Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-08

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 MEMORIAL TO TIE
 PIONEERS OF THE WEST.
 Recently at Denver a monument to the pioneers was unveiled, which
 had long been in preparation. It was designed by MacMonnies. is in
 the most conspicuous spot in the city. and the affair was attended by
 national as well as state celebrities.
 Figures on> the memorial represent
 hunters, Indian fighters, agricultur-
 ists and miners, the whole sur
 mounted by statue of Kit Carson
 on horseback. showing him in his early years. just after he had pass
 ed through the preparatory school
 for his Ifework on the Santa Fe
 trail, and when he was making his
 advent as a hunter and path blazer
 of the wilderness.
 There is a certain propriety in
 the erection of this memorial to the
 pioneers and mountain men in the largest city of the Rocky mountain region Moreover. in Denver and it's neighborhood the pioneer was a per sonage of yesterday. Colorado was not erected into a state until 1876. Its thirty-fifth anniversary is to be celebrated on August l. Several of the other states in it's vicinity-the two Dakotas. Montana, Wyoming and Idaho-are still younger In all of them some of the first set tiers" are still living. Not until 1858 was the gold discovery made which placed Denver on the map. It's few hundred people of 1860 lived in log huts and tents. Today it's pop ulation is in the neighborhood of 25.0O0 Colorado. which had only 34.000 people in 1860, had 7Se,O00 in 1910 In it and in all the rest of the states of the mountain region the pioneer stage is comparatively recent.
 In selecting Kit Carson as the crowning figure of the memorial the projectors showed excellent judgment. Among the frontiersmen west of the Mississippi. Carson had as distinctive place as Boone did among those east of it. But living in later day. and roaming over a larger region, he was compelled to be much more versatile than Boone When he took French leave from the little saddler shop at Franklin. in the interior of Missouri, in 1926. at the age of l6. Carson entered on as stirring a career as the American frontier ever afforded First as teamster on the Santa Fe trail, and then as a miner, hunter, Indian fighter, guide. soldier in the Mexi- can war. a pathbreaker for the Path finder, Fremont. Indian agent and brigadier-general in the Union army in the warfare in New Mexico, he played many parts in the drama of western expansion. and played all of them well. Whole libraries of fact and fiction have been -zritter about
 jim. His deeds. real and imaginary have been told in twenty tongues Every healthy American boy of forty or fifty years ago not only read Kit Carson, but longed 10 see him. His name travelled farther than that of any other man who took a leading part in the opening of the wilder and wider west
 More than two weeks have passed since the committee on territories in the senate ordered favorable re port on the statehood resolution. by vote of to 9 of the members of the committee present. and no re port of any kind has been handed to the senate. This is not an en- eouraging circumstance for the peo- pie of Arizona. still there is room for hope that this delay is not the result of a deliberate purpose 10 prevent action during this session. Chairman Smith, of the committee on territories. has been at his home in Michigan helping celebrate the Fourth of July. and on his return he may hand in the ordered report. T.. fe ,odarstood now that in case