Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-27
OLD FRIENDS RENEW
 ACQUAINTANCEsHIP

with E. F. Kellner, when that gen
 tleman is in reminiscent mood. Mir
 Kellner came to Arizona and New
 Mexico many years ago-came years before the stiffness of the desert ever
 echoed to the sound of the whistle of the engine, a time when nerve
 and courage was the capital requisite ! to build up a business in those far
 away days. That the pioneers love 1 to refer to, love to look back into the misty times of the past and let
 their mind travel down the momen-
 tious years intervening. "Several
 years ago." quoth MT. Kellner, 1T
 made a Globe man a present of a
 piece of property on South Broad
 ing whisky. He kept his promise
 street on condition that he stop
 and two years ago sold a small DOT ton of this land I gave him for
 sS,000, and retained much the bet ter and larger part. refer to this to show the marvellous growth of thls
 city. I purchased the property where
 the Brookner store now stands Ior $500. I conducted a store there many years and sold the property for $30,-
 900. thought I was making a good
 interest, but that same property is worth earily s6O,OOO, and still the wheel of fortune turns. I never saw
 anything like the increase in prop erty valuation in this city"
 "Some years ago." continued MT.
 Kellner, "a driver in my employ To- cated the Inspiration mine. He was indebted to me $60, and he tried his level best to have me advance him $40 more and take the mine. I re- fused, and the property today is al most priceless, away up in the mil lions. I was also offered the Old Dominion mine upon like debt prop osition for $500. I again couldn't see my way to take it. Look at it to- day. It is so everywhere in this neighborhood. I took s140,000 from Globe several years ago and invest ed largely in the Salt River valley
 For years it was profitable, then came the drouth and my losses in that section were terrific. I sold several thousand acres there and got what I considered a big price, but today it could not be bought for four times that price. I never made a dol lar in speculation; what made was in legitimate mercantile business, but the sums of money made in mines and real estate in Globe is simply phe- nomenal. I confess I cannot keep in touch with it. I am not competent to judge as to when it will stop, but I look for Globe to be another Den yer. Arizona is moving forward with marvellous rapidity. Its future can only be estimated by its wonderful past.
 "I came to Globe when I had to haul my freight HOO miles, and that through a country that was peopled with Apaches. No railroads or set dement's of any consequence, soldiers guarded the mountain passes and wat er holes. A trusty rifle and strong faith in God was all the protection our people had in these stormy years of the past, but MT. Reporter, you cfo cfo ba yah ! of the Anglo Saxon. This sturdy race has planted civilization's banner on every continent in the world. They knew no such a word as fail, and crossing the seas North America was their last stand. This race came to Arizona and New Mexico, and while the Apache, that fierce denizen of the desert, that Ishmaelite of the plain and hill, barred their pathway for a time, but the inevitable oc- cured. The Indian was driven from his haunts and where all was desola- tion and despair is now green fields and a eontented people. Geronimo rides on his raids no more, and the remnants of his band are now sleep ing in a strange land far from the scenes of their early maurauding, and Arizona once barren and desolate is now the nations handmaiden of pros perity, knocking at the door of the nation for admission to the union. MT. Reporter, it is difficult for us old fellows to realize all these things we see today. We are used to the trail and the pack horse, but the whirl and turmoil of these busy min ing cities, with imposing business blocks, automobiles and other evi- dence of metropolitan airs, almost makes a fellow think that he is awakening from a long sleep. Globe, Phoenix, Tucson, Bisbee and Douglas all first-class up-to-date cities. Tue Al. oE o.A