Arizona republican., 1910-07-06
JOHN OSBORN IN 4
 REMINISCENT MOOD
Anniversary of His Arrival in Prescott
 Forty-six Years Ago.

Today IS the forty-s sixth anniversary of the arrival of quite notable party in the town of-Prescott, Arizona, and the date makes very timely a little reminiscent recital of John osborn of this city It was July G. 1864. that J. P. osborn fJohn's father) and his family arrived in Prescott, John then being ten years old Accompanying them were many others. as the only safe way to travel in those days was } with good sized wagon train, and then it wasn't as safe as they would liked to have had it. Mir. Osborn said yesterday that all the members of the caravan that he can recall who are still living in Arizona are his broth CTS William and Neri. Dr. J. NJ. Swet- nam of this city, George Carey of Tir Top. and Judge E. w. Wells of Prescott, then a husky young man of IT, and himself.
 The Fourth of July had been spent at old Fort Whippie, now known as Del Rio and after it's proper celebra- ton the wagon train pulled out for Prescott, arriving two days later Progress was slow, as the means of locomotion was the time -honored- OK team Arriving in Prescott. they found the town consisted Of one house and a few tents or camps of similar travellers. Immediately there ~as the outfitting of all the teams possible, and the building of the town under the sheltering protection of the new
 ilo away, began.
 The removal of the post had oc cured not long before and the car avah in question had spent the Fourth in it's deserted quarters. John said he had the distinction of being mule skinner on the commissary wagons that carried the grub for the whole outfit When they got ready to leave old Fort Whipple he noticed that the soldiers had left hanging from the logs above the chains from which were suspended their mess kettles. He had no special object in view at the time. but he thought those chains would come in handy some time. They look ed like too valuable property to be left there when there wasn't hard c country. so he took them all down and threw them in his wagon. He does not remember how many there were. but there were a lot of them, each only three or four feet long, enough to fill up one end of his wagon box.
 Hardly had they reached Prescott. before Loren Jenks and Charlie Ock- enbough bought some cattle at a bar gain and outfitted team. all but the necessary log chains. And right here was established what was probably the first trust in Arizona. John Os- born had all the log chains in Ari zona that were not working. so far as known. and the nsters were glad enough to pay hi IA. .5 a piece for all of them. He sold and went out of business. It was the first big stake John ever had in his life
 Continuing his "reminiscences Mir Osborn told of his next big stake, ac- quired the same year. as. page in the first Arizona legislature, which important positions were held by him self and his brother Neri The ses- sion was for sixty days and the emol- ument was 8 per day. When pay day came Governor Mccormick gave John his whole $1SO in five cent shinplas- ters. It was good new money and had been forwarded from Washington in' big sheets. The governor gave John all this wealth -in currency of the smallest denominations which made it look bigger to the boy who had up to that time harsly appreciated that there could he SO mich good new money in the whole world.