Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-13
OUR ANCESTOR UNEARTHED

hrSt newspaper to be published 1n this state, have been unearthed in the governors office by P. R. Mines, one of the proprietors of the Pres colt Journal-Miner, it's successor They have been turned over to Con P. Cronin, in charge of the state li- brary at the capitol and will he treas urcd by him as priceless documents of the early days.
 The volumes of these early issues are replete with thrilling events of the early day when men risked their lives in search of gold, and when Apaches roamed the plains and lurkcd in the mountain fastnesses, when travel and mail west of Kansas City was all by stage and when news of the outside world was months old.
 It was because of their rare his toric value that Thomas E. Parish, state historian, at one time asked the legislature for an appropriation of $5,00O to be offered in payment to anyone who would furnish the early volumes of the first newspaper. Now the volumes in question have been placed in the custody of the state and the state is ahead the S5,000. Milnes, las secretary to the governor, was employed yesterday ill cleaning out some of the book cases filled with a miscellaneous assortment of bound documents and pamphlets when he ran across the newspaper files in question.
 Back to 1864
 Two of the volumes contain the first issues of the Arizona Daily Miner of Prescott, and the third con tains the still older files of the Ari zona Miner, which was published at Fort Whipple, starting in 1864.
 Under the heading of the older publication is this line: The gold of that land is good.'
 Under the small typed heading Latest News the Miner carried this information in its issue of April 20, 1864:
 The military express from Tucson and the states arrived at Fort Whip pie on Sunday last. We nave New York papers to the second of March, Colorado dates to the 10th and Cali fornia papers to the 23rd of that month" Then follows summary of some of the more important news as contained in these papers from the outside.
 One of the most curious of the ad- vertisements in the early day Miner is a half inch illustrated reader which says:
 Wanted, a good saddle mule, young, active, sure footed and endur ing" The ad is signed by R. C. Me Cormick, territorial governor. A crude cut of a mule accompanies the reading.
 Daily in 1866
 On October 8, l866, the Miner be- gan issuing a daily on "every day on which the territorial legislature meets" A casual examination of the contents reveals the fact that the paper was made up largely of the journal reports of the third territor- ial legislature. Volume l carries sev- eral one-inch advertisements. Here are few examples:
 Gray & Co.,, merchants, Prescott, Ariz.
 John Laughlin, boot and shoe maker. Granite street Repairing done and work warranted to hold.
 Louis Landsberger, the pioneer Cheap John. New goods expected daily.
 John Howard, attorney and coun- scllor at jaw.
 C. W. Barnard, saddler and har- ness maker.
 The viccissitudcs of fortune hunt ing ill the White. mountains are de- tailed in letter to the editor from John II. Marion, written from near Ford Goodman. His party, Ec says, mas "traveled over a vast amount of the country but as yet have found nothing in the shape of gold Con tinuing he writes:
 Rare Idea of Apaches
 "These Apaches are said 10 be Deaccable. Just now they are loung ing about the forest and eat United States provisions. If the command ing cff1cer felt as l do he will not trust the thieves too far but they seem to 0c in favor here at court. It is very difficult to get provisions here; those having no money have to swear to that fact and receive ten days ra- tions, which they can eat in five days, and those having money are told they must buy. But it takes great log rolling to get it, even for money. The Indians get all the extra grub"
 Under the healing Our New Or hce," the editor points with pride to the fact that the Miner was the first to erect brick building in Arizona. This building was completed October 1, 1866
 The Wallapais on the War Path, is the heading given to all Indian fight, which had it occurred today