Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-13

at Fort Mohave, and from there wend
 ed it's way to the base of the SaI
 Francisco mountains. Here a halt was
 made and an inventory of the food
 supplies taken. It was found that
 the resources in this line were insuf
 ficient to permit of extensive explora
 tiOn in the region in which today
 Prescott and the tributary gold fields
 exist, and after a consultation the de
 cisiOn was arrived at to continue to
 Albuquerque, N. M. Breaking camp
 and in a few weeks entering the
 Navajo Indian reservation, the trou'
 bles of the party commenced The
 Indian disputed the right of the pale
 face, and without any parleying, Wal
 ker and his party opened hOstilities
 killing several and paving the way
 for the advance. Fighting continued
 as progress was made to the goal
 and when the objective was reached
 not a man of the party was missing,
 although some had been wounded by
 arrows from the redskins. The mem
 bers of the party were startled on arriving Tn Albuquerque to learn that
 the Civil war was in progress, and
 for a time it was believed the morale of the organization would be shattered
 by the eagefness with which several desired to go into the field with one or the other military forces. Some few enlisted for a limited time, and when service expired they retraeed their footsteps to the mother body and renewed with more zeal than ever the object of the expedition. In speaking of the entry of the party into Albuquerque, a survivor of the party who is alive today and resides in Prescott, states that the Mexican population stampeded when they be- held the raiment of the men. They were attired in buckskin clothes from head to foot, the edges fringed and highly cOlored. Each member was a typical mOuntaineer and when the purpose of the organization was learn ed, several recruits of the same type heartily entered the enrolment In 1862 the expedition was again under headway, and following the Rio Grande and crossing the Black Range of mountains, Tucson was reached. By this time over thirty intrepid men were on the roll call From Tucson the party travelled toward the north ern fields, the point originally mapped out. They fought the savages in the southern country, and hardly a day passed without an encounter. Arriv- ing in what is now Prescott, small wings of the party struck out in diff ferent directions to explore. After several streams had been exploited, Lynx creek, but ten miles distant, was selected, placer gold being in evi ienee in every place dug into. Here the party went into camp as a perma- nent organization. They were sue ,essful in mining, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of the "free stuff" was washed out of the soil. It was here, too, that the dismember- nent of the organization took place. One by one, individuals left, and in a few years as an organization the famous Walker party went into 
 The entry of this party into central and northern Arizona signalized an event in history that few appreciate pr consider in this late day. It was the initial organization of white men that came; it was, the pioneer body that had the nerve to settle an area and mould it into a scene of life and activity; it faced not a habitation; not a foot of the entire region from Tucson to Fort Mohave had a spade full of the ground titled; not a white mans cabin even was in evidence, much less human being of the same race. It was in all of its natural beauty on one hand and its horror on the other-a wilderness of the most bewildering type. But it was nevertheless, and in a few months afterward the gold seeker, the home builder, the farmer, the artisan, the politician, the bad men, came in long and continuous caravans and the country was opened.
 The original roll call of this party has been preserved in memory's chain, and is as follows when it start ed from California: Captain Joe Wal ker, his nephews, Joe Walker and John Walker; John J. Miller and his