Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-03-10
OUR ANNIVERSARY DAY
Closing of the Thirty Third Birthday of Paper That was the First
 to Enter the Territory.
It Chose Prescott As it's Home in the Beginning aud Still
 Camps on the old Trail
PIONEER or rHK HAssArAArA

Today another mIle stone in tho history of an Arizona paper Is reached, and today, also, the ARIZONA JouRNAL- MINER celebrates the thirty third year of its existence. March | 9, 1864. 1t was founded. Amid the scenes Of border life aud surrounded by the desolAtiou and savagery of a ] day, few, If any, of us realize or comprehend, the old MNER first heralded to the few followers it had that the star of empire had set. Think of It, not because it was sim ply a newspaper, but consider what third of a century means to Ari- zona. |, means every thiag bad aud nothing good; hope Tor cause that faced peril and priv arion; a wild anc reckless disposition that coaid only 6e satiated with the greed of gold; 8 battle of civilization against Darbarism, and so on and on. Amid the these thelitt MINER first blazed the way in journalism. Who among the survivors of that dark and dis tant period can fail to recall the day when the silent friend of Ari- zona first peeped into the light, snd who among them also can fail to give to the paper, in memory of the sacrecness Of the event, that consid- eratiun worthy of the deedi None. 1t came like q whirl wind and was cherished like zephyr. Its mission was to come and grow up with the country, aud from the first to the present issue, it has maintained the principle and policy under which it was issued-ior Arizona and Ar- zonans.
 In a third of a century, what has it accomplished On the other hand, what has it seen and what has it fosteredR From the day of its issue, on the afternoon of March g, 1864, 1t followed the first caravan of pioneers to the lonely log cabin; it has fol- lowed the progress of it's home to the land of others, and served the purposes of the scriptures in herald ing and beckoning them in; it has seen sayagery and desolation run ming hand and hand against civilizs- tion and determination; it has seen the noble Walker party of explorers and redeemers enter, only to give way later to the modern political pillager and looter; it has seen the pale face slain by the cruel Apache, because the government said vir- tually to them they had the right to do so; it has seen the Onl, counties of Yavapai, Piute and Pima torn into shreds and dismembered to satisfy personal ambition and political corruption; 1t has seen. lastly. its own hearth stone, the foundation pillar of the adopted home of the territory, where first was to break through the light that Arizona was, dlsmaniled, dis graced and chagrined, because. for sooth. it's loyalty was pure and its courage true. What has the paper accomplished for those it has la bored for SO tirelessly and earnestly. It has been like unto a sentinel guarding the within and beekoning those from without. It has been. in short, trodding the old beaten path of sincerity and fidelity, and never waned or proved untrue. The his tory of the MINER, in short, runs hand and hand with the history of Arizona. from start to flush. IL distances in the race of journalism any publication in Arzona. and though n field of many eomPe,i- tors. 1t lives. "When the Coliseum talls, R ne shall fall;" 70 when Ari- z0na f ls, will the MnEa iall.