Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-08-28

have seen him perform miracles with his siX-gun may be walking the streets of Phoenix today. Jack Dunn, the intrepid scout, who discovered the outcropping of ore at what was after wards to be known as Bisbee, one of the largest copper mining camps Tn the world has departed from world which vouchsafed him not even mod icum of the wealth which he unearth- ed in the Mule mountains, but his friends and companions still cherish his memory.
 And the cities are as famous as the men. Yuma is now the center of a contented and prosperous agricultural region. in a land made almost unbe- lievably rich by the muddy waters of the Colorado river, but there was time when Yuma, blistering under a desert sun, was, as hot morally as It was physically-and men still live who knew Yuma in those days. Arl- zona is full of men who remember Yavapai county when it was as big as all outdoors, and when the lnhab'- tants of the territory did not know on successive days whether the capl- tol was at Tucson, Phoenix or Pres colt. They still tell the stories of the days when in Yavapai county, a sheriff engaged on a man-hunt just kept on riding until he got his man or failed completely, because it was impossible to tell whether he vas riding in Yavapai, Colorado or Utah.
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 Tucson was the distributing point to the south and west. Here Jack Dunn told the story of the silver at Bisbee, and here Ed Sheffelin loaded his pack mules for his trip of dis covery to the border. "Where are YOU goin?" asked a well-wishef. 'Down beyond the Mule mountains" replied Sheffelin. "Well," vouchsaf- ed the well-wisher, "better take your tombstone with you, for the Apaches will get you before you're month older" But Sheffelin not only hid himself from the Apaches but he un- covered lode that made Tombstone as he called the new camp in memory of the warning given in Tucson "a magnet for treasure seekers all over the west. Phoenix was desert town, as distinguished for it saloons as, 1t was for it's thermometer. Douglas, destined to be the location of two of the largest copper smelters in the southwest, was not even outlined on the map, where only the water holes at Agua Prieta to mark the site of a future city.
 The history of these cities and of the men who made them is royal history. The story of New England or Virginia, of Florida, of California, is not more interesting-if, indeed, it has even large part of the interest attaching to Arizona. The pioneers of these states are dead-the pio- neers of Arizona are living, and thus the pages they helped to write with pick-ax and shovel, with burro and pack-saddle, with six-shooter and dirk are living pages, for the authors have not yet "shuffled from this mortal coil" The Puritans have gone the way of their blue laws; Ponce De Leon has found land of eternal youth, or should have, if Sir Oliver Lodge is telling the truth; the brown robed monks who built the missions that dot Fl Camino Real-"The Kings Highway"rfrom San Diego to San Francisco have passed with the Indians they sought to save, but the pionners of Arizona are in the flesh. Let, therefore, their annals be preserved. Let their names be kept.