Weekly journal-miner., 1910-10-12
HoNoRED PIONEER
 CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
(From Fridays Daily.)

JuuSe N. 1. uIlHiH' JHe premier OI
 the Hassayampa colony, celebrates
 today his 77th anniversary, and with
 that ripe age, he is also recalling
 the distant days of his early arrival
 and turns back the leaves in the
 Book of Time to 1863, as the year when he first came to Prescott to reside. In the latter record, he can
 truthfully say that he is the pio- neer living resident of the city. and one of the oldest in the Territory at large, either one of which note worthy distinctions cannot be appre- eiated in this generation, when 1t is taken into consideration what the pio- neer passed through in privation and the perils that faced all in the era of the Apache warfare.
 In reminiscent mood yesterday, he related many interesting events of pioneer days. He camped on what is now the Plaza before there was a house in the city. This was in June of 1863. Later, when the guberna- torial party reached Chino Valley, and after Surveyor General Clark drove the first official stake in the ground at athe old Dougherty build ing, in West Prescott, and designated it as the permanent capital of Ari- zona, Prescott came into existence. With the townsite established, Ari- zona received its first real estate boom. One locator of land was fol- lowed by another, and with the rush MT. Griffin got into line and erected snug little cabin of hewn logs on the identical corner that is to- day occupied by the MulvenOn brick block, on the corner of Gran ite and Gurley streets. At that time the total habitations in the city could be counted on the fingers of both hands. As the town com menced to grow, and with the pres tige of being the capital of Arizona, it was but a few months when the buildings could be counted by the score, and many were quite preten- tious. Judge Griffin found the little cabin inadequate and with the late Calvin Jackson, in 1864, erected on adjoining ground to the east of his original cabin, an adobe building, 5Ox 100 feet, which withstood the rav- ages of time until the big fire of 1900 wiped it out of existence.
 Judge Griffin in many instances re- lates interesting experiences, in which the struggle between the white and the red man followed for supremacy, in the little hamlet and surrounding country. But: $ke palefaee triumphed and in few years Prescott was big enough to get on the map as a desirable haven for the prospector and explorer.
 Judge Griffin reached Tucson in October, 1862, arriving from the Trinidad mine, in Sonora, where he was manager of the commercial in terests of the company. He accom- panied a wing of the Walker party to Rich Hill from that city, and yer flies the fabulous wealth in native gold that was taken out by the orig inal locators, which he estimates at several hundred thousand dollars, or as he aptly expresses it, "God only knows how much. ''
 All the ground being taken up at that point, he came on to Lynx Creek, where he found one hundred miners at work. This was early in 1863. At that time thousands of people were rushing into the eoun- try, all attracted by the strike on Rich Hill. Soon they commenced to run to all sections, and in a few months every locality that had any colOrs in the gravel, was teeming with acitiviey. The arrival of the white man resulted in the Indian disputing his right. They wanted pay for the water, the grass was theirs, the tim Der belonged to the squaws to build fires, and from these grievances the crack of the rifle was heard and the devilish Indian war began It ragged for ten long years, and soon the country was almost depopuIated
 Judge Griffin states that Prescott, in the early days, was provided with supplies from Yuma, La Paz, Aubrey, and Fort Mohave, all located in the Colorado river. The pack train was the only method of the transportation and it cost an even twenty-five cents a pound to get in anything.
 Judge Griffin is as hale and hearty