Arizona republican., 1905-11-27

he needed for stage fare to Maricopa Wells. but not quite enough to get him clear through to Phoenix. He decided to ride as far as he could and walk the rest of the way for he felt sure of a job when he got here, as engineer on the Grand canal, then building. At Yuma he laid in a sup ply of raisins and crackers on which he sustained life until he got to Phoe- nix, the stage stations being too lux urious for him. At Maricopa Wells ne found himself lacking forty-five cents of the necessary stage fare to Phoenix so he sold a can of condensed milk to a soldier for half a dollar and had five cents over the necessary amount. But horror of horrors! most of it was nickels and dimes and the stage man demurred about taking such small change which he feared he would have trouble in disposing of. MT. Patrick told him it was legal ten der and ne would have to take it, which he was prevailed upon to do by MT. Patrick throwing in his odd nickel for good measure.
 Arriving in Phoenix his first neces- sity was to find a boarding house he could stand off for the time being and found a friend in Miguel Peralta, who was then conducting the store later bought by the Goldmans. When he made a look for his Grand canal job he discovered another man was hold ing it down so he opened an office, hung out a shingle and began to look for something in the engineering line.
 His experience since then has been a varied one in Arizona, southern Cal ,DI,t ing four trips into old Mexico, some of them of quite lengthy duration. On one of them he surveyed a big irri- gating canal along the Yaqui river and it was then ne learned to be a real Yaqui, to talk the language and make these people call him Fl Capitan. During his countless desert trips ne has had many escapes from Indians and bandits of various tribes and na tionalities, but he has never been kill ed or scalped or married.
 After throwing out his shingle things began to come a little easier, for engineers were scarce in those days and though there was nothing very big projected there were numer- ous canals to dig and houses to build and he got his share. Among his ear
 
 in evidence was the planning and sup ervising of the construction of the old Central school building. In this he shipped into Arizona the first carload of lumber that ever came from Cali fornia and that came much of the way on a freight wagon. Twice during the projecting of the county court house he submitted plans for it but was away when the final plans were ac- cepted. However, when he returned he was placed in charge of the con- struction of the building. He also had charge of the construction of what is now known as the Anderson building, occupied by the Berryhill company. IL was one of the early brick structures in the town and has been remodeled and enlarged. He surveyed and laid out many of the additions to Phoenix including the Patrick addition, which by the way is still laid out" some. distance beyond the limits of the town, though the first settlement called Phoenix was not far from his present ranch.
 Mr. Patrick also has the distinction of having surveyed and superintended the construction of both railroad lines into Phoenix The NJ & r. was the first line, all of which he surveyed, turned the first furrow at Maricopa the initial point, with his little gar den blow, and with his own scraper moved the first cubic yard of dirt. When the Santa Fe proposed building into Phoenix MT. Patrick had an office in a little building where the Hotel Adams now stands, and a room in the rear he occupied as a sleeping apart ment. He was sent for to run the line north from Phoenix, and got out of q sick bed to begin the work He sur veyed and mad charge of the grading of it as far north as the Agua Fria.
 He also ran the lines, drove the first spike and superintended the building of the first street railroad in the ter ritory, the little mule line that was first operated in Phoenix.
 Another of his larger employments was the surveying of the southern California branch of the Santa Fe sys- tenn from Colton to San Diego. Aside from these larger contracts MT. Pat rick has had to do with many smaller ones to which reference is not mate rial at this time but which included much survey work on canals and rail- roads.
 In the course of it all he naturally developed a great deal of curiosity in the prehistoric people of this country, | constantly in contact with their ancient dwellings and their ca nals which are now nearly all oblit- erated. By reason alone, of his in- terest in those things he surveyed all the old canals he could find and some years ago published a map of them together with considerable eXplanato ry data. In his continuous contact with the natives of the country he picked up considerable of the Indian i languages and mastered Spanish so that ne feels after twenty seven years | of life here that he is something of a native himself.