Weekly journal-miner., 1919-10-01

stock owners of Yavapai behind him in any case of range trouble.
 It would be a mighty good thing if every stock owner who comes in to the Fair next month would stop at the county assessors office and leave his name with MT. Gentry as a mem Der, and then plan to attend the next meeting and get acquainted with his fellow stockmen from all over the county.
 Government Bulletins for
 Stock Growers. For several years the United States government has been carrying on ex- periments in stock growing; feeding, silo building and filling, and in the restoration of over-grazed ranges. All these books are free on request and many of them are of very special interest to us here in YaVapai, par ticularly one on the plants which successively appear on our ranges as they are grazed year by year. This is Bulletin No. 79l, Plant Succession In Relation to Range Management" 7" by Arthur W. Simpson. A full list of bulletins relating to range matters may be obtained by writing to the division of publications, department of agriculture, Washington, D. C., stating something of what one is in terested i'll.
 Live Stock and the Fair.
 Several years our Northern Ari- zona Fair has made a showing of live stock which would have been creditable in a much larger place. This is the time for stockmen to meet around the pens of thorough breds and discuss range needs and conditions and swap experiences that may be of use in the future. The range in Yavapai was never finer than at present and there should be more interest in the stock show than ever before.
 Let Us Keep the Record
 of the Past.
 A few days ago the son of one of our earliest Yavapai pioneers met me on the streets in Prescott and asked me if we could not plan some way to record and preserve more of our local history He had been thinking of the stories which his father had told of early days, and of his own mem ories as a little boy in the days of our Indian wars, when men were shot almost ill sight of the town, and he realized that it would make a mighty good story.
 This does not mean that we forget our excellent state history-but each locality has a history too personal and intimate to be fully included in a general history, yet most interest ing and important to be preserved at home. Most of the books of fiction located in Arizona disappoint us be- cause the truth of our early days is so much more romantic and inter esting.
 Now there is no reason why our own Yavapai history might not be saved to us by the very men who lived it, or by their children
 It would be fine thing if we could . have little Society of Yavapai Pio- neers and write down all this inter esting matter before it is lost. l i would like very much to have any story of early days which anyone may care to write down and send to . me in care of the Journal-Miner. It ioes not need to be ready for print ng-I will take care of that-just let IS set own the facts before they are orgotten.
 There is another thing which could De done so easily and that is to place some mark at spots where some in ;ident of historical interest occurred. Now that so many highways arc threading Yavapai it would be an 'asy matter to induce our road-build- ITS to set up a durable but ineXpens- ve monument along the way to mark ,ome bit of history if they were told ust where it should go and why.
 For instance we have still with Us | few men who know where Captain Walkers first little stockade was sit lated but no effort has been made to mark the spot. Just a pile of bould- ITS would be better than nothing, with some short inscription as to why 1t was put there. Every auto oad leading over Yavapai has spots of romantic interest that would at ract the traveller if they were mark d. The Burnt Ranch" near Pres ,ott, deserves its mark for here a title group of our pioneers held of i he Indians in a most unequal fight. The Old Bowers Ranch" near Hum ,oldt. is a monument in itself, with ts old stone walls still standing but t should have some tablet telling of ts part in our history. All along,t the cad to the Verde are spots deserv- ng some simple mark, and the same with the roads to Skull Valley, to Senator, to Groom Creek,-indeed . ar and near. l am going to ask the