Weekly journal-miner., 1913-02-12
TRIBES ORDERED ID BE AT SUN
 FIFE
States First Birthday To be Observed In
 Unique Way
From Tuesdays Dailvl

NLlSSd' lhc HlSH pIlSSl Ol lHe DIE pageant at Phoenix, on February 18th, has issued an order command ing all of the tribes to be in Phoenix at the awakening of the dawn of the Postal Day He has need of all. Quickly are the plans for the big pageant being licked" into shape. The Aztec Calendar Stone will be the feature of the first float. This famed mysterious stone of the Aztecs marked the feast days and fast days of the ancient dwellers of the southwest. Its red-letter day was the Sun Fete," the feast to their chief deity-the Sun. Hence the appropriateness of the selection of the Aztec Calendar Stone for the first float. The vital and inter esting features of the history of Arizona, which is the history of the southwest, will pass in rapid sue cession. Float after float will tell of the chief items of interest of the history of this "Sunland" of America the southwest.
 Fraternal orders, lodges, citizens, young ladies and young men from the high school are all wing with each other in their efforts to DOT tray correctly the development of Arizona. Mining will be illustrated from the old prospector, with his burro and pack, to the modern air compression drills, and the other intricate machinery which is in use today. Forestry and irrigation, and other industries, will all be featured. No congress of Indians ever pre- sented a more interesting picture than will this Aztec Sun Fete." All the tribes of the southwest will be present through their represent atives. Each tribe will have its group of fighting men, clad in their war raiment of years gone by. The principal industry of each tribe will also be shown, and silver workers of the Navajos, basket weavers of the Apaches, bead workers of the Mohaves, and pottery makers from the Maricopas and Pimas, will all be seen at their interesting tasks. Then trere will come model dwell ings of every type used by the Iu- dians in years gone by and in use today. There will be tepees, ho- gans, wickiups, grass houses. and other forms of dwellings. There will be flowers of brilliant hues and delicate colors. regular glory of the garden, carried out by one hundred young ladies from the Phoenix High School, and the young men of the high school will show types of desert vegetation and the desert before the water came" they will also illustrate the rich, luxuriant land and all its resources under irrigation This is a wonder ful opportunity to learn much about the history of Arizona, and it is to be presented in a way which will live forever in the memory of all those who see the pageant A thousand people will be in line and the scale upon which the whole page ant is planned will be an awaken ing and show the wonderful re- sources of the new state-the Forty eighth Star.
 Special rates to Phoenix have been made from all points in Arizona and from California, New Mexico and Texas Preceding the day of the pageant there will be held a State Parade to which have been invited the Boards of Supervisors of all counties in Arizona, the Mayor of each incorporated city, the Legis- lature, State officials and others; these will all take part in this parade on Friday; and on Saturday they will all be on hand to witness this story of the Dawn of Amer ca''-The "Aztec Sun Fefe"