Arizona republican., 1903-12-27
pHoENIx. ARIZONA. DEC. 27. 1903.
Forty Years.

Today completes forty years of Ari- zona's history as Q territory, in that on the 27th day of December, 1853, the first territorial officers entered the ter ritory. The new government was tcrm- ally inaugurated on the 29th, so that officially the four decades will have been completed next Tuesday.
 Forty years is a short period in the history of a commonwealth. No more in fact. is II considered long in the life of a man or a woman; today. 10 be "only 4O" is to be young. And cer- tainly. Arizona Is young as terri tory. Not only is the period short in itself. but the actual development Of this wonderful land began but twenty years ago, and since then the changes most marvellous have been wrought. Rut so remarkable has been the trans formation in many ways, that to re- call the primitive days of forty years ago seems like looking into the an cient past.
 The history of those early days is
 
 Arizona which never yet has been written. Much history of value is con- tained in the files of the pioneer news peDers Thus, on the 9th of March. 1864. the initial number of the Arizona Miner was printed at Fort Whipple, where Prescott now stands. The Pio- neer Historical society should take pains to ge a complete file of that pa per It is worthy of note that the Miner has never ceased publication. and now, as the Arizona Journal Miner, it is an enterprising afternoon daily of which Prescott has reason to feel proud.
 The first number of the Miner con tained several we'll written articles. The first page was devoted to a geo. graphical description of the territory and review O. it's political history. Other articles were entitled The Capi- tai Question" The Civil Government" 'The Wealth of Arizona" Indian Troubles" Stages and Mails,'' Fort Whipple." Roads to Tucson and La Paz,' "The Verde and Salinas" (Salt), The Late Governor Gurley." Speech of the President" CMr. Lincoln's i'm American Growth" Growth in War Time" besides numerous news para graphs. The editor and publisher of the paper was Tisdale A. Hand, and ha Falf d av,r it would be issued weekly at s a year. In the first issue was but a single column of advertisements, the princi- pal one of which was the announce ment Of the facilities and attractions offered by the Mail route from Fl Paso to Kansas City, via Santa Fe." The agent at Santa Fe M. L. Byers, laid stress on the fact that the stage line had been provided with new coaches and offered speedy and pleasant trip to the states" Travel CTS were assured of the safety of the route, and it was added, Such pre- cautions having been taken by the military that there is no danger tc be
 
 Guerillas." Presumably. passengers from Arizona were to go across lots and make the neighborly distance of S00 miles east to Santa Fe at their own risk and by their own convey ance. The "c6rd" of the Union Hotel" at Albuquerque invited the patronage of the public. L. B. Jewell watch maker and jeweler, was located at Fort Whipple The other advertise ments comprised the statement that roan horse had been strayed or stolen from the fort, and that SlOO reward would be paid therefor. Somebody at the Miner cffice offered a Colts revol- yer for sale. and the final advertise ment was an announcement that post age stamps and envelopes were for sale by H. w. Read
 That the motto of Arizona, like that of Kansas, ought to be "Ad astra per asbera" is shown by the chronicles of the territory's rebuffs at Washington. In achieving the separation from New Mexico and setting up an independent territorial government. quite as many difficulties were encountered at the na- tional capital as have been met during the past ten years in the fight for statehood. As early as 1857, Senator Gwin of California introduced a bill in the senate TO organize the territory of Arizona, and to create the office of surveyor-general therein; to provide for the examination of private land claims, to grant donations to actual settlers. tc survey the public and the private lands, and for other purposes D In April. 1860. Senator Green of Mis- souri introduced a measure "To pro- vide a temporary government for the