Arizona republican., 1921-04-13
Crossing Desert With Drove of Live Stock in 1875 Was Heroic
 Ds1 Task Recalls Lincoln Fowler

LlllOUlEI 1UWICI large herd of livestock and crossed at Hanlon's Ferry. 12 miles below Yuma, Decembers 1875. My acquafnt- ance with Arizona then began. en 's'si
 Hal Hanlon was perhaps the first person we met on Arizona soil. 9th. CT acquaintances of that time at Yuma were Captain Ingalls,. David Neahr and Captain Mellon and Cap tain Polhemus of the river craft.ls
 Tn passing I am led to note the striking feature of continued. west ern flow of Mexican peons afoor and carrying their supplies for the desert trip. commencing at Altar or Caborca and through to San Diego or San Bernardino. Their costume consfst- cd of a scant two piece suit and their equipment of gourd water bottle and a sack of pinole or dried sbeef. 1 With their rawhide sandals on their feet tlRy gaily faced the possible ter
 TOTS of 500-mile desert trip. They travelled mostly at night, singing cheerily to a speedy 'go- as-you- please step. But, my friends. what a difference was there in the return ing stream from California to So-
 nora. Everyone was mounted. some with extra horse, well saddIed. booted
 and clothed, and often with an extra 1 herd of drovers' horses. They went
 west to grow up with the country, and returned east with a part of the fullness thereof. Our caravan found them peaceful lot, however.
 Our Journey. which lay along the Gila river, was not eventful At Stan wix Station, the home of King s. l Woolsey, we passed the Barton herd
 of livestock traveling. as we were from California to Arizona for new
 ranges. Along the road from Stan i wix eastward there were many rude crosses. either standing or fenced with stone laid upon the ground, each said to be the deathpIace of an unfortunate traveller urdered by the Indians. Many of these may yet be seen on the Agua Caliente trail s .s-.
 At this period 1876, there were I quite a number of camels frequent ing both sides of the Gila river de l scendants of the stock abandoned.
 after importation by the government for military purposes. I saw their tracks in 1881 --e-r Ajo run and later
 near Bouse. .14s-
 "we arrived in Phoenix early in
 1878 and continued to the ranges of the Mazatzal mountains and Tonto Basin, above the present Roosevelt
 lake. Our advisers as to the desir-
 ahility of this district were King S
 Woolsey and John T. Alsap, Whose
 trips with parties of frontiersmen in
 pursuit of Apaches had freqnehtly
 taken them through the rich pastlIr- lage of that region.
 Phoenix of that day consisted of
 a few adobe store buildings. mostly
 about the present city hall plaza.
 Smith X Stearns, A. Goldman and E.
 Irvine ran the principal places of ] business and a number of saloons ex- isted. The farmed area was a small
 tract around Phoenix north to the : Maricopa canal and west threeo or
 four miles. A lesser tract about
 Tempe was cultivated. Among, the Leading ranchers were c. H. Gray.
 Pete Holcomh, Lindley H. Orme. Ho-e
 sea Greenhaw, J. D. Numbers. the
 Osborne family. C. H. Veil, Peter
 Nelson, John Larsen, \. Morton. Joifa
 Lutgerding, Stoval Brothers. William
 Isaacs. Alex Steinegger, Dennis and
 Murphy and the Patterson family,
 whose daughter. Arizona. was the
 first white girl born here. At Ternpe,
 c. T. Hayden, merchant and farmer,
 also pioneer of the Santa Fe trail;
 J. T. Priest, Winchester, Niels Peter sen and few more had already l prosperous settlement started. Among others living about Phoe-
  sical scholar. credited with naming l Phoenix and Tempe: C. A Tweed and Captain Hancock, lawyers; George E. Murray, for many years , postmaster. Nor should NJ. Wormser be forgotten. for during the escape from Indians, near Prescott, he sold to fellow refugee the boots. off his feet. the price being right. lts- .
 "Of a slightly later date flougished I the Goldbergs, Aaron and Davei, Dan 9 Dietrich. Charles and Leo Goldman 7 merchants; T. w. Smith and HiaN1cz - Donald, men -about-to Pierpont Miner. always ready for fray; Jack Dublin Saver whose keen whisthnS l woke the daylight echoes and whose ' name still endures in the Dselin . garage: s. D. Lount ard family; j. NJ Cotton. always active for pUbic''iln- ] movements. De Forest Porter. law l yer politician and legislator. FL w - Ryder. then as now attending to shls ,. own business: J. W. Walker as he IS l today. chasing the elusive dol'ar;t Dr [ I F. Wharton. physician poet and - reformer; Dr. o. J. Thihido; W T. . NFcNuItv. county recorder for years. n and good fellow. Nor should we over !, look Henry Garfias city marshal or 2 earliest times and later as brave and f cool an officer as the times ever pro
 duced
 F .'The jolly clan known as "Pande- r moniurn' flourished for time at II this period and among them were 2 Bucky O'Neiu railroad builder and n Rourh Rider. Charles oiosher. jour f Ina1fst. Fred Pollock. later of Keeley Il cure. Frank Kirkland. s-il ready for - business. the well liked Frank Cox; s the brilliant P. C. Bicknen. and oth- n CTS. Their prauks would fill a
 lvolume"