Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-01-01

are credited with the location oi the
 first quartz ledge north of the Gila,
 taking up 2OO feet of ground on Lynx creek, and calling it the Pride ol Arizona. Their location is recorded December =, 1883 This contingent christcned Quartz noun
 tain by its present name, and. it is
 useless tO say, they gave it an over
 hauling also, but without success.
 In November. 1883, a party com
 posed of tWenty-four men arrived from santa Fe, New Mexico. aud
 among them but four are left to
 stand by each other. They are
 Ed. Peck and Lew Alters. who to-
 day are residents cf Prescott. and
 Rn5e Harrington of Maricopa, and Mir Collier. who IS somewhere east of the Mississippi MT Peek says
 that his party was made mp hurried
 ly. and was attracted to this section
 by the gli,tcEing tales told of dig gings in and around what latter was to ba this city. They landed al,
 Sam Miller's present farm, and mns, of its members located un Granite creek and commenced sluIcing This
 stream. iG that day. IS said t1 have
 b.ea arsal live one, and for dis- tauce of five miles above town. Was
 actively and proftshly worked by
 several hundred men, until cloud
 bursts and a lack of water. com
 palled the abandonment nf it In
 estimating the amount of gold, in
 three years, washed out of it. S11,- OOO Is placed as a low figure in its
 behalf.
 Another good feature of this
 stream, in its good old days, which
 may possibly twist the present resi-
 isut Iuto every cuuceJYablc shape D, hen it IS told him, Is that fishing
 Eas indulgsd iu, aad a good sized
 article was every whero to be had
 along Is course.
 Among the very earliest families tD come and grow up with the country" the Stephens S grace the
 head ol the list, 6, among the per
 maueut residents of today. They are still here, too. and located first on Goose Flat. when Prescott homes could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Mr. Stephens says ,ha, 1ue day he tirel of that locality, and no real estate agency being handler than San Francisco. and bacon being a scarce article m can D, hc bartcred with flush prosprc'or ani traded his house anI lot for 100 pounds of that article, and
 moved ,o where hs aud hIs wife now reside on Granite creek. No other roof m thirty-one years has shsl- tered them. remarkable fact for mau and wife tO point tO, consider iug that the age of this city dates back 0 the year they came. In speaking of the abundance of money and he absence Of what was luxury m the by gone days. Mrs. stephens relates a little incident c. demonstrate the generosity Of men to procure such, that may prove that gold was not dearly cherished. nor did not g) as Tar as it does m this era, 70 it's own weight. This lady states that after purchasing two cows for $500, she ob aimed very limited amount of milk from the first attempt. lesS than a quart, in short, and going to the house left the pail standing on a rock. Two visitors noticed the milking opera ton. and as soon as her back was turned. deyoured the milk and left, ' Mrs. Stephens returned, and while remoustrating with the fleeing ones. was asked tO look into the pail. and 1 beheld an ounce of the yellow metal 1 to pay for the quart ot white fluid. She said sbe was just as mad as ever afterwards, and kept hereye on 1 them at milking time after that. 4,
 The starting of Indian troubles in l this section IS due to mining, and | the first war whoop' occurred at | hIll in '63, and was brought | on by a party of California miners. They lost their burros, and failing to find them accused tho Indians of i their theft. After killing about 20 | red men over four animals, i they found the latter gazing leis- ureiv within one mile of camp. For | ten years after hades popped on ac- count of this unjust act. while the of course escaped.
 In '65 at least 5000 placer miners were camped in various gulches lround Prescott, water being in everywhere aud from the condition of men, gold must have been likewise.
 Pauline Weaver, after whom Weaver district was named, is said 70 have been the first white man to read on Prescott soil. He followed placer mining if tho yield was big though, and become identified with he Indians more closely than any white man ever did or ever will for hat matter, He and a printer were filled however, by mistake by them n 1865, on the trail that passed over he Copper Basin range, and on his ,erson 1t IS said there was at the ime over Sl,60O in placer dust. The 'rinter of course, was broke
 T- feei .ho f-=t organization .r a- ,.Ht authorities was perfected b hunt uew mining ground and also I