Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-08-28
LET THOSE WHO
 MADE HISTORY HERE TELL II

to preserve TOT pOSterlty every lliih which binds the history of the pres lent to that of the past, there also has arisen, in every section Of the land, demand that those parts of the country to which peculiar interest attaches because of some unique place it holds in the annals of Today and Yesterday should make every effort to cherish and keep inviolate it's me mentos. There has come about, then, the fact that during the last few years almost every state in the union has aroused itself to the necessity of guarding the past, not only because of the practical value of such a course, nor even because of it's historical value, but also because of the esthetic and cultural worth which attaches to a right knowledge of those who have gone before.
 . With respect to the foregoing, Ari- zona holds secure place. Her his tory not only, in a superlative de- gree, the stirring story of the winning of an empire by the sturdy souls who tramped her hills and valleys and wide desert spaces in the days of the stage coach and the Apache, but that his tory may be told by those who were present at the making of it ,and who, indeed, were actors in the stirring drama which has made this state a land of romance for all the world. The pionners of Arizona are living today. Their numbers are thinning, it is true, but there are sufficient left to make a goodly appearance. They are present here in Kingman. They are scattere along the border from Yuma to the New Mexico line. They are in Prescott and Flagstaff. Tombstone, aptly called one of the ghost cities of the west, still harbors those who knew the Earp brothers in the hey-day of their fame, who danc ed in the Birdcage when it was an ep itome of the wildcat life of the west. and who remember all the stirring scenes that marked the famous sill yer camp at the height of its pros perity and it's wickedness.
 Arizona History of Special Appeal
 The discovery and civilizing of ev- cry part of the United States, with out doubt, have been the occasion of history-making. The keenest interest must attach to the great story, from the landing of the Pilgrims at Ply. mouth Rock to the tanning of the waters of the Salt River at the Roose- welt dam. But the history of Arizona has special appeal. It is not that 1t was written by men yet living, but rather that those men were Ameri- cans. They came of no alien stock, these pioneers of the southwest. They were not refugees from oppression or seekers after snew UtOpias. They held no protests against the establish ed or der of things. They did not come, unprepared and unknowing, to a strange life where, because of their lack of experience, the odds were all against them. On the contrary, they were freest of the free. In the ma- jority of cases they had been born on the outskirts of the extending limits of civilization towards the west. They were. imbued from childhood with the thoughts of obstacles to be overcome, difficulties to be met-and wealth and fame, perhaps, to be gathered by those who dared to reach forth their hands.
 Adventure meant little to, them, for their lives were adventures. Death meant less to them, for they were us- ed to death. But they were restless folk, and they did not like too many neighbors. The world was big place, they reasoned, so why remain where one might be hampered by his fellows? We'll, there is Arizona, they were told, Arizona, with its mountains of precious minerals, its vast plains, and the zest it gives to life, and so to Arizona they came. They uncov- cred the mines. They stocked the ranges. They saw the era of the bad man." and they helped to bring that era to an end. They saw the com- ing of the nestor, the advent of barb ed wire and the subsequent cutting up of the open range. Then they saw the greatest miracle of all-the mak- ing of the desert to blossom as the rose. They had fought the Apache over, a thousand trails, and they now see him a peaceful and useful mem Der of society. They knew the dance hall when they resounded with the jingling of spurs on Spanish heels, when a mixed drink was not to be asked for, and when one wished to be polite divested himself of his artillery before he led his fair partner to the floor for the next waltz.
 But the Pioneers Remain
 Geronimo is gone, but the men who sent him out of Arizona are still liv- ing. The Apache Kid is dead, but those who knew him we'll are yet with us. Jerry Barton, tho suffered, and who, because of this infirmity, start ed one of the deathless tales of tile west when, in answer to judges