Weekly journal-miner., 1913-12-31
DISTRICT LOSS TO
 BUSINESS COMMUNITY
E-nm Saturdays Daily.)


 On Christmas day the remarkable and noteworthy career of K. Il. Bur mister as a merchant of this city ceased. the doors being closed and the business suspended. Regret but feeblv expressed the passing of the mercantile career of this well known and upright citizen, who for nearly forty years had been at the helm "i commercial pursuits until his asso- ciation had become so firmly cement ed with the people that his name was cherished as a household word Mir. Burmister states that hls re ,;rinr from business is a purely voluntary move and after so long , career he deemed it expedient to step down and out to give way to advancing years and that his out lying interests might receive the time and attention they require.
 Reviewing the fleeing years when the country was young, when m- dustrv was in a chaotic state, when | the primitive prevailed and even when life was insecure, this pillar of an industrial pursuit first came into the old territory and launched his business under conditions thai were attended with the sacrifice o oersonal comfort, as well as tho hazardous in speculating on the iu s ture. But with that indomitabl' will of the pioneer he struggled , and as one looks back into thu shadowy past of the carly seventies the familiar form of this citizen !
 seen with the same zeal and ardo 5 moving on and upward that grace'
 his many years of residence an
 which never slackcned for mo @ ment to the end.
 The old-timer will recall the hrr If of L. Bashford & Co.,, and in tn - mist of the past Is seen the tea lures of the man of today, wh then was the junior member = this firm. Later the advent of Basf
 ford & Burmister signalled the sui e vival of the ittest ard with the pas ,. ing of the years the firm branche g out and the Bashford- Burmistcr c " came into existence. The closin
 chapter was the creation of the liri ,f of R. H. Burmister & Sons Con ,s rany. and now after nearly ten yea ,b the scene is again shifted and Il ls curtain drops.
 ,- Looking backward and grasplr is the hazardous day when tine cru IT, of the earth was yet smoking fro ,d the ten-ycar war with the Apach ,h when the principal industry of mi
 ;ng was hanging by a delica r. thread. when the incoming farm i. by the score was struggling to bul n q home and develop the soil, wh -+ he cattleman vcutured in with n, few head of stock as his only cal .I, al when the home-buildcr al i. scores of others were endeavorl .o- 10 become settled, the memory .o other days will be reflected in [ Ii, lpcn-hcarted and willing hand giv ,,4 each and every one from the histo -s rouse of L. Bashford & Co. To il s: erialiy assist all was the motto, a :. % generous was the considerati Ied shown that Mir Burmister siat
 yesterday that the books of his , ,d. houses will show disbursement
 half million of dollars in goo ,y md wares to this end. Such in br
 $ the past record of this III
 who, with his associates has dc more and accomplished more Il
 ny other individual in the St o-- toward building up the country .
 bringing it to the high rating it N joys today.
 Another distinctive matter linl
 10 this citizen is that at the Ii
 of retiring from an active comm I.r- cial pursuit he has the credit
 being i'll harness for many ye N longer than any other man V
 survives in the State. After " months on the coast, ne returns
 look after his varied mining in
 ests, which are scattered thror
 inc county.
 CHRISTMAS WEDDING.