The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-11-03
BATTLESH|P SILVER SERVICE NOW
 ON DISPLAY
That Is to be Presente dto the Dread at the A. c. Drug Store.

Wednesday evening there arrived in Clifton from Tucson, Col. Allen T. Bird of Nogales, representing the State Board of Trade, who brought the elegant silver service which is to be presented to the Battleship Arizona by the people of the great state after which has been named Uncle Sam's latest greatest addition to his navy; played in the big show window of the A. c. Co.'s drug store, where it has arrtacted universal and admiring at tention.
 pieces, all highly artistic and elegant specimens of the silversmith's. art, and the cost at the factory is about $8,000 .O0. It was made by the firm of Redd & Barton,of Taunton, Massa- chusetts, a firm which was the first established in that line in the United States, dating from 1894.
 The chief and most attractive piece iQ the set is statuette, one meter in height, representing an underground miner (mucker) made from Arizona, copper The figure is nude above the waist, with a pick and shovel over his right shoulder, with the right arm ex- tended along the top of the handles in the left hand; hanging by the side of the figure, is a miners candlestick and candle. The figure is a lifelike' representation of an underground min , or just as he is leaving a drift. It is a lifelike and artistic reproduction, and is admired by everybody.
 } Arizona copper enters also into the construction of another large part of the service, the punch bowl setconsist ing of an enormous punch bowl and tray, with twelve punch cups, all made from furnished copper from Arizona mines, the decorations being in oxi- dized silver. The punch bowl tray is thirty-six inches in diameter, with a large and beautiful etching of the San Francisco mountains, in the northern part of the state. The punch bowl it. self is thirty inches in diameter, and thirty inches in height. Upon one side is a beautifully executed etching of the Roosevelt Dam; upon the other side a like attractive etching of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. The inside of the bowl is gold lined. A diminutive figure of the American eaele and escutcheon are upon one side of the edge Each one of the punch cups is of furnished copper gold lined, the outside ornamented with oxidized silver The punch lad1e is of massive silver artistically fashioned and decorated, the inside ot :. the sroon being lined with gold. A large silver center piece, stand ing nearly as high as the punch bow with silver net, is the next chic piece in the collection. It is thirt! inches in diameter, with the bow about eight inches in depth. A nettinl of strong silver wires is calculated tC rsNpport a big bank of flowers, tht stems hanging into the water in tht bowl. The bowl itself is supported by a pedestal presenting upon foul sides representation Of the prov O the battleship, with a figure of Nep tune with his trident alternating be tween the prows.
 A large water pitcher has fint near Tucson, and each of the twelve goblets which complete the set ha: an etching of the Rough Rider monu ment at Prescott.
 Two salad bowls of silver, golC lined have etchings representing var ious allegorical scenes or figures. Ont bowl represents Transportation. , and the etchings represent a prairie schooner drawn by four yoke of oxen an eight mule team hauling a freigh and modern locomotive. The othel bowl has etchings of two allegorica paintings in the capital at Phoenix one representing "The Wedding O the Water With the Land;" the othel ''The Advance of Civilization.
 A large silver coffee urn, thirty-si1 inches in height, has an etching of th' Hall of Science at the Arizona Stat University A s'.ver humidd IT pre- A seEts finely executed etching Of th' ruiI Of TumacacEci Mission. On tht Santa Cruz river, aLout nineteen nlile' from Nogales. which edtfice was cnn str.cted by the early Spanish Jesui missionaries in 1887.
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