Weekly journal-miner., 1919-07-02

| mountain park with white tents ant covered wagons and little camps un. der the trees among which the smoke of camp6res curled up in blue wisp, against the biuer sky.
 There is a log shack or two and one small house of green pine lumber whipsawed by hand in which the pioneer newspaper, the very youth i full Miner (the prefix Journal was acquired later in course oi growing up), was printed on a press brought by the young newspaperman i Secretary of State Richard ,McCor- mick, with Tisdale Hand as editor. of at one side, in the direction ot the present Fort Whipple, was the little military. encampment recently christened Fort Whipplc after one of the able early military explorers ot Arizona.
 Let us picture tne troops in blue uniforms of the cut worn during the great Civil war, (still in progness) armed with Spencer or Henry rifles, and the cavalry still using the long sabre of the Mexican war era, march ing up the little park to the month old location of the city of Prescott to join in the celebration of the first Frontier Day held on tne spot,
 The civilians were miners, packers tcamsters employed by the military in the march into the country from thc distant East; advcnturers drawn from the Pacific Coast by the lure ot q new land of Fl Dorado-a gay and picturesque crowd intoxicated not only by hopes of golden fortune bui bv beverages unmixcd with Granite creek water, sparkling though that stream was.
 Tradition has it that the military supply trains, long, high-backed wagons drawn by mules or oxen and supposed to be loaded with flour, s'sow belly" coffee and sugar, invarl- ably concealed liquid cargo of vast lv more importance in land ot drouth.
 To some extent the population lived off the country for deer and antelope were abundant and fat and certain men who were fine rifle shots made a good business of furnishing meat to the soldiers and miners. Quail and wild fowl were abundant; wild turkeys nestled all about, and wild grapes, wild cherries, eldcrber- rics. and several plants used as food by the Indians, helped out the camp tables.
 Pack trains of mules came from Tucson or points in Mexico with sacks of dark flour, corn, red beans, the brown Mexican sugar, and plenty of chilis. besides the military sup plies from New Mexico and Califor- nia. and no one went hungry, though cooks were none too plentiful
 It was his superior ability as a cook. along with a sack full of elder berries. that led one of the gold seekers to start the first hotel inI Prescott. From always having to dc the cooking for his friends, and al ways having lot of visitors drop around just at meal time, he decided to make a profit out of his culinary skill and borrowing what extra dutch ovens and slillets he could find Tc established himself under two juniper trees close to the Prcscnt site oil Ruffner's garage and on Frontier Day, 1864, he opened up in stylc-t with, We can be pretty sure, the pat ronagc of all the population in the city.
 lie was both cool, and walter; the table furnishings were of tin. and man might have to usc his hunting knife at a piuci. Tin cups were . scarce ca because on this festive day most of them were on duty elsewhere a liquid both stronger and | more popular than even the excellent Juniper House" coffee with "honest 10 God" milk-(somc COWS having come with the wagon traius).
 Doubtless the first editor of tho II Miner" was one Of the guests of ionor for the bill of fare as preserved or the careful attention of those who may kick and growI al our present. food service was as followa:
 
 Breakfast
 Fried vcuison and chili; bread and
 coffee with milk.
 Dinner.
 Roast 1cuison and chili; chili and baked beans; chili on tortillas; tea
 and coffee with milk
 Supper.
 Chili-from four o'clock oil. Military music, evolutions by the roops. shooting at marl, foot races. nd pony horse races, made up the ports.
 The handsome and brilliant young .ccretary Mccormick was the favor d speaker and many pretty prophc- ics were made as to the future great css of the month-old city.