The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-06-04
CLIFTON LUNCHEON CLUB ENTERTA|NS
 IN FINE STYLE
James CoIquhoun is Guest of Honor at Banquet and Entertainment for Delegates to Good Roads Assn.

The Clifton Luncheon Club enter tained on Saturday evening last at a banquet given at the ''Y' building and again demonstrated to those so fortunate as to be present, it's un- bounded hospitality.
 The affair was arranged for dou- ble purpose and afforded the oppor' tunity of doing honor to distinguish visitor and friend of the district James Colquhoun, Esq.,-and also to extend a welcome to the visiting dele. gates in the city to the Southwestern Good Roads Association.
 Exactly one hundred members of the Luncheon Club and guests sat down to dinner at D. m. and from then until ten o'clock the guests were entertained in sumptuous man. of a highly pleasing program of in- strumental and vocal music, inter- spersed with addresses by local mem- beTs and visiting guests.
 Taken in all it was the best affair of it's kind arranged by the Luncheon Club and the officers of the club, and the committee having the affair .in charge, were the recipients of con- gratulations on every hand
 Following the dinner, Mrs. w. R. Davis, president of the Luncheon Club, rapped for order, and on beholf of the club extended hearty greeting to the visitors which was responded to in happy manner by Mrs. J. H. Kidder, | of Mogollon, N. M.
 MT Bennett, of Clifton, rendered a vocal solo in an especially pleasing manner and responded to an encore and MT. Jesse Bryan followed like wise with a violin solo.
 At this juncture the toastmaster in troduced Mr. l. N. Stevens, of Clifton, with the statement that when this old pioneer first entered this district i there were no roads, good or otherwise When MT. Stevens arose to speak he was accorded hearty re iception. He called the attention of the assemblage tiiaJ t was the Fourth of July, 1870, when he, in companT with forty-six other men, each punch ing ,burro, set out from Silver City, N M. for the reported gold diggings located in Gold Gulch, beyond what is now the town o Morenci The party crossed the Burro mountains and camped on the middle Gila, trav. eled down the river by easy stages and came down what is now known 1 as Wards canyon, crossed the Fris' | co and went out across Shannon Hill i D Gold Gulch where the. party ar rived on July 13, 1870. The quest for gold was a disappointment and after stay of a few weeks on Eagle Creek the party returned to Silver City. MT.
 Stevens stated that this was the first trip of Americans into this section and at that time the population of all Arizona did not exceed nine thousand souls and what is now Greenlee
 county was part of Yavapai county
 with the county seat at Prescott.
 Following the enactment by Con-
 gress of the mine location law other
 adventurous spirits. himself included
 returned to this section and located
 mining claims. The Lesynskys came
 in 1873 and made locations an1 a
 short time afterward Mexican
 Shelter furnance was erected at the
 mouth of Chase Creek. In 1880 MT i Church came into the Morenci dis
 trict and started what was known as
 the Detroit Copper Company, which
 was later purchased by Phelps-Dodge
 In 1882 the Arizona Copper Co.,, Ltd bought the holdings of Lesynsky and Metcalf At the time of the first triI
 of MT Stevens to this section he was
 barely twenty-one years of age, and referring to the incident, he compared it to lark and a picnic. That was life," the speaker concluded, amid ap
 plause.
 + Mrs Weller and Mrs. Burtch, in 2 vocal duet, was an especially pleasing
 number on the program and respond ed with an encore The duet was followed by a beautiful solo by Mrs Wm. H. Neill and then the toastmast CT introduced MT. Norman Carmi chael. general manager of the Arizona Copper Company, Ltd, who in turr
 Introduced the speaker of the evening MT James Colquhoun, of Scotland. MT Carmichael paid the speaker of the evening a high compliment when he said: Tt was MT. Colquhoun, gentle men, who turned the mining prospects of the days of Ike Stevens into pro ducing mines.''
 MT. Colquhoun has not been con
 nected with the active management of the Arizona Copper Co. Ltd, for 2 period of seventeen years, but stil
 retains an interest in the company as stockholder Although he has beer away from Clifton for a long time there were number present at the banquet on Saturday evening who were associated with him in company affairs during the earlier days wher } the success of the operations of the
 Arizona Copper Co. Ltd. was in the : balance. MT. Colquhoun was accorded a hearty and enthusiastic reception l. from the one hundred guests presen 3 when he arose to speak. He chose t for the subject of his talk, "Russi; + Today" and in pleasing narrative
 style told of the hardships and diff