Weekly journal-miner., 1910-01-05
YEARLY MEETING ID BE HELD IN
 DECEMBER
tFrom Tuesdays Daily)


 It is now forty-six years, on the 29th of December, since Arizona was formally declared a separate com monwealth, and in memory of that event the Society of Arizona Pio- neers have set their yearly meeting on that date.
 This society is the spiritual, if not the direct, heir of the Pioneers His torieal Society, which during the six ties, had a ftful existence in Pres colt, chiefly inspired by the en- thusiasm of Governor Richard Me Cormick and finally died with the sole asset Git is told) of one petri- fed human ear.
 The present society was organized through the efforts of Charles D. Paston, Arizona's first delegate to congress, and without in the least failing to appreciate its other work, it's finest achievement is the fellow ship which it has kept alive and the mutual interest and sympathy which it has created among the men and women who shared the dangers and hardships of early days.
 Within it's own field, the head quarters of the society being in Tue son, it has fostered the eomrade- ship and friendliness so heart-warm- ing to those whose lives lie in the past more than in the future, and it has inspired a loyal and enthus- iastie interest in local history that is good to see.
 The roll of membership includes names from all parts of Arizona, but many responded to the call to the yearly meeting, by letter or tele- grams instead of in person. This was inevitable, the distances were too great, and at seventy travel in Pullman is harder than on horse back at thirty.
 Yet it was a notable meeting. The secretary, Col. Sidney R. DeLong, had just celebrated his eighty-frst birth day and forty-seven of those years spent in Arizona. The president elect, Prof. W. P. Blake, first saw Arizona more than fifty years ago, and it was largely upon his reports that the Gadsden purchase was un- dertaken.
 Sixty members in all responded to the roll call, ad yet, of the eighty original members of the society, but thirteen were there, the others had responded to higher call.
 It was a matter of great regret that the only representative of Yav- apai county was the writer, a pioneer child indeed, but not of earliest Ari- zona. It made stronger the feeling that there should be other Pioneer societies in every town and camp and community, wherever half a dozen pioneers could come together in the spirit of friendly eomrade- ship for the sake of "Auld Lang Syne," and for the pleasure and sympathy in the present, and such mutual helpfulness as may be.
 Prescott and Yavapai county have the material for one of the strong est Pioneer Societies in Arizona, and I hope that another 29th of Deeem- Der may see there a gathering as full of good cheer as the one just past at Tucson.
 Such organizations are not only i of inestimable value in preserving | local history and inspiring interest | in and respect for it, but they per form the greater service of pre- serving to us the great-hearted, gen erous friendlinessof pioneer days.
 SHARLOT NJ. HALL. I. T. T. T. T. T. !. T. !. 7. I. T. T. through which all the ore and waste from the mine is being removed. The east winze is about forty-five feet | uCNB anu lut NtSl OuG 4S lOlly lOCl | in length. In both of these winzes | good commercial ore has prevailed all the way down and the material taken from these winzes has gone to swell the supply. being mined for the smell ter. The Arizona Commercial ore varies widely in copper value as is, of course, the case in almost any mine, but it is a conservative state ment to say that the average is about per cent copper.
 It is a rather remarkable fact that the machinery and equipment, both in connection with the smelter and the new power house and crushing plant, which the Arizona Commercial Copper