Arizona republican., 1921-04-13

Just a few months after Arizona was made a military district and two months following the establish ment of Whipple barracks at it's present location, w. L. Osborne, now city gardener, arrived in Prescott in company with other members of the Osborne family, including his father, John Preston Osborne. and mother, brothers Neri F. Osborne and John Osborne, and three sisters, Rose Louisa and Sadie.
 After a long overland trip from Ad- ans county, Iowa, by way of Paral- ta, N. M., and the Santa Fe trail. the family, with many head of cattle, reached the end of their destination on July 6, 1864. Except for the sol diers and officers at the newly estab- lished military post, Prescott was al- most uninhabited. At that time there were only five buildings of any kind.
 Judge John Alsap and John Roun- tree had a saloon on East Granite street. Four poles held up a roof and interwoven brushwood furnished sides for the place. The front bar consisted of & plank one foot wide and twelve feet long. Glasses and bottles were placed on a back bar made of two blanks of similar size There were no other furnishings
 In addition to a saloon there was log cabin store, F feet square, a hewed log house in which Dr. Garvin lived, located on the site now occu- pied by the court house. log house known as Juniper House." because it was under a juniper tree, and log cabin at the corner of the pres ent court house plaza. This last cabin was named the Bull Pen" It served as community house for miners.
 About six months after the Os- bornes arrived in Prescott a sawmiIl was started by Norris and Curtis The mill was located on Granite creek about two and one-half miles from the town.
 'I got s a load for hauling tim ber." W. l.. Osborne mentioned in telling about the new saw mill. Aft CT the finished lumber began to arrive in Prescott the Osbornes built the first two story house ever erected in that section of the country. It was known as "The Osborne House" an utilized as a hotel. Both logs and finished lumber were used in it's con- struction.
 Not long after that the Governors Mansion" was built on Granite creek It was there that the governor of the territory lived until the capitol was removed to Phoenix.
 About year after arriving in Pres colt, w. l.. Osborne went into the farm land district along the Verde river and began raising corn, barley and wheat. At that time greenbacks were only one-haIf the value of gold money and the government paid F cents a pound for unshelled corn. | This payment was made in gold, which made the price paid for corn equivalent to 24 cents a pound in greenbacks.
 Those who established ranches in the near vicinity at that time were ! the late Dr. J. NJ. Sweatnam. Tom 1 Ruff. Jake Rasmussen. Joe Melvin. Hank Morris, John Culberson. Polk James, Parrish. Ralston,
 - Boblett and wife, ->Whit- comb and wife, and Joe Fie. These early ranchers irrigated by ditching from Clear creek
 But. although the government was | paying a good price for farm prod ucts. the ranchers soon became im- pressed with the fact that they were not receiving any easy money.
 They had to be on the constant watch for the Indians in order to | protect themselves and save their crops. A band of 150 Indians made a raid the first summer the ranch CTS had taken up their new acreage. | In telling of this raid Mir. Osborne said:
 We were divided. Some of the | ranchers lived on the north side of 1 Clear creek, while the others were across the river. All of us usually went well armed. but the day of the raid was so very warm and apparent | ly peaceful that Hank Morris and | myself decided to take things easy and work a while without our guns. | On the mesa above us Jack Rasmus- ! sen, Polk James and John Culberson were working. Whitcomb was in the
 valley herding cattle. He was lying