Arizona republican., 1910-01-29

Q From 1864 to 1874. the history O ? Arizona is written in blood In 1878 l the Southern Pacific railway entered l the territory. In 1885. the Santa F, system was completed to the Colorado , river.
 | Church history in Arizona begins for us in 1860, when Joseph Cruick- : shank Talbot was cOnsecrated mis- , sionary bishop of the northwest. He , was called the bishop of all out
 doors" map in the missions house . of the original northwestern juris-
 diction shows that Arizona was in-
 eluded in it. Bishop Talbot was
 bishop of the northwest, and so of
 Arizona from 1860 to 1865. He vis-
 ited santa Fe. x. M, but did not venture farther.
 On one of the pages of the cover of
 the Spirit of Missions for March. 1866. there is this announcement:
 'Arizona. Cerro Colorado, -" This
 is the first evidence of church life
 in Arizona that l have been able to
 find. Some one tried to do some
 thing, though nothing seems to have
 come of it. Cerro Colorado was situ-
 ated in the Santa Rita mountains in
 southern Arizona. and here was one
 of the first great mining camps of ' the territory. Colonel Poston, who
 was a part owner of this mine, was
 churchman. and evidently tried to do something for the church. He was known as the Father of Ari- ! zona."- He died only few years ago at Phoenix.
 At the general convention of 1868, the Rev. Ozi William Whitaker. now the bishop of Pennsylvania. was elect ed missionary bishop for the state os Nevada and the territory of Ari- zona. In 1872. Bishop Whitaker re-
 ported that his hope that d mission might be established in Arizona had not been realized. The population
 had decreased and the Indians were
 more hostile. In 1874. Bishop Whit
 aker made his only visit to Arizona
 IL is very interesting reading matter
 and gives a good deal of information
 about Arizona in those days. The
 bishop was living at Virginia City.
 New. He went by rail from Virginia City ito San Francisco: by steamer
 from San Francisco to San Diego: by stage from San Diego to Yuma and Tucson in Arizona: by blackboard from Tucson to Florence. Phoenix. Prescott: from Prescott to Ehrcn- | berg. on the Colorado river. then across the Colorado desert to Los Angeles and San Francisco. and back 1 to his starting place. The time it took was two months. What one of ! his successors in Arizona has taken 1 a trip like that2 The whole number !! of residents in the territory was 9.65S. 1 exclusive of Indians: the majority | were MeXicans Tucson was the | capital and headquarters of the i.o- | man church. IL was to Arizona what , Santa Fe was to New Mexico.
 Bishop Whitaker closed his report | by saying that if it should be thought I best to withdraw ArzoNa from Ne yada and attach it to southern Cali fornia he would not complain. It would be easier, to administer the diocese of Maine from Nevada than the territory of Arizona. When the house of bishops attached Arizona to Nevada. it did not take into ac- count that great gash in the earth. known as the Grand Canyon. which made communication across the coun- try impossible.
 ' vada on the ecclesiastical map. but it was not attached to southern Cali fornia At the general convention of 1874 Athe missionary Jurisdiction of New Mexico and Arizona was ere ated.
 The Rev. William F. Adams of the diocese of Louisiana was elected in 1874 the first bishop of the newly created jurisdiction. He never visited Arizona. He resigned in 1877. He is now bishop of Easton. The Rev. David E. Knickerbacker of Minne- apolis, Minn.. was elected in 1S1s, but he could not see his way clear to accept He was afterwards bishop ,f Indiana He apologized to the present bishop for not going to Ari- .ona He should have apologized to Arizona.
 For the three years following 1877 he Jurisdiction of New Mexico and Arizona was placed under the pro- iisional charge of Bishop Spalding of Colorado. It was not thought nec- .ssary to call a special meeting of he house of bishops for an election.
 So Arizona fared for bishops from S6O to 1880, from Bishop Talbot to ,le are not our own. But there is tlso interest at home. The board of directors includes prominent men of he territory The best physicians of Phoenix give their services. There is | board of visitors. on which some of ,ur most active and influential wo- nen are serving. It has an advisory ,Oard, of well-known clergymen and aymen in the east. The Rev Der rand R. Cocks is the efficient super ntendent It Is weli-organized, yell managed charity. Very little is appended for official salaries. It does lot aim to advertise Arizona as a lealth resort. but to take care of ome of those who will inevitably ome- and who must not be left to uffer The hospitality of St. Luke's ome will be extended to our clergy. rho come or wish to come to this ountry for their health. Several en- owments that have been received make it possible to do something of his. and it is hoped that additional ndowment will make it possible to o more.
 Arizona has 113.900 square miles. ts population by the census of 1900 -as I92 e3I which however included