Weekly journal-miner., 1920-03-31
OriCk Jackson Pioneer Scribe Writes Thirty
(From Sundays OailyJ

AC o4ANASAAl tyPGWA4LCA O4L LllC desk of Orick Jackson in his of flee in the Journal-Miner" was covered last night. It has written its last news for this paper under the touch of the veteran newspa- perman of Arizona.
 MT. Jackson, who had been i'll for over ten days, and whose sickness kept him in his room at the Head hotel since Monday, passed away at 1O:3O last night, unexpectedly, after having given his physician, Dr. Looney, his nurse and his two brothers, John and Frank, encouragement during the day for his recovery.
 No better known man lived in Prescott than Orick Jackson. For over 40 years he had piled his trades, the setting of type and the writing of news in this city. His absences from Prescott and this county probably did not total a year in all that time. There sirnp- ly wasn't any other place to live for Orick.
 Eight days after the mother of the pioneer scribe arrived in this section in 1874, she passed away, leaving her children virtually ob- jects of charity. Orick soon achieved a position as printers devil on the old Arizona Miner" which was then publish ed by T. J. Butler. Frank Jack son, a younger brother, later set type on the same publication. At various times, Orick Jackson held positions of trust in the newspa- per game. It was not long after he began to learn the trade that he was accounted the swiftest compositor in the state, and to celebrate this accomplishment, he went to Phoenix and Tucson and worked short periods in each of those cities.
 In Phoenix, he worked on the Herald" predecessor to the pres ent Republican" In all his life, he spent but one month on work not directly connected with the printing or publishing trade. That was when he, with Fred Tritle, son of the governor of the terri tory, spent a month as mail weighers between Ash Fork and Los Angeles on the Santa Fe. This was in the sos. Orick soon returned to his beloved printers ink.
 He probably wrote more, per sonals" and more obituaries than any other newspaperman who ever worked in Arizona. Some of his biographical sketches and expectations of deceased persons were remarkable examples of their kind. He knew more per sons in Yavapai than any other human being, and had a wider ac- tual acquaintance than any man will ever achieve in this day of increaG-lg and transient popula- uo.-. His memory for dates was without a parallel here. Recent ly when the editor of this paper asked him concerning the history of the publication, he supplied without consulting references, the names of the owners and editors of the "Miner" and Journal" from the time the earlier was es- tablished in 1864, together with dates of their purchases.
 Orick loved Yavapai county. To him the word "Hassayamper" represented something more seri- ous than a by-word and the peg upon which to hang a fanci- ful tale for tenderfeet. It was his lodge, and in some respects, very nearly his religion. In his person, he represented a pioneer age and strain of thought, yet he was ever impatient of reaction to tradition, and always looked upon Prescott as deserving to be a great summer city, the center of vast mineral yielding region. He had made a close study of practical mineralology, and could interpret formations and ores with almost any expert.
 There has been no figure on the streets of this city more homely and lovable and more usual in the sight of the people than Orick and his white dog Billy" He will be missed by the city of Prescott and the coun- ty of Yavapai as more than a man; he was an institution.
 He was born March 28, 1861, at PetaluIna, Sonora county, Cali fornia, and had he lived a few hours longer he would have been 59 years old. He is survived by two brothers, John, interested in mining in the Copper Basin dis trict, and Frank, manager of the print department of the Hol- brook News" both of whom were here at the passing, and a sister, Mrs. Bernard Russman, of