Bisbee daily review., 1905-11-23
FUNNY STREET NAME IS THE
 HASSAYAMP.
One Perplexing Problem in Connection
 With the Fair Solved.

The Hassayamp," is the name SC
 lected for the funny street at the fair,
 the committee deciding that it was the
 most appropriate one of the many
 that were submitted to Mir. Tharald-
 son. The manner of the selection of
 the name was as follows: Yesterday morning Superintendent Clark tele- | phoned Harvey J. Lee, business mana
 ger of The Republican, requesting him
 to name one man from each of the
 two daily papers, and the three pro i ceeded to the selection of name. MT.
 Lee named H. F. Tritle of the Gazette | and Frank Lovett of the Enterprise and at o'clock they began their la 1 bors. It took them just two hours to read over the letters containing the
 names suggested and make their de- cision and it should be stated that the opinion of the committee was unani-
 nous is the selection of the name The Hassayamp." Two words were almost necessary for the sake of euphony and the fundamental requirement. was that the name should be distinctly Arizonian; something that had an Ari- zona meaning and that would adver- tise Arizona. yet be appropriate for the purpose in hand.
 There were two people who suggest ed The Hassayamp," one being Mrs. A. A. Armstrong and the other Ben Butler. Both will be given free ad- mission tickets by the management. Among the hundreds submitted were many suggestions of the word Has sayampa in some form, either fully spelled out, chopped off, or used in connection with some other words. but these two were the only ones exactly like the words chosen. There seemed in fact to be a generally prevailing sentiment that the name of that his toric river should be used in some form and the committee decided toI give preference to the almost univers- al pronunciation of the name rather than its complete spelling.
 The name Hassayampa is not only distinctly but exclusively ArizonanI and while it's use dates back to the earliest times it is also more employ ed today than ever before, and a popu- lar meaning has been ascribed to it that is more sentimentally expressive than words can describe. The word is of the Yavapai-Apache origin and Is the name given by the Indians in the long ago to the Arizona river that rises in Yavapai county and empties into the Gila in Maricopa county passing through the richest and almost the earliest goldfields worked by the pioneer Arizonians. both quartz and placer. Some of the earliest settle ments of the whites were along it's banks and many pioneer has engaged the redskins on it's rocky bluffs, to the annihilation of one or the other.
 It is therefore name that means much to the pioneer in a reminiscent way, and equally as much to the new conner in a sentimental way To be called a Hassayanmper is to have the distinction of being considered a pia- neer and that is an honorable distinc- tion in every country. But the word Is often given another and a humorous meaning. Arizona like all new coun- tries, eventually developed many mar vicious things that when first related were unbelievable and the doubting ones excused them on the ground that they were told by Hassayampers who had been here so long they had come to believe Arizona was biggest in everything, or they were so enthus- ed over her marvels that they did not stop at the truth but enlarged their tales to the limits of imagination. From that fact came the popular super stition that one who had drunk of the waters of the Hassayampa could never again be relied upon to speak the truth if an exaggeration could be used to answer the purpose. These are the things that make the word Hassa- yampa perhaps the best loved, most widely known and most expressive of any Arizona name.
 Over a thousand different names were suggested, some of them by sev- eral different writers, some writers suggesting several different names. The letters were dated in points all over the west from Helena, Mont, and Hot Springs, Ark. to the pebbled
 shores of the placid Pacific, in fact
 all over the territory where The Re publican is recognized as an import ant agency for the dissemination of information concerning public matters.