Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-01
PAST RECALLED
 BY AN OLD PRINT
ARIZONA, ITS RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS," AS TOLD BY RICH ARD MCCORMICK IN NEW YORK TRIBUNE IN 1S65.

Secretary Cowgirl of the board of
 trade is busy giving the board room a
 general overhauling, digging up the dirt
 and garbage that has accumulated dur
 ing the summer, and getting things in
 order for the rearranging of the dis
 play as soon as tine new show frames
 are ready. In doing this work he has
 come across number of old curios,
 at least two of which are interesting and worth preserving, says the Arizona
 Republican.
 One of them is an old Autograph
 stone on which is engraved letter
 head for the Phoenix Chamber of Com
 merce It is the block from which a
 great many years ago was run the stationery for the Organization of which the board is the lineal descendant. Its value is that of curio.
 Another and more interesting curio
 is a pamphlet of about twenty-five pages entitled "Arizona, It's Resources and Prospects. y It is reprint from a letter to the editor of the New York Tribune, published in that newspaper June 26, 1865. The writer was Richard c. Mccormick, the first secretary of the territory of Arizona. The pamphlet was printed the same year by D. Van Nos trand, No. 192 Broadway, New York. This is probably the oldest publication in the city on the subject of Arizona's resources, the initial effort perhaps to authoritatively call attention in print to the great undeveloped wealth of the territory. The cover is illustrated with the old territorial seal showing a miner in the foreground and range of noun tains behind.
 The publication shows the enterpris. ing nature of the Tribune management in those days, for it begins, "I have the pleasure in responding to your re- quest" etc, indicating that the Tri- bune had requested Mccormick to write the letter. A map accompanying shows that at that time the southern corner of Nevada, that portion lying south of western extension of Ari- zona s present northern boundary, was then part of Arizona. The territory then had but four counties, Mohave, Yuma, Pima and Yavapai, of which the latter was by far the largest. The map shows five forts: Mohave on the upper Colorado river, Fort Yuma, Fort Whipple, Fort Bowie, now abandoned, and Fort Goodwin, named after the rct x,ha ahnl tory, no doubt. The latter was on the upper Gila river and was abandoned long ago. The only towns in Arizona that were then of sufficient importance to find a place on the map were Har- dyville, near Fort Mohave, Callville, further up the river, Aubrey at the junction of Bill Williams Fork with the Colorado, La Paz, further down the river, now marked only by few adobe ruins, Castle Dome, a little further down, Arizona City, which is now the city of Yuma, Gila City, few miles up the Gila, Prescott Wickenburg and Weaver, near the latter place, Pima, near the present Gila crossing south of | hoChiAt uSooh anu IuDdC Ou JHt Santa Cruz, the Heintzelman mine, a little to the southwest in the Papago country and the Mowry mine, down near the present Nogales Many other settlements, however, are described in the letter, which is optimistic in tone, dwelling with the wonderful possibil- ties of the mining sections and almost every town named was slated for a future.
 Gila City, twenty miles up the Gila liver from Yuma, was laid out in 1858, after the discovery of gold at that point. It may be said that historice own lots which are probably available tt the buyer s price. La Paz is referred Q as the. business center of western Arizona and the letter says, "has some 'tores that would not do discredit to San Francisco" The main highway # travel from the Colorado to central