Bisbee daily review., 1912-11-06

Every state should preserve in per manent form the history of its growth, development and achieve ments. It is not enough that these records should be kept isolated in the archives of the states private records. accessible only to the occa- sional person who would make pill grirnage thereto and delve through masses of manuscript. But at least once in a quarter of a century some thoroughly competent person should edit in an attractive and readable form 8 history of the state and it's progress,
 This work should be published and made. accessible to the libraries ot the citizens, :. a.. ss-a.
 Not since the Bancroft histories of 1886 has a history of Arizona been published. A need for a new spUb- lloation Is felt everywhere among men and women, of education and patriotic interest in the affairs of the state.
 To Write History
 IL is gratifying to learn that Miss Sharlot NJ. Hall has undertaken to write a history of Arizona, telling the story of its growth and achieve ments from l540 to 1912. Surely no more timely occasion could be chosen for offering to the public a work of this kind than the present.
 Arizona has just entered upon her career as a state, with all the re- responsibilities toward her own citi- zens, and toward the nation, which liberty for independent choice and action implies and entails.
 Fii!!!saa Anathh 4nithh Interest
 From the May morning, in 1893 when Father De NiZa is believed to have crossed over the borderland of Mexico into Arizona, to the February morning, in 1912, when word flashed over the telegraph wires that Presi- dent Taft had placed his signature upon the document which gave this youngest commonwealth equal stand ing with the oldest states. the story of Arizona is filled with varied and picturesque interests and incidents, with tales of courage and adventure and endurance with wonderful stores of wealth discovered in unexpected
 
 by men and women who passed on about the simple duties of everyday life, unconscious that they had done anything to tempt the pen of the historian or the writer of romance.
 Indian Wars Bloody
 While the Declaration of Independ- ence was being written the Spanish settlers in Arizona were fighting as best they might the long war with the Apache Indians. which was to last until troops of that faraway new republic on the Atlantic coast should break the power of the tribes and force them to peace-lesying 10 Arizona the bloodiest history of h. dian warfare which stains the story Of any state.
 The early gold days of Arizona have their own romances. though hard on it's heels comes the romance of silver and the later reign of copper md woven with all three the red thread of endless war with the Apaches. who knew that the coming Of the white miners meant the end of their own freedom to wander at will over desert and mountains.
 Romance coIors All
 In Arizona even the story of agri- culture and stockgrowing takes on the color of romance. for the first farmers were the forgotten people who built the great prehistoric canals and jrrigating systems and tiled fields still being used at the present day. and the first stockmen were the Pueblo Indians, who got their flocks