were being delivered to the paper. They “found him bending over a huge heap of letters almost exactly identical with our own,” the paper said. Giles told them: “I am all broken down and worn out under accumulating demands upon me for information about Arizona.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Soon Giles started drinking enough that his “reckless conduct during the past three or four months has been the subject of general remark,” the paper revealed. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During this time many noticed that Giles had become close acquaintances with a man who bore one of the best nicknames in the West: Mike “McCool” Meehan.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By early July, Giles was completely fed-up and burnt-out with his job and told the Miner he was resigning. “Slaving from four o’clock in the morning till nine at night is breaking me down,” he complained. “There is more work in the office than one can do, but the compensation is not sufficient for two.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He “wound up his official career Saturday night by decamping with whatever funds it has been possible for him to collect from the sales of money orders and otherwise,” the paper stated. It was soon found that he hadn’t sent away any money orders for a month. “No registry of any foreign money orders, except three, during his entire term extending from November [1874] until the present” were found, the paper reported. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Potentially lucrative registered mail did not appear to have been disturbed, but the angry newspaper suggested that if Giles neglected to purloined them, “it has been because he was too stupid with liquor to think of it.” Further examination at the post office revealed that several registered letters were delayed but later sent on their way. This caused investigators to believe that Giles had thought of stealing from the registered mail, but decided “to confine [his] operations to the money order business.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Miner offered this description of the wanted man: Giles was about 45 years old, “nearly six feet tall, slight build, sandy beard and hair, face inclined to freckle, slow in speech, husky voice…lacks in education…and in fact is the champion growler.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mike “McCool” Meehan, who, it was thought, was in on the scheme, had just “bought a span of horses, light wagon and complete traveling outfit of provisions, etc…and started out Saturday morning,” the paper explained, while Giles bought a horse and “left Saturday night.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At 2:00am Giles awoke William Simmons at his stage stop to get a bottle of whiskey. He told Simmons that “he was in a hurry to overtake McCool and Fatty Smith, “with whom he had business.” Giles finally caught up with them on the Mojave road. They had achieved a good head start from the law, as it wasn't until the early hours of Monday morning that Deputy US Marshall Parker and John Behen started in pursuit.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After leaving Williamson Valley, McCool came by a cattle camp where he introduced himself as Mr. Pichard of San Francisco, “and said he was hurrying home in answer to a telegram that had announced business of importance for him there,” the paper detailed. “At another station he told them his name was Williams. Giles kept his name until he crossed the Colorado River at Stone’s Ferry, where he became Judge James, and McCool was Mr. Wilson.” They continued on to St. Thomas, Nevada.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When pursuing officers Parker and Behan got to Stone’s Ferry, they inquired about Giles and McCool. The ferryman responded nervously and suspiciously—as if he knew much more than he was willing to tell. When the officers spread their blankets for the night, the ferryman began to quietly saddle his horse for a night ride. The officers were certain that he was going to warn Giles and immediately had him arrested for a time while they closed in on the perpetrators. They knew they must be getting close.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile “Judge James” (Giles) and “Mr. Wilson” (McCool) arrived in St. Thomas and began to play the part of big-rollers. “Mr Wilson had been talking largely of his mining interests and referring to Judge James for proof,” the paper described. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They were telling their tall-tale to Mr. & Mrs. Jennings of St. Thomas when officers Parker and Benton barged in. When the real identities and standings of Giles and McCool were revealed, Giles said nothing at first and was downcast, nervous, “a perfect wreck…drinking a good deal,” the paper said. McCool, on the other hand, “who had drank less and had more life in him…insisted he was entirely innocent;” even denying that he knew Giles for any longer than a day. However, he self-incriminated when he kept answering to “McCool” and not “Wilson.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was then that “Giles [made] a clean breast of everything connected to the affair,” the paper reported, and “considerable money” was secured from him. McCool was first arrested, but instead, the officers took the buggy and the team he had purchased. McCool also had $1500 on his person part of which included a single $1000 bill. Giles recognized it as one he had “lost” while passed-out the previous evening. This the officers also took leaving McCool with $500 that he absolutely insisted was his. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Since the officers were outside the Arizona Territory and had an arrest warrant for Giles only, they let McCool go. They headed back to Prescott and at 4:30pm August 27, Giles was lodged in the Prescott jail. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi04L2b3zt3iYt31pcxKB6hkLOVA0rg2oIjidyiO22syY2vkSx83gW6XBhG1jK7gNBCigN9h4qjM_5TavtIAybmTLTU0lem-TUjzpF2nwzxYDVMInzZnFVkw4ctieu1nbn8MOhXSB7aPUWpAFPVk5xV_0gpce_jU_XZCFbW5Y_Or66Ezc7nSM2JlNnMrg/s632/Constant%20Indian%20Raids,%20Spring%201870.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="632" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi04L2b3zt3iYt31pcxKB6hkLOVA0rg2oIjidyiO22syY2vkSx83gW6XBhG1jK7gNBCigN9h4qjM_5TavtIAybmTLTU0lem-TUjzpF2nwzxYDVMInzZnFVkw4ctieu1nbn8MOhXSB7aPUWpAFPVk5xV_0gpce_jU_XZCFbW5Y_Or66Ezc7nSM2JlNnMrg/w200-h174/Constant%20Indian%20Raids,%20Spring%201870.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2021/06/constant-indian-raids-spring-1870.html" target="_blank">Constant Indian Raids, Spring 1870</a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><i>Description of the Indian Wars in Yavapai County, AZ in the Spring of 1870.</i></span></p><div><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By September 7th, 1875 popular Prescott businessman Theodore W Otis was appointed to replace Giles as postmaster. He would hold the position until 1884.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Giles was indicted on two counts of embezzlement. One for $530.18 of postage money the other for $9,260.68 of money order funds. However, over $6000 was recovered making the actual loss $3,708.86. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The bond company attempted to dodge all culpability because Giles failed to reapply when his position became permanent, but the court disagreed.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Giles pleaded guilty to both counts and was allowed to make a statement to the court. He lamented how his actions disgraced his family’s good name. He then explained how it all started: “At the time of my last remittance I discovered that I was short of funds, but thought there might be some error in my footings, and when my weekly statements were audited all would be right.” He maintained that he “had not played off the money. I was even then, from an inordinate use of liquor, unfit to attend to the clerical work of the office… In an insane fit of intoxication, madness, and despair, I abandoned my post.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Judge Tweed sentenced him to two years in prison and fined him $9790.86.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Due to his conviction of federal crimes, Giles was supposed to be transferred to the California State Prison. However, after realizing that such a transfer would cost at least $750, Judge Tweed wrote the Department of Justice requesting that he remain in the Prescott jail at an expense of $11 or $12 a week. The DOJ’s reply was “for the sake of economy and convenience,” it would be best for “Giles [to] be left to serve in the jail at Prescott.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As Giles sentence was nearing completion, he sought a pardon from President Rutherford B Hayes “with the sole view of restoration of citizenship,” the Arizona Weekly Citizen wrote. Attached were supporting recommendations from Judge Tweed, “and other officers and good citizens,” including Governor Safford.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">President Hayes signed Giles pardon on May 9, 1877—news the Miner described as “pleasing to the public generally, especially the old settlers to whom he is well and, with the single exception of his late misstep, quite favorably known. “We understand it is [Giles’] intention to remain in Arizona, believing that where a thing is lost (even a good name) is the place to find it.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The pardon papers where mailed from Washington on May 11th, but by mid-July, they hadn’t arrived yet. Marshal Standefer telegraphed the US Attorney General for instructions “and received an answer to release Giles, which he did” July 21st, the Miner recorded. The reason for the pardon letter nor showing up was due to the mail carrier, Sam Ward, being shot by Natives on May 31st. The sack of mail, which included many important pieces, was finally found the following October.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shortly after Giles release, he was appointed undersheriff as well as the Deputy Tax Collector for Yavapai County, handling several thousands of dollars. He fought hard to restore his good name, but soon things would turn poignant and somber.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By January, 1878 he was suffering “with acute pains, all over his system, from rheumatism,” the Miner revealed. Then a little more than nine months after his release from jail, on April 25th, he was found dead in his room at the boarding house owned by James M Dobson. “He was suffering severely with bronchitis and had spells of suffocation of great severity, and it is presumed one of these attacked him,” the Miner suggested.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">His funeral was April 26 and the “cortege was one of the largest ever witnessed in Arizona,” the Tucson Citizen observed. 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font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">SOURCES:</span></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 4/26/1878, Pg. 2, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 5/25/1877, Pg. 2, Col. 4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 8/20/1875, Pg. 2, Col. 2</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 7/9/1875, Pg. 2, Col. 1</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 9/3/1875, Pg. 3, Cols. 1 & 3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 8/27/1875, Pg. 3, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 9/17/1875, Pg. 3, Cols. 2 & 3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 10/22/1875, Pg. 3, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 9/10/1875, Pg. 3, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Weekly Citizen, 1/15/1876, Pg. 1, Col. 3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Weekly Citizen, 3/31/1877, Pg. 1, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 7/27/1877, Pg. 3, Col. 3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Weekly Citizen, 10/6/1877, Pg. 3, Col. 5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 1/4/1878, Pg. 4, Col. 2</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 4/5/1878, Pg. 3, Col. 3</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 1/18/1878, Pg. 3, Col. 3</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 6/21/1878, Pg. 2, Col. 3</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Weekly Citizen, 5/3/1878, Pg. 3, Col. 3</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Further information:</span></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 7/23/1875, Pg. 3</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 9/17/1875, Pg. 3, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Weekly Citizen, 10/20/1877, Pg. 4, Col. 2</span></p><p>
<br /></p>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Prescott, AZ 86301, USA34.5659245 -112.46490836.2556906638211558 -147.6211583 62.876158336178847 -77.3086583tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-75126579002177541202022-07-17T06:51:00.000-07:002022-07-17T06:55:41.559-07:00A Grave Robber's Remarkable Find<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPzf7dP140Um6MtSJGAcEIqQMr4iklnDG6eqo06OX_HYkGIfP0RSsmgjR-6eUaNZNbewOlwP98_P0Blte5vPb_gvp9xyR1Hkl95MPRq79mRYtr6Yqx1bL0jDtkz7Nqt4vhZ-D9wayoGQAY4dv4VnKA6YUKcG-Ysb4kgWYfrojMvlcVUCAJxWl3ugOzAw/s423/Grave%20Robber's%20Remarkable%20Find.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="423" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPzf7dP140Um6MtSJGAcEIqQMr4iklnDG6eqo06OX_HYkGIfP0RSsmgjR-6eUaNZNbewOlwP98_P0Blte5vPb_gvp9xyR1Hkl95MPRq79mRYtr6Yqx1bL0jDtkz7Nqt4vhZ-D9wayoGQAY4dv4VnKA6YUKcG-Ysb4kgWYfrojMvlcVUCAJxWl3ugOzAw/s320/Grave%20Robber's%20Remarkable%20Find.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Meet John Love. In his day, at the turn of the last century, he was known as a “relics prospector.” Today he would easily be considered a grave robber. “Those who come in contact with him dub him queer, eccentric, etc., explaining that he was struck on the head in early youth by an iron bar and has suffered more or less seriously since,” the Arizona Republican reported. Still, the same paper also described him as “John Love, the well-known searcher for prehistoric relics…”<span><a name='more'></a></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">He was a bit of a snowbird, living in Flagstaff until November when he would migrate to the Verde Valley and spend his time hunting for prehistoric artifacts. Unfortunately for us today, he was extremely successful at it, even wholesaling them. “The greater parts of his finds were held for sale at Babbitt Bros’ store in Flagstaff,” the paper announced.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By all accounts, innumerable quantities of arrowheads and worked turquoise passed through his hands. When his finds were out of the ordinary, they would receive newspaper coverage throughout the state. Yet in the winter of 1898-99 he would dig up one of the most remarkable grave sites in Yavapai County.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The exact location is difficult to discern from the newspaper accounts. It was described as being on Oak Creek near the property of Rudolph Willard. “Ancient ruins were found on a bluff about 200 feet above the burying ground [that] was underneath some projecting rocks which jutted out from the almost perpendicular walls of the mountain side, but had been filled in and covered over until these projecting rocks could not be seen,” the paper described.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“He dug up over 50 skeletons and a very large amount of pottery…in a well-preserved condition,” the Coconino Sun detailed. “Among other things found were innumerable arrowheads, a spear point 7.5 inches long, a lot of marlin spikes of various lengths and some paint, which was also well preserved, a hat woven out of bear grass, and a small piece of woven cloth, apparently a blanket.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“A great deal of the pottery, and particularly the larger pieces of it, crumbled upon being exposed to the air," the paper continued. "Some of it was unusually large, in fact much larger than anything discovered in this section, but it was found impossible to save them, although recovered in fairly good condition. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"A two-handled jug and several small bowls were well preserved," the paper continued. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“One of these bowls was exceptional, as in holding it up between the fingers and then by thumping it with another finger, it had the ring of a genuine piece of modern chinaware.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Another well-preserved curiosity recovered was a dipper which was perfect. It was made of some black material, very much resembling slate. The handle was hollow and very hard. Mr. Love sold this dipper for $25,” (worth nearly $900 today,) “and values the articles taken out in two days work as being worth $100,” (or about $3500 today.)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxoLl77sCm1A7k7IYcctFbO7_WJ3IQyAipDQ8rbInz8uhsAAZiIEq0aZCVX0WpCB3N072wRrP2rZxsvB_zdF00Ip862V0AgkX3cUPMo6Fnm4l-KoqqLWKSkr2GrtN8WMjZ79X9euml_M10r7gw2m9riAdTss66rPsV5T67rnhrrJNi0gyjqWZLST3wBA/s220/Hohokam%20Village%20Under%20Cordes%20Junction.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="132" data-original-width="220" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxoLl77sCm1A7k7IYcctFbO7_WJ3IQyAipDQ8rbInz8uhsAAZiIEq0aZCVX0WpCB3N072wRrP2rZxsvB_zdF00Ip862V0AgkX3cUPMo6Fnm4l-KoqqLWKSkr2GrtN8WMjZ79X9euml_M10r7gw2m9riAdTss66rPsV5T67rnhrrJNi0gyjqWZLST3wBA/w200-h120/Hohokam%20Village%20Under%20Cordes%20Junction.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">ALSO ENJOY: <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-hohokam-village-under-cordes.html" target="_blank">The Hohokam Village Under the Cordes Junction Interchange</a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><i>The story of the Hohokam archeological finds that existed under the Cordes Junction, I-17 interchange.</i></span></p><div><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the skeletons dug up was of a giant. The skull measured 18 inches tall from the chin to the top. The jawbone measured a full 4 inches across. “Two tusks of unusual size protrude[d] from one of the jaws, but otherwise, the teeth [were] those of a human,” the Sun wrote. “The skull alone might easily be mistaken for that of some animal. As the bones of the body, however, were found with it, Mr. Love says there can be no mistake about it belonging to that of a human.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With some degree of astonishment, this is the third separate newspaper article this blog has unearthed about the discovery of giants in Yavapai County! Interestingly, this is the first instance where one was buried among other, normal-sized humans. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ultimately, Love was digging toward a wall he noticed against the mountain. When he got there, the really extraordinary discoveries were made. When the wall was exposed, it was discovered that it was masonry that “contained an opening over which was a thin stone slab.” When removed, it was found that a niche had been cut out of the mountain to form a burial chamber. The inside of the chamber had been plastered and with its masonry wall it was reported that the crypt had been “perfectly air tight.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Inside were three small mummies all “well-preserved.” The tallest of these was four feet high with the shortest being two and a half feet tall. “They were apparently those of children,” The Republican related, “though some who saw them contend that they were those of grown persons, belonging to a pygmy race.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of the items found in the crypt were similar to those found outside it. “A blanket was found wrapped about them; this being also in an excellent state of preservation, and unlike most articles of this kind, did not crumble when exposed to the air.” The portion of the blanket had been laying on the ground “was rotten, but the remainder was intact and quite strong. A string of beads, 36 inches long…crumbled when picked up,” but the beads remained in good condition.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eventually it was decided that the two taller mummies at least, were fully developed, but it was unsure if the shortest one’s teeth had fully pushed through the gums or not. The tallest was a male and had a string of turquoise beads around his ankle. “Seashells at the head of each body [indicated] intercourse with coast people,” the Republican stated. “Two dozen large bowls decorated with fast colors—red, yellow, brown—and black, in design of moon, stars, etc., [with] a border like the greek work” were found. “The bowls weren’t heavy like the majority of ware found, but [was] thin and when struck gives a clear ring, like good china.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Turquoise was found in great profusion, three yards of beads being strung at one time.” Also inside the crypt was: “a cedar cross seven inches long, a pot of brown paint [that] had evaporated until there was nothing left but a powder, [and] a pitcher with handle and spout.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Other items of unusual value were also discovered,” the paper told, “and these, together with the finding of this walled chamber and its contents, leads to the belief that at this point was the residence of some great chief or king, as the ordinary burying places of the prehistoric people weren’t hewn out of the mountain and enclosed with airtight walls.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By 1900, however, Love’s prospecting turned dry, and he eventually sold the rest of his collection, along with the three mummies, to Dr. SW Hart for an unknown price. Some of these items were found in the vicinity of property owned by someone named “Hart,” but it is not known if this was the same man. Eventually Dr. Hart moved to Denver, evidently taking the collection with him.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Love gave up relic prospecting. 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line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Coconino Sun, 6/22/1901, Pg. 1, Col. 3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican, 4/9/1909, Pg. 5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Coconino Sun, 4/4/1907, Pg. 1, Col. 4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Coconino Sun, 4/8/1899, Pg. 7, Cols. 1-2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IBID. Pg. 11, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Coconino Sun, 4/8/1899, Pg. 7, Cols. 1-2.</span></p><div><br /></div><p>
<br /></p>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona 86336, USA34.9125169 -111.7268235-38.906439985954989 107.64817650000003 90 28.898176499999977tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-49064108698004192422022-07-03T07:06:00.003-07:002022-11-30T15:45:34.175-07:001922: The Tragic Tale of a Rising Rodeo Star<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFXmzYCnPbe5BA1RUr5-o2y8XUyiBSy_JB_3Bsa9949KVZFTUVBopU3t8s9q50g3BFRr2ThqzBFZoxdgG_n8sm56P93cMqgcizMYBGWTZnmHjR5zxrk6d69_4kd__3Js_bUd9EHndoMqyJwqEFD7f3JsugLEpSnvRE_5LNkCNRLCrPhdyT6hhdcfoHaw/s700/1922%20Tragic%20Tale%20of%20a%20Rising%20Rodeo%20Star.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="700" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFXmzYCnPbe5BA1RUr5-o2y8XUyiBSy_JB_3Bsa9949KVZFTUVBopU3t8s9q50g3BFRr2ThqzBFZoxdgG_n8sm56P93cMqgcizMYBGWTZnmHjR5zxrk6d69_4kd__3Js_bUd9EHndoMqyJwqEFD7f3JsugLEpSnvRE_5LNkCNRLCrPhdyT6hhdcfoHaw/w400-h246/1922%20Tragic%20Tale%20of%20a%20Rising%20Rodeo%20Star.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">His name was Frank James Stephens. He was the son of a rancher and Mohave County supervisor, WB Stephens, who owned a ranch along the Sandy River. Frank had taken well to the ranching life and he was quickly developing into a genuine rodeo star.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">His first appearance at Frontier Days in Prescott was in 1918 at age 21 and even as a rookie, he won third place prize money in the relay race. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Three months later his wife would give birth to their first child.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The following year, in 1919, in the “Steer Breakaway” contest, Stephens finished fourth, roping three steers in 35 seconds and winning $100 in prize money (worth about $1700 today.)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He began competing in all the area rodeos and was quickly making a name for himself.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the first annual Labor Day Rodeo in Kingman in 1919, he took second place in the special event of goat roping and split first prize honors for best costume. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">1920 started with a rodeo on Frank’s home turf of Sandy. He won second place in the burrow double-tying event, earning $160 (about $2700 today.)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Instead of going to the Prescott Frontier Days in 1920, he instead opted to perform at the Flagstaff rodeo the following week. He was smart to do so. There he won first place in bull roping earning $1200 (nearly $20,000 today) with his partner Lee Robinson. This year also saw the birth of the cowboy's second child.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiojvCVZub1EzHOkdKTZeC3CyvHC5vp6YC2dBQqhyoO4V36Bm1WT6GGatcj60CF7zs-iW_cQtjnqiF3bzw3aHArvtAyDnjwKzo3Bre7v66ndA1Z84HNGwFQs2q4zq-JP9wK3OmDDOflCdKSNzV91cqfJllSnLmzNxIkggRlbNQrOkOmG03GI96z3DUPJw/s320/CowboyEscapadesV2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="320" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiojvCVZub1EzHOkdKTZeC3CyvHC5vp6YC2dBQqhyoO4V36Bm1WT6GGatcj60CF7zs-iW_cQtjnqiF3bzw3aHArvtAyDnjwKzo3Bre7v66ndA1Z84HNGwFQs2q4zq-JP9wK3OmDDOflCdKSNzV91cqfJllSnLmzNxIkggRlbNQrOkOmG03GI96z3DUPJw/w200-h143/CowboyEscapadesV2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2018/04/cowboy-escapades-2-autos-on-range.html" target="_blank">Cowboy Escapades #2: Autos on the Range</a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">When automobiles were first invented, it was inevitable that cowboys would try them on the range...sometimes with humorous results.</span></i></p><div><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Later, his father lost his prize saddle in a fire in Oatman and the 1921 Frontier Days offered Frank an opportunity to make good on his dad’s loss. One prize that year was one of the finest saddles made. This year he would go all out for the saddle with the hope of giving it to his dad.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unfortunately for Frank, the prize saddle was won by Van Dickson. However, after talking with Dickson, and explaining how he wanted to get the saddle for his father, the two decided to effect a trade. Frank gave Dickson a horse for the saddle and it was reported that “both men were satisfied.” This human interest story was popular and added to Frank’s growing fame on the rodeo circuit. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the Sandy rodeo in January, 1922, he came in first in the burrow double-tying event, earning $300 (about $5000 today.) </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then in late June 1922, Frank’s day job would change considerably. His father sold all of his ranch holdings along the Sandy river to George W McCain. McCain had ranches elsewhere in the Southwest and he hired the son, Frank, to manage the operation. It was a great opportunity for Frank, earning him a better wage for his growing family. They moved to Kingman just days before Frontier Days 1922 with the future looking bright.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the rodeo, Frank had already finished in the money in the steer roping contest and was looking forward to the steer riding event--as was the crowd. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The gate opened and the animal stepped out of the chute and immediately doubled-up high in the air on its first buck. However, when it came back down, the beast lost its footing and fell forward. Frank was thrusted head-first to the ground, with the force</span> fracturing his skull and<span style="font-family: inherit;"> flipping him on his back. Worse, the full weight of the animal's shoulders landed on his chest before it trotted away. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Frank laid motionless.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The crowd instantly became silent as Frank's wife ran down from the grandstand to attend to her husband. An ambulance was called and he was immediately taken to Prescott’s Mercy Hospital with his wife aboard. After a quick initial examination, it was declared that Frank would be alright. When this announcement was related to the crowd, the grandstand erupted in cheers for the young star and the rodeo continued merrily.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Frank's parents were immediately telegraphed and a family delegation was able to reach Prescott by noon, but Frank was still unconscious from the skull fracture. As the day wore-on, however, Frank’s condition grew worse. It was realized that he had suffered multiple internal injuries and there was nothing the doctors could do. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He died peacefully around 1:30 the next morning in the presence of his family, never regaining consciousness. He was only 25.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He left a wife and two young children; as well as his mother, father, four brothers and two sisters. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Needless to say that his folks are heartbroken at the untimely death of this young man, who was already making such a good start in life," the Mohave county paper lamented. "Their grief is shared by the people of Mohave county.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Frontier Days headquarters, staff, and indeed the rest of the Frontier Days event turned distraught and gloomy; for Frank P Stephens was the first contestant ever to lose his life at the World’s Oldest Rodeo.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A few weeks after the tragedy, Frank's family posted the following "Card of Thanks" in the Mohave County Miner and Our Mineral Wealth newspaper:</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP2_XDHXrjgleD88Xkz8GcMZ2wloWXx6eYU8WgTR2lZYVHWDwtauFd35KW9kv2qVkjlLSQJYUrnjawGstAQ4M8J_NiH4Rty6EXEXDeun1YBzzPNG5sdoZc4ZYecmbNKSLXpD_fnTs8OMQWKpnovTMP7j7z235owLsidbIU_Bk1rvCTisIfgPuGJV4mbw/s729/Card%20of%20thanks%20Frank%20P%20Stephens.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP2_XDHXrjgleD88Xkz8GcMZ2wloWXx6eYU8WgTR2lZYVHWDwtauFd35KW9kv2qVkjlLSQJYUrnjawGstAQ4M8J_NiH4Rty6EXEXDeun1YBzzPNG5sdoZc4ZYecmbNKSLXpD_fnTs8OMQWKpnovTMP7j7z235owLsidbIU_Bk1rvCTisIfgPuGJV4mbw/s320/Card%20of%20thanks%20Frank%20P%20Stephens.png" width="237" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u><b>Tourist Tip:</b></u> </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Sharlot Hall Museum has a new exhibit! </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i><b>"To the Rodeo, Pardner!"</b></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEL29xJRBrMUd5ThaxiGi5KPJT0KAQX0af56p3ChNWv2C2UQTWiwLwF4FkY8Sz8yKx6QYvvDsquVc3yB7rwFh2Jjs546CKh6Omi754aH3ubYg1dXLVT0C5HSWnaNqGKU7eOiyBousnJzgLMZt8BtjHmetnpDbR_iDCnwv65PNhPJleuwuFOjGwArnLhg/s654/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-02%20at%207.26.47%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="654" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEL29xJRBrMUd5ThaxiGi5KPJT0KAQX0af56p3ChNWv2C2UQTWiwLwF4FkY8Sz8yKx6QYvvDsquVc3yB7rwFh2Jjs546CKh6Omi754aH3ubYg1dXLVT0C5HSWnaNqGKU7eOiyBousnJzgLMZt8BtjHmetnpDbR_iDCnwv65PNhPJleuwuFOjGwArnLhg/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-02%20at%207.26.47%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">It includes the entire rodeo timeline history and special artifacts celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of the movie "Junior Bonner" filmed in Prescott in 1971. </span><i style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">(Also look for the saddle Van Dickson won in 1924!)</i><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; 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-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>SOURCES:</b></span></p></div></div></div></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mohave Co Miner and Our Mineral Wealth, 7/7/1922 p1 c5-6</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 7/10/1918 p4 c1</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 7/9/1919; Pg. 5, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mohave Co Miner and Our Mineral Wealth, 9/6/1919; Pg. 1, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mohave Co Miner and Our Mineral Wealth, 1/3/1920; Pg. 1, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Coconino Sun, 7/9/1920; Pg. 8, Col. 1. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mohave Co Miner and Our Mineral Wealth, 6/24/1921; Pg. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 7/13/1921; Pg. 3, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mohave Co Miner and Our Mineral Wealth, 1/6/1922; Pg. 10, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mohave Co Miner and Our Mineral Wealth, 6/30/1922; Pg. 1, Col. 5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prescott Evening Courier, 4/7/1922; Pg. 1, Col. 7.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican, 7/7/1922; Pg. 2, Col. 3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mohave Co Miner and Our Mineral Wealth, 7/7/1922; Pg. 1, Cols. 5-6.</span></p><div><br /></div>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Prescott, AZ 86301, USA34.5659245 -112.46490836.2556906638211558 -147.6211583 62.876158336178847 -77.3086583tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-8741964441271443162022-06-12T07:13:00.001-07:002022-06-12T10:49:38.568-07:00What It Was Like to be an Extra in "Junior Bonner"<p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY8TiQ2PRUtxF3LhUuSIaZHMq_r-Ktx8FYFxE42vWAqcdDe16lBWtZF4RKA_Ydq2j7iiGa5FEwTlOvX9xwDQxRO_8GqcSOw4LzuaBl0vpQ4GZGISKDQA4ydjVB_REC_p4r2reH2gkcBGh91O4twMxVkAbf_qtJaaJ8ckB0Ibvs4fjG-Y1Z9a9yaL0GWg/s630/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-11%20at%207.47.48%20AM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="630" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY8TiQ2PRUtxF3LhUuSIaZHMq_r-Ktx8FYFxE42vWAqcdDe16lBWtZF4RKA_Ydq2j7iiGa5FEwTlOvX9xwDQxRO_8GqcSOw4LzuaBl0vpQ4GZGISKDQA4ydjVB_REC_p4r2reH2gkcBGh91O4twMxVkAbf_qtJaaJ8ckB0Ibvs4fjG-Y1Z9a9yaL0GWg/w400-h290/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-11%20at%207.47.48%20AM.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sam Peckinpah was in Prescott directing the 199th movie made in Yavapai County, “Junior Bonner, when he noticed a nude painting titled “Olympia” by Earl MacPherson. Peckinpah thought it would be perfect hanging behind the Palace bar for some scenes he would shoot there. When asked if the movie could use his painting, MacPherson bargained that they could if he was hired as an extra. Peckinpah was happy to agree. Thus began an interesting, four-day, behind-the-scenes experience for the painter.<span></span></span><p></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">His wife was delighted and “all evening [his] phone was busy with: ‘Earl is in the big movie with Steve McQueen,’” he once explained to the Arizona Republican. He went to sleep “with visions of becoming the next John Wayne.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The next day MacPherson arrived for his role at a vacant building next door to the Palace bar, “along with about a hundred other extras.” He was handed a pink time card and told the organizer that he was “a dude in a big bar scene,” and asked her if he should go in.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“You don’t go nowhere till I tell you,” she replied. “Now sit down over there with those Indians.” The Apache family he was now sitting with was sure that they had seen the artist in “Then Came Bronson,” and asked him for his autograph. Although MacPherson had never been in any movie previously, his “wounded vanity” was being restored, so he signed his name and went to the Palace back porch.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After visiting with some friends who also got parts as extras, MacPherson was told to sit in a booth where his picture “Olympia” was hanging. He was thrilled and whispered to the others: “Maybe I can even sorta point a finger upwards at my painting. Just think of the publicity!”</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Stop whispering,” assistant director Mack Harding admonished. “From now on, when you’re on camera act enthusiastic, drink beer, wave at your friends, smoke or do anything you like, but don’t make a sound. Otherwise you’ll louse up Steve McQueen’s sound track.”</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A “big $50,000 Mitchell sound camera was wheeled into position,” and a rehearsal was called. “The huge klieg lights came on from the ceiling and everything was transformed into the world of make believe,” MacPherson recalled.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During the rehearsal, The artist was thrilled to be directly in line with the camera, but when the scene was shot for real, he realized that a crowd of dancers and wandering drunks were blocking him from “being preserved for posterity on film with Steve McQueen.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Peckinpah took several takes but only once did MacPherson feel that the camera had him in a clear shot. At that moment, MacPherson grabbed a prop beer can and took a big gulp. Unfortunately, it contained a few ounces of stale beer as well as a cigarette butt which became lodged in his throat. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then it was time for lunch.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhofZgPMAibKYomUe3xZVPLKDkgPw2h-uY_ZwXwG6qJ9m0Wa4Wvts8v-BFplTXyJuUn3VQFZiI5Hmtya3N-H3a2xj2s_9e3g6jDtkumQu03nDDhZsLV-eKiF0SaD3QBwkxrMvXsZN4N6qVziPJ6MxibFgyEGk5aFiR_x3Be8xPe4YhLtbNZLnkMsxeghQ/s696/He%20Was%20an%20Extra%20in%20Junior%20Bonner.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="696" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhofZgPMAibKYomUe3xZVPLKDkgPw2h-uY_ZwXwG6qJ9m0Wa4Wvts8v-BFplTXyJuUn3VQFZiI5Hmtya3N-H3a2xj2s_9e3g6jDtkumQu03nDDhZsLV-eKiF0SaD3QBwkxrMvXsZN4N6qVziPJ6MxibFgyEGk5aFiR_x3Be8xPe4YhLtbNZLnkMsxeghQ/w400-h238/He%20Was%20an%20Extra%20in%20Junior%20Bonner.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Earl MacPherson (on the left)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;">The meal was served in a pecking order. Stars were served first; production staff second; extras who were on camera third. MacPherson was served in the fourth and last group. “The food was great and the servings were huge,” he recalled. “We dined together picnic style in the Plaza under the admiring glances of visitors and Prescott people.”</span><div><br />
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After lunch, work continued and the trio that was in MacPherson’s booth was joined by “a little old lady in a buckskin cowboy outfit,” whose smoke from a constant chain of lit cigarettes obscured the view of the camera. However, MacPherson was excited when he was given new instructions: “When the action and music starts up again, get up and make your way through the crowd to the back bar.” Pointing to the little, old chain smoker, the assistant director said “And you follow him.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When the call was made for “action,” MacPherson did his duty, making his way through the dance floor to the back bar. But when he turned around, the chain smoking old lady was no where in sight. Unfortunately, she lost him in the crowd, panicked, froze, and stared directly into the camera like a doe caught in the headlights. The shot was ruined and everyone had enough for one day.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By then, MacPherson’s yellow shirt stunk of sweat and cigarette smoke, but he was required to wear it everyday for the sake of continuity. The second day MacPherson was stationed in front of the bar, directly in front of the camera. But when the director called “action,” several other extras crowded in. “There are two kinds of extras,” MacPherson observed, “the hams and the lambs. The hams connive, scheme and push to get in [the shot] and the lambs…couldn’t care less and are only there for the $15 a day.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The third day MacPherson wasn’t called upon at all and instead, “sketched a lot of extras and two of the stars,” as well as the canine star “Spike.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">MacPherson’s wife laundered his outfit before the fourth day. The celebratory scene after Junior Bonner’s victory was to be filmed and real, free whiskey and beer was served to all to “add realism.” MacPherson was given a prominent spot until Sam Peckinpah realized that the freshly washed, yellow shirt was reflecting too much light. The assistant director walked up and said “Mr. Peckinpah wants you way in the back.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the final day, MacPherson was weary of the work and asked if he could simply be a member of the crowd and sit in the usual booth. But the booth was going to be where the “big cattlemen…come in with their girlfriends.” So, MacPherson was instructed to get up with his booth-mates, give up the booth to the cattlemen and walk out the door. “That gets you out for good and you can get back to painting,” he was assured. At first, he was told to take as much time as they needed to say their good-byes, but after rehearsals, they were told to cut it down to three seconds.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This time things went perfectly. “‘It’s a take,’ Peckinpah said,” and Earl MacPherson received a portion of his fifteen minutes of fame.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Mister Peckinpah Wants You Way in the Back,” by Earl MacPherson. Arizona Republic, 9/12/1971; pp. 242-247.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p> <p></p></div>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Prescott, AZ 86301, USA34.5659245 -112.46490836.2556906638211558 -147.6211583 62.876158336178847 -77.3086583tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-77547559594867023272022-05-29T07:14:00.002-07:002022-08-27T17:54:44.096-07:001922: Prescott Turns the Page on the Old West<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ln6oiWLpCGq33pJYLlP5di9YJP2FbqlmLUrpnRJ1iofiX-oodww0PK4H2fqmruNDMsVGaFmMj1QHX2orFQTaeLHUAbpBbZVStnIVW-Rk366oSsXCJvZRcqGKfv7oXb6si9_Co5ejyNWIVYhdE9h3hUegc9YJl0l9j5DU2qQLhDo_UA92dhRvxNXhnQ/s700/1922:%20Prescott%20Turns%20the%20Page%20on%20the%20Old%20West.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="700" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ln6oiWLpCGq33pJYLlP5di9YJP2FbqlmLUrpnRJ1iofiX-oodww0PK4H2fqmruNDMsVGaFmMj1QHX2orFQTaeLHUAbpBbZVStnIVW-Rk366oSsXCJvZRcqGKfv7oXb6si9_Co5ejyNWIVYhdE9h3hUegc9YJl0l9j5DU2qQLhDo_UA92dhRvxNXhnQ/w400-h230/1922:%20Prescott%20Turns%20the%20Page%20on%20the%20Old%20West.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From its beginning and for the better part of a century, Prescott desired to be a modern city in stark contrast to the surrounding wilderness. Come 1922, people had grown weary of streets that were either dusty or muddy and desire was strong to dust-off Prescott’s cowtown image and replace it with a modern, 20th century city. As a result, 1922 would see the biggest infrastructure improvements the city would ever experience, as well as Prescott’s first big growth spurt.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A patriotic meeting of the Prescott Corporation occurred at the Owl Drugstore March 3rd and epitomized public sentiment. The 150 attending dedicated themselves to “push Prescott forward,” the Prescott Evening Courier reported. “There was no lack of enthusiasm and displayed willingness to do all possible for the city of Prescott in the way of a paved road to Whipple; adequate water supply; paving and lights; and an up-to-the-minute hotel.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They sang “America” and took the following pledge: </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>“I am a loyal citizen of Prescott.</i></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>I believe in its stability and in its future growth.</i></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>As a stockholder in the Prescott Corporation, I pledge my best efforts to aid in its upbuilding and continued prosperity.</i></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>I subscribe to the doctrine of ‘BOOST.’</i></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>One for all and all for one.”</i></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, before paving could be done, it was desired to eliminate the old-fashioned, unsightly telephone and electric poles from downtown first. While the power company was happy to bury their lines, the telephone company balked. They had a fifty year franchise starting in 1902 that allowed them “to erect poles and carry their wires in any way desired.” They estimated the cost of burying phone lines at $16,000 and phone customers would have an extra dollar added to their bill to cover the cost. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After these preparations, the paving of Prescott’s most important streets would continue until winter at a feverish pace. The Plaza and extended business sections were the first priority. Sheldon St., being the way to the new VA hospital was second. Mt. Vernon St., with its expensive homes was third. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPbW8sy5lRNjVB8CtekrgD0zKv1faBGrLo3IHBA1assEj19UMkx1suS13DcA8CiBBiVRjn1T-wd8fGVtKnrZVIywztS6Fs0prv9Zfk06p1C1JSebNchqtaikEJWPFXVXL9eS14PutZQqO02Veh9tSSHfnEYqx97XosLt9MGAQYfORKB1qdPqHjaWQnzQ/s700/Mount%20Vernon%20Street,%20Prescott,%20Arizona%20C.1920-st199p.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="700" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPbW8sy5lRNjVB8CtekrgD0zKv1faBGrLo3IHBA1assEj19UMkx1suS13DcA8CiBBiVRjn1T-wd8fGVtKnrZVIywztS6Fs0prv9Zfk06p1C1JSebNchqtaikEJWPFXVXL9eS14PutZQqO02Veh9tSSHfnEYqx97XosLt9MGAQYfORKB1qdPqHjaWQnzQ/s320/Mount%20Vernon%20Street,%20Prescott,%20Arizona%20C.1920-st199p.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Freshly paved Mt. Vernon St. in 1922<br />(Also shows Prescott's 1st streetlights)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another important mark of a modern city was streetlights. Yavapai County installed them on the Plaza and they first turned on March 1st. The city’s streetlights, across from the Plaza, were tested three weeks later. However, flicking the switch revealed that there was more work to be done. “Some of the lights failed to go on,” the paper observed, “and during the early evening some jovial wag planted candles atop the dark globes.” The city’s streetlights did not match the Plaza’s then, but Prescott was proud to have ordered its from a Yavapai County company.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sewer service was extended to the south on Montezuma, Cortez and Pleasant streets. “Much difficulty is being encountered,” the paper revealed, “due to the depth necessary to trench in order to obtain the proper flow line for the pipe.” Those who received the new convenance were required to share the $25,000 bill.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Several businesses spent many thousands of dollars remodeling and modernizing. 1922 was the year the two downtown stables (Ruffner & Montezuma,) completely remodeled to become automobile garages. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The house at the corner of Willis and Montezuma was “remodeled into a thoroughly modern and up-to-date apartment house.” That project would cost $10,000. A Phoenix developer revealed that plans were being drawn up in Prescott for “two large business buildings costing $40,000 each.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivqCA68OsC4CeMH-CDbRpY1GvXo-KnoZmcJnZRGVGgdFRcCF3qeYtrilCEYvTDBZr-Ekq8pkLxLNU1mNquM9nuxsrc-cTtRdcOBeOXcJ1cL4KRpn1BXL32Uua-kkaPY20uRtWtSzcwM8H3fKeWoTK2DNZB53wXelPpDx-c3MQwDZzoCUyqgjvKQHqWMg/s824/new%20press%20for%20PEC%20ad%201922.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="824" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivqCA68OsC4CeMH-CDbRpY1GvXo-KnoZmcJnZRGVGgdFRcCF3qeYtrilCEYvTDBZr-Ekq8pkLxLNU1mNquM9nuxsrc-cTtRdcOBeOXcJ1cL4KRpn1BXL32Uua-kkaPY20uRtWtSzcwM8H3fKeWoTK2DNZB53wXelPpDx-c3MQwDZzoCUyqgjvKQHqWMg/w200-h143/new%20press%20for%20PEC%20ad%201922.png" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>Even the Prescott Courier modernized in 1922 and was proud to publish a picture of their new Duplex printing press.</span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A great part of the reason for this growth spurt was the US government’s decision to turn the old Ft. Whipple grounds into the exclusive tuberculosis hospital for the Veterans’ Administration. A whopping $3.2 million (over $55 million today) was spent to make the transition. It would become the fourth largest hospital in the country and the largest tuberculosis hospital in the US. It also boasted the largest kitchen in Arizona feeding 1200 men three times a day. Fifteen cooks were in charge of several helpers each. The numerous white buildings seen there today were primarily built in 1922. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The VA hospital had a monthly payroll of over $100,000 ($1.7 million today) to stimulate the Prescott economy.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“With all its paving activities, its rumors of new hotels, theaters, office buildings and its remodeling of present stores,” the paper observed, “Prescott is almost forgetting that the real sign and guarantee of a city’s growth lies in its homes…” From Whipple to Miller Valley 30 to 50 homes were in the process of construction. “The street without some kind of construction work going on is almost a rarity,”the paper remarked.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Streets were laid out and lots surveyed for the new Lincoln Park “suburb.” Seven houses were initially built and cost $1800 (about $31,000 today). These houses included a living room, kitchenette, bedroom, a sleeping porch, and bath. The homes sat on 50 x 150 foot lots. A mile of pipe was necessary to connect the homes to city water at a cost of $4800, (about $83,000 today.) 300 houses were expected to be built there.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Pinecrest section was sprouting new homes as well. Indeed, “there have been enough new cottages, tent houses and bungalows built in the past few months that an old resident is astonished at the changes made there,” the paper reported. “The cottages stretch away until lost in the pine-clad hills.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The Chinese Gardens at the entrance of Miller Valley have moved,” and the land graded “preparatory to having it designated as an authorized sub-division of Prescott,” the paper announced. Some of these lots were improved with bungalows or a new type of inexpensive, smaller version called “bungalettes.” These were already popular in Phoenix and offered inexpensive housing for some of the new laborers in town. They sold for $1000 ($17,000 today.) These forerunners to “tiny-houses” offered only 480 square feet with one main living/bedroom, a kitchen, breakfast nook, and a single clothes closet. For an extra $600, one could add a bath and kitchen plumbing.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5s1J32D02jxDidK7SWv-6SRykikP0cSxytkh2GPIF4XqfrqDPONGRNli1ddQZkxyNKP3kApCwlh9ZmjLqLK8Hz-nMnHvtSZFRCrQS4DdPESuCHX22vOyTWYo2QaU4BJoKTZQ3EZeJO9eG3WdpySQ98i0MKYAn1abkkNFpZyg7p2TyqBd6ucoy1tfEgw/s600/Founder%20of%20Lowell%20Observatory%20gets%20High.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5s1J32D02jxDidK7SWv-6SRykikP0cSxytkh2GPIF4XqfrqDPONGRNli1ddQZkxyNKP3kApCwlh9ZmjLqLK8Hz-nMnHvtSZFRCrQS4DdPESuCHX22vOyTWYo2QaU4BJoKTZQ3EZeJO9eG3WdpySQ98i0MKYAn1abkkNFpZyg7p2TyqBd6ucoy1tfEgw/w150-h200/Founder%20of%20Lowell%20Observatory%20gets%20High.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2019/11/founder-of-lowell-observatory-got-high.html" target="_blank">Founder of Lowell Observatory Got High in Prescott</a></div></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i>The story of Percival Lowell's visit to Prescott, AZ in 1909.</i></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With this influx of population, there was a need to expand schools and churches. Due to there being no additional land to expand the Washington school, a new school costing upwards of $40,000 (almost $700,000 today) was built “below Aubrey street, and Marina and Cortez streets” in March. The paper reported that the work was being “pushed as rapidly as possible.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“In keeping with the spirit of progress that lately has been sweeping over Prescott," the paper proclaimed, "the Baptist congregation in this city has planned the erection of a new church on the plot already purchased by the church at the corner of Goodwyn and Marina streets.” It was hoped it would open by the end of the year.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Christian Church, which was meeting in the Moose Hall, bought a lot for future expansion.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course, other basic needs were required for the influx of </span>residents<span style="font-family: inherit;">. After opening store No. 7 on North Cortez St. in the Spring the year before, the Pay ’N Take It grocery store planned on opening up a second, larger location which would include distribution for other stores in the area. It would “be No. 14, the unlucky 13 being eliminated,” the paper explained. The distribution post would serve a planned chain in northern Arizona that would soon include Jerome and Humboldt. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Even more importantly, Prescott’s water shortage would be solved with the erection of the Banning Creek dam which created (Lower) “Lake Goldwater.” It was early March when the plan passed. This would hold enough water for a five month supply. It “would be 65 feet high, 292 feet long, 45 feet wide at the base and 6 feet wide at the top.” A “temporary” road (which still exists for maintenance purposes) was built from Senator Highway to the lake site about a half mile away. The dam project would cost $350,000 (or $6 million today.)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Modernization also meant the latest technology, and Prescott was proud to sport the third radio station in Arizona and the first one outside of Phoenix. Nightly concerts (consisting mostly of setting a microphone in front of a Victrola) were broadcasted. Occasionally, Marsh Smith played his steel guitar live. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The studio was located in the Prescott Hotel and it was hoped that the lobby would be utilized for bands and singers to perform live. The Tilton Music shop partnered with the station to provide the latest music. “Frequently now when the local station is getting ready to quit for the night and announces, ‘The next number will be the last,’” the paper wrote, “somebody calls in over the telephone and says, ‘Don’t quit yet!’”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As the calendar slipped into 1923, that was Prescott’s sentiment towards modernization: Don’t quit yet!</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">*****************************</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Drew's book is now available!</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBrzEK-rbzATQHhDeA0-uT8hdo20FIpx05Lpx9GsP-ydPiExNIl_5z751MUXlJBYGAZrIVyEkXcPq5NJ2xDSDetg1YLyHxPtftJQG16il6fe5ueHsOb3z4bq11rMiueeIvB66O7fn8RfFz/s1008/Murder+%2526+Mayhem+Front+%2526+Back+Cover+GOOD%2521.png" style="clear: left; 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line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>SOURCES:</u></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Prescott Evening Courier, 1922:</u></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>(In order of appearance)</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3/3, Pg. 1, Cols. 6-7.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3/21, Pg. 1, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3/25, Pg. 3, Col. 7.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3/31, Pg. 6, Col. 4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2/17, Pg. 1, Col. 6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3/20, Pg. 2, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">8/2, Pg. 1, Col. 6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3/11, Pg. 2, Col. 5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4/25, Pg. 1, Cols. 2-3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3/30, Pg. 3, Col. 4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">11/21, Pg. 2, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4/1, Pg. 2, Col. 5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2/18, Pg. 1, Cols. 1-2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2/27, Pg. 6, Col. 5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">12/2, Pg. 2, Col. 6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5/4, Pg. 1, Col. 4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">8/26, Pg. 1, Col. 3.</span></p><div><br /></div>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Prescott, AZ 86301, USA34.5659245 -112.46490836.2556906638211558 -147.6211583 62.876158336178847 -77.3086583tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-32935917822450423102022-05-15T07:02:00.000-07:002022-05-15T07:02:10.330-07:00William Randolph Hearst brings 15 Congressmen to Prescott<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2iJLyH0ScMzbAkpQcKdrrDhX4zXn4kM-WYzQkWmZQUiE-1qG1y6tYNLAOtPrrhi25WVPkqQh0UJ-crhhL5P63rJ8NPNbY3ymqT_K-_ajdGIzDcdGgc-ygZB3fyF8tc2dooU6Izkbi0Cn4sZ7QktbUJtVTtWpeU9YWYZXPX5U1NJLWb-vgi4EkaAFDA/s501/Hearst%20in%20Prescott%20portrait.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2iJLyH0ScMzbAkpQcKdrrDhX4zXn4kM-WYzQkWmZQUiE-1qG1y6tYNLAOtPrrhi25WVPkqQh0UJ-crhhL5P63rJ8NPNbY3ymqT_K-_ajdGIzDcdGgc-ygZB3fyF8tc2dooU6Izkbi0Cn4sZ7QktbUJtVTtWpeU9YWYZXPX5U1NJLWb-vgi4EkaAFDA/s16000/Hearst%20in%20Prescott%20portrait.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>(Forgive the typo!)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1903, William Randolph Hearst was a 40 year-old newspaper baron and US Congressman from New York who was under serious consideration for the Democratic nomination for President the following year. He desired statehood for the southwestern territories of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona and took a delegation of other congressmen and their wives on a whirlwind trip through those three large land masses to find evidence that they were worthy of statehood to bring back to Washington.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the 17th of October, the special train would stop in Prescott and he would be completely surprised at what he found.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hearst first went to Chicago where a special train was waiting. One reporter described it as “magnificent.” A shiny, new engine pulled a composite car, a baggage and smoker car, two sleepers, and an observation car. The party consisted of 37 people including one senator, fifteen congressmen, and their wives. Two members of the Arizona Territorial legislature would later join them including JF Wilson of Prescott.</span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The first stop on the trip was New Mexico and Albuquerque. Next stop was Arizona. They arrived in Williams in the early morning of the 16th where the delegation immediately headed to spend the day at the Grand Canyon. They left the Canyon around 10:30pm and paused at Ash Fork before arriving in Prescott. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They arrived around 6am, when the special train announced its arrival “by the screeching of the whistle…awakening echoes from the mountainside and awakening many sleeping citizens as well,” the Weekly Journal-Miner remarked.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A committee of ladies was appointed to entertain the wives and daughters of the congressional party. At 8am they boarded a large carriage known as the Tally Ho, which was drawn by six horses. It led a small parade of vehicles down Cortez St. toward the Plaza. They arrived at a platform which was built for the occasion on the Gurley St. side of the Plaza. Here, at 8:30am, Mayor Burke gave a welcoming address.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The mayor immediately gave the congressional delegation the keys to the city and offered to them “its freedom, its hospitality and its undisguised welcome,” the Prescott Morning Courier reported.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To Hearst he said: “you are a product of this mighty west... [<i>He was born in San Francisco;</i>] and are making a titanic fight for the rights of…the people of Arizona [who] indulge in hopeful anticipation for statehood as a result of your personal visits and efforts in that behalf.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One hurdle Arizona had to overcome in its quest for statehood was the public perception of the area based on fictional wild west novels. Mayor Burke dealt with this perception describing </span>the territory<span style="font-family: inherit;"> as having “peace within our borders [with] the laws respected and order prevailing everywhere.” It was a land of “brave and patriotic people devoted to the flag." Burke reminded the men that Arizona was “larger in area than nearly all of New England…with mountains seamed with precious metals, with fertile valleys and a climate absolutely unsurpassed.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The party was then led through Murphy Park and got back to the Plaza by 9:00. “The pupils of the public and private schools were arranged on the street on the north side of the Plaza…and each was provided with a flag which was waved as a token of welcome.” However, although the kids stood two deep, the Journal-Miner lamented that “the children did not turn out in large[r] numbers.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLA4hKl74kk5CxJEyuQtD3f2CZkLYamPv6lmuAyu1-QJYyFMacxD_VA-K6p9lTgGCeI8lYxqhVmWV-i9nTevzhzYlIS9UArYg1snMDzCCcjUbHgilsa6jM9dal0MBLoL6UrPzCHkzTUB1ao62CVQGw2gaCmGimFkVZx9hjc_1oqlBzi9T6Ou4_wsX3w/s700/William%20Randolph%20Hearst,%20Mayor%20Burke%20on%20Congressional%20Trip%20through%20West,%20Prescott,%20Arizona,%201903-po2379pc.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="700" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLA4hKl74kk5CxJEyuQtD3f2CZkLYamPv6lmuAyu1-QJYyFMacxD_VA-K6p9lTgGCeI8lYxqhVmWV-i9nTevzhzYlIS9UArYg1snMDzCCcjUbHgilsa6jM9dal0MBLoL6UrPzCHkzTUB1ao62CVQGw2gaCmGimFkVZx9hjc_1oqlBzi9T6Ou4_wsX3w/w400-h189/William%20Randolph%20Hearst,%20Mayor%20Burke%20on%20Congressional%20Trip%20through%20West,%20Prescott,%20Arizona,%201903-po2379pc.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mayor Burke walks along side Wm R Hearst 10/17/1903</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The delegation was then taken to Prescott’s new school building “and went through it from the upper floor to the basement. “This was one of the greatest surprises to them,” the paper revealed, for they did not expect such a modern and well equipped educational institution. “Mr. Hearst remarked that New York would be proud to replace some of her present structures for a building as modern and up to date as this.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">None of the delegation had yet eaten that morning, so after the tour of the school, they were brought to the Hotel Burke “where an elaborate breakfast was served.” At 10am they left for the depot, but had to wait until 10:45am for the northbound train to arrive before they could depart for Phoenix.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Nearly every one of the party met old friends and acquaintances here,” the paper remarked. One congressman from Missouri said “that he had met more old acquaintances in Prescott than in any town they had visited. He also remarked that Prescott was the best looking town that he had seen since he left his native state, and when he left Congress he thought of coming out here to locate.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From Phoenix, the party would go through El Paso and then a handful of of cities in Oklahoma before heading home. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;">Republican leaning newspapers believed the trip was entirely too short to do any good, but all the papers considered Hearst an ally in the quest for statehood and even the conservative ones called him "a friend of Arizona."</p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;">Some thought Hearst's tour was really for publicity in seeking the presidency. However, another man from New York, Alton Parker, won the nomination before losing to incumbent Teddy Roosevelt in 1904.</p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOEqhxf4dtWaPTOVXzEPlfxIELJI2Q_92jR5PmYCQgpsm5VPaxWwO9YjPGOhQu1CDaad1m2rGlq0AnGaHezB1rlOsdy60Mlr4qOa7793aUzA7Ki_0p9HcRMSAnKW9LEhK9V6G7807KCeg4JuDL4OOmXLil0SH1klwP5oH_pzUd5cfyfNchiJJ0bL8Vaw/s871/FightBadgerVsDogVsHypnotist.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="871" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOEqhxf4dtWaPTOVXzEPlfxIELJI2Q_92jR5PmYCQgpsm5VPaxWwO9YjPGOhQu1CDaad1m2rGlq0AnGaHezB1rlOsdy60Mlr4qOa7793aUzA7Ki_0p9HcRMSAnKW9LEhK9V6G7807KCeg4JuDL4OOmXLil0SH1klwP5oH_pzUd5cfyfNchiJJ0bL8Vaw/w200-h121/FightBadgerVsDogVsHypnotist.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> <a href="http://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2018/09/fight-badger-vs-bulldog-vs-hypnotist.html" target="_blank">Fight! Badger vs. Bulldog vs. Hypnotist</a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">A 1911 episode of an animal fight with a visiting hypnotist who regretted becoming involved. 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font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;"><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>SOURCES:</u></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Buffalo Times, 10/13/1903; Pg. 5, Cols. 4-5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 10/21/1903</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">2</span>, Cols. <span style="font-family: inherit;">4-5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican, 10/17/1903</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1</span>, Cols. 4-5.</p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prescott Morning Courier, 10/19/1903</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1</span>, Cols. 4-5.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Prescott, AZ 86301, USA34.5659245 -112.46490836.2556906638211558 -147.6211583 62.876158336178847 -77.3086583tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-338630162542314422022-04-24T07:04:00.000-07:002022-04-24T07:04:44.856-07:00Gun Fight at the Independence Mine<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN-1Zx7b6R2DrCkgZMNZrVFbXCYp_H7idPuDZcOmIcwKvXfsCGLF7h-Q6bAPaVNyVYcCwQhK7eto2q2bTok1FAioKJbb9OFqZmHM8DXhLqKRa3qXClCq5zm9tKc0H7X9a2udf8MSlvBGUdlt9zqhaj9s2tOtPaMB9nOrC--GF_SgZna8Xoqwr62o9CjA/s362/Gun%20Fight%20at%20the%20Independence%20Mine.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="346" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN-1Zx7b6R2DrCkgZMNZrVFbXCYp_H7idPuDZcOmIcwKvXfsCGLF7h-Q6bAPaVNyVYcCwQhK7eto2q2bTok1FAioKJbb9OFqZmHM8DXhLqKRa3qXClCq5zm9tKc0H7X9a2udf8MSlvBGUdlt9zqhaj9s2tOtPaMB9nOrC--GF_SgZna8Xoqwr62o9CjA/s320/Gun%20Fight%20at%20the%20Independence%20Mine.png" width="306" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">James S McClure, age 36, arrived home unexpectedly from a month-long business trip to Colorado. When he came upon his surprised wife, who was on her way to the post office, he was “out-of-sorts,” the Prescott Evening Courier reported. When she returned to their ranch that surrounded Tussock Springs, her husband was still in a sour mood. She was on her way to take the mule out to pasture, when “he asked her to wait a minute,” which she did.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What would transpire in the next few minutes would decide whether Mrs. McClure would live or die.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With his loaded shotgun at the ready, Mr. McClure started up the hill toward the cabin. Shortly after he crested the top and moved out of sight from his wife, she heard the shotgun fire, quickly followed by three shots from a revolver. Then there was complete silence. “She hurried back up the path and saw [two] men lying on the ground about six feet apart,” the paper related. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The man with the revolver was William S Bourne, age 59, who was superintendent of the Independence Mines company and a resident of Mrs. McClure’s boarding house. He expired after twenty minutes from the shotgun blast which entered just above his heart. Mr. McClure was shot through the right eye with the bullet exiting below the left eye. He was hanging on, but neither of the men would ever speak another word.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This started an epic relay to get help from Prescott. The scene of the tragedy has <i>always</i> been in the wilderness of the forest and Mother Nature has been erasing all signs of human industry there. Today even off-road adventurers recommend a SMALL four wheel drive vehicle (or perhaps a horse,) to gain access to this region.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">First Mrs. McClure rounded-up her mule as well as her two daughters, age 15 and 17. She instructed them to head to HI Caulkins’ camp. There the two related the story, and Caulkins ordered a cowboy to saddle-up and head to Wagoner with the news. The cowboy “rode through the storm and rain of [the] night, getting in shortly after midnight, where he met CC Stukey, who drove on in to Kirkland where he telegraphed the message to Prescott,” the paper delineated.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was 4:30am when the dispatcher’s office at the Santa Fe depot got the wire from Kirkland. “Send sheriff, coroner and doctor to Wagoner... One man killed; another badly shot,” the message read. A second telegraph soon followed: “Come to Wagoner, 14 miles south, will meet you with horses.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAL1Jtgms0pugPk80T8n3l_lHKEtl1hkXvV0vNpeKzv3RzdfvLwHxh7RRSSbK4VfgpnEbYUljUlOk8DIfiBvVfkm_xpxcxt_kk4He66dZt1WzIelJEPpYI3AWrf_LXLAq39ETagD_iYHa4RK2U4ES8qoeE-dR8DAcE-G0zFB3V9Lm2fxIRPoaC4OIUfA/s623/1910%20A%20Killing%20Near%20Thumb%20Butte.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="623" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAL1Jtgms0pugPk80T8n3l_lHKEtl1hkXvV0vNpeKzv3RzdfvLwHxh7RRSSbK4VfgpnEbYUljUlOk8DIfiBvVfkm_xpxcxt_kk4He66dZt1WzIelJEPpYI3AWrf_LXLAq39ETagD_iYHa4RK2U4ES8qoeE-dR8DAcE-G0zFB3V9Lm2fxIRPoaC4OIUfA/w200-h186/1910%20A%20Killing%20Near%20Thumb%20Butte.png" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2020/10/1910-killing-near-thumb-butte.html" target="_blank">1910: A Killing Near Thumb Butte</a></div></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">The true crime story of the murder of Sam Anderson by John Bryant in Prescott, AZ in 1910.</span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A tide of help was soon on the way. At 5 am, two deputy sheriffs headed to the site. Dr. RN Looney left at 7 am, and the coroner, Lester Ruffner, and a coroner’s jury left a half-out after that. Unfortunately, Mr. McClure died six hours after he was shot in the face.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To the residents of Prescott, this was a shock. The two men had been firm friends for five years preceding the shooting,” the paper stated, “during which time they worked together in developing the Independence mine workings… The friendship of the two men had been long and apparently deep, the two living in the same camp without a break, except for a year when McClure was away [serving in WW1].” Unfortunately, their five years of back-breaking work was “altogether vain.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, “neighbors [said] an end of the friendship of the two men was bound to come, due to the relations of Mrs. McClure and Bourne,” the paper revealed. Mrs. McClure vehemently denied this accusation and ins<span style="font-family: inherit;">isted that she knew of no reason for a motive to the shooting whatsoever.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, she also confided to the deputy that she believed that if Bourne had not shot her husband down, he would have returned to kill her as well.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Suggested motives for the killing...aside from possible jealousy by McClure,” the paper pondered, were: “disgust at the long and vain search for gold or other precious metal, weariness with life in the hills, insanity, [or] moodiness over some perhaps fancied wrong.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At Mrs. McClure's request, the two men were buried side by side at the location of the shooting. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Interestingly, the angel of death had previously brought tragedy to the same site. McClure and Bourne were buried “in the same grave plot…[as] that of Pete Donnelly…who killed himself years [before] in the same cabin on the doorstep of which Bourne was shot. Donnelly mined for years in that region, and either became disgusted with mining or insane from the lonely life in the hills,” the paper noted.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite her denials, many would always hold to the belief that the "eternal love triangle" was the cause of this sad event.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu52v3gsOyhgyByF9hFvFuvD8hQx2p7RzABM9IWC3NiLYjFVpUAaARpa43ZvZERrJqsGfxRJqCZGB9Ni4tpz6LCcp4EtNSPvO0svpCW1dSgmtOWwAmQo-uACwGjrXBDc9c0ZzGxLfYaum0AhRBoxJQRBNg_seUTAENionyIJ2NjQSJsX93F1z9HRz7jg/s650/WildWagonerArizona.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="650" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu52v3gsOyhgyByF9hFvFuvD8hQx2p7RzABM9IWC3NiLYjFVpUAaARpa43ZvZERrJqsGfxRJqCZGB9Ni4tpz6LCcp4EtNSPvO0svpCW1dSgmtOWwAmQo-uACwGjrXBDc9c0ZzGxLfYaum0AhRBoxJQRBNg_seUTAENionyIJ2NjQSJsX93F1z9HRz7jg/w200-h132/WildWagonerArizona.jpg" width="200" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>NOW ENJOY:</i> <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2018/12/wild-wagoner-az-founded-1864.html" target="_blank">Wild Wagoner AZ: Founded 1864</a></div></span><p></p>
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</p>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Wagoner, AZ 86332, USA34.2136392 -112.53572795.9034053638211574 -147.69197789999998 62.523873036178848 -77.3794779tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-61725228485378653352022-04-10T07:07:00.000-07:002022-04-10T07:07:49.040-07:00Williamson Valley's Astonishing Duck Migrations<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih7oAKcQj_lrOvy8l6Ho5oljLNEpyJnmOSLq9aRA8bkEuM7mxlvxU9_PH6yOGMT7RlrzjfOqHvFcL26dxWDdRew3wSyn0bGGI4ge-t41QJaWFwxjax8QWK7cLpLgZ8jj_gNAtul7ANwjDrsm_x2mKL0d6Wb-n8UlZM55oXIB66G0BkCArZRcuirZDyWA/s2817/DucksOverWlmsnVly%20PJM%202:9:1917%20p6%20c5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2817" data-original-width="2644" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih7oAKcQj_lrOvy8l6Ho5oljLNEpyJnmOSLq9aRA8bkEuM7mxlvxU9_PH6yOGMT7RlrzjfOqHvFcL26dxWDdRew3wSyn0bGGI4ge-t41QJaWFwxjax8QWK7cLpLgZ8jj_gNAtul7ANwjDrsm_x2mKL0d6Wb-n8UlZM55oXIB66G0BkCArZRcuirZDyWA/w375-h400/DucksOverWlmsnVly%20PJM%202:9:1917%20p6%20c5.jpg" width="375" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prescott Journal-Miner, 2/9/1917</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They would usually appear in February after the harshest days of winter, and stayed until May. Reports of thousands upon thousands of ducks and other waterfowl were annually noted until the climate took a turn toward our more arid conditions today.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A report in the Prescott Journal-Miner in 1917 stated that “the sun was obscured for over five minutes” as a gigantic wave of migrating ducks were settling in for the Spring in Williamson Valley. One man who wanted to boost tourism via duck hunting proclaimed to the Weekly Journal-Miner: “It is safe to say that 80 percent of all water fowl flying from the north to the south use Williamson Valley as their course.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yet in spite of these incredible numbers, is it really possible to bring down thirteen ducks with only two shots, as one pioneer rancher claimed?<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Williamson Valley used to be much wetter; even marshy in some spots. In August 1892 the mail driver reported to the Arizona Republican that he had to “abandon the road and take to the top of the divides,” because “the upper part of Williamson Valley was one great lake and the water was from three feet to six feet in depth.” While no rain was reported in lower Williamson Valley, “heavy rains fell at Camp Wood, and Walnut Creek was on a regular bender,” he added.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ducks weren’t the only species that spent time in Williamson Valley; geese were also reported in large numbers. In 1875, another bird was reported. Billy Dearing of Mint Valley shot the bird and brought it to the Arizona Miner office. “We searched the pictures in Webster,” the paper reported, “and found nothing to suit its description. However, a local ornithologist “at once pronounced it a Columbus Glacialis or ‘loon.’” </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One resident of Williamson Valley, Ernest Marlowe explained to the Journal-Miner that the waterfowl were “feeding in pastures, where green grass [was] plentiful.” The birds must have loved the conditions, because year after year thousands would appear. In 1917 Marlowe confirmed to the paper that the area was “swarming with thousands of duck and geese.” In 1919 a number that was “quadrupled over that of last winter” arrived, “but hunters were respecting the season which closed on January 31, and the birds were unmolested,” the paper reported.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Indeed, Williamson Valley would become renowned as a fertile ground for duck hunters. Undoubtedly duck hunting existed in Williamson Valley as long as there were humans and ducks. But some of the earliest newspaper accounts appeared in the Arizona Miner in 1870. In January Captain E.D. Baker returned to Ft. Whipple with fifteen harvested birds. The following month, pioneer rancher CC Bean bagged twenty in one day. He told the newspaper that “the rivers and lakes [were] alive with ducks and geese.” After heavy rains in 1891, SP Behan related the same news. He was the one who claimed to have brought down thirteen ducks with only two shots. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In March 1897, a group of six hunters, including some well-known, successful businessmen, spent two days together in a duck hunt and brought back 128 ducks—an average just over 21 ducks per man. A similar average was achieved by a group of four men the following year. After their two day trip, they came back with 83 birds. The Weekly Journal-Miner reported that it broke the record for that season. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The area’s rich duck hunting caused Art Davis, manager of the Williamson Valley Farms company, to conceive a plan to increase tourism. He desired to build a dam at the head of the Verde River which would create “Lake Sullivan.” He predicted it would be “one of the most beautiful lakes for hunting and fishing in the western country,” the paper related.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Davis’s dream was grandiose. “The company also proposes to make this lake a resort for fishing, duck shooting, boat riding and all kinds of camping. First class golf links will be laid out, and a large up-to-date sportsman’s clubhouse will be one of the attractions around this beautiful Lake Sullivan,” the paper reported. A charge for each of these activities would “be a big paying proposition for the Williamson Valley Farms company,” he forecasted.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Davis did his homework. He estimated the cost of the dam would be $415,000 (or $6.6 million today). However the water captured would allow the Farms to sell 15,000 acre water rights for $2.55 million (or nearly $40.5 million today) providing a profit of 614%. Charges for resort activities would add to the profit.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As an inducement to get locals to buy stock to fund the plan, Davis promised that everyone who invested $100 in stock (about $1600 today) would receive a free membership to the sportsman’s club for ten years. Membership cards would be issued stating that “The holder of this card is entitled to all of the sporting privileges of Lake Sullivan.” (Today plenty of people would be quite happy to pay $1600 for ten years of free golf alone!) </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But Davis’s dream did not materialize.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, there is a Sullivan Lake today right where Davis had planned; and yes, it was meant for duck hunting. But it wasn’t Davis nor the Williamson Valley Farms company that would build it. Instead, sixteen years later, it would be a 1937 work project during the Great Depression that would construct the dam. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Even then, however, the project was doomed from the start. To learn why…</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The story and history of Sullivan Lake, Arizona (located between Chino Valley and Paulden on "Old Hwy. 89") and the mysterious ruins surrounding it.</span></i></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>SOURCES:</u></b></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prescott Journal-Miner, 2/9/1917.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 3/5/1919; Pg. 6, Col. 2.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 9/7/1921; Pg. 5, Col. 1-2.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 2/25/1891; Pg. 4, Col. 1.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican, 8/27/1892; Pg. 1, Col. 7.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 3/19/1875; Pg. 3, Col. 2.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 2/21/1917; Pg. 6, Col. 3.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 1/22/1870; Pg. 3, Col. 3.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Arizona Miner, 2/15/1870; Pg. 3, Col. 1.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 3/17/1897; Pg. 3, Col. 4.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 2/16/1898; Pg. 3, Col. 5.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><br /><br /> <p></p>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Williamson Valley, Paulden, AZ 86334, USA34.9036305 -112.5601746.593396663821153 -147.71642400000002 63.213864336178844 -77.403924tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-26574750204879370802022-03-27T07:10:00.000-07:002022-03-27T07:10:09.706-07:00Tornados in Yavapai County?<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBIvob0kSo0Z8QFkX2vnIxlxVrkCtBKz7p7bpDicbm2utahp8b4E_y_wvP9x-EN1kyETATo9eB76UVUNhAsFZCWLRQEz6WnM3LYZGgdlZmuOiB1MCvGzRjdHQz6Q65dtQFVYXEtdkE1vklxHldowFxXxD2gW1pZ1L4nBCHuV-HE2swG7kbH8ACRKhAZA/s488/Tornados%20in%20Yavapai%20County%3F.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="488" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBIvob0kSo0Z8QFkX2vnIxlxVrkCtBKz7p7bpDicbm2utahp8b4E_y_wvP9x-EN1kyETATo9eB76UVUNhAsFZCWLRQEz6WnM3LYZGgdlZmuOiB1MCvGzRjdHQz6Q65dtQFVYXEtdkE1vklxHldowFxXxD2gW1pZ1L4nBCHuV-HE2swG7kbH8ACRKhAZA/w400-h253/Tornados%20in%20Yavapai%20County%3F.png" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona is known for straight-line winds, red flag warnings, and dust devils that can be strong enough to create tornado-like destruction, but actual tornados? Indeed, there have been rare times when the quad-cities area fell victim to genuine twisters.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the earliest reports of a possible tornado occurred during the monsoon season of 1871, when one storm stood out as unique. Men “who have known no other home than the mining camp since 1849” declared that it had “never been their fortune to witness…a grander meteorological phenomenon than that Tuesday evening,” the Weekly Arizona Miner recorded. Although it will never be known if this storm produced an actual tornado back then, the description sounds especially “tornado like.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was still daylight around 6:30pm when “a huge black cloud emerged from the northern horizon [around Chino Valley] accompanied by a peculiar, rumbling sound similar to that which heralds the approach of a tornado,” the paper reported. Within a half-hour Prescott “was overcast by a dense black cloud which so completely shut off the light of day that objects could not be distinguished 100 yards distant.” This was immediately followed by “torrential rainfall” before the entire storm blew away toward the south.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiulzYjR3_9FAw3kX4GMj06d3o-7SpVc3WrXISbYMeH3u7mkr8tYoZXlfHuv0-ANxb9d5oomHEMTw8J-KdsvBUQ-KrgqBltNLHISltV-LkBbfo9DXk45eKsU1HGf5nUab7nvsd0Hwl3AxUT/s1600/WalnutGroveDamComplete+%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiulzYjR3_9FAw3kX4GMj06d3o-7SpVc3WrXISbYMeH3u7mkr8tYoZXlfHuv0-ANxb9d5oomHEMTw8J-KdsvBUQ-KrgqBltNLHISltV-LkBbfo9DXk45eKsU1HGf5nUab7nvsd0Hwl3AxUT/w200-h116/WalnutGroveDamComplete+%25281%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>ALSO ENJOY: </i><a href="http://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2017/02/1890-dam-drunk-disaster.html" target="_blank">The Dam, The Drunk, & The Disaster</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i>The complete, heartbreaking story of the Walnut Grove Dam Disaster of 1890 in Yavapai County. It is still regarded as the worst natural disaster in Arizona history.</i></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It would be nearly 40 years later before the local Prescott paper described any reports of a tornado. It was 1910 when electrical power was cut-off for 24 hours “due to a tremendous tornado that passed over [the] Willow Creek sub-station, situated about 18 miles east of Mayer and about half-way up the Sycamore range of mountains,” the Weekly Journal-Miner described. The tower station suffered a direct hit. “So tremendous was the tornado that the roof of their big barn was lifted from its position and taken down the gulch below for a distance of over a half-mile, and lodged in the trees thereabouts,” the paper described.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prior to that, lightning struck and snapped off “a dozen set of insulators,” while “three [electrical towers] were torn from their anchorage and the cable lines thrown in all directions,” the paper told. After the tornado passed, “the rain began to fall in torrents, and all efforts to repair the damage under these conditions was fruitless.” An auxiliary plant was put into service to restore electricity to the Prescott area while every available man worked around the clock to make the repairs.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A mere four years later, evidence of a tornado was discovered three miles east of Skull Valley. After a hail storm, a miner, passing through the unpopulated area, found “scores of Pinyon trees and oak brush that were ripped out of the ground by the roots,” the Journal-Miner reported. “Some of the trees [were] large and their roots imbedded in the soil to a depth of over five feet.” For a width of 200 yards “the soil [was] denuded of everything in the line of vegetation,” the paper said.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was five years later in 1919 when Frank Erlanger of the geodetic survey corps was “making observations with his instruments” just below the summit of Granite Mountain on the south side, when a funnel cloud from the north kissed the top of the peak. Erlanger was “throw from a boulder to the ground eight feet below, sustaining injuries to both his legs,” the Journal-Miner related. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unfortunately “his fine blooded camp dog” was standing under a tree nearby when a limb broke off and struck the canine. “It died a short time afterward,” Erlanger related. He believed that had he been on the side of the peak that faced the funnel he “might have been severely injured.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fast forward to 1954: “The sighting of a fairly large tornado in the Chino Valley area at 11:40am [August 5,] resulted in a radio broadcast of tornado warnings issued by the weather bureau at the Prescott airport,” the Prescott Evening Courier reported. This rare occurrence required a weather bureau spokesmen to explain the basics to a surprised populace: “Such warnings are issued when tornado conditions exist and tornados are sighted,” he said. Issuing the warning after the sighting “was in compliance with [the] department’s regulations.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The tornado occurred during an especially heavy rainstorm,” the paper reported. It stayed on the ground for eight minutes “before disappearing into heavy clouds.” A second twister’s tail was seen around 1pm, “but dissipated in five minutes” without touching the earth. There were no injuries nor damage reported.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fYY7rRRcYvJCINQOHv6GnmqLYO4--GTF9U-YrfB5suFvzU36nQB6oJ7smm4ZSc9vgN8BEVYIEoPss5bWC4yJ_a_lqjLRK0nbAYNUO-7i5dg4u4fE7llXJFTdQXZKpXjC0y6ry8oFX18sbhUw69fb-KszyvQ2acLjAt3VgTxBFah24b0eZV8bLZHDAQ/s589/Tornado%20Safety%20ad%20Williams%20News%201964.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="514" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fYY7rRRcYvJCINQOHv6GnmqLYO4--GTF9U-YrfB5suFvzU36nQB6oJ7smm4ZSc9vgN8BEVYIEoPss5bWC4yJ_a_lqjLRK0nbAYNUO-7i5dg4u4fE7llXJFTdQXZKpXjC0y6ry8oFX18sbhUw69fb-KszyvQ2acLjAt3VgTxBFah24b0eZV8bLZHDAQ/s320/Tornado%20Safety%20ad%20Williams%20News%201964.png" width="279" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1964 tornado safety ad</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When reporting on a tornado that struck in 1967, the perplexed Prescott Courier reporter started his article with: “This is Yavapai County?” The tornado was reported “in the Lonesome Valley—Mayer—Humboldt area” and was witnessed by several persons in the area and also by a pilot flying above the whirling funnel.” The pilot reported that it touched down “on what appeared to be the Iron King [mine] tailings pond.” It was 50 feet across and “hovered for about ten minutes on the western most tailing pond.” Mine officials confirmed that some of the tailings “whirled around them for more than a mile.” There were no injuries, but it did destroy some road signs.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chino Valley was hit again on August 7 1969, when “a violent tornado hit…leaving uprooted trees and torn buildings its path.” Worst hit was “the Bill Rezzonico ranch where it ripped their shop apart and threw pieces of a hay barn over the surrounding fields.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrNNcT64mgdgWSaGkaRdNyjFsfTsOcxXmYm91Uko2VkjJiHsRlphahhUcHadiDOnFmXxVu9mNfXBje3Gu78iqOh8g5AqOLJUsqSwFxfFMz8Gf4S5PuhgzEpK2H55sRJcRQhGfdnMx033VOw7DrG00y9W9wX3dtlVSDpxY-0WUceJ0X05R_1H2ZVXRFzg/s714/P:Tornado%20Chino%20Valley%201961%20PEC%208:8:1969%20p1.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="714" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrNNcT64mgdgWSaGkaRdNyjFsfTsOcxXmYm91Uko2VkjJiHsRlphahhUcHadiDOnFmXxVu9mNfXBje3Gu78iqOh8g5AqOLJUsqSwFxfFMz8Gf4S5PuhgzEpK2H55sRJcRQhGfdnMx033VOw7DrG00y9W9wX3dtlVSDpxY-0WUceJ0X05R_1H2ZVXRFzg/w400-h193/P:Tornado%20Chino%20Valley%201961%20PEC%208:8:1969%20p1.png" width="400" /></a></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; 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line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prescott Evening Courier, 8/8/1969, Pg. 1.</span></p><div><br /></div><p>
<br /></p>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Yavapai County, AZ, USA34.6463981 -112.42914646.3361642638211535 -147.58539639999998 62.956631936178844 -77.2728964tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-56596105087054347962022-03-13T07:21:00.003-07:002022-03-13T09:59:34.393-07:00Pleistocene Prescott Valley<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdVEVjJ59rw4ItKPE9PHVKk9lOWX9Gjiid5h3lOY_BP8la6wK8Hs2UV4yK380FDmtK9p-cxctHdkoDBPB5CY58mThOPlG3HHGimLbOKpr7HI539IKSvDQUxOoMazHd23pkJse2AZe5kGf7Ox8iCalhnrXGFB4U8Ekj-nBF5CW68RRu8J58QS0uf71u_w=s640" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="640" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdVEVjJ59rw4ItKPE9PHVKk9lOWX9Gjiid5h3lOY_BP8la6wK8Hs2UV4yK380FDmtK9p-cxctHdkoDBPB5CY58mThOPlG3HHGimLbOKpr7HI539IKSvDQUxOoMazHd23pkJse2AZe5kGf7Ox8iCalhnrXGFB4U8Ekj-nBF5CW68RRu8J58QS0uf71u_w=w400-h235" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was 1984 on the Fain ranch near the headwaters of the Aqua Fria River when A. Jordan peered into a 13 foot deep arroyo and noticed a partial skeleton of a mammoth. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Soon paleontologists from the Arizona Archeological Society, Yavapai College, Sharlot Hall Museum, and Northern Arizona University were busy unearthing the remains. Their work would also uncover the remains of three additional large mammals: a horse, a bison and a camel.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The resulting study was titled <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261970667_Late_Pleistocene_Mammalian_Fauna_from_Prescott_Valley_West-Central_Arizona" target="_blank">“Late Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna From Prescott Valley,</a> </span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261970667_Late_Pleistocene_Mammalian_Fauna_from_Prescott_Valley_West-Central_Arizona" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">West-Central Arizona”</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit;"> by Michael R Pasenko and Larry D Agenbroad. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The specimens were found in Pleistocene sediments that dated back around 13,000 years ago. Interestingly, none of the finds were of mature adults. The camel and bison were juveniles, while the mammoth and horse were "sub-adult."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The time these animals were alive “is near the period established for Clovis-age humans, but no artifact was</span> recovered at Fain Ranch,” the study explained, “which means Fain Ranch Locality is an example of a Clovis-age site without a known cultural association.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pleistocene fossils have been reported from several localities in Prescott Valley,” the study continued. These included a horse near Lynx Creek and several teeth of a mammoth on a ledge above Granite Creek. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Excellent preservation of the [Fain ranch] mammoth indicated a rapid burial, and comparisons to other mammoths suggested the individual was a small male.” Although several mammoth bones were found, its “remains were disarticulated and scattered.” One full and several partial vertebrae, as well as several ribs, a femur, and a tusk were unearthed.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJu294paHvVG-6CPWhdyzsOPnh-5IwA-hOCmTNn9vRs7oJWM1wvBWkO-HGJQiXb4IPe_7SBvQM8FGGgjQhV1jy6j5munDfeUPFtd0G62_2I4YeU1acz3KGBNUKnOhQUffxlOxC0v1h8SWcVfbtSBKZslP0SWcFct1N89t4b6OpBYbrjGnSb3iaOjrm9w=s653" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="653" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJu294paHvVG-6CPWhdyzsOPnh-5IwA-hOCmTNn9vRs7oJWM1wvBWkO-HGJQiXb4IPe_7SBvQM8FGGgjQhV1jy6j5munDfeUPFtd0G62_2I4YeU1acz3KGBNUKnOhQUffxlOxC0v1h8SWcVfbtSBKZslP0SWcFct1N89t4b6OpBYbrjGnSb3iaOjrm9w=w320-h197" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ancient Bison</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The bison find consisted of only three teeth. Still, the “presence of isolated deciduous and permanent teeth enables one to hypothesize about age of the bison. If [the] teeth were from one individual, then they represent death of an immature bison,” the study said. One that “would have been 1.5–2.6 years of age at time of death. Bison has been reported at other Pleistocene localities in Arizona, although not as widespread as in the Great Plains.” </span></div><div><br /><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bison behavior is such that if there was a juvenile there, there must have been an entire herd present.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The National Park Service offers this description of the animal: “The ancient bison, Bison antiquus, was taller, had longer horns, and was 25% more massive than living American bison (Bison bison). It was roughly 7.5 feet tall and 15 feet long, weighing approximately 3,500 pounds. Bison had bone horn cores on their skull that served as a base for a longer horn made of keratin, the protein that makes up our fingernails. The span of the horns of Bison antiquus was approximately 3 feet.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKwzj5vmQ0H1yX2t11ZSafOjxUMfoBuuiUpgC3r49vB8QFmReNiyUXp6hmsKphGJb4I5LwjjWyHCi0KoceFMVmCLOUyeWcKHBpD9ptYvGM6-KTGhcWPT-pw8f6oV72X_8oyKYBborpYpKmmmI4f-5kwkE9AJ_UuZToEVz8IgBS8rcYDLH0Mza6dDDdqQ=s1984" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1296" data-original-width="1984" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKwzj5vmQ0H1yX2t11ZSafOjxUMfoBuuiUpgC3r49vB8QFmReNiyUXp6hmsKphGJb4I5LwjjWyHCi0KoceFMVmCLOUyeWcKHBpD9ptYvGM6-KTGhcWPT-pw8f6oV72X_8oyKYBborpYpKmmmI4f-5kwkE9AJ_UuZToEVz8IgBS8rcYDLH0Mza6dDDdqQ=w320-h210" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mexican horse</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The species of horse (Equus conversidens, or “Mexican horse”) was not known to be in Yavapai County previous to this dig. Extinct today, their remains have been found from Canada all the way to El Salvador. The lower teeth of this animal were unearthed and exhibited only limited wear. This indicated that it may have been a young adult.</span><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The most mysterious of the findings was the camel. Although North America is hardly known for camels today, scientists believe that camelids originated here and migrated to Asia via the Bering Sea land bridge. Again teeth were discovered. Unfortunately, teeth are very similar among camelids making it impossible discern which species it was. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFRpBueG7Jl0Y-LgRIkaQ36J5A4P463u86iFZUIr-__kO9xBD1d0Ukww9UJWKGjan5-EZAZU3x9Zlqde-V0HknUCXbpZHr24khAqghAuAmpoKna0MxgGrdQhm2r0xqPKv9ZN-GsnW1f92_D13ii_AgeQg-5aBwkxF4LUABkWuywyw4jPvznU2i3_dl3Q=s1124" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="1124" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFRpBueG7Jl0Y-LgRIkaQ36J5A4P463u86iFZUIr-__kO9xBD1d0Ukww9UJWKGjan5-EZAZU3x9Zlqde-V0HknUCXbpZHr24khAqghAuAmpoKna0MxgGrdQhm2r0xqPKv9ZN-GsnW1f92_D13ii_AgeQg-5aBwkxF4LUABkWuywyw4jPvznU2i3_dl3Q=w320-h202" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A North American Camelid</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">More mysterious was the large size of the teeth, which was anomalous with previous finds. “It is indeterminate at this time if these attributes indicate a new species or a larger form of [Camelops],” the study stated. “More material or comparisons are needed.” However, the study did allude to one potential explanation: “An even larger Camelops may have existed during the early Pleistocene in southern California (Webb et al., 2006). At present, the camelid from Fain Ranch Locality can only be referred to the genus Camelops.”</span></div><div><br /><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The fact that none of the finds were mature adults has caused some scientists to consider a “Clovis Age drought, discussed by C. V. Haynes (1991),” which occurred around the same time, as the possible culprit. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The findings of four large, herding, grazing mammals indicates that the grasslands must have been abundant in these parts and there is evidence of ancient playa lakes around Lynx and the Aqua Fria creeks during that time. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Further findings have been unearthed elsewhere in Yavapai County. 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-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 23, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br /></p></div>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Prescott Valley, AZ 86314, USA34.6062718 -112.30993366.2960379638211563 -147.4661836 62.916505636178847 -77.1536836tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-77087691510549446392022-02-27T07:15:00.002-07:002022-02-27T07:15:34.949-07:00Prescott’s 1st Federal Narcotics Raid was AZ's Biggest (1922)<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbZBYDtrolJBqKQHuwwGRLjSbhH8IFvvgRpyarIJKaHp0VgHpRy__TnzoLIpNlfs5673i6eUffcYaasxpHciynNij6YCS4us95uSldPV1yjvkPg3q8mBA0cSX-tsdsbhQqGIY27dBm6bUZxB-SGAcx_zBpd3XfNP30lbLL3TKwd67OyCt1__gMEaJhcQ=s657" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="657" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbZBYDtrolJBqKQHuwwGRLjSbhH8IFvvgRpyarIJKaHp0VgHpRy__TnzoLIpNlfs5673i6eUffcYaasxpHciynNij6YCS4us95uSldPV1yjvkPg3q8mBA0cSX-tsdsbhQqGIY27dBm6bUZxB-SGAcx_zBpd3XfNP30lbLL3TKwd67OyCt1__gMEaJhcQ=s320" width="320" /></a><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was, at the time, the largest drug haul ever confiscated in Arizona—a take-down of “the center of the wholesale drug ring in Central Arizona,” according to the Arizona Republican. The drug kingpin was a Prescott resident and barber named Mayo Simpson. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mayo was no stranger to being at odds with the law. His first stint in jail was for burglary…at the tender age of eleven.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mayo received the harshest sentence when a group of youngsters, all under 12, broke into Wooster’s store one night and were caught stealing. Mayo was sentenced to 30 days in jail, but was released about a week later, on December 2nd. in hopes that the experience would scare him straight. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, only nine days later, he got in a fight with another boy, Willie Fagan, and stabbed him with a pocket knife. The blade failed to pierce deeply between the ribs saving young Mayo from a potential murder charge. Several stitches were required to mend Willie’s wounds. Mayo was back in jail.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mayo couldn’t seem to stay out of trouble and in 1904, the Simpsons moved to Los Angeles “in the hope that a change of climate might have a beneficial effect upon his criminal inclinations,” as the Weekly Journal-Miner put it. Instead, (citing a story from the LA Times,) he broke open the front door of the Wood Carriage Co. to burglarize it. Mayo was rifling through the desks in the office when the manager came out of the back of the store and caught the juvenile red-handed.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But before the police could arrive, Mayo “told a hard luck story” to the manager and was permitted to leave. However, the police still wanted to have a talk with him and tracked him down to the backyard of a house, “evidently planning a burglary.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to the story he told LA police, “He was fined $500 in Prescott for having burglarized a store and escaped a jail sentence by coming to Los Angeles,” the paper reported. “He intended to go to the Fernando College in the fall and act right in the future, but the old desire came over him again and he could not resist.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The officers think that the boy is incorrigible,” the LA Times reported. “He was sent to the Detention Home.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A half-year later Mayo was back in Prescott with a new robbery scheme. He talked another boy into staging a fight in front of a saloon while he entered from the rear and stole the money. However, the proprietor reentered the saloon while Mayo was still in the act of stealing the cash. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The boy who staged the fight was repentant and acquitted. But the justice system had offered enough mercy to Mayo. This time he was sentenced to 24-30 months in the Territorial Industrial school in Benson. It may have been here that he learned the trade of haircutting.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEhmhmo80VoxPItsx44CeoLVCMW6ZIyyHn9e2HWZNJW__UiUKPU8ERmHEPp-FK7cA8Rk3v_ktaDP10IFq4zX4J0GENJMwqO-QaqFk90f-nGGqQL-K8mbqqMBPbhcpQSbcAOURG6JfVI_WI03Xix32BdSZz48nsUYbtKvK1qdYHy3zqItmkCxZLugKL2w=s962" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="962" height="97" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEhmhmo80VoxPItsx44CeoLVCMW6ZIyyHn9e2HWZNJW__UiUKPU8ERmHEPp-FK7cA8Rk3v_ktaDP10IFq4zX4J0GENJMwqO-QaqFk90f-nGGqQL-K8mbqqMBPbhcpQSbcAOURG6JfVI_WI03Xix32BdSZz48nsUYbtKvK1qdYHy3zqItmkCxZLugKL2w=w200-h97" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">ALSO ENJOY: <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2020/12/yavapai-cos-first-prohibition-sting.html" target="_blank">Yavapai Co's First Prohibition Sting</a></div></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i>True crime story of Yavapai County’s first prohibition sting in 1915. One of the informers ended up arrested.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He opened a barbershop in Prescott and stayed free from trouble until he caught the notice of federal drug enforcement agents in 1922. For two days they ran a stake-out on the barbershop and noticed 40 or more patrons whose visits were far too short for any normal barbershop service. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“More than a dozen tubercular soldiers, inmates at Whipple Barracks, were numbered among the man’s 40 patrons,” the agents declared to the Copper Era newspaper. “Prices charged for the drugs were exorbitant in the extreme, they said, and would have brought the peddler between $10-$12,000 at the price he was getting.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After interrogating many of the users, officers themselves were able to purchase narcotics from Mayo. “Simpson concealed the drugs in water pipes behind wash stands and in chairs,” the paper reported. “A few rations of the drug were found under a secured cabinet in the barber shop.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Immediately agents went to Mayo’s residence to search for the mother-load of drugs there. They were met by Mayo’s mother, Kate, who insisted there were no narcotics in the house. She even helped the agents search the dwelling. They found nothing until they noticed a shed on the back of the property filled with a ton of coal.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It became necessary for the federal officers to [remove] the entire coal pile before finding the hiding place,” the paper related. Inside the hiding hole they found 30 ounces of cocaine and morphine. It seemed he recently “made a big buy of morphine and cocaine [from] a Mexican smuggler who delivered the goods at Skull Valley one dark night.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With the seizure of the reserve stock, Simpson was placed under arrest. “Marked currency, used by the officers in purchasing the drugs from Simpson, was found on his person at the time of his arrest,” the paper reported. He was held under a $5000 bond. For good measure a federal grand jury indicted Mayo’s mother Kate and his brother Lemuel on similar charges and they were jailed as well.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A century ago, instead of destroying seized narcotics, they were sent to hospitals to be used. Mayo’s stash was no exception.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At Mayo’s trial the defense wanted to have the 30 ounces found in the shed behind Simpson’s home to be suppressed because the agents didn’t have a warrant to search there. However the court agreed with the US Attorney’s argument that one was not needed because the crime was in progress.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Defense’s first witness was Mayo’s mother. “White haired and old, but vigorous, Mrs. Kate Simpson, who lived at 308 S Montezuma St for 25 years, denied on the witness stand that the Simpson residence was the warehouse of a wholesale drug peddling business,” the paper reported. She stated that the agents used foul language and even walked over and upon her bed-linens which were strewn onto the floor during the search of her rooms for the hidden narcotics.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lemuel followed his mother on the stand “and admitted that he had been using narcotics for two decades, but denied ever buying it from Mayo. Furthermore, he testified that the drugs found in the barber shop were “his own personal stock.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite this, Mayo was convicted of the federal offense and sentenced to six 25-month terms to be served concurrently. In 1922 that meant 25 months in Leavenworth. Upon Mayo’s conviction, Kate and Lemuel’s charges were dismissed.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Before he was sent to Leavenworth, his mother visited him at the county jail. “She was visibly affected, but strove to hide her emotions as much as possible before the officers,” the Journal-Miner reported. “But the fortitude she had shown previous to her son’s conviction and sentencing was now gone.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It seems that his time in Leavenworth provided the necessary rehabilitation to keep Mayo away from serious trouble for the rest of his life. A newspaper search found him in Williams, AZ in 1928 running a barbershop. At some point he was welcomed back to Prescott where he finished his days. He had a chair in the Highland Hotel building, and in his last years, he cut people’s hair in his home at 406 S Montezuma St.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He died October 22, 1940 at age 50. “Mayo Simpson had been a barber for three decades,” the Prescott Evening Courier wrote, “operating his own shop for many years.” The Arizona Republican described him as an “old-timer of Prescott…[who] operated a small business establishment for many years.” There was no mention of his early criminal past by either paper. 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line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>SOURCES:</u></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican, 5/21/1922; Pg. 1, Col. 3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican, 11/25/1900; Pg. 1, Col. 7.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 7/13/1904; Pg. 4, Col. 1. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 2/8/1905; Pg. 2, Col. 6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Copper Era & Morenci Leader 6/16/1922; Pg. 5, Col. 6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican, 6/16/1922; Pg. 3, Col. 8.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 7/26/1922; Pg. 5, Col. 4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IBID; Pg. 1, Col. 4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 8/2/1922; Pg. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Williams News, 8/3/1928; Pg. 8, Col. 3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican, 10/27/1940; Pg. 14, Col. 4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prescott Evening Courier, 10/23/1940; Pg. 3, Col. 2. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Prescott, AZ 86301, USA34.5659245 -112.46490836.2556906638211558 -147.6211583 62.876158336178847 -77.3086583tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-58767429007065619092022-02-19T20:20:00.001-07:002024-03-09T16:02:41.376-07:00$7 Million in Gold Awaits to be Found<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjN6XcNEtlK1LibkRUqh4Cz0uPm5elzzvoMWzYcPfZA_9lJPJOMWcKTUDRXjtlRpeeTc7KSRfhhYuBHHN9PFxjT5My3n_1nIF1Eq4dB0r6SeDEJFo1Ja7z9RsuLqbWFe7TsKpTPivs-6StU033mKkR9gIKjAvBR7tF5Z5G0XvexfAjv17HwHR4cIjMZrw=s960" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjN6XcNEtlK1LibkRUqh4Cz0uPm5elzzvoMWzYcPfZA_9lJPJOMWcKTUDRXjtlRpeeTc7KSRfhhYuBHHN9PFxjT5My3n_1nIF1Eq4dB0r6SeDEJFo1Ja7z9RsuLqbWFe7TsKpTPivs-6StU033mKkR9gIKjAvBR7tF5Z5G0XvexfAjv17HwHR4cIjMZrw=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Initially one might dismiss an account of over 230 <b><i>pounds</i></b> of placer gold just waiting to be found, but the Catholic Church had enough faith in the story that they employed fifteen men to try to locate it. Still, it remains hidden to this day.</span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The true story is a thrilling tale of adventure and death,” the Weekly Journal-Miner reported, “in all making one of the most vivid and fascinating experiences that is associated with lost mines or a hidden treasure…” The paper further claimed that it was a story that “has never been told [before].” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The telling of the tale arose shortly after the location of the Pioneers’ Home was chosen, prior to the construction of the building itself. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was circa 1890, and a placer miner whose name is lost to history was lying in a bed at the Sisters of Charity institute in Denver. He knew he was dying and he had a secret to tell Father Gubitosi—a secret of an immense cache of gold, worth about $7.5 million today, that he had hidden away. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The story begins at an extremely early date in the Anglo history of central Arizona; preceding the Walker Party. The future location of Prescott was nothing more than a small wilderness valley tucked beside surrounding mountains with a creek running through it.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It seems that the man…had entered [Arizona] from some point evidently in the eastern section of the territory, on the Navajo Indian reserve,” the paper related, “and with two others was fleeing with his [immense] treasure of placer gold.” Each man had a mule to ride, while two other mules carried the gold, supplies, and “what little food they had.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They made a southwesterly dash to the Mogollon Rim before descending into the Verde Valley. As hostile as this country could be back then, they traversed without attack. “They passed up the Verde and hugged the stream, entering the open country via Granite creek and in close to Chino Valley,” the paper related. It was here that they were attacked by Indians. One of the men was killed, while the other man was struck by a poisoned arrow, "and died in a few days from the wound.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhralyVbLiBd_qnNsKjLCujgR9lP8smIQzy3rY-nelBu6TXDFGOOyEKv4moGgltJDxQBOblGn9jQtbQbGVkbETme-VlSD-fVMDM2lHbvno12JnngZnq-8pnWyCcjz9SUhAlYKojofT9UgGXz6r8wavo2EP9G4QktMjpAUcI9ODheOycvC-h4Q1oIO_pBA=s650" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="650" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhralyVbLiBd_qnNsKjLCujgR9lP8smIQzy3rY-nelBu6TXDFGOOyEKv4moGgltJDxQBOblGn9jQtbQbGVkbETme-VlSD-fVMDM2lHbvno12JnngZnq-8pnWyCcjz9SUhAlYKojofT9UgGXz6r8wavo2EP9G4QktMjpAUcI9ODheOycvC-h4Q1oIO_pBA=w200-h132" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2018/12/wild-wagoner-az-founded-1864.html" style="font-family: verdana;" target="_blank"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> Wild Wagoner AZ: Founded 1864</a> </span> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">T</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">he complete, colorful history of the gold mining</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">"town" of Wagoner, AZ.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><br /></div></div><br /><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“He then struck for the open land that is now Lonesome Valley, and at night would return to the banks of Granite Creek for water,” the paper reported. “He continued his traveling along the stream, and finally became exhausted, entering a strip of country that would permit no further retreat and afforded desirable conditions for [hiding].” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He hid the gold “near a spring of water under a boulder that he rolled onto the spot, and that at the feet of the mountains there was a running stream, with a little valley opening into it nearby.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“This identical ground is that to be seen surrounding Prescott,” the paper exclaimed. “It was here that he stored the gold, and with the animals that he had, he continued to travel until the Colorado River was reached. After crossing the Colorado he drifted down it until what was then a military post at Yuma… He went into California, and in the many years that intervened, during the Apache warfare, never dared to return to seek the riches. Sickness overtook him, and paralysis followed, he finally becoming the subject of charity of the church. At the end he desired the church to receive the benefit of his secret.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Father Gubitosi thought the story to be sincere enough that he sent Charles O’Malia to search for the booty. After surveying the area according to the late miner’s instructions, O’Malia decided that the location must be at what would become known as Pioneers’ Home Hill. After securing the rights to dig from the property owner Frank Murphy, O’Malia hired fifteen men “and the work of excavating the soil, in digging trenches, moving immense boulders out of position, and in sinking shafts, was earnestly and zealously prosecuted for over a year,” the paper disclosed. “Several acres were perforated like a sieve and not a spot that looked inviting was overlooked.” They found nothing.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Even just prior to the construction of the Pioneers’ Home, the paper wrote: “to this day visitors to the place look intently at the spots dug into…and some also try their hand and do a little prospecting [themselves].”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite the failure, Father Gubitosi still had faith. Perhaps the treasure was somewhere else? He traveled to the area himself and more work was done, but to no avail.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps some day in the future, some blessed individual will stumble upon it. 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margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><u>SOURCE:</u></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 6/23/1909; Pg. 2, Cols. 3-4.</span></p><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></div></div></div></div></h2></div>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Prescott, AZ 86301, USA34.5659245 -112.46490836.2556906638211558 -147.6211583 62.876158336178847 -77.3086583tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-53409628341816747552022-01-29T18:50:00.000-07:002022-01-29T18:50:36.157-07:00The Zaniest Railroad Accident in Prescott History<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGnU33yoILbD5Sa-qjd-CQK3nO6rVx3TMHWeS-aerphXFJbDVUg3NOEc5Gv4dYq1AsXgjt5xD2x2CsElYSK3kUyXpDONt3xVzjrknKjsfblh_3eQ9h3AVOashz6D9dgm2FSBL_KILxgy_DZwehLIzUlw3qH9f0G9BzF_5ttiyH42gFZzLDGeL2a5Adxw=s303" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="303" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGnU33yoILbD5Sa-qjd-CQK3nO6rVx3TMHWeS-aerphXFJbDVUg3NOEc5Gv4dYq1AsXgjt5xD2x2CsElYSK3kUyXpDONt3xVzjrknKjsfblh_3eQ9h3AVOashz6D9dgm2FSBL_KILxgy_DZwehLIzUlw3qH9f0G9BzF_5ttiyH42gFZzLDGeL2a5Adxw=w400-h271" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It seemed a normal July day in 1888 Prescott, but soon a ridiculous, domino-effect of events would cause the most bizarre railroad accident in the city’s history.</span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The heart of the city was bearing its usual traffic. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">A team of horses was approaching the Plaza, headed north on Cortez. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two pedestrians were walking south along the Plaza sidewalk. One was a man who was closely following a “big Dutch woman who was carrying a jug of molasses in one hand and a basket of eggs in the other,” the Weekly Journal-Miner described. She had just purchased them at JI Gardner’s store. Also on the Plaza was a homeless man.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In a couple of minutes a freight train loaded with livestock would be arriving at the Prescott depot.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Such was the scene when “a three-legged dog started from the post office,” the paper explained, “with a tin can tied to his tail.” The dog became increasingly frightened by the noise behind him which, of course, he could not escape.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps the homeless man was suffering from a hang-over; perhaps he didn’t like dogs, but for whatever reason, he threw a brick at the canine. Frightened, the dog bolted for what he considered his closest protection—in between the large Dutch woman’s legs. This caused her to lose her balance, spilling the entirety of her purchases. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The man who was closely following her immediately slipped on the molasses causing him to “sit down on the Dutch woman who said: ‘Mine Got.’ The [man] said something about ‘mad dog,’ but said it backwards,” the paper quipped. Undoubtedly, the dog became even more distressed.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Haplessly, the ongoing slapstick scene spooked the team of horses that was driving by and they made a mad dash for the depot. No one could stop them as they charged down Cortez Street, crashed the rail yard, and tore a rail loose from the bed. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This caused the incoming freight train to derail, killing 700 hogs in the process. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSGU09pvCQ5PIOM3DLPOFdoHNrtrLrRH1gwLDv5cGLUlaW2cwwTd9g4o5IQlPhRgLuTAF5tDe5OBq7snOfGiNz2MC4tiVafhqM9WTP1E4gfm9D3IaS4n9dzMlai7hbagw76LXT526Naqw3q1hG4kxvdaUSqYHXS7Gn5WmLgV6lnq4o4LV8Wogq6JgPxw=s275" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSGU09pvCQ5PIOM3DLPOFdoHNrtrLrRH1gwLDv5cGLUlaW2cwwTd9g4o5IQlPhRgLuTAF5tDe5OBq7snOfGiNz2MC4tiVafhqM9WTP1E4gfm9D3IaS4n9dzMlai7hbagw76LXT526Naqw3q1hG4kxvdaUSqYHXS7Gn5WmLgV6lnq4o4LV8Wogq6JgPxw=w200-h133" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ALSO ENJOY: <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-great-diamond-swindle-of-1872.html" target="_blank">The Great Diamond Swindle of 1872</a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i>True crime story of Phillip Arnold and John Slack who walked away a half-million dollars richer orchestrating a diamond swindle in 1872.</i></span></p><div><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The dog kept on the evil tenor of his way up Montezuma Street,” the paper reported. He reached Alexander Ayers’ Saddler Shop, which was at the time being patronized by lariat champion Riley Johnson. Johnson brought an end to the episode by showing his skill when he lassoed the wayward canine. 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line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>SOURCE:</u></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 7/18/1888; Pg. 3, Col. 5.</span></p>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Prescott, AZ 86301, USA34.5659245 -112.46490836.2556906638211558 -147.6211583 62.876158336178847 -77.3086583tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-37817113375827050842022-01-16T06:39:00.001-07:002022-01-16T06:39:42.103-07:00Brave 14 Year-Old Testifies to Her Assault<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4wG79ENoA5qkKUlHTJZihDETmja-5DnFuhoE3DSQHpOef1i0uPcfBZOsJ7acEYEEnmW-cdvvC1IZiud4uLr9OcPZpWJ_M2fm2RTQmC47gOLnJLaN4zJ4yVbarCrC7vr2bwUg7LCbre0KqQoLJpNMc0jeatxq628EE--WjZt5w6ENvp_11G_XkFq5k7Q=s429" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="429" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4wG79ENoA5qkKUlHTJZihDETmja-5DnFuhoE3DSQHpOef1i0uPcfBZOsJ7acEYEEnmW-cdvvC1IZiud4uLr9OcPZpWJ_M2fm2RTQmC47gOLnJLaN4zJ4yVbarCrC7vr2bwUg7LCbre0KqQoLJpNMc0jeatxq628EE--WjZt5w6ENvp_11G_XkFq5k7Q=w400-h326" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was February 11, 1922 when Mr. and Mrs. John A Rounds left with a neighbor, “Grady” CB Bartley to find some firewood. While the couple was searching for wood, Bartley had something far more sinister on his mind. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The three had left Mrs. Round’s sister, 14 year-old Mary Haynes, alone back at the house. After scouting for a bit, Bartley gave an excuse to head back to the house himself.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He “followed [Mary] into the kitchen and called the little girl into the bedroom,” the Prescott Evening Courier related. Afterwards, Bartley threatened the girl in order to keep her quiet.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When Bartley’s wife heard that her husband went into the house where Mary was alone, her immediate response was to think the worst. After her husband had left the scene, Mrs. Bartley “had come to the house, hunting behind curtains and under the beds for her husband, of whom she was suspicious,” the paper said. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Frightened by Bartley’s threats, Mary told no one about “her trouble” until the following Monday, when she confessed the story to her sister after being prodded by her. Rounds “had noticed her sister’s queer manner during Saturday and Sunday,” the paper explained.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, “Mrs. Bartley’s suspicions had been aroused by [her husband's] guilty manner,” and she spoke to Mrs. Rounds about it. “Only after she had been told by Mrs. Bartley of her suspicions did she question her sister,” Mary.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“In company with her husband,” the paper reported, “Mrs. Rounds…then went to the Bartley house, and when she confronted [Mr. Bartley] with the question: ‘What do you mean by what you did to Mary?’ He only hung his head and gave no answer.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The trial began about a month after the alleged incident. After a jury was selected, it was Mary herself who was the first witness. The paper was immensely impressed with the14 year-old’s bravery and demeanor on the stand. “Her testimony was given in a clear voice and with little or no evidence of embarrassment [and] in a straightforward manner.” She testified that “on February 11, her sister, brother-in-law and a friend, had started from their home in Seligman, to go for some wood. Bartley accompanying them for a short distance. The defendant then returned to the house, followed her into the kitchen and called the little girl into the bedroom, where, according to her testimony, she was forced to yield to his advances.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Other witnesses for the prosecution testified including “the examining physician, Dr. FH Cartwell, [who] testified that the girl had been violated, and on a recent date,” the paper reported. “The defense witnesses denied in substance the testimony of the prosecuting witnesses.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzzXMsmxhOrlu337q783m2BTMR3UTWBlHbmBcc5XULQ6-ZCRDQ7vTVF6fvVgwrPP7Rm8Z8e3r_JvdKJg_8zOuZTWaKiSpNLVjy2zISnlQ08gPukK-09IhhuVYnMyOKoniWfPafEbNLgLsecGl6ir3W06efjepj-kLsJCldUiDti9VEzJ6WdpqvLjorDg=s582" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="582" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzzXMsmxhOrlu337q783m2BTMR3UTWBlHbmBcc5XULQ6-ZCRDQ7vTVF6fvVgwrPP7Rm8Z8e3r_JvdKJg_8zOuZTWaKiSpNLVjy2zISnlQ08gPukK-09IhhuVYnMyOKoniWfPafEbNLgLsecGl6ir3W06efjepj-kLsJCldUiDti9VEzJ6WdpqvLjorDg=w320-h202" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-chinese-den-of-iniquity.html" target="_blank">The Chinese Den of Iniquity</a></div></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: verdana;">The story of a Granite St. building as told by the archeological findings. There was drinking, eating, gambling and opium.</i></p><div><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rape convictions were difficult to obtain a hundred years ago. Judge John Sweeney instructed the jury “that proof of intercourse between any man and a girl under 18 was grounds for a finding of guilty,” but “that Bartley’s denial was to be accepted on the face of it as equal to the girl’s accusation,” the paper explained.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“After the jury had been out for approximately an hour, they re-entered the courtroom” to hear testimony given by a defense witness. It would take another 23 hours of deliberation before they came back to the court reporting they were hung. The final tally was eight for acquittal and four for conviction.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Before a week passed, a new jury was selected excluding a “woman juror drawn in the venire [who was] barred from serving,” the paper told. Once again Mary would give her account steadfastly, stoically and stoutly. Indeed, the evidence was largely a repeat of the first trial.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, this time, in his closing argument to the jury, Prosecutor Sullivan pulled no punches. “‘The safety of America and the sanctity of American institutions is involved in this case,’ Mr. Sullivan said. ‘Whether you jurors will discharge your duty in this case justly is as great a test of your patriotism as the trials of war,’” the paper related. “‘The honor of the nation is a vital thing, and this accusation shows an unclean condition of affairs which must not be harbored, as it eats at the sacredness of American homes, lives and honor.’"</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The wreck of the lives of all concerned in the trial was dealt upon by Prosecutor Sullivan, who told the jury that they "must regard the evidence cold-bloodedly; that a wrong had been done the girl, and that it was up to the jury to decide if Bartley had done it. ‘The honor of a man, no matter how low he may sink in any other way, should be inviolate,’ Mr. Sullivan asserted. ‘No matter if he is homeless, out of work, dirty, hungry and filthy from disease, he still has his honor—this man,’” pointing at the defendant, “‘has shown no honor. When called to the witness stand, he lied!’”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The address lasted 15 minutes. Sullivan “declared ‘This man has committed the most dastardly of crimes, the lowest thing conceivable, and to cap it all, after ruining this young girl, this baby, he called in his wife and his child at home and is trying to hide behind them, in appealing for mercy [from] the jury.’”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Defense attorney Norton stressed “the unutterable seriousness of the verdict [the jury] must bring in; of the fact that conviction meant five years to life in prison for Bartley." When he began speaking about the Bartley’s young child having to grow up without a father, “Bartley and his wife both were convulsively sobbing, he with his arm around her, and she leaning her head on his shoulder.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Bartley sat beside his wife throughout the closing of the case by [his] attorneys,” the paper described, “and during the presentation of the defense by CC Norton, [he] wept, his sobs being audible over much of the courtroom. His face was haggard and his eyes bloodshot from sleepless nights. Mrs. Bartley who testified for him during the trial, kept her handkerchief at her eye throughout the evening, quietly crying, occasionally her shoulders heaving as she sobbed heart-brokenly. Her jealousy of him [had] been one of the points of the prosecution and defense.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Mary Haynes sat with her family on the opposite side of the courtroom, quiet, wide-eyed and apparently unmoved by the arguments, smiling wistfully when Prosecutor John L Sullivan pointed to her and told of the alleged wrong done “to this girl, who was but a mere baby.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It took 19 hours of deliberation, but this time Bartley was found guilty.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On his sentencing date, Bartley’s attorney requested a retrial which was quickly overruled. 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Pg. 1, Col. 3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IBID, 3/24/1922; Pg. 1, Col. 6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IBID, 3/28/1922; Pg. 1, Col. 6.</span></p><div><br /></div><p>
</p>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Seligman, AZ 86337, USA35.3255608 -112.87740577.0153269638211526 -148.0336557 63.635794636178844 -77.7211557tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-86849851311984695732022-01-01T20:34:00.003-07:002022-05-14T08:19:19.633-07:00Robert Todd Lincoln Visited Prescott Thrice<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKOnXnDjF_4jvQrWveBN9CChOqRt3N-PzevOyKLuTuHv81RdVgbLUOhOrl25kopSHzSYPHgZabYPoQ9TfLPoNi9PpEuOSobUGL9I3b38LGda_CeeTrzaeI_FLlGOabcD19n_OHVCUIuZYxq7hEN6KUV8u86ujpmlBXbmpSlDhQJOCf8pBX9C8HiBnkMA=s584" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="455" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKOnXnDjF_4jvQrWveBN9CChOqRt3N-PzevOyKLuTuHv81RdVgbLUOhOrl25kopSHzSYPHgZabYPoQ9TfLPoNi9PpEuOSobUGL9I3b38LGda_CeeTrzaeI_FLlGOabcD19n_OHVCUIuZYxq7hEN6KUV8u86ujpmlBXbmpSlDhQJOCf8pBX9C8HiBnkMA=w311-h400" width="311" /></a></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was early February, 1894 when the announcement was made in the Journal-Miner that Robert Todd Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln, would be visiting Prescott the following month. Accompanying Lincoln were three millionaires from Chicago: Marshall Field, “the many times millionaire” department store mogul; NK Fairbanks, the millionaire meat-packer; and Norman Ream, a manufacturer of agricultural implements.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The trip was extremely important to Yavapai County at a time when capital was needed to develop both mines and railroads, and it ultimately would be the first of three visits by Lincoln.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In fact, the party would visit Prescott on the way back to Chicago from California. They were traveling in the private car of the Vice President of the Santa Fe Railroad. When they started their journey back, former Arizona Territory Governor N. Oakes Murphy joined them.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Arizona Sentinel reported that the group would visit Prescott “to look over the country and inspect work on the Santa Fe-Prescott railway, which they [were] building, in which…they have already invested $2 million, and for which they hold the entire bond issue.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“They will probably remain here until Saturday morning,” the Journal-Miner suspected, “and will be taken out by a special train to the end of the track,” which was just short of Skull Valley. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They travelled to the Iron Springs summit and made it back into town by noon. Five VIP residents of Prescott travelled with them. “On the return from the trip to the end of the track, the party expressed themselves highly pleased with the trip, the scenery being especially admired and the excellent work on the road being frequently remarked upon,” the paper reported. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The party then boarded carriages and were taken for a tour of the town. They were also “profuse in their praise” of the “Invigorating effect” of the “clear, pure, bracing atmosphere,” the paper recounted. “During the afternoon their car [was] open to visitors and many of our citizens...availed themselves of the opportunity of shaking hands with them and expressing the welcome to our mountain town that [was] felt by all.” Several veterans and members of the Grand Army Post “paid their special respects to Mr. Lincoln, as ex-secretary of war and the son of the great chief executive of the nation during the war of the rebellion.” Col. DeRussey, commander of Whipple, and other officers also called to pay their respects.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The train would leave for Chicago the next day. As they departed, “they express[ed] themselves as having had a most delightful and enjoyable time on the entire trip.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The trip resulted in Fairbanks and EB Cage joining local railroad mogul Frank Murphy in the purchase of the Congress mine which, two years later, had uncovered ore valued at $3 million. It would not be the last time Fairbanks and Murphy would partner for a large capital investment in Arizona. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lincoln, Fields and Fairbanks returned in 1897 for a trip of “business and pleasure.” They only stopped in Prescott for a short time while on their way to inspect the Congress mine. Ream did not make this trip, but the trio was joined by several other VIPs including Frank Murphy. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0vVXBqNIgLOl5tZNU2T97kGlWWYlpPT24fCWKCQMrzL20yR5XwgwnhqOrFDeI-mw8U5x1PFdX6xc9O3crr8FqSopPtbsxaesmBzMVwFl_tdoqQyFqCHfjihuBrfzZWS4UvGGaEY1wMI3aWWMrh3GvRK0OijvahWGK_v2f7b-tmX31B1hibm7gUUHGjQ=s658" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="658" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0vVXBqNIgLOl5tZNU2T97kGlWWYlpPT24fCWKCQMrzL20yR5XwgwnhqOrFDeI-mw8U5x1PFdX6xc9O3crr8FqSopPtbsxaesmBzMVwFl_tdoqQyFqCHfjihuBrfzZWS4UvGGaEY1wMI3aWWMrh3GvRK0OijvahWGK_v2f7b-tmX31B1hibm7gUUHGjQ=w200-h158" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prescott & Eastern Railroad <br />stock certificate</td></tr></tbody></table>In September of 1897 more fruit from these visits ripened as the Prescott and Eastern Railroad was born. It would run ore from Big Bug into Prescott. NK Fairbanks and other </span>Chicago capitalists<span style="font-family: inherit;"> joined Frank Murphy as incorporators.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During this time, Lincoln was a corporate lawyer whose main client was the Pullman Palace Car Company—a manufacturer of railroad sleeping cars. Before 1897 was over, founder George Pullman would pass away and Lincoln would be named company president. This undoubtedly was with the approval of Norman Reams, a co-visitor with Lincoln, who also served on the Pullman board of directors.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By 1901, the Chicago Commercial Club was formed and Lincoln brought 25 members and 10 guests into Prescott in March—just eight months after the Great Fire. They were “strolled” around town by Mayor Burmister and “expressed the greatest surprise at the recuperative powers shown and could scarcely believe that such results could be accomplished in the time that has elapsed since the big conflagration,” the paper was proud to boast. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They “rambled up and down the hills of Prescott for two hours, marveling at the picturesqueness of the pretty mountain town,” the Arizona Republican related. “Refreshing mountain air, a view of groves of pines and a unique little city surrounded by mountains instilled new life into the weary travelers.” Indeed, the group enjoyed the excursion so much that “the [train] engineer [had to sound] two blasts before he could gather his following of celebrities.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From Prescott they travelled to the Congress mine which was the main business reason for the journey. They toured the tunnels and all the workings. “Several ore cars, rigged for the occasion, plunged down 3000 feet into the darkest bowels of the Congress mine,” the Republican expressed. Most of the visitors scooped-up many beautiful pieces of quartz for souvenirs. “Few of the explorers had ever seen a great mine before and the [train] engineer again sounded a long blast before he was able to collect the travelers.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That would be Robert Lincoln’s last visit to Yavapai County. Prescott has had many celebrity visitors over the years, but Lincoln’s were highly beneficial, bringing the heavy capital needed to grow Yavapai County’s infrastructure and economy.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>SOURCES:</u></b></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 2/7/1894; Pg. 3, Col. 3.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Weekly Journal-Miner, <span style="font-family: inherit;">3/14/1894</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1</span>, Col.<span style="font-family: inherit;">7.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Sentinel, 3/10/1894</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">2</span>, Col.<span style="font-family: inherit;">2.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Weekly Journal-Miner, <span style="font-family: inherit;">3/14/1894</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">4</span>, Col.<span style="font-family: inherit;">1.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Weekly Journal-Miner, <span style="font-family: inherit;">3/4/1896</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">2</span>, Col.<span style="font-family: inherit;">3.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Weekly Journal-Miner, <span style="font-family: inherit;">2/3/1897</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">3</span>, Col.<span style="font-family: inherit;">1.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Weekly Journal-Miner, <span style="font-family: inherit;">9/22/1897</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">3</span>, Col.<span style="font-family: inherit;">1.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Weekly Journal-Miner, <span style="font-family: inherit;">3/13/1901</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">2</span>, Col.<span style="font-family: inherit;">3.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican, 3/8/1901</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1</span>, Col.<span style="font-family: inherit;">5.</span></p><div><br /></div>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Prescott, AZ, USA34.5400242 -112.46850256.2297903638211523 -147.6247525 62.850258036178843 -77.3122525tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-19792235590590945362021-12-19T07:51:00.001-07:002021-12-19T07:51:54.161-07:001921: A Christmas Season Bright<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhr2iwu3J6RFJMdmA-RiYroFUNk1XVtwGB-XTcQYWxNw1W-X4vNxz2xMRDiP-sFpmWafp-kfKeWOCuzQwng8e9IALaqPYd5oKNkdAMAZ6HuUoVEY6msCrVzqY-Wr-V-GfS8-yJ-5EL--u4s61ONOdSzj2LhHuai2SRk2rWyA6GbWdRJNf-Cemws_7V6sA=s898" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="898" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhr2iwu3J6RFJMdmA-RiYroFUNk1XVtwGB-XTcQYWxNw1W-X4vNxz2xMRDiP-sFpmWafp-kfKeWOCuzQwng8e9IALaqPYd5oKNkdAMAZ6HuUoVEY6msCrVzqY-Wr-V-GfS8-yJ-5EL--u4s61ONOdSzj2LhHuai2SRk2rWyA6GbWdRJNf-Cemws_7V6sA=w400-h236" width="400" /></a></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas 1921 in Prescott would see several dances, children’s events, charitable acts, and a new set of street lights for downtown. It would prove a season bright in every way.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas was becoming increasingly electrified. There were electric toys, trains, and lights for the tree. The downtown store windows vied for attention with displays that incorporated lights and electric movements.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sam Hill had a display encouraging people to “Boost Arizona” and “Buy Something Made of Copper.” These slogans were spelled out on a sheet of copper with copper rivets creating the letters. Then, everything that was made with copper in the hardware store’s inventory was placed in display in front of it. The Journal-Miner crowed that it was “one of the first and best copper exhibits in the country.” The Christmas display at OW Bruchman Clothier received special mention in the paper as well.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, it wasn’t just the scenes on the streets that was drawing everyone’s attention, but a spectacle in the sky as well. One day in mid-December, Prescottonians were treated to an impromptu aerial daredevil display. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Swooping down almost to the level of the treetops in the Plaza, circling over the courthouse to rise and then drop and turn breathlessly in a spiral; indulging in feats of gliding, [and] looping,” the paper detailed, “Rex Smith, Salt Lake City aviator…treated crowds of spectators downtown…to a thrilling series of stunts in an impromptu half-hour of exhibition flying.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Planes were rare in 1921 and the mere sound of one would bring people outside to witness it. “The hum of the motor [brought] out bareheaded throngs to view [the] stunts,” the paper reported. The Plaza was completely encircled with “interested people,” while workers on the top floor of the courthouse “jammed themselves at the barred windows” to see the action.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Smith provided the entertainment just for the thrill of it. Grace Sparkes, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, described the aerial show as being “better than a previous exhibition for which the chamber…paid out $1500” (over $24,000 today!)</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg887FtNLmz3tiscb9396aw-YGI6sj7JrwuSiO7xB9nQPpo3q2e4f4Ex10c9dnYJbEo4EX0f_iYQY6ln9gApQ1UxdVGJF8-p2Em55nxBcDNJMhtabWWv3D7lFg-9rW2TXogFE5170PED9DDj00s4ilH4Q0iWGCdbnk-XUPKhRiLSDtv39Xf5MYCFG4M-w=s339" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="339" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg887FtNLmz3tiscb9396aw-YGI6sj7JrwuSiO7xB9nQPpo3q2e4f4Ex10c9dnYJbEo4EX0f_iYQY6ln9gApQ1UxdVGJF8-p2Em55nxBcDNJMhtabWWv3D7lFg-9rW2TXogFE5170PED9DDj00s4ilH4Q0iWGCdbnk-XUPKhRiLSDtv39Xf5MYCFG4M-w=w200-h191" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>1921 globe street light is seen</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;">One gift for the city itself that literally added to the brightness of the season was brand new street lighting. Work began in November. The county was responsible for the lights around the Plaza, while the city was responsible for the lights on the streets. The paper described the Plaza lights as “single large Novalux globes on ornamental cast-iron standards. The county contract call[ed] for 16 posts around the Plaza.” </span><div><br /><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The city’s illumination would circle around the Plaza with lights on Gurley extending from the Granite Creek bridge to Mt. Vernon St. Lights on Cortez would extend north to the depot. “There will be 160 lights installed by the city,” the paper reported, “on an average of nine or ten to a block.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, the centerpiece of the city’s festivities was the municipal tree in the Courthouse Plaza. The municipal tree service was scheduled at 6:45pm “in order to avoid conflicting with [several] other Christmas Eve services.” The tree was picked-out and provided by the Prescott National Forest. It was decorated and lighted electrically.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Beside the actual lighting of the tree, the service also included the mass distribution of food stuffs and other necessities to those families who were in need. The municipal tree committee put the call out for people to discreetly submit the names of such families. “The committee plans to supply each family with a box of substantial food and Christmas cheer.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The committee was a bit surprised when they found that 110 families needed help that year. Although “the merchants of Prescott [came] forward splendidly,…the bulk of this should not rest upon their shoulders,” the paper pronounced. In response, a Good Fellows organization was created. Anyone and everyone was encouraged to join. Their purpose was to “back up the municipal Christmas tree fund and its work.” Heavy </span>solicitations<span style="font-family: inherit;"> for subscriptions ultimately guaranteed that no family would be left out.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjA2SjuKukVpn1l3lBluiAsRZ90J16xWkS7-CI7nNbJ5rxmYDnl74dJho-evqkIYYmoXMAtYawPVdM2-X46gbZRyt4PS1E6Rb5RNzGCvbYcYZ7WTTCP1C29U8T4mf7Auuiu2K0Hax_QHNBB3M38eEeIjxDHwAhzA_w-DhSPXKljrE3IErc5egQz5n0-TA=s300" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="234" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjA2SjuKukVpn1l3lBluiAsRZ90J16xWkS7-CI7nNbJ5rxmYDnl74dJho-evqkIYYmoXMAtYawPVdM2-X46gbZRyt4PS1E6Rb5RNzGCvbYcYZ7WTTCP1C29U8T4mf7Auuiu2K0Hax_QHNBB3M38eEeIjxDHwAhzA_w-DhSPXKljrE3IErc5egQz5n0-TA=w156-h200" width="156" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Also Enjoy:</i> <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-stay-at-home-christmas-of-1918.html" target="_blank">The Stay-At-Home Christmas of 1918</a></div></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><i>The story of Christmas 1918 in Prescott, AZ. World War 1 was over, but Spanish influenza caused people to stay close to home.</i></span></p><div><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As was the custom back then, in a portion of the forest that needed thinning, (in this case, on Spruce Mountain,) Christmas trees were marked for harvesting. A short time period was allowed and a ranger was on hand to make sure the right trees were felled, but as long as people were willing to do the cutting, they got one tree for free.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christmas dances were many that year. They were hosted by the VFW, the American Legion, the Yavapai Club and other organizations.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For the convalescing veterans at Whipple, the Red Cross provided Christmas dinner “at which goodies of every description [were] on the menu,” the paper declared. “No set program [of entertainment was] given, but exceptional music and other diversions [were] arranged.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The main recipients of Christmas cheer were the children. There were Christmas tree celebrations and accompanying goodies at public school, Sunday school, and the central tree in the Plaza. Additionally, many organizations made appointments with Santa Claus to pass out even more Christmas candy, nuts and fruits. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Monday Club hosted a Christmas party for 385 children “who overflowed the club house.” It was seen that “the children would not only be given Christmas cheer, but be warm and well fed for the winter as well. 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line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>SOURCES:</u></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 11/9/1921; Pg. 2, Cols. 4-5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 12/14/1921; Pg. 3, Col. 6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IBID; Col. 4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 11/9/1921; Pg. 2, Col. 6.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 12/28/1921; Pg. 3, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 12/21/1921; Pg. 3, Col. 4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IBID; Pg. 2, Col. 4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 12/28/1921; Pg. 5, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 12/21/1921; Pg. 2, Col. 4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IBID; Pg. 3, Col. 5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 12/21/1921; Pg. 2, Col. 5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weekly Journal-Miner, 12/28/1921; Pg. 2, Col. 7.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p></div>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Prescott, AZ, USA34.5400242 -112.46850256.2297903638211523 -147.6247525 62.850258036178843 -77.3122525tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-6552913927752882492021-12-05T07:10:00.001-07:002021-12-05T11:36:08.700-07:001934: Christmas Spirits Prevail!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipl5IuWRTJLGeCVLMiF56FEjd9waFkBU4ypRX5tntslGET2AvqwR3Cxd2wWAvhZfjv57b8LXFo3VX00DtdftO9u1YDpwh7Soe4FudkL_l6BOqBZoq5SB48K0UnK9BMNsCJp1PI-YKjxqTf/s800/1934%253A+Christmas+Spirits+Prevail.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="800" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipl5IuWRTJLGeCVLMiF56FEjd9waFkBU4ypRX5tntslGET2AvqwR3Cxd2wWAvhZfjv57b8LXFo3VX00DtdftO9u1YDpwh7Soe4FudkL_l6BOqBZoq5SB48K0UnK9BMNsCJp1PI-YKjxqTf/w400-h318/1934%253A+Christmas+Spirits+Prevail.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pioneers' Home, Christmas Dinner</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As Christmas 1934 approached, the Great Depression was hanging on doggedly. Yet by this time people were anxious to begin to get back to normal. Although money and (due to prohibition,) whiskey was scarce, people adapted and determined to make the season bright.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After two especially poor years in the economy, people began to open up their wallets and spend what little money they had. “Christmas business in Prescott this year had exceeded that for 1933 by a wide margin,” the Evening Courier observed. Upon inquiry by the paper, the Bashford-Burmister store reported sales as being “very favorable.” The local JC Penny store reported sales as being “40% better.” No business reported a downturn. “Christmas [inventories] have been depleted,” the paper reported. “In all stores, extra clerks had to be added.” </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Outside the city, in the rural areas, the situation continued to be a bit bleak. Despite increased sales of gifts in the city, the cattle industry was still struggling. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the article “Christmas Spirit Endures Hardship,” by Budge Ruffner, the same Christmas in Walnut Grove is described. In order to make ends meet and Christmas more memorable, the community there banded together for a celebration at the schoolhouse Christmas Eve night.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prohibition was in its last throws and it was hoped that Yavapai County Sheriff George Ruffner (who never thought much of prohibition and rarely made arrests for it,) would be able to provide some “evidence” from “the county garage which might be donated to the community party as a masterful stroke of public relations,” Ruffner described.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Money was collected from every family in the Grove for the purchase of toys and candy in Prescott, and a bachelor named Billy was entrusted with the bankroll and the errand. Some were apprehensive about giving him the task. He was “sometimes forgetful, if not down right irresponsible,” Ruffner wrote, “and not renowned for total abstinence.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After swearing an oath not to go into any soda shops or cigar stores where he might be tempted, Billy started driving north toward Prescott in his blue Dodge pick-up.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvwpb7ZF9g97qd3uwml5hSRiZ9do_ASyTEiEfH-jzr5w-vQOXEgDjHcL4YiyDOGhjzNEXQm9vEne2Yj7tl3pYtvLDdAYIs3EgVxWECGJgU59zQUU8z13yaf0bB0DC6s033Vl4XFd-vKMeU/s1269/Christmas1909_postcard_Zeppelin.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="815" data-original-width="1269" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvwpb7ZF9g97qd3uwml5hSRiZ9do_ASyTEiEfH-jzr5w-vQOXEgDjHcL4YiyDOGhjzNEXQm9vEne2Yj7tl3pYtvLDdAYIs3EgVxWECGJgU59zQUU8z13yaf0bB0DC6s033Vl4XFd-vKMeU/w200-h129/Christmas1909_postcard_Zeppelin.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2018/12/christmas-1909-big-snow-big-gifts.html" target="_blank">Christmas 1909: Big Snow, Big Gifts</a></div></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i>Christmas 1909 in Prescott AZ would be remembered for a large blizzard and two generous gifts by railroad entrepreneur Frank Murphy.</i></span></p><div><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, back in the city, the Christmas tree celebration in the Plaza was occurring and the Goodfellows club would live up to their name. They made stockings for each of the children in the city which contained oranges, candy and nuts. The Yavapai County Recorder's office was commandeered for the task of stuffing each stocking. Before the Plaza cleared, they handed-out nearly 1200 of them. A second phase of their generosity would commence later in the day.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As Billy arrived downtown, he found it abuzz. Federal workers were given half a day off and were scrambling to make last-minute purchases. According to the paper, last minute buying on Christmas Eve went "unabated.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Billy had plenty to do and the crowds would slow him down. First stop was to Bashford-Burmister where he competed to get toys and candy from the depleted stock. He would also need to go to the post office to collect the community’s mail; the express company to retrieve any parcels; and, of course, that important visit to Sheriff Ruffner. As the people of Walnut Grove were anxious about Billy completing his tasks, he looked at the crowds and began to have his own misgivings.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">High on a hill above the busy commotion of downtown, residents of the Pioneers’ Home began their Christmas celebration. 158 men and 7 women had a “big time.” Back then, every year, “a cash gift from a California donor” was given to each pioneer at the home. Although the donor always remained anonymous, it was rumored that he “made his money in Yavapai many, many years ago and has the Bank of Arizona draw on his account to place crisp bills in envelopes” that included a Christmas greeting.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The celebration there started with music by a duo followed by the youth choirs of several churches singing carols. In the morning, Santa Claus paid a visit passing out stockings filled with candy. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The big Christmas dinner started at 3:45pm. The appetizer was a crab cocktail. Besides turkey, stuffing and gravy, fresh vegetables were served along with mashed potatoes, creamed asparagus, fruit salad, pies, cakes, candy, nuts, bonbons and beverages.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Workers in the Civilian Conservation Corps, which was highly prevalent all over Yavapai County, would not be able to write home complaining about their Christmas suppers. They received “as fine a Christmas dinner as anybody,” the paper revealed. “It open[ed] with roast turkey—then oyster dressing with giblet gravy, new creamed potatoes, buttered peas, celery hearts, fresh radishes, green onions, sliced tomatoes, cranberry sauce, fruit cake with cherry wine, hot plum pudding, hot mince pie, chocolate ice cream bars, apples, oranges, candy, nuts, and coffee.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLBDTmsmg8Vwn96LByq29TJ1Pxqqqhj8l74ZfZscaP2jWA6jiGYgcW2YVs6Ply6h8zct4qkgSthdxlOp_p1oYSf3dzFx6VBEHlEqi1-lmfQijmj_jb26tRZ__D_odG7M7pWb7eAUSnBA9/s585/Hassayampa+in+Cmas+1934.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="585" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLBDTmsmg8Vwn96LByq29TJ1Pxqqqhj8l74ZfZscaP2jWA6jiGYgcW2YVs6Ply6h8zct4qkgSthdxlOp_p1oYSf3dzFx6VBEHlEqi1-lmfQijmj_jb26tRZ__D_odG7M7pWb7eAUSnBA9/s320/Hassayampa+in+Cmas+1934.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1934 ad for dinner and dance at the Hassayampa</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Those wanting Christmas dinner at a restaurant had several options including the Owl Drugstore and the Hassayampa Inn which offered full meals for $1 (about $20 today.) The Hassayampa also featured a dance from 9pm to 1am both Christmas Eve and Christmas night.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As the stores were closing and the sun dipped behind Granite Mountain, snow began to fall giving the area a beautiful white Christmas.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Snow also began to fall in Walnut Grove, and in that higher elevation, it was heavier. The schoolhouse had been decorated with the bounty of the forest—mistletoe, mostly, which is relatively abundant in the Grove. It was 6pm and there was still no sign of Billy. “The women were bringing the food in; and a huge pinyon [pine] stood in one end of the room sparkling with colored lights and tinsel.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While Walnut Grove worried about Billy’s whereabouts, the Goodfellows’ charity continued in the city by providing 161 boxes “of substantial foodstuffs” to hungry families “to bring [them] Christmas cheer.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The assembly room of the chamber of commerce was literally converted into a first class grocery store and butcher shop with headquarters for Santa,” the newspaper described. Indeed, the baskets must have been the size of small shopping carts considering the abundance they contained.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The effort included sacking, packing and the sorting of: over a half-ton of beans, 1602 pounds of potatoes, 362 pounds of onions, over a ton of flour and cornmeal, 561 pounds of sugar, 312 pounds of tea, 782 pounds of beef, 154 pounds of whole corn, and 225 pounds of Christmas candy and nuts.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Each family would also receive at least one each of the following: a can of milk, jam, salt, pepper, lard, corn, tomatoes, beans and peas. Also included were a pound each of rice, macaroni, coffee, butter, and bacon. There were packages of rolled oats, pancake flour, and chili; as well as 2 apples, 2 oranges, a loaf of bread, a bar of soap, and “miscellaneous supplies of vegetables, etc.” Attached to each box was “a beautiful hand-made Christmas card bearing the name and address and a cheery good wish from the Goodfellows.” The doldrums of the Depression would be shaken off in one of Prescott’s rare white Christmases.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, in Walnut Grove, hope began to deteriorate into despair. Some worried about Billy himself, while others thought things should get started without him. When his blue Dodge pick-up finally pulled into the schoolhouse yard, he was greeted by everyone and his efforts were considered saintly. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, as the men helped unload the truck, something was notably missing.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Billy, did you stop by the sheriff’s office?”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Sure did,” Billy said.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“What did the old man tell you?”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“He swore that there wasn’t a drop of evidence in town—Christmas and all—there just wasn’t any available.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Disappointment swept the little schoolhouse like a frozen mountain gust. “Hell, he knew we had this party and he knows damn well how tight money is,” someone declared.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“That’s right,” said Billy. “He told me the only whiskey left in the county was in a barrel tied in that big cottonwood tree right in back of this schoolhouse!”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On that Christmas in Walnut Grove, “there was fine hot food, toys and candy for the kids, music, love and hope. Even the men who had worked all year and gained little, began again to believe in Santa Claus,” Ruffner wrote.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There were still tough times ahead, but good Christmas “spirits” of all kinds flowed abundantly in 1934.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">**************************************</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">For all the <i>CHRISTMAS</i> articles in #PrescottAZHistory, <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Christmas" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">*****************************</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Drew's book is now available!</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBrzEK-rbzATQHhDeA0-uT8hdo20FIpx05Lpx9GsP-ydPiExNIl_5z751MUXlJBYGAZrIVyEkXcPq5NJ2xDSDetg1YLyHxPtftJQG16il6fe5ueHsOb3z4bq11rMiueeIvB66O7fn8RfFz/s1008/Murder+%2526+Mayhem+Front+%2526+Back+Cover+GOOD%2521.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="1008" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBrzEK-rbzATQHhDeA0-uT8hdo20FIpx05Lpx9GsP-ydPiExNIl_5z751MUXlJBYGAZrIVyEkXcPq5NJ2xDSDetg1YLyHxPtftJQG16il6fe5ueHsOb3z4bq11rMiueeIvB66O7fn8RfFz/w400-h294/Murder+%2526+Mayhem+Front+%2526+Back+Cover+GOOD%2521.png" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Available in paperback and Kindle!</span><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><u>AMAZON:</u></b></span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paperback: $21.99</span></span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Kindle ebook $12.99 </b></span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mayhem-Prescott-Drew-Desmond-ebook/dp/B08G675QWZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=D7MLUD7P40S0&keywords=murder+and+mayhem+in+prescott&qid=1600536923&s=books&sprefix=Murder+and+%2Caps%2C615&sr=1-1" target="_blank">CLICK HERE for Amazon (PB or Kindle)</a></i></span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">*********************************</p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>Also available at:</i></span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Western Heritage Center, 156.5 Montezuma (Whiskey Row)</span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial;">**************************************</span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/p/where-to-buy-drews-book.html" target="_blank">And everywhere Prescott history books are sold!</a></i></span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">**************************</span></p></span></div></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>#PrescottAZHistory</i> publishes a new article twice a month on Sundays. 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Prescott Courier, 12/23/1984.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prescott Evening Courier, 12/24/1934; Pg. 1, Col. 2 and Pg. 2, Col. 1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prescott Evening Courier, 12/24/1934; Pg. 1, Col. 6 and Pg. 5, Col. 3.</span></p><div><br /></div>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Walnut Grove, AZ 86332, USA34.2830827 -112.54850585.9728488638211559 -147.7047558 62.593316536178847 -77.3922558tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-80646346942927091332021-11-20T16:05:00.000-07:002021-11-21T07:43:58.293-07:00The Anti-Vaccination Movement of 1918<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9pIaKxrDEzFRjUenn63xXpRwYtuGTrxoNBUxOp6fGWVD70pzKekbXiaBXEt0pO2_Tw9lqzb5u8i9v9F4Mp6r_SuP6SpTX4SkCK-UpDjEaWGgdbWcQZ4OE9jiYfH8YuV5cNQqhMuP6lrs0/s532/Anti-Vaccination+Movement+of+1918.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="496" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9pIaKxrDEzFRjUenn63xXpRwYtuGTrxoNBUxOp6fGWVD70pzKekbXiaBXEt0pO2_Tw9lqzb5u8i9v9F4Mp6r_SuP6SpTX4SkCK-UpDjEaWGgdbWcQZ4OE9jiYfH8YuV5cNQqhMuP6lrs0/w373-h400/Anti-Vaccination+Movement+of+1918.png" width="373" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ad for Election Day, 1918</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Arizona has a compulsory vaccination law, but it has long been a dead letter,” the Citizen wrote. “There has been so much opposition to it that public health officers have never tried to enforce it.” That was until the Spring of 1918 when Dr. WO Sweek, Secretary of the state board of health, decided it was necessary to require children to be vaccinated in order to attend school.</span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One basic objection was the requirement for parents to bear the cost. Another was barriers to rural schools that “would have to make a trip of about a hundred miles to find a physician.” Additionally, parents had a scant 15 days to comply.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One father expressed his concerns in a letter to the editor: “I do not wish to argue the merits of vaccination, although I cannot refrain from pointing out that medical men are not themselves in accord as to its advisability as a general measure; but I do wish to emphasize the fact that many cases of impaired health and even of death follow a general vaccination… Even with our modern, rigid oversight and inspection of the sources of the vaccines, the risk of unintentional infection is not wholly eliminated.” The writer suggested that it would be worth paying the $50 fine (a whopping $974 today,) instead of having his children vaccinated.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“A growing number of citizens of the state do not believe in it and consider that in many cases it does more harm than good,” the Citizen observed.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One news media outlet, the Arizona Daily Star was so antagonistic toward the requirement that Sweek and Governor Hunt reported the periodical to the (WW1) war department for investigation.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Tucson Citizen also began to editorialize for the repeal of the compulsory vaccination law--“Sweek and his threats notwithstanding," the paper declared. "We do not believe the men of Sweek’s own profession will back him up in his arrogant threats against the freedom of the press, and the rights granted every American under the Constitution.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We think the necessity for the wholesale vaccination order has not been shown,” the Star wrote in response. “There seems to be a general lack of understanding for the necessity of the state-wide vaccination program as a result.” Although exact numbers are not known, probably less than half of Arizona's children got the vaccine and the state declined to press charges on such a large number of her citizens.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sweek’s hopes for the mass-vaccination of Arizona’s children were dashed and his edict carried no retribution. “The fifteen days in which all school children were to be vaccinated has already passed, but no children have been barred from school for inability to show a new vaccination scar,” the Citizen reported.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In mid-April, Sweek announced a change of plans, extending the vaccination deadline to 10 days following the dismissal of school (circa June 1,) “to avoid disrupting the schools and thus antagonizing the school’s authorities.” To overcome one objection, the Pima county health director “decided to offer vaccinations to the children free of charge” to those parents were unable to afford it.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, while lobbying the public for compulsory vaccinations, Sweek revealed that in the first 4 months of 1918, there were 300 cases costing Arizona $300,000 ($5.8 million today). </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It is unfortunate that the informative propaganda regarding…vaccination was not inaugurated by Dr. Sweek…before he promulgated his order requiring compulsory vaccination,” the Star believed. “His experience should have taught him that coercive health measures…bring out the maximum of unreasoning opposition.”</span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By May, several “Public School Protective Leagues” sprung up across the state “for the purpose of opposing compulsory vaccinations." These were “modeled after one in California,” and “its object [was] to protect the public schools from medical…exploitation. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"You are invited to become a contributing member,” the Arizona Republican disclosed, “and help initiate a new law to repeal the present compulsory vaccination law.” The membership cost was one dollar ($19 today). </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Infuriated, Sweek began having parents arrested and the Public School Protection League vowed “to fight all prosecutions brought by Sweek.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX40KppmN8HMG9fvEpNg1jA-7CqWeuRV76hMwCnjlMDCOG9VPSOmWXu3I5T3_p4fh4yCLnpHUX-8YtujJi0D5x3arhWT1fjP0ehNlv9bsh_jgfuOywW1sktj9JRjWgTmgGbjt3XwP1i5v9/s720/1932+FDR+visits+Prescott+9%253A25%253A1932.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="305" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX40KppmN8HMG9fvEpNg1jA-7CqWeuRV76hMwCnjlMDCOG9VPSOmWXu3I5T3_p4fh4yCLnpHUX-8YtujJi0D5x3arhWT1fjP0ehNlv9bsh_jgfuOywW1sktj9JRjWgTmgGbjt3XwP1i5v9/s320/1932+FDR+visits+Prescott+9%253A25%253A1932.png" width="136" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2019/08/1932-franklin-delano-roosevelt-visits.html" target="_blank">1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Visits Prescott</a></div></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's visit to Prescott, AZ in September 1932 before traveling to the Greenway Ranch.</span></p><div><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Come June, the League had drafted its promised petition, which would come to be known as Proposition 9, </span>repealing<span style="font-family: inherit;"> compulsory vaccinations. Signatures to place the measure on the November ballot were collected at a fast pace.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the midst of the public pressure, Sweek’s popularity plummeted. He resigned his state position to join the army and on June 18, he left to go to France as a First Lieutenant in the medical corp. He was replaced by Dr. Orville H Brown, who was Sweek’s partner in private practice prior to Sweek taking the state job. Brown believed as Sweek did which meant the state’s policy would remain unchanged. Despite Sweek’s resignation, the enforcement of compulsory vaccinations would still be attributed to him by the newspapers and the public. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In July, with “the backing of the health administration in Washington,” the state doubled its efforts to bar children from school in the upcoming year if they were not vaccinated. The Star explained that parents would not be prosecuted under the compulsory vaccination law, “but a way has been found to make delinquent parents toe the line. Each child must show a vaccination scar as an admission certificate” to school. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Authorities made it clear however, that parents could be charged under the truancy law if they did not send their children to school because of the vaccination issue. This time all parents were expected to absorb the cost of the medication.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Many parents will keep [their children] at home, rather than have them vaccinated and give them instruction [there],” the Citizen reported. Until the November election came, “a number of parents arrang[ed] to send their children to private schools.”</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When Election Day arrived in November, Proposition 9 passed in Prescott, Yavapai County, and the state by a majority of less than 2%. The Public School Protective League had won the day, but not without consequence. For the death, despair and destruction that was smallpox would continue to plague the United States for nearly 30 additional years.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">**************************************</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Prescott's pride includes many "firsts" in Arizona. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/p/new-firsts.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for an index of the stories behind them!</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">*****************************</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Drew's book is now available!</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBrzEK-rbzATQHhDeA0-uT8hdo20FIpx05Lpx9GsP-ydPiExNIl_5z751MUXlJBYGAZrIVyEkXcPq5NJ2xDSDetg1YLyHxPtftJQG16il6fe5ueHsOb3z4bq11rMiueeIvB66O7fn8RfFz/s1008/Murder+%2526+Mayhem+Front+%2526+Back+Cover+GOOD%2521.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="1008" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBrzEK-rbzATQHhDeA0-uT8hdo20FIpx05Lpx9GsP-ydPiExNIl_5z751MUXlJBYGAZrIVyEkXcPq5NJ2xDSDetg1YLyHxPtftJQG16il6fe5ueHsOb3z4bq11rMiueeIvB66O7fn8RfFz/w400-h294/Murder+%2526+Mayhem+Front+%2526+Back+Cover+GOOD%2521.png" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Available in paperback and Kindle!</span><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><u>AMAZON:</u></b></span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paperback: $21.99</span></span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Kindle ebook $12.99 </b></span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mayhem-Prescott-Drew-Desmond-ebook/dp/B08G675QWZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=D7MLUD7P40S0&keywords=murder+and+mayhem+in+prescott&qid=1600536923&s=books&sprefix=Murder+and+%2Caps%2C615&sr=1-1" target="_blank">CLICK HERE for Amazon (PB or Kindle)</a></i></span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">*********************************</p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>Also available at:</i></span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Western Heritage Center, 156.5 Montezuma (Whiskey Row)</span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial;">**************************************</span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/p/where-to-buy-drews-book.html" target="_blank">And everywhere Prescott history books are sold!</a></i></span></p><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">**************************</span></p></span></div></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>#PrescottAZHistory</i> publishes a new article twice a month on Sundays. 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line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>SOURCES:</u></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tucson Citizen, 4/7/1918; Pg. 5</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Daily Star, 3/24/1918; Pg. 4, Col. 2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Daily Star, 3/26/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">3</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Daily Star, 3/28/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">4</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tucson Citizen, 4/11/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">9</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Daily Star, 4/9/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">4</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tucson Citizen, 4/14/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">4</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tucson Citizen, 4/17/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">2</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Daily Star, 4/18/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">2</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Daily Star, 5/4/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">8</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">2.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican, 5/19/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">12</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">5-7.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tucson Citizen, 5/28/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">2</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican, 6/12/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">3_c3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Republican, 6/18/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">8</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">3.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Coconino Sun, 6/28/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">3</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">1.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arizona Daily Star, 7/24/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">4</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">5.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tucson Citizen, 9/14/1918</span>; Pg. <span style="font-family: inherit;">2</span>, Col. <span style="font-family: inherit;">4.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Arizona Daily Star, 5/10/1918; Pg. 4, Col. 1.</p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_No_Compulsory_Vaccination,_Proposition_9_(1918)"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_No_Compulsory_Vaccination,_Proposition_9_(1918)</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p>Drew Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07336376426387722889noreply@blogger.com0Arizona, USA34.0489281 -111.09373115.7386942638211522 -146.2499811 62.359161936178843 -75.9374811tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386753273780708573.post-1438073815332863042021-11-13T19:58:00.001-07:002021-11-29T19:25:59.571-07:00A Day Trip to Historic Stanton (A Pictorial)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh5waAtX31zGXrQmMDObakDl2BLIcHchdHn7iTtS9L0YXoFku6Iq_g26Y7T3OxuNlUEfj5yyXZKXVJLX7lMD6NYVdsUqjeednIYzOtJVp3IKVaWcwoz-0P96mISY-VWdMKNcGG5quTc_tU/s669/Day+Trip+to+Historic+Stanton.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="581" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh5waAtX31zGXrQmMDObakDl2BLIcHchdHn7iTtS9L0YXoFku6Iq_g26Y7T3OxuNlUEfj5yyXZKXVJLX7lMD6NYVdsUqjeednIYzOtJVp3IKVaWcwoz-0P96mISY-VWdMKNcGG5quTc_tU/w348-h400/Day+Trip+to+Historic+Stanton.png" width="348" /></a></div><br />Stanton, Arizona is not open to the public or tourists. Instead, it is owned, operated and occupied by the Lost Dutchman's Mining Association (LDMA) and its members. However, in driving his friend Parker Anderson to the town for a book signing, this author had the opportunity to capture some photos of the historic town as it exists presently.<span><a name='more'></a></span><p></p><p>Today Stanton is largely a community of RVing snowbirds who migrate there beginning in October. They are, indeed, a friendly group of souls who suffer from the dual infections of loving history, and gold fever. </p><p>Stanton has always been a dusty town and the strict 5 MPH speed limit over the dirt roads is enforced not only for safety, but for easier breathing! </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhYNTfCeUtr8gazdvGqbthSRqRXn2sM_G0xANWTjk4D43abg5zYofEFdFzeWqZTIC3eXuGg5IsfmQtrcvSecMh4JrOpNjS3KwoVKByh_nQrNO8IbK6jJN7T93-S1pTDgBwfNHOl7G-6B3s/s2048/944935F3-6E9F-4B29-8BF4-3B805FFEEB7A_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhYNTfCeUtr8gazdvGqbthSRqRXn2sM_G0xANWTjk4D43abg5zYofEFdFzeWqZTIC3eXuGg5IsfmQtrcvSecMh4JrOpNjS3KwoVKByh_nQrNO8IbK6jJN7T93-S1pTDgBwfNHOl7G-6B3s/w400-h266/944935F3-6E9F-4B29-8BF4-3B805FFEEB7A_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entrance to Stanton today.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The friendliness of the town was displayed while the author was walking down a short road (at 3 MPH) looking for photos to take. A pick-up, going 5, began to creep up from behind. For fun, this pedestrian turned around and stuck-out his thumb as if to hitchhike. The driver immediately stopped and with a broad smile on his face, was more than willing to offer a ride. </p><p>They even shared lunch.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCddyBLDR5auiEy9LjlafyUfjI8AoORmeYhCKumY65kgs_vB8g3iHS2_2le-rboe2cPYn-MsiygscGrzcqtCMTTE_CIPYzxGWWSL7Q9I-O-k8s30b0HSNhpwgN08h-HShA5TvyLcXn0iMz/s2644/C6560E71-3BCD-46E2-84DF-A4328F964B8C_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1190" data-original-width="2644" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCddyBLDR5auiEy9LjlafyUfjI8AoORmeYhCKumY65kgs_vB8g3iHS2_2le-rboe2cPYn-MsiygscGrzcqtCMTTE_CIPYzxGWWSL7Q9I-O-k8s30b0HSNhpwgN08h-HShA5TvyLcXn0iMz/w400-h180/C6560E71-3BCD-46E2-84DF-A4328F964B8C_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rich Hill</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWQ0n2Xm3UO0D3iBC7-icNBQ4PSHWLKQMfbk283COP0uKbd-wCj7HSCikNcJjTem8M2eMOAOTHeuLddGeRDVT_XPICN2dEf3ZYUJgVg1P7OQAxOLB0lkcmYcW8sOqxgLKpOCR3yMICoVTO/s2048/3CEE900A-2E77-45B6-A57D-6213F4D68339_1_201_a.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWQ0n2Xm3UO0D3iBC7-icNBQ4PSHWLKQMfbk283COP0uKbd-wCj7HSCikNcJjTem8M2eMOAOTHeuLddGeRDVT_XPICN2dEf3ZYUJgVg1P7OQAxOLB0lkcmYcW8sOqxgLKpOCR3yMICoVTO/w400-h266/3CEE900A-2E77-45B6-A57D-6213F4D68339_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Stanton is located in the shadow of the geologically mysterious Rich Hill--a gold-infested pimple on the earth's skin that gradually oozed the yellow metal into the surrounding valley for eons. Even today LDMA members are running dirt and finding gold.<div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVwJODV6hfaXosToIjlvBrQ6Ql8CxNmoK2OHlg90nMmOH_0982AJaajuynLb9QJDBZtAw-o32-CDng8CctBP4uop7D4YFGpSmU-H7I_AIgo1ShcriilwiA58bAGt8hD2alLATjkhgF-H6W/s2048/F62615FF-E506-4EE8-A0A8-0F792089B4D1_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVwJODV6hfaXosToIjlvBrQ6Ql8CxNmoK2OHlg90nMmOH_0982AJaajuynLb9QJDBZtAw-o32-CDng8CctBP4uop7D4YFGpSmU-H7I_AIgo1ShcriilwiA58bAGt8hD2alLATjkhgF-H6W/w400-h266/F62615FF-E506-4EE8-A0A8-0F792089B4D1_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prospecting today.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnJl7l10PpyoiXh44U7AUPNZmek85ikKJTOdv1oZww5_A1caVHAk8bP79rnb88Egenc5jkQ2xYkGuvR9QZaqOmH5Vv-AXt8CCMRlDhyphenhyphen3aStIDVTjt-lh9FcMs6p9gI5No9tUL0h9kZik8W/s1200/Harrison+Yarnell+and+the+Mystery+of+Rich+Hill.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="1200" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnJl7l10PpyoiXh44U7AUPNZmek85ikKJTOdv1oZww5_A1caVHAk8bP79rnb88Egenc5jkQ2xYkGuvR9QZaqOmH5Vv-AXt8CCMRlDhyphenhyphen3aStIDVTjt-lh9FcMs6p9gI5No9tUL0h9kZik8W/w200-h116/Harrison+Yarnell+and+the+Mystery+of+Rich+Hill.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>ALSO ENJOY:</i> <a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2020/08/harrison-yarnell-and-mystery-of-rich.html" target="_blank">Harrison Yarnell and the Mystery of Rich Hill</a></span></div></span><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><i>Yarnell, AZ’s namesake went from riches to rags in a quest to find a supposed bonanza of huge gold nuggets.</i></span></p><div><br /></div><p><b>On the opposite side of town runs historic Antelope Creek where much of the Rich Hill gold was recovered.</b> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcHwPpUoV5oIRVLsEgKH1lTLoaJ7Jtx3l_ItUnEtPG8_Ub1-oflcYBhSwRs1foKdPT6ar3PRAK_tEdFNvQxZ4Av89CK3phW6c1cMo-bkTc6ZOYg0D4b3fgUOHP_2kgevldopYPk1fqWSlL/s2048/0B053F0D-2AFE-43C7-ADF7-19BC03DE291C_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1362" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcHwPpUoV5oIRVLsEgKH1lTLoaJ7Jtx3l_ItUnEtPG8_Ub1-oflcYBhSwRs1foKdPT6ar3PRAK_tEdFNvQxZ4Av89CK3phW6c1cMo-bkTc6ZOYg0D4b3fgUOHP_2kgevldopYPk1fqWSlL/w266-h400/0B053F0D-2AFE-43C7-ADF7-19BC03DE291C_1_201_a.jpeg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Antelope Creek as it runs past Stanton.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><b>Before Charles Stanton became Postmaster and changed the town's name, it was known as Antelope Station.</b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkWbknjqSRfLosLTA_onIEZtTwzCfTANy8_GYvg4pr4N7BPjZl7E0C0T9cboaBkT0lrwQ9tyP_qh10Gg8hpb2GLIQhy013Hd8fUe57XuQfhD5hI5iT2WFm6SrrYyPXI_LmWNQQfeDH2eu1/s2048/2140E676-0925-490E-84F6-1AAAA7CD8FB0_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkWbknjqSRfLosLTA_onIEZtTwzCfTANy8_GYvg4pr4N7BPjZl7E0C0T9cboaBkT0lrwQ9tyP_qh10Gg8hpb2GLIQhy013Hd8fUe57XuQfhD5hI5iT2WFm6SrrYyPXI_LmWNQQfeDH2eu1/w400-h266/2140E676-0925-490E-84F6-1AAAA7CD8FB0_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Antelope Stage Station building today.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><b>Here is a sampling of other old and historic buildings that remain in town:</b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGyunF-fBKg_HCFpuFRD_P5de7dRO3d_Y7ZGm2bU1XaBGkZEpABknl_s3DC12BgK1ipU8Bc9ThuSC-WmqvbM6k5j4copHQSYrQ4-KLRdHCiOeOLoHUnGOSYLitWHk7-FVIIBZmc-gXNdYO/s6016/3496927A-2AC5-4E78-BB89-74E504773E45.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6016" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGyunF-fBKg_HCFpuFRD_P5de7dRO3d_Y7ZGm2bU1XaBGkZEpABknl_s3DC12BgK1ipU8Bc9ThuSC-WmqvbM6k5j4copHQSYrQ4-KLRdHCiOeOLoHUnGOSYLitWHk7-FVIIBZmc-gXNdYO/w400-h266/3496927A-2AC5-4E78-BB89-74E504773E45.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One old house was converted into a Crafting Room.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMUKgnlWgNdCUjincl3oC0CbGYVRF6VTzP50MxDohUe8n5KoNttX_Np20cYzZzMhe64Z-ZyHzyRKvl3YoHsyvwhbo_sSKWol-X6Uqw9CDGdAi5NPTwf7xun2lC0KhphsPMCaHjeGBV9TdW/s6016/706D78DD-F80E-4B84-B59F-980FCE7D5E40.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6016" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMUKgnlWgNdCUjincl3oC0CbGYVRF6VTzP50MxDohUe8n5KoNttX_Np20cYzZzMhe64Z-ZyHzyRKvl3YoHsyvwhbo_sSKWol-X6Uqw9CDGdAi5NPTwf7xun2lC0KhphsPMCaHjeGBV9TdW/w400-h266/706D78DD-F80E-4B84-B59F-980FCE7D5E40.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A second old house in town (there are several.)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxkI3D55jV90ODQFUhY-wvlLxyeSwrQg3aXp_Q3ex28SyKAYd9tWJp7pTGJC5oZIVsqCHut6nmPsQyJVCnYYL64Gf-PHtxe6fia8hp0ipxt-kY6cLdr5BBuMlzHj02gf88qJdSxXo_Iuoa/s6016/6DC3040A-E570-4DFB-B360-CE0E6B5E6CC7.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6016" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxkI3D55jV90ODQFUhY-wvlLxyeSwrQg3aXp_Q3ex28SyKAYd9tWJp7pTGJC5oZIVsqCHut6nmPsQyJVCnYYL64Gf-PHtxe6fia8hp0ipxt-kY6cLdr5BBuMlzHj02gf88qJdSxXo_Iuoa/w400-h266/6DC3040A-E570-4DFB-B360-CE0E6B5E6CC7.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A third old house sits high on the bank of Antelope Creek</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYFkH66VDSfgf4UQciJanpj18VIMH-3r71lFe2xn-Z7HIrhY8KaQurbXc6iyxncvYzHpXGQ3LYmdkX1mNzf1n2cNdsJlEeZFsoSw23_7dwJU2NtfqwmXqyDJYUycJwP39QVjOR26rQAsEv/s6016/AA15FB04-3F17-4BC6-809A-A698AFE3AB26.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6016" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYFkH66VDSfgf4UQciJanpj18VIMH-3r71lFe2xn-Z7HIrhY8KaQurbXc6iyxncvYzHpXGQ3LYmdkX1mNzf1n2cNdsJlEeZFsoSw23_7dwJU2NtfqwmXqyDJYUycJwP39QVjOR26rQAsEv/w400-h266/AA15FB04-3F17-4BC6-809A-A698AFE3AB26.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Stanton Opera House</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb_vwtf4z6imAsr95SYUArtChfFlPGNdZF2H7Pe9T7AZQbOYEiAPPpWt1fgA63QmIcniMda2f21NIe7OU-RP4yUEsmKh0hhJzKH2nhmUrrb1K3a6UfqrIiUBwIbTyFp97Ch2F-VCcpCXUc/s2048/237CAC29-CAB9-4077-B78C-38492FC4A2A8_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb_vwtf4z6imAsr95SYUArtChfFlPGNdZF2H7Pe9T7AZQbOYEiAPPpWt1fgA63QmIcniMda2f21NIe7OU-RP4yUEsmKh0hhJzKH2nhmUrrb1K3a6UfqrIiUBwIbTyFp97Ch2F-VCcpCXUc/w400-h266/237CAC29-CAB9-4077-B78C-38492FC4A2A8_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanton saloon interior.</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihU8LfwdH11kAHm2ZTMmuGiowfRnbjRnO0i5iaE7TXrJvDl_nhiZDx8fFpysOZRrJMDjsC5is5kYp4mkLF856EbRQPGv_fM1iowVWOE_BvMKBNBQ_2Fwy6NKRb5ZGO-7xtQc40FmH_fMZe/s2048/90FB173C-6E4D-4079-A627-429E9313A0C7_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihU8LfwdH11kAHm2ZTMmuGiowfRnbjRnO0i5iaE7TXrJvDl_nhiZDx8fFpysOZRrJMDjsC5is5kYp4mkLF856EbRQPGv_fM1iowVWOE_BvMKBNBQ_2Fwy6NKRb5ZGO-7xtQc40FmH_fMZe/w400-h266/90FB173C-6E4D-4079-A627-429E9313A0C7_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanton Hotel from the rear. Today the rear holds the kitchen <br />that prepares meals for the community.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-bacw3Q-JsWVHu470UdoVgiIRgL-Kc_vRhFnMeFcrDhPbge-KO9ozCMctCIVOxiE0EtVqxpYZ0fJQhlIzb_AlpT1Zptk9BlLKPKJMwn6DeC3GtfPXlJ8WfoUyoGLrByDdgstHQ9Lp0z7M/s2048/82BA60B7-614E-4290-8304-6FADDCF38B1E_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-bacw3Q-JsWVHu470UdoVgiIRgL-Kc_vRhFnMeFcrDhPbge-KO9ozCMctCIVOxiE0EtVqxpYZ0fJQhlIzb_AlpT1Zptk9BlLKPKJMwn6DeC3GtfPXlJ8WfoUyoGLrByDdgstHQ9Lp0z7M/w400-h266/82BA60B7-614E-4290-8304-6FADDCF38B1E_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In front of the hotel, discovered mining artifacts are displayed.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHRORKFzTblMA3jKKRdY6CBQuR7ejQUDHcN7BP5XDXTRvbIzRapDL4xfPOgcVsaaS96g7DxTwgQOButNBqI37UDqj_6PbfecrD1KOpcygIiuM9bjoR43k9_eVqmdH2jCiM0f4ARp8NMY40/s2048/F5FB9667-8B7E-4E82-80DB-76EE4DDCA88A_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHRORKFzTblMA3jKKRdY6CBQuR7ejQUDHcN7BP5XDXTRvbIzRapDL4xfPOgcVsaaS96g7DxTwgQOButNBqI37UDqj_6PbfecrD1KOpcygIiuM9bjoR43k9_eVqmdH2jCiM0f4ARp8NMY40/w400-h266/F5FB9667-8B7E-4E82-80DB-76EE4DDCA88A_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanton Saloon (and current office.)</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnP-n2uh9xg3O-qJ31r1qmrAoSS_zbqLtELSn_9-QjzNR79zZlZKxrTG27EQFcerLDpn6CwHCDOmCjylDui8D9TSz7qdx3xv7O7RFFfckexHCJtP2kYLKNRr-zjzE0w2KR4J2DuJQ2hFfK/s2048/3A7543B2-29E2-4F1D-AAB1-B2B31A2EBC74_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1306" data-original-width="2048" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnP-n2uh9xg3O-qJ31r1qmrAoSS_zbqLtELSn_9-QjzNR79zZlZKxrTG27EQFcerLDpn6CwHCDOmCjylDui8D9TSz7qdx3xv7O7RFFfckexHCJtP2kYLKNRr-zjzE0w2KR4J2DuJQ2hFfK/w400-h255/3A7543B2-29E2-4F1D-AAB1-B2B31A2EBC74_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Through the valley haze, Vulture Peak is seen--<br />location of the Vulture Mine.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><b>Bonus Historical Photos:</b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuTksZBTiBfC6LB5sJmQB-Qm3ILeXRLQKkhpUQA2FXjskG97QX2XHBadCj5ZOm8GZuz7Ddsp_j6CJOvn1IBcpLd9ypjdwbBD1SearchLXa_7TAEy49glridiFBDxCoffKyTB_AuhqLrGe7/s786/Stanton%252C+Arizona%252C+C.1950-citn228pc.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="786" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuTksZBTiBfC6LB5sJmQB-Qm3ILeXRLQKkhpUQA2FXjskG97QX2XHBadCj5ZOm8GZuz7Ddsp_j6CJOvn1IBcpLd9ypjdwbBD1SearchLXa_7TAEy49glridiFBDxCoffKyTB_AuhqLrGe7/w400-h124/Stanton%252C+Arizona%252C+C.1950-citn228pc.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanton, circa 1950<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfJZzXJ3Kwhb7FLx0cIXhrvxdCi5heMtVuGeIxoepQZnCNXQDX-4qrYUDHc5rkhuP4AhlMdwQvhAtR8SNtTnRs5_ZvMmnBBb0N0EvnNBgbUpXKNDHTMmBUs0FgT5sqKgevGxUHc8Bk2-bg/s669/Stanton+1912+%2528blurry+newspaper%2529.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="669" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfJZzXJ3Kwhb7FLx0cIXhrvxdCi5heMtVuGeIxoepQZnCNXQDX-4qrYUDHc5rkhuP4AhlMdwQvhAtR8SNtTnRs5_ZvMmnBBb0N0EvnNBgbUpXKNDHTMmBUs0FgT5sqKgevGxUHc8Bk2-bg/w400-h175/Stanton+1912+%2528blurry+newspaper%2529.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanton in 1912</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div>Having Parker offer his historical input during the trip was a joy. On the return trip, the road that Charles Genung built that avoids the switchback turns of Yarnell Hill was taken. It was a beautiful stretch through the wilderness. </div><div><br /></div><div>Gladly, it was one of Parker's most successful book signings. Even if it had not been, it was still worth the trip!</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Here's a review of the book Parker was featuring:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIH6gTUExKjpwtCZ0mz0NGEP5GMp5MEq4IiurYD7MNWivy96SG98rHW8YoP5SH3hUgYuRS3FWrch6wY4vLsd_miOoSrW18b4C3S9l-GKzj3zFVeE9jWLjK0k68_d-vIcxDENXy4KnbpQk/s451/Arizona+Gold+Gangster+BK+Cover.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIH6gTUExKjpwtCZ0mz0NGEP5GMp5MEq4IiurYD7MNWivy96SG98rHW8YoP5SH3hUgYuRS3FWrch6wY4vLsd_miOoSrW18b4C3S9l-GKzj3zFVeE9jWLjK0k68_d-vIcxDENXy4KnbpQk/w133-h200/Arizona+Gold+Gangster+BK+Cover.png" width="133" /></a></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://prescottazhistory.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-real-charles-p-stanton-story-now.html" target="_blank">The REAL Charles P Stanton Story Now Comes to Light</a></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;"><i>A review of Parker Anderson’s book “Arizona Gold Gangster Charles P Stanton.” It has rewritten history.</i></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><u><b>Tourist Tip:</b></u></i></span></div><div>In addition to Stanton, the Lost Dutchman Mining Association owns a <a href="https://www.lostdutchmans.com/s/ldma-camps" target="_blank">handful of other such camps</a> across the country that are available to members. 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