Arizona republican., 1910-03-24


 lcok back with honor and reverence
 to the good of the past. and the surest
 way to keep the eyes clear enough
 to see tomorrow's sunrise is to turn
 them once in q while toward the fade
 less sun of yesterday.
 There was a Pioneers Picnic in
 Phoenix a few days ago and to il came
 men and women whose lives cover the
 most heroic the most romantic era
 m our hiStory-such gold-threaded,
 rich tinted story as will never be writ
 ten again on this globe for we have
 seen the end of the frontier For the first time since man begun to hunt in packs and live in tribes there is no great, unknown land ahead waiting
 those on whom was laid The Curse of
 the Wandering Foot"
 Almost unconscious of it's import we
 are facing a condition absolutely new to our race: we. with the restless blood in our veins of d thousand rest ! less generations of men who moved westward following the frontier. have come where there is no longe: West. no lOhger a frontier to which we can move on. Just what it is going to mean to mankind. that the free, wide untrammeled places of earth are all 1 known and claimed and in way to be i peopled only tomorrow can say; but | the hearts nf the world will not soon | forget this Homeric era: rough and l brave. splendid at it's best-better at ! it's worst than any tanner. safer. soft 1 padded life.
 We think 1t is being forgotten. that ] brave life of yesterday. that no one ! cares that no one wants to remember. : Well then we have reckoned without ! the children. without the young people. 1 who are born to hero worship now as ! truly as ever. Not one of those white 1 headed pioneers who met to shake ] hands with his neighbor who came in : the same wagon train with long rifle across the seat, cares more. really, than the boys and girls who fill our i schools and crowd and cheer and lean 1 forward breathless to listen when tales are told of the way their fathers and mothers came down the old Santa Fe trail and on into the mountains and valleys of Arizona.
 There can be no danger of forget ting. if any sort of record is kept, for when each incident is caught up greed fly. each tale of endurance and courage repeated over and over with question upon question There was never an other such inspiring work as the bring ing into the schools of Arizona the story of the state and the men and women who were it's makers: here in the hearts Of these our future citi- ZenS We can build the enduring memo rial to our heroic beginning. We can perpetuate the best of our lost from tier. its courage and fairness and self reliance. and it's spirit of ready help for the less fortunate.
 If there could be any question as to the use of a state history. q state mu- scum, it would be answered in one visit to a school where talk was be- ing given on any part of our story. from its beginning to the present day. These young people crowd to see the old maps, the old books. the old pie lures in which some part of the his tory is set down. They are wide ! awake to what it would mean to go through rooms in which even a mod crate collection of objects relating to the growth of the state were gathered and displayed.
 IL is surprising how much of his torical importance has dropped out of sight completely in the years between the present and the earH sixties when Arizona was roughly blocking out her trail There is the first official map
 of the young territory. of which no copy is known to be owned in Arizona and one only has yet been traced else where
 Tt h.- Di.b irH vrhn name will be remembered in connection with the mines at Castle Dome and
 Signal and Tombstone and bears the signatures of Governor Goodwin and Secretary Mccormick and also the re-
 cord of approval by the legislature on october 23. 1S64-having been prepar-
 ed from all available sources of infor nation, including "All the recent explo- rations."
 A thousand copies of this map were printed in san Francisco. and it is but reasonable to believe that somewhere a few have survived and that some state collection; as a most interesting large wall map of the United States
 on which Arizona is spelled "AriZOnia"
 was brouht to the governors office some while ago by Mir. Goodwin of Tempe. probably the only copy in Ari- Zona and a most valuable historical relic
 There is another map of peculiar interest which was issued so late as 1880 and which bears the signature of Governor FremOnt-and yet only one copy of it is available for study in Arizona. and close search has so far failed to trace more than one other on the coast. and that in the Munk col lection. It shows in intricate detail
 the old trails and wagon roads and forts and stations whose names are all but forgotten.
 Some day Arizona may wish to mark
 the greatest of her landmarks. as Kan sas has marked her part of the famous Santa Fe trail. and then this map will
 be invaluable. There the school chil dren led by the Daughters of the American Revolution. helped. in raising the fund and it has been suggested here in Arizona that such a movement