Arizona republican., 1910-11-30
WORDS OF TRIBUTE
 FROM ONE WHO KNOWS
GoIdfieId Tribune Pays High Honor To One Whose Life Was Given
 To Development of the West.

Under the caption "Only a From
 tier Writer" the Goldfield Weekly Tribune editorially pays a glowing tribute to the memory of the late
 Fitz James Mccarthy. familiarity
 known as Fitz Mac. It is herewith reproduced in full:
 Three days ago the Associated Press chronicled the death of James
 F. Mccarthy. better known to the newspaper world as "Fitz Mac" He died in obscurity and it is probable
 that the few persons who were di- rectly interested in his welfare knew
 of the strange life of the man whose seconds were speeding toward the
 grave His hours had been num-
 bered and the grim reaper was
 gathering him to his fathers. Com
 paratively a young man he died at a
 time when his services to the west
 ern country were just winning recog-
 milton. "FitZ Mac" was one of the
 most brilliant men of the west. He
 was contemporary of Eugene
 Field with whom he had labOred
 side by side until stricken by a mal-
 ady that deprived him of one of the
 most important senses. He emer-
 ged from his illness deprived of the sense of hearing and for the last thirty years he made his way through life handicapped by an affliction
 that would have daunted a man of less courage. In spite of this draw
 back he continued in the line of newspaper work and promotion pub licity and his writings have been read by hundreds of thousands of men who knew little of the man whose descriptive faculty enchained their in- terest The magic of his words riv- eted their attention and it was only when they read "Finis" that they paused to contemplate the marvellous necromancy of the writer who could conjure language with such vivid and all compelling power. He was not a course juggler of words but a master mind whose grand concepts of the west were limned with a pliant pencil that imprinted in the hearts of his readers the grandeur of the sub jects he depicted. His description of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona. has never been surpassed. It was a sublime effort. "FitzMIac" accompanied Thomas Moran. the famous painter. to the scene of that incompatible chef d'oeuvre of the Creator His description was an H. fad of the west. a heroic epic. riot ing in color and conveying fOrcibly to distant minds the abyssmal splen- dor of that awful chasm in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. The story was one of the most thrilling and uplifting that ever engaged the eye of a printer. If there were any de- fleets. it was due to the fact that no human being could photograph in words the wonders of the scene. He was always on the firing line and his services were eagerly coveted by the leading western newspapers and mag azines. He was the first man to write the story of Creede. that wild camp born in a cleft of the Rockies in midwinter when the mercury reg istered as low as sixty below zero. He was associated with Cy Warman. the railroad poet. when it was all day in the daytime and there was no night in Creede."
 GOldfield. Bullfrog and Las Vegas are indebted to the forceful pen of "Fitz Mac" for his clever portrayal of conditions that reigned here in early days when tent houses and bottle shacks were the chief ornaments of the landscape. Mccarthy came into the southern desert country in the wake of the deported ColoradOans and he was the first writer to convey an idea of the resources of this dis trict to the men on the outside His pencil portrayed the discovery of high grade at grass roots. he told of the struggles of the pioneers and he de-