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Indian Detours And The Apache Trail

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By Jim Turner, Arizona Historian

n the Roaring Twenties, the Apache Trail became an internationally famous tourist attraction. The Southern Pacific Railroad used striking images and romantic prose to lure travelers to Globe to experience what their tourism rivals, the Santa Fe Railway and Fred Harvey Company, called an “Indian Detour,” or side trip into the Old West’s ancient past.

But the road wasn’t always called the Apache Trail. Like many roads in Arizona, the road followed a prehistoric Salado culture foot trail that U.S. Army soldiers and pioneers called the Tonto Trail. Then in 1903 work began on the Roosevelt Dam, and the U.S. Reclamation Service hired Apache construction workers to build the Roosevelt Road to haul supplies and equipment.

Although advertisements mention the Apache Trail as early as 1914, historian Will Barnes said it was not changed officially to until 1919, when the Southern Pacific Railroad hired Professor Abner Drury of Berkeley, California, to rename sites along the rugged route.

Apache Trail, Continued on page 28

They Cast a Mighty Light

A Familiar Voice Page 20

Free Vouchers Inside

About A bout C Copper opper Spike Excursion Page 11

Carbide Mining Lamps

By Linda Gross After the California Gold Rush of '49, and the relative easy pickin’s of gold dried up in streams and riverbeds, prospectors went after precious minerals found in veins running deep underground. Hard rock mining, requiring engineers and big money, soon followed and much entrepreneurial capital was set upon the task of reaching the mineral wealth post haste! The need to shed light on the darkness created an industry, and left a legacy.

In the beginning miners had only candles and oil wick lamps to light their way, but after the accidental discovery of carbide in the 1860s and subsequent use in lamps for bicycles, the first carbide lamp for miners was patented in 1900 using the new technology. Over the ensuing two decades, a thriving industry of over 80 manufacturers sprang up in the wake of this new technology. Although the electric lamp would replace carbide lamps by 1923, the nearly 25-year period of carbide lighting for miners produced a vast array of lamp designs and manufacturers which became a part of America’s history and a visible legacy to the early days of mining.

Area Walking Maps Pages 15-18

Mining Lamps, Continued on page 3o > Todd Town began collecting with his father and today has an extensive collection of carbide mining lamps dating back to the early 1900’s.

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Boyce Thompson Arboretum

By Kim Stone

Mark Zuckerberg, founder, CEO, and president of Facebook – and now Time magazine’s man of the year – summed up the movie The Social Network by saying that, when it came to portraying his life, Hollywood fundamentally missed the point. He didn’t use money, girls, and access to parties and clubs as the drivers to develop Facebook, nor does he consider such things to be the spoils of its continuing success. Instead, as he puts it in Time, the real motivator is the fact that he thinks “it’s an awesome thing to do.”

Redefined

Subtract a few billion dollars, and the parallels of his successful personal philosophy and those of the staff at Boyce Thompson Arboretum are closely bound.

In fact, career plant professionals in general are notorious for their single-minded commitment to plants, often to the exclusion of what others would consider to be a more typical family enterprise. Not only is power, money, and attending all the right parties not important, neither are the normal imperatives to be fruitful and multiply. It’s amazing how many “plant people” I have known through the years who have chosen to remain single, or are divorced, or, if still married, then voluntarily childless.

At first, I thought that it was an anomaly; that my circle of acquaintances was small and I needed to get out more. But the more widely I travel, the more I am convinced that there is something about plants that, in certain individuals, turns on either a monastic or an addictive gene. For

GLOBEMIAMITIMES them plants graduate from simple objects of affection – a geranium in a clay pot on the front porch, a 20-year-old pothos draped over an end table in the living room – to hundreds or thousands of lifeconsuming tenants that require daily care and maintenance, leaving little room for a normal life.

For these people, plant-a-holism often affects them at an early age, but others are struck down in the prime of life. Broken lunch dates are the first signs, then emails go unanswered, and finally, brief cell phone conversations become one-sided Latin rants about some endangered subspecies of pincushion cactus found only on a lonely, south-facing hillside in Texas.

The terminal stage usually involves the purchase of a distant tract of land and a double-wide trailer, the drilling of a well, and the establishment of a plant nursery. The plants grown are generally unusual plants, either in species or size, and

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It’s a maddening scenario for those of us who want to buy these plants, because the only affordable land is usually a half day’s drive – one way – from just about anywhere.

In all fairness, only a few of the staff at Boyce Thompson Arboretum can be considered to be pathologically plantcentric. What we all share, though, is the willingness to spend our working lives nurturing the thousands of plants that we grow – not because of the vast material gains that we know we’ll never receive – but because it’s an awesome thing to do.

Coming up on January 22 and 23 is Australia Days featuring Australian folklorist and didjeridoo player Paul Taylor. This year, for the very first time, Paul will be accompanied by Aboriginal Elder Bill Harney of the Wardaman people from the Northern Territory of Australia. Together, they will teach a didjeridoo playing class at 9am, with a storytelling and musical performance in the Eucalyptus grove at 1:30pm both days. There will be tours of the largest collection of Australian plants in the United States, and a special interpretive tour by Bill Harney of the Arboretum’s new Aboriginal Seep Exhibit.

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of arid land plants. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is truly an international garden exhibiting plants and plant communities from desert regions throughout the world and the World Desert Fair will highlight the unique cultures that have evolved in these desert environments.

Professional photographers like Jeff Kida of Arizona Highways Magazine, as well as thousands of amateur photographers, consider Boyce Thompson Arboretum to be one of the top destinations for diverse, photographic opportunities. To help improve

everyone’s

camera

skills,

we offer photo workshops several Coming up on February 11 – 14 is the Arboretum’s annual Language of Flowers. Every fresh cut flower and flowering plant in this four-day show is chosen specifically to communicate its “lingua franca” – the language that is represented by each individual flower. Following two weeks later is the World Desert Fair on February 26 with plants, food, and culture from eight different deserts that are represented in the Arboretum’s extensive collections

weekends each month from January through March. We also have general and specialty tours every weekend so that every interest in the wonders of desert life is covered-- from butterflies to trees to birds to wildflowers to geology, even childrens’ book readings and a monthly history walk. The spring season wraps up with the Spring Plant Sale on March 12.

For more information or directions, please visit arboretum.ag.arizona.edu.

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From t he Desk of t he Publisher In my interview with Bill Taylor, (page 20) who many in this area know as the voice and character of FM Gila 101.9, he said the cardinal sin in broadcasting was to be boring. His career spans over fifty years in the business and he has honed his professional skills on markets from New Orleans to Globe-Miami. He knows it is not just about the facts, but how you deliver them. He knows there is a fine mix of commentary, music, public service announcements, etc. which, when done right, keeps an audience. It also helps that Taylor knows his stuff. And, he knows his audience.

When it comes to history, the same qualities apply to those who recount the past. It is not just about the facts, but how they are delivered which takes a moment in history from boring to brilliant.

One of my favorite histories is a 1995 book by D. Roberts who wrote, “Once they moved like the wind,” about the

Apache wars. It reminds me of an old African proverb: “Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.” Roberts is a lion’s historian.

He puts a face and soul to the Apache chiefs who faced down the US Army, and in doing so has garnered among his readers a posthumous respect for these leaders.

It is respect for the history of the West’s Hard Rock miners and the inventors who gave light to an industry, which makes the study of carbide mining lamps so fascinating. Just spend a few hours in the company of a collector like Todd Town, and you’ll discover why collectors can spend a lifetime on these unique vestiges of mining history. And the man, who Town credits with his own vast knowledge on the subject is Phoenix resident, premier collector and author, Dave Thorpe.

It is Thorpe who weaves the story of these carbide lamps into the greater context of mining history and American inventiveness. His books, “The Last Flame in America,” and “Beneath the Surface” offer an engaging blend of facts and illustrations with pitch perfect

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delivery. You can catch both Town and Thorpe in person (pp 31), at this year’s Home Tour, where Dave will be signing books and both will be featuring pieces from their collections. Stop by for a few minutes....and I’ll bet you end up sitting for an hour!

History also has a hand in the Smithsonian’s exhibit, “Key Ingredients” which looks at how America’s melting pot of cultural influences have dictated our dinner tables. Here in GlobeMiami we have a rich cross section of Mexican, Serbian, Italian, Cornish, Chinese and Lebanese influences. The Gila Historical Museum will be hosting this exhibit beginning January 28th and many events have been scheduled around the community highlighting this theme. Please see the GMTeConnect calendar for details.

This season, GlobeMiamiTimes, took on a new project and produced a Travel Book for the Copper Spike Train Season in cooperation with Globe’s Historic Main Street program. Harking back to the days when America rode everywhere on trains, the publication is a travel guide of sorts to the area, and offers the traveler information on the Copper Spike and Globe’s Historic District. It also includes a walking map of downtown Globe, with photographs and history of 30 commercial buildings, plus a map of the Copper Corridor and today’s mining operations.

Perhaps that might be enough of an incentive to pay the $8 purchase price, but there is more!

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Contact Information: Linda Gross 175 E Cedar Street • Globe, AZ 85501 Phone: 928-701-3320 Fax: 928-425-4455 linda@gmteconnect.com www.gmteconnect.com www.globemiamitimes.com Published Four Times a Year January / April / July / October Copyright@2010 GlobeMiamiVisitorsGuide GlobeMiamiTimes All rights reserved. Reproduction of the contents of this publication wit out permission is strictly prohibited. The GlobeMiamiTimes neither endorses nor is responsible for the content of advertisements.

Advertising Deadline: Camera ready artwork is due the 10th of the preceeding month of publication. Design and Photography services are available beginning at $35 hr.

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Community Calendar: We have moved all of the Calendar items online! Please visit the Events Calendar, see GMTeconnect.com.

Contributors: We are always looking for articles and images which help tell the story of the area and the people who live here.

If you are interested in working an assignment with the Guide, and/or submitting a freelance article or image, please contact me and let’s discuss it!

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Art Galleries, Rotating Exhibits, Community Events & The Oak Street Shops! www.cvarts.org

GET YOUR COPPER SPIKE TRAVEL BOOK AT THE CENTER OR AT THE DEPOT!! Over $100 worth of Train Vouchers, Copper Corridor Map of Mines, Historical Information. PLUS YOUR guide to Globe's Historic District, which tells the history of 30 commercial buildingss constructed at the Turn-of-the-Century.

COME AAABOARD WITH US THIS SEASON!

Start planning this season for your Easter Finery!

Once again, Main Street will host the Easter Parade Saturday, April 24th!

Globe Main Street Program and the Copper Spike Excursion Train offer you a Ride to Remember.

Departing Twice Daily Thurs-Sunday thru May 2.

The Annual Quilt Show will be extended TWO months this year

Catch the Opening Reception on February 12th from 11am-3pm

CELEBRATING THE OLD JAIL This year Globe’s Territorial Prison turns 100! Visit us on Second Saturdays 12-4pm and eexperience the old west through our new interpretive video, p produced for the Historic Globe Main Street Program by APS We are here to answer questions and direct you to the many great things to see and do in the Historic District!

Mon-Fri 10-5pm; Sat 10am-4pm; Sundays 12-4pm Closed Holidays • 928-425-0884 E-mail: thedesk@cvarts.org

Find us online at www.cvarts.org.

District merchants are joining together for something fresh and fun every Second Saturday of every month! Come See!

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From Bangkok to Besh-Ba-Gowah

by Darin Lowery

My father was an architect. In the spring of 1966 he accepted a job offer which would take the entire family to Bangkok, Thailand. This was no easy decision; my folks had five children, the youngest being two years of age.

There was our house to rent out; vaccinations to endure, and a tremendous amount of packing. Twenty-three pieces of our luggage were loaded onto the plane at O’Hare Airport. The skycaps loved my Dad. The flight was unbelievably long, but being children of that period we were relatively quiet and amused ourselves by running up and down the aisle of the jetliner, screaming hysterically, and hurling ourselves against the lavatory doors. Everyone thought we were adorable.

Bangkok is a modern m metropolis with ancient r roots, the colorful brochures say, though in the mid-sixties i was subdued, less flashy. it The house we found was a colonial throwback, built entirely of teak with large doors and shutters but no glass windows. It was a huge second story affair, complete with twirling paddle fans and floating balconies inside and out. The staircase took forever to climb. In the rear of the compound were a set of six connected rooms which were the servant quarters.

My mother, who spent her youth reading novels of Asia, was completely in her element. We loved the house but primarily the long stone driveway, which we used p g fronds whipping pp g for foot races. It was lined with palms and banana trees, the long in the breeze as we barreled by. We were always careful to avoid the spirit house, however: this was an elegant, miniature gilded temple which sat on a four foot wood post. Twice daily offerings of food and flowers were left by the servants and eventually, by us children. We didn’t wish to tempt fate.

Memories of that time are more a feeling than recollection. There was an absolute sense of peace and of serenity. Sure, Bangkok, with its three wheeled smoking somlar taxis and bustling markets offering everything from pig heads to cheap bracelets- could be a cacophony of noise and s sometimes music. But i was also a place of it d deep meditation and i incredible loveliness, of sweet traditions l like the Water Festival.

We loved this holiday – it was spent simply but enthusiastically dousing passersby with tin buckets of water.

When the elderly passed by

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we wet our fingertips and gingerly touched their wrists as they nodded and thanked us (‘kop khun mahk’).

The Buddhist monks, too, added to the air of hushed solemnity unless they began giggling, their beautiful faces lit with blinding smiles, the shaved heads and orange robes swirling around their naked legs. We loved the monks, and when they came around we watched quietly as the cook would spoon rice and drop bits of fish into their polished wood bowls.

Evenings were still and hushed, the night cooled air scented with jasmine.

There was little light on the soi – our lane, number 14 – and so we’d stay inside and play board games with each other. Our parents frequently went out, driven to various parties in an exotic Toyota (we’d never seen one before) by our driver Tong. We didn’t have a television set and we did not miss this.

It all ended- everything ends at some point, this is what Life is abouty father’s project p j in 1968,, when my was

completed. My mother’s dressmaker appointments, those glittering yards of vivid Thai silk wrapped around her for fittings; the swell birthday parties on hotel roofs complete with orchestras and pretty cakes; the weekly drowning of large squirming rats (trapped by the gardener in metal cages) with my Dad in the klong (canal) across the soi because our dog had been bitten near his eye- all of it was over. It was time to go back to bubble gum music and tickytacky houses and sparkling American shopping malls.

Forty years later I find myself in Globe, Arizona. From Bangkok to Boy Scouts, from bungalow to beachfront to Boystown, my journey has taken me close to the sacred grounds of BeshBa-Gowah. While Globe is a small but bustling town of seven thousand, settled in 1876, the ancient site to the south is almost eight hundred years old, at its height a robust community of its own.

The Salado Indians lived in this exquisite place along the Pinal Creek, creating hundreds of rooms on two levels with a ground level corridor leading to a main plaza. The Salado culture spanned a period from 1140-1450 A.D. and even an earthquake in 1340 didn’t stop them. They grew pumpkins, beans, squash and corn, aided by irrigation ditches; they exported turquoise beads, pigments and ceramics to other tribes.

Eventually drought – or war – forced them to leave. The Apaches came later, in the 1600’s, and called the place Besh-ba-Gowah, which translates to p ‘place of metals’ or ‘copper place’.

The site is eerily quiet if o happens upon it during one o off-season.

The rust and o ochre hues of the rock are d deep and timeless, and the b bright sun and glorious skies do not prepare one for the dark and haunting rooms below.

The restoration in some areas is so complete I can see the Medicine Men and feel the fires, fragrant waftin upwards past the wood smoke wafting and sinew ladders. This site housed 350 active people; it’s silent now, except for the visitors who arrive to marvel at a site once so alive.

Everything ends at a certain point. This is why it’s so importantimperative- to savor the fire, taste the smoke, luxuriate in the feel of cool water on our faces. Even the sounds of honking cabs and blaring radios mean we’re alive, breathing in this rich elixir of oneness. From Bangkok to Besh and beyond, it’s a journey which has been intoxicating.

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”

– Pat Conroy

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Delbert Upshaw: A Patient Man

By Darin Lowery The first thing one observes when

man, equal parts Apache and Navajo,

viewing the work of Delbert Upshaw is

has been creating art since the age of

the detail of his wood carvings. While

eight. He was born in Keam’s Canyon,

another artist may perhaps opt for a

Arizona and grew up on the San Carlos

shortcut, an easier way to express line

reservation, just outside of Globe.

and movement, Delbert’s work is both

Mr. Upshaw now lives in Teesto,

expressive and exuberant. This young

Arizona, just north of Winslow. Seven

days a week he works in construction as, not surprisingly, a carpenter. Feeding his family and paying the bills are his top priorities. His evenings and any available free time are spent working with authority on mesquite, juniper, cedar and cottonwood root projects.

This is doubly impressive because he is only thirty-three, a fact which surprises many people.

His work has the appearance of having been created by someone much older, with much

more

experience.

Pictures of him carving show

half brother also provided inspiration, but because Delbert isn’t Hopi, he feels he cannot carve Hopi Kachinas.

Instead, he has chosen to create the likeness of the G’aan.

“Why I attempt to replicate the Crown Dancer (G’aan, or Mountain Spirit) is to give the right understanding and the true nature of a dance that reflects our people and culture. To preserve the essence of whom we are as people of the G’aan,” Mr. Upshaw noted a few years ago in an artist bio.

He went on to say, “The Crown Dancers are an interpretation of the messengers from our four directions, sent to teach us and show us the right way to live as a furrowed brow, a determined focus

Apaches, and to guide our people with

and a marked amount of diligence.

blessings from Yul’sin, our Creator.”

Delbert is modest when he confides

The

G’aan

are

the

mountain

that the tribal Elders are pleased and

dwelling spirits who protect and

impressed with his work.

assist the Apaches. They were sent by

On fishing trips with his father,

the Giver of Life to teach the people

young Delbert watched his Dad carve

to plant corn and to hunt, and to live

small boats from pieces of driftwood

each life in harmony with nature. The

as they sat on the water. His Hopi

Anglo term ‘Crown Dancer’ refers to

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the elaborate wooden slat headdresses

on the younger generation- this will

worn by the G’aan Dancers. The Black

open a bigger door, paving the way for

dancer represents the East, the Green

future artists.”

one, South; the Yellow is of the West,

Of all the pieces Mr. Upshaw has

and the White dancer represents the

created- and there have been many,

North. The fifth dancer is the ‘clown’,

including special orders for an Aztec

the revered leader who ensures that

warrior, eagles, a pair of monkeys in a

everything is in order. When the time

tree, wood roses and even a dragon –

arrives for a sacred ceremonial dance,

his most satisfaction was derived

the dancers prepare at a secret place

y p g on canvas from an acrylic painting

and the Medicine Man then calls t hem

down

from

the

mountain.

Dances are performed to heal the sick, drive away evil and to bring good fortune. Because of this secrecy, the men chosen as Crown Dancers are unknown to many in their tribe, most importantly the children.

The G’aan dancers, as carved

by Mr. Upshaw from cottonwood root, are both graceful and vigorous.

Sometimes he’ll create an individual dancer poised on a wooden slab; other carvings are of the group, en masse, in line on a long single platform. The group pieces have an obvious energy, and the detail is dramatic.

The raw material is very important to him. Delbert enjoys the “natural beauty of the wood – the color, the

he did for his Grandmother before

texture and the grain. I match the

she passed away. “I felt appreciated,”

subject with the wood.” He also

he said, because it was her favorite

wants “a feel for the wood, to feel

painting. The artwork now hangs in

a connection – a spiritual one, to

the Farmington (NM) Hospital.

continue.” He feels blessed with

Besides pacing himself, Delbert

this natural talent and prays for

strives for “balance in my art. Keeping

guidance daily.

it authentic is important to me - [also]

When asked about the work of Native

not disturbing anyone” by stepping

American artists, he says he admires

outside of the traditional circle. Always

other tribal carvings and sculptures,

evolving, his next wish is to work in

particularly

fetish

stone, probably sandstone. Delbert

carvers, and thinks Native American art

hopes to begin after the Holidays,

is “very important- we ourselves, what

assuming he can make the time.

work

by

Zuni

we’re doing is making an impression

Delbert Upshaw is a patient man.

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Around The Town Teaser Saturday, January 30 3rd Annual Superior Home and Building Tour; 9am-4pm Explore private homes and historic buildings in Superior, including the renovated Magma Mine Hospital.

Includes antique show, and exhibitions from local and regional artists including the renowned Mata Ortiz pottery. A pancake breakfast Saturday starting at 8am at the fire station, Plus, Jack San Felice, author and historian will lecture Saturday at 2pm. For more information of tickets call the Chamber of Commerce at 520-689-0200 tour tickets only $10 ($8 prepaid).

Saturday March 5 & Sunday March 6 27th Annual Globe Historic Home and Building Tour; 9am-3pm See some of the State’s most historic homes and buildings, including some that date back to the early 1900s at the Annual Historic Home & Building Tour, Antique and Quilt Show Saturday and Sunday, in Globe. The tour also will include a stop at the Pieces of Friendship Quilt Show and the Annual Antique Show and Sale. Transportation is provided for the tour which begins at 9am both days from downtown Globe.

Last tour leaves at 3pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children 12 years and under. Contact the Chamber at 800-804-5623 for more information.

March-May: It’s Rafting Season!

Every time at this year, the water in the Salt River Canyon offers adventure seekers some first rate class IV rapids! Typically there are 3three or four rafting companies who ply their trade on the Salt River for this short season, all offering half-day and full-day trips. They provide wetsuits and helmets to keep you safe and warm and the ride is always memorable. The put-in is just 45 minutes North of Globe on Hwy 77 heading towards Show Low. Book a stay overnight at one of the B&Bs, either before your adventure or as a chance to unwind at the end of your day! Go to www.GMTeConnect.com/attractions, where we list all the contacts for the rafting companies.

April: “Five Years of High Society” A photography exhibit from the GlobeMiamiTimes archives showcasing images which were featured in our "Society Page," as well as our feature articles over the last five years. All images will be dry mounted and available for sale, with a portion of all proceeds going to fund a new elevator for the Center.

An opening reception is being planned in early April, but the date hadn't been set as of press time. Check out the GMTeConnect calendar for all details, or call the Center 928-425-0884.

February 1 – Tastes of Globe Cobre Valley Center for the Arts will be presenting a big evening of fun with “Tastes of Globe”, at the Copper Spike Depot building in historic downtown Globe. As a part of the many community events surrounding the Smithsonian’s “Key Ingredients” exhibit being showcased at the Gila County Historical Museum, this event will present a wide variety of foods from local families which represent many nationalities. Mining communities have always been a rich source of ethnic influences and the Tastes of Globe promises to be a celebration of these ethnic dishes which have become a part of the Globe-Miami Community! Tickets for this event will be on sale at the Center for the Arts. Visit www.cvca.org for more information.

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ABOUT THE COPPER SPIKE Laundromat. The renovation of the Depot included gutting the building and laboriously restoring it’s elegance which Trost & Trost had first envisioned for the successful Arizona railroad nearly 100 years ago.

The third year brought the excitement of a 1917 Heisler Steam engine, but alas, it’s 100-year-old heart just wasn’t strong enough to pull it’s weight for a modern excursion rail line. It was retired early in the season and later replaced with today’s streamlined, 1953 Diesel locomotive built by Electro Motive Division of General

Kip Culver, Director of Globe Main Street Program

Photo by Rick Benning

The Copper Spike Train Excursion was launched in 2006, in cooperation with Globe’s Main Street Program. Like the great railroads before it, the presence of an excursion rail line in Globe has brought social and economic bonuses to the area and serves as an important partner in the revitalization of Historic Downtown Globe.

The owners of Arizona Eastern Railway, the Iowa Pacific Holding Company, met with Kip Culver, director of the Globe Main Street Program to see what could be done to develop the historic Globe property which had fallen into disrepair. Through the all-volunteer efforts of Culver and others, the old Freight Depot was the first to be renovated. Restoring the building to it’s original 1916 beauty, it served as the ticket counter for a self-propelled 1930’s railcar which was provided by Arizona Eastern to the Main Street Program to test the interest and feasibility of an excursion rail in the area. It was a successful test.

The second year saw the renovation of the much larger and original Arizona Eastern passenger depot and the introduction of a full complement of vintage rail cars including; a 1950’s Sante Fe Dome Car, and the Calumet, a historic Illinois Central Club Car. The passenger depot, designed by El Paso architects, Trost and Trost in 1916 to handle the increased traffic which the Apache Trail Tours had generated also included executive offices on top.

It ceased operations in the '50’s and later converted to use as a

Electric for the Chicago Northwestern railroad. As a nod to the railroads’ Southern Pacific heritage, the E-8 locomotive has been painted in traditional Southern Pacific “Black Widow” livery.

Today, the Copper Spike Excursion train offers a striking image as it pulls out of the old train station, and makes it’s way across the N. Broad train trestle built in 1910. Luncheon and dinner are now served on board, along with full cocktail service in the Mardi Gras club car.

As in the days of yore...life onboard offers a casual elegance which gives one cause to relax and enjoy the ride. A Ride to Remember.

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Wine & Art Auction ... put on by the Cobre Valley Hospital Auxilary was a huge success this year pulling in over $13,000 for the Hospital.

Out & About

The Society Page

Representatives of Citizen's Opposed to a Private Prison traveled to Phoenix to meet with Senators Pierce & Allen in November. Shown here: Sarah Bernstein, Globe Councilman Terry Wheeler, Kelly Moss, Charlie Anderson, Jim Moss. Not shown: Linda Gross

Betty and Nick Rayes celebrated Nick's birthday that night and supported a good cause – as did their neighbor, Karen Gotto.

Diana Schaeffer standing next to her painting which she donated to the event to be auctioned.

New Years Eve Aboard the Copper Spike The New Years Eve Train hosted 160 revelers, half of which booked space in the Dome Car for an elegant four-course dinner.

This group of Hopi Dancers had just completed a tour of China and were in Globe this year to perform at Apache Jii Day in Downtown Globe.

Julie & Don Rieman enjoy the fourcourse dinner of the evening.

Rounding up people for the semi-official group shot at the end of a New Years Eve party is... well, challenging! These hardy souls patiently accommodated the photographers request to pose for a picture!

Brandon Moore, Bill Quintera and Branden Janes make sure the Dome Car is ready for passengers just before boarding for the evenings festivities.

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The Society Page The Oz Ball

hosted by the Center for the Arts

A fundraiser for the Center for the Arts

Susan Hanson, of Joshua Lampshades, hamming it up with Bill Taylor, gila101.9 at the Oz Ball

Darin Lowery, writer for GMT and Minister of Fun over at the Pickle Barrel, seen here with Linda Gross, publisher of GMT.

Silver Belt Managing editor, Andrea Marcanti showing off her red slippers. Always the journalist, her camera was in the little basket she carried that night.

Bill Pettus, the new sales manager for KRDE The Ride and Joe Caputo, a Teacher's Coach for the new San Carlos Math & Science program

Joe Caputo, Tom Thompson, Cynthia Bach, Ellen Hezlep get into the spirit of the evening

Globe Mayor, Ferando Shipley, and son Branden performed on stage with the cast of the Oz Ball.

Eileen Harbison with daughter Noel, attended the mixer.

Carrie &Mark Endicott won the Big Basket of goodies

The sisterhood of the XI ALPHA Sorority, Jackie, Robin, Leslie, Nancy, Ann and Geri, catered the event.

Jim Ohl and wife Nancy provided a wonderful selection of wines for the evening.

Carol Rios- pianist and musical director

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Farmers’ Market is Coming to Town!

A farmers’ market is coming to Globe/Miami! VISTA member Laura Gottschalk has been working closely with Chris Jones, University of Arizona Extension Agent for Gila County, to create a farmers’ market in the Globe/Miami area. They have been coordinating with local growers and vendors and the communities of Globe and Miami to develop a Vendor Advisory Board, and have also looked at the possibility of partnering with a local non-profit organization, allowing for the market to apply for grants and accept donations.

The Gila County Master Gardeners have played an influential role in supporting the farmers’ market by forming a Site Location Committee and investigating sixteen potential sites for the market all throughout the Globe/Miami area, and a Vendor Search Committee to secure vendors who would like to participate in the market. They are also currently preparing for two Backyard Growers Workshops coming up January 28th in Globe, and the other to be held in Young in March.

These workshops will focus on topics such as seed starting, building cold-weather frames, composting and vermiculture, irrigation, fertilization, how to extend your growing season and preserve, year-round gardening; and will introduce the concept of the farmers’ market to members of the community who would like to learn how to grow produce in their own backyards to sell at the market.

For more information on the Gila County Farmers’ Market, contact Laura Gottschalk (928) 402-8589 or check out their facebook page.

The Cornish Pastie is a traditional meal of miners, originally brought here by the Cornish miners of England. The large tin mines played out in the early 1900s and thousands of miners migrated to the United States to work in the copper and silver mines of the Southwest. The Pastie consists of a flaky pie crust folded over on itself and stuffed with a combination of ingredients, the most traditional being beef, potatoes and onions. Although, there are as many variations on this traditional dish as there are cooks.

In ‘Pasties: Past and Present,’

by Kristen Rasmussen, she quotes “According to Donna Anderson, longtime Globe resident, pasty aficiando and author of History of Globe, Arizona, '...the miners’ wives, used to fill one end of the pasty with savory ingredients, the other with sweet ingredients such as fruit and place a dividing piece of dough in between.'”

Joe's Broad Street Grill serves up pasties every Thursday, but will also be offering his famous Cornish Pasties on both Saturday and Sunday of Globe's Home Tour, so don't miss this opportunity to dine on a miners' delight.

Get Your Traditional Cornish Pasties at Joe’s Broad Street Grill

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COPPER CITIES COLLECTIBLES

and was developed to give the public and speakers the

GRANDMA WEEZYS ANTIQUES

MIAMI ROSE

It is entirely independent of the First Friday Programs

SULLIVAN ANTIQUES

GRANDMA”S HOUSE

The “Miami Hard Scrabble Series” Second Wednesday of each month into spring 7pm-8pm

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Miami Memorial Library. Call Ahead for details or check out the

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COPPER MINERS’ REST

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COPPER CITIES COLLECTIBLES

and was developed to give the public and speakers the

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MIAMI ROSE

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SULLIVAN ANTIQUES

GRANDMA”S HOUSE

The “Miami Hard Scrabble Series” Second Wednesday of each month into spring 7pm-8pm

TO PHOENIX

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BULLION PLAZA Straight Ahead

CITY PARK

Miami Memorial Library. Call Ahead for details or check out the

GUAYO’S EL REY

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COPPER MINERS’ REST

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Preserving Our Cultural Heritage...

Bob Jones Museum 300 Main Street • Superior Visit Bob Jones Museum, operated and managed by the Superior Historical Society. Located at the home of Arizona's sixth Governor, Robert Taylor "Bob" Jones, explore the rich history of Superior, including its culture, relation to mining, minerals, and pioneer families. Make sure you stay for the showing of "Silver, Copper and Sweat – The Story of Superior," playing every hour. Visit

us.geocities.com/superiorhs/museum.html for more information.

Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum 131 N Plaza Circle • Miami (928) 473-3700 First Friday Programs: Presentations of historic interest are presented on the First Friday of each month, September through June, at the Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum in Miami, at 6pm unless otherwise noted. These programs are sponsored by the Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum and the Gila County Historical Museum, and are made possible through the Arizona Humanities Council.

Ask us about our Great Selection of Historical Books!

Gila County Historical Museum 1330 N Broad Street • Globe (928) 425-7385 The museum will be hosting the Smithsonian Exhibit, "Key Ingredients: America by Food" which will be touring the US and will be held in Globe January 29 to March 13 of 2011. The Museum offers 4,000 photographs, historical documents, texts and displays plus a complete line of books from local authors and others who have written on the history of this area.

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: r o l y a T l l i B The voice in the morning of Gila 101.9 FM belongs to Bill Taylor, the irascible, irreverent, station owner who has made the jingle “Keepin’ you in the Know” a household word in the Globe Miami region.

Taylor, who wears many hats as owner, disc jockey, salesman and chief bottle-washer of the station, is the familiar voice on the morning show between 6am-9am of Globe Miami’s hugely popular radio station, Gila 101.9 FM. Every weekday morning he entertains, educates and confounds his audience with local news and politics with his own unique take on both.

By Linda Gross

As a radio broadcaster, Taylor has had a long and colorful career in the industry which included stints in Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, Baltimore, Charlotte, Orlando, and was recognized

by Hee Haw when the show began spotlighting radio personalities across the country in the '70’s. He was the innovator of a syndicated broadcasting casting system similar to eight-tracks which ensured the integrity of recording no matter how many times the song was played. When he came to Globe, he brought over 3,000 cartridges which grew to 5,000 before switching to cd's and computers. At a time when the other stations frequently played scratched records, Taylors’ station was a marked improvement. His biggest success was a bingo type promotion played with music instead of numbers, went through 32 million cards in three countries. This was the intial funding for the station.

We caught up with Taylor during one of this morning shows.

GMT: What brought you to Globe?

Bill: I was working in L.A. I knew the job had no future, as I was getting too old to be a rock Jock and I didn’t want to look for another job in L.A. Radio.

It wasn’t easy getting there, plus, I do things that get me canned. I’d worked for the general manager at KIQQ at three other stations and he’d fired me before. If I wanted to do things my way I knew I’d better have my own station. I was also doing syndicated promotions.

I looked for places with a vacant channel to build a station, as it costs less than buying one. I’d filed in other locations and lost out. That’s when my consultant said, “I know a place that is so ugly, nobody will file on top of you, but you better go look to see if you can hack it.”

I flew to Phoenix, rented a car, came to Globe and heard the worst radio I’d heard in years. The stations would play scratchy records, sometimes at the wrong speed.

I thought to myself, if I can’t be a winner in this market, I’m really bad.

Easier said, Willard was tough. Took years to beat him. He always made

more money, ran more commercials.

It’s just that fewer people heard them.

I’d started on the air in radio in a small South Carolina mill town so I knew what it was like in a one economy town where there was only one major employer. No different than when the mines shut down.

I remember how the kids felt when there was nothing to listen to on Sunday mornings with all the preachers. I made up my mind, if I ever had my own station we’d play music on Sunday morning.

An exception, we recently picked up the Mormon Choir 5:30-6am when KIKO AM dumped them.

GMT: The Station changed its call letters from Kiss FM to Gila 101.9.

What is the story behind the change?

Bill: While at KIQQ in Los Angeles, KISS “Kiss FM” constantly beat us, and I liked the moniker. It was catching.

However, the name did not relate to the community and when I had a chance to change when we moved on the dial, I took it. There are now Kiss FM’s all over the place. There’s one in Phoenix.

Now we are “The Gila County Station” Monster Hits – Gila 101.9. People can relate after 20 years. We will always be KISS FM to most of our listeners. And at times we still say it on the air. The rating services still give us credit if someone responds by saying Kiss FM.

Donna Anderson, Bill Taylor and Leora Hunsaker at a 2007 fundraiser in the Old Depot for the Center for the Arts.

GMT: You get in trouble sometimes for the things you say on the air. Tell us about that.

Bill: This is a good ole boy town and I ain’t one of them. So there are people who don’t like me. I’m not here to be liked. I’m here to make people think. In every major market, the most

GLOBEMIAMITIMES popular air personality is also the most disliked. A good example is Howard Stern. Sometimes I get a good laugh.

Like the time someone stole a car from Ellsworth Motors, and I said it had to be an inside job – as only an employee would know which one ran.

PAGE I brought in The Wall (a reproduction of The Wall in Washington DC) during the Gila County Fair. And then things most people don’t even know about – like the giant TV, X-Box Guitar Hero at the Boys and Girls Club and the gas range at the Safe Home. Plus the station helps pay for the light parade every year; paid to paint a Miami fire truck, paid for the security system at the Miami Library, help Audrey with her monthly power bill. Every year little league. This year paid for Santa at the Miami Small Town Christmas. It goes on. We don’t turn our community work into a station promotion, as then we’re not giving,

GMT: I heard Ellsworth wanted to sue you over that one?

Bill: Yes he called. I followed that with the story when a truck rolled out of McDonald’s and hit a vehicle on his lot. My comment was, “lucky there was an eye witness so they could tell which one was hit."

I’ve said things that have made advertisers cancel, but freedom has its price. I’ve watched things being swept under the rug and thought, “where the Hell is the Silver Belt!” So we’d blew a whistle.

My favorite was Judge Carol Nichols in 1994. One of her employees alerted the state as to problems and the state shut the court down. In the process they found a mess that made Patty Nolan look Bill Taylor on the set with a corn to his ear. The line pure as the driven show. We was, "I have never heard so much corn in my life!" (referring to silly humor). The year was '73 and the were the only media that program was recorded at Chnl 5 in Nashville and covered it. The only time edited in LA. she was mentioned in the Silver Belt we’re advertising. So most folks have no was when she ran for re-election and idea how much cash we pour back into that was in a campaign ad paid for by the community. A greater percentage members of the Gila County Sheriff’s of advertising dollars on KQSS stay in office. I’m very proud of our support our community. of Gary Geotteman which contributed If I went on people would think I to his election to Southern Gila County was bragging. It’s mostly behind the J.P. Judge. This will be an honest, well scenes and many I help don’t know run court. where it came from. It feels good to be I think one of my best bits was the an anonymous giver. There is constant Family Business’ contest where the idea fundraising and being quiet allows me was to name the most people who were to pick my projects. This is my home. related that worked for the county.

The Lord blessed me by plunking me down in Globe-Miami. Thank you Jesus.

GMT: You’ve given quite a bit back to If I die and go broke on the same day, the Community? it will have timed out.

Bill: Even when times were tight I’ve always tried to financially support local GMT: You have a style all your own. projects. The Lord calls it seed money. I How would you describe it? got some decent dollars for moving on Bill: One on One. This is me. If you the dial to 101.9 so that 98.3 could cover don’t like it, turn the knob. I’ve always the Valley. It gave me the opportunity to been sarcastic, irreverent, and enjoy do more. that kind of humor. How can you look

at Washington, DC and not think that most are slimy bastards. Poor Miami is a Banana Republic. Globe fought progress but had money in the bank, Now the new crowd owes plenty.

The county doesn’t know how many vehicles it owns or who has them.

Just when you think they’ve reached a peak, they do something even dumber. I do wish we could do live programming all day long. Play requests. We have a huge library. But since Wal-Mart killed Broad Street there’s not enough retail biz left to cover the cost, so we’re on the hard drive.

However, if there’s a major news story we break in. We’re the only station with generators in case of an emergency.

That’s an investment that may save a life.

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GMT: What do you like most about your work?

What I like most is my freedom to try new things. I don’t have a New York corporate office squeezing every dollar out of this town, telling me I can’t do something. We run fewer commercials because they get better results. There’s ...finding lost dogs, playing special requests, feeling good when I know I’ve touched someone. Our Leader said, "When you do it for the least of them, you’ve done it for me," – a lesson that took most of my life to learn.

Talking with Bill, I couldn’t help but remember what he had said earlier about a cardinal sin of broadcasting.

“It’s a sin to be boring,” he said.

Amen, to that.

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Historical Timeline: – 1863

– 1898

Arizona becomes a territory

– 1872

The Mining Act was signed into law, establishing the “Globe Mining District” and re-drawing the boundaries of the San Carlos Indian Reservation which had been established a year earlier.

The mounting encroachment of prospectors and investors, lured by the mineral wealth in the area greatly taxed standing relations with Apaches throughout the State.The 1870s and 1880s became known as the Apache Wars in the Southwest

– 1875

Silver King mine discovered by Benjamin Regan & Charles Mason. CON. It was the richest silver mine in Arizona. Near Picket Post Mountain where Boyce Arboretum is today.

– 1878

City of Globe Established

– 1885

Mangus, Chihuahua,Nachite,old Nana and Geronimo, “…tired of the restrictions of reservation life and the treatment by those in charge, left the reservation and staged, what was to be, their last attempt to ward off the white man. They would command the attention of 5,000 troops, 500 Indian auxiliaries and unknown number of civilians. In an area roughly the size of Illinois and comprising some of the roughest mountain terrain in North America they eluded capture for 16 months.” – Once They Moved Like the Wind by David Roberts

The railroad finally made it to Globe. “For all its importance to Globe and its environs, the GVG & N could not be taken with complete seriousness. It was a struggling operation with some overtones of the comic. Its tri weekly schedule caused it to be spoken of as the Try Weakly. It was also known as the Get Off and Push, or the Gila Monster. When the train was too long, the engine could not pull it up the hill from Cutter Flat and the crew would cut it in half, leaving the rear half with passengers in the caboose until they could get back and bring them in. How those passengers would growl, waiting out there on a cold winter night until probably midnight or later when they were due in at 9:30pm.” – Globe AZ, by Clara T. Woody and Milton Schwarz

– 1903

Construction on Roosevelt Dam began in 1903 at the confluence of Tonto Creek and the Salt River. The primary purpose of the project was to provide water storage for the Salt River Project and flood control through the Salt River Valley. The dam was finished in 1911. At the time of completion in 1911, it was the largest masonry dam in the world.

– 1907

– 1893

Chicago World Fair – boosted the importance of Copper world wide – “The government’s decision to stop coining silver and a subsequent drop in silver prices coincided with one of he most important discoveries of the modern age – the development of the alternating current (AC) system of electricity by Nikola Tesla, a former employee of Thomas Edison. Contracting with Westinghouse, Tesla demonstrated his AC power at the World Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

This system, which was superior to Edison’s direct current provided for long-distance transmission of electricity and greatly expanded the use of electricity, using copper as a conductor. The birth of the electrical age was, in turn, a major boon to the copper industry. Copper had not only been proven as an excellent conductor of electricity, it was also plentiful in supply and inexpensive.”

Miami was founded in 1907 when it was first developed by the Miami Land and Improvement Company when they purchased a tract of land on the upper end of Miami Flats (where the downtown present day Miami is located). By 1910, 800 people were living in Miami. (courtesy of miamiaz.org)

– 1908

The Old Dominion was producing 3,500,000 pounds of copper a month and there was in all about 35 copper companies operating in the district, with a total capitalization of about 55 million.

– 1909 – July, 1890-June, 1894 Globe was hit by 3 major floods within the course of a year. A devastating fire in June 1894 wipes out two-thirds of the Business District. $80,000 in losses.

“The Border” reported: “Globe would make a splendid health resort if it were not that the sick would be crowded out of the way by the hundreds of sturdy hustlers who are either laying the foundation for, or putting the finishing touches upon their fortunes.”

– 1911-1912

MIAMI & INSPIRATION COPPER COMPANIES hit all time high production marks. With WWI in full swing. The mines were producing an average of 4500 tons a day.

They employed 1000 miners and payroll was $500,000 every 2 weeks.

Sullivan Street in Miami was a Mecca of business and industry. 80% of Miami’s commercial district was built between 1909-1919.

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Globe-Miami: The early Years of its Centinneal – 1952

AFTER

Newly paved U.S. 60 from Globe to Phoenix was completed! Two years later in 1954, Broadstreet is widened to accomodate the new highway traffic and many fronts of the historic buildings were “sheared” off to make way for the new “modern” thoroughfare.

– 1912

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Miami-Inspiration Hospital was built by M&I Copper Companies to provide health care to miners and their families.

1914 REAL ESTATE prices were rising faster than the flood waters. “…WB Duncan told tax assessors at a meeting in Phoenix that some lots (in Miami) which assessed for $300 in 1913, were now assessing for $5,000 just a year later.”

– 1917

This was the year of unrest throughout mining in the West. With the country at war, and metal in high demand for the armed forces, copper prices were up from .13 cents a lb in 1907-08 to a high of .37 cents a pound by 1917. Production was at an all time high. Labor wanted a share of the enormous profits. Strikes were called that summer in mining operations though out the Western States. In Globe where “labor had established a stronghold," “it caused massive protests on the courthouse steps in Globe, and required the intervention of Federal mediators, the National Guard and the Sheriff’s department.

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– 1954 Disastrous flood destroys businesses in Globe and Miami leaving streets flooded for days.

– 1962 KEYSTONE HOTEL Closed down. Although there are many stories relating to the Red Light Districts in both Globe and Miami, there were none as famous as the Keystone Hotel in Miami. It came into being in the early 1900s and was closed down occasionally by ‘virtuous law officials who would try to maintain some sort of control, but as surely as it was closed, it would quietly open again. But in 1962 somebody made the “king-size mistake of buying a big display ad in the yellow pages of the telephone book. It aroused such a storm of protest the county attorney, closed it down and vowed that it would stay closed. The building was sold for taxes in 1969 and torn down shortly thereafter. An era had come to a close.

– 1986

The 8 block Downtown District of Globe is declared a Historic District and the Globe Main Street Program is established. Miami’s Sullivan Street was declared a Historic District in 2005.

– 1930

The Great Depression. Copper drops to .08 lb.

“Practically the entire population was unemployed when the Miami Copper Company curtailed production. And Inspiration Copper Company shut down completely. Hundreds left town seeking work Old Dominion Copper Company closes. It never re-opens.

– 1943

Copper industry was again booming. War broke out and American joined forces when Japan struck Pearl Harbour, December 1941. By 1943 all three mines were once again producing at capacity for the war effort.

Globe and Miami Downtown Districts were once again a hub of activity.

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By Eric Harris

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Jan Pederson and her award winning quilt.

With the recent snap of cold weather as the New Year entered, I’ve found my evenings spent wrapped in the warmth of various quilts that we’ve collected over the years. Looking down at the careful stitches and creative designs, my mind wandered to the people who made these quilts and those who continue the tradition today. And with the 21st Annual Quilt Show coming in February, there seemed like no better time than the present to take a few moments and talk to a couple of those involved to learn more about their backgrounds and the story behind the show.

As I started asking around, it was soon clear that Jan Pederson was one of the driving forces behind the Copper Country Quilters’ Guild which sponsors the show each year. Jan has been president of the organization more than four years and has been a part of the area community for decades, including 23 years spent teaching Home Economics at San Carlos Junior High School. When asked about the Guild, she replied that the “guild has 28 members with about 20 actively involved in guild projects” and new members are always welcome to join. And as a chapter of the Arizona Quilters’ Guild, the CCQG will be hosting the spring meeting here in Globe in April 2011.

This year’s raffle prize, the 2011 Opportunity Quilt, is called “Misty Mountain Pond,” designed by Judy Neimeyer, who also taught a class here in

Globe on the pattern and the techniques used, including paper piecing. Various members worked on coordinating the fabrics used, with roughly half the Guild actively working on the project. When asked how long the project took, she replied that “start to finish, I would have to say it took about 10 months to complete the quilt.” Needless to say, I was shocked at the sheer level of work that went into learning the skills, selecting the materials, and creating the final product. This quilt raffle is the Guild’s major fundraiser each year, and provides them with the funding to help support local organizations, this year creating quilts for G.I.L.A. House and helping displaced families.

Another local quilter, Dawn Van Hassel, took some time to talk with me after recovering from a difficult Christmas season. Dawn moved to Globe roughly five years ago after the death of her grandmother, who worked for Singer for many years, and inherited her sewing machine. Shortly after arriving here, Dawn was diagnosed with lupus as the result of undiagnosed valley fever while in Phoenix, and found herself spending more time at home, making up to six quilts a year! This past year, she made a quilt for her mother – a gift she would see and know that it had taken 1st Place in the Globe County Fair – but one that she would not be able to enjoy, as she passed on November 10th, 2010.

GLOBEMIAMITIMES When I asked why she was entering this quilt in this year’s Quilt Show, Dawn explained that “when we were having her estate sale to pay for her funeral costs, someone asked if there were any quilting supplies for sale… she brought me the entry forms for the quilt show the next day while encouraging me to enter my quilt into the show - I saw this as This year's raffle prize: The 2011 Opportunity Quilt, titled "Misty Mountain Pond" was designed by Judy Neimeyer. a sign, to show off the beautiful quilt I did for my mother, and never got to enjoy it herself.” Her story left me speechless, and filled with admiration for her strength and courage as well as her craftsmanship.

So take a moment out of your regular routine and stop by the C.V.C.A. during all of February and March to enjoy the incredible spectrum of quilts up for display at this year’s show. The opening reception is from 11:00am to 3:00pm on February 12th, and this years’ ribbon recipients will be given out at 2:00pm on March 6th, all happening at the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts.

Visiting quilters can find a huge variety of fabrics between Hill Street Mall at 383 South Hill Street in Globe and Julie’s Sewing Corner at 600 West Sullivan Street in Miami. In the meantime, I’ll be snuggled and warm under our quilts. Tickets can be bought at the C.V.C.A. for $1/ea. or 6 for $5 ... so go help those in need!

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Eating Out in the Globe-Miami area

By Vernon Perry Growing up in the local area and working with a Gila County Museum project on “Key Ingredients – America

by Food” I was sent back in time to those special local eateries that still linger in the back parts of the mind.

These were places that are PMcD (pre-McDonald's). If the few cafes I remember from my youth brought back many fond memories, I wonder how many other diners share the same nostalgia.

Dining out was usually reserved for the occasional special event like a birthday. For many families once or twice a year the family would dine away from the home. It was easy to remember those events as real standout times, similar to a trip to Disneyland once in a five year span.

A prom date at the Copper Hills Other big occasions were dining out with a Prom date. There were just a few places in the area that were extra nice and stayed open late to accommodate Prom couples. A favorite was Danko’s Copper Hills another was Craig’s Ranch at Top of the World.

Places where you could stay in the car and enjoy your food and drink included places Upton’s, Busy Boy, B&K Drive In, Sno Cap, Naufel Frosty Freese, and The Apache Drive-in theater.

Only a few restaurants stayed open late. A few like the Justa Café were open twenty four hours.

After a local high school football game you could take your date or

go with a group of friends and meet at the La Casita for a bean burro and a coke. La Casita stayed open a little later on Fridays to serve the football crowd.

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The Snack Shack near Hill Street School – Purple Cows (a mixture of ice cream and grape juice) Busy Boy Drive In – Five burgers for a dollar or their corn dogs Globe Café – The French Fries and steaks R-Del’s – Coleslaw

You could and still can walk into any of the local Mexican food restaurants and ask for a Burro and they know exactly what you want. I had never heard of the term burrito until the area was introduced to Taco Bell! The local restaurants all knew what a bean-burro-enchilada-style or with cheese and sauce meant.

And we were never hassled if we wanted an egg sunny side up on an order of enchiladas.

Try getting that at a Taco chain.

Places with lunch counters were those like – Wink’s, the Greyhound Bus station, Ryan Evans, Larry’s, Globe Café, the Dominion Lunch room or even back later in time, Miller’s café, Bridge Café, Richelieu Café or the Sang Tai. Asking a few people about their memories of food in the Cobre Valley gave these responses;

Sno Cap – Root beer floats and the ‘Accent’ seasonings they used on their hamburgers Toastmaster Café – Toastmaster Special and ham fried rice. Going over the overpass from East Globe to get a Toastmaster hamburger at noon on your birthday.

The original Pic-A-Rib Pic-A-Rib – on South Broad with the teepee – remember the atmosphere created by the covered wagon booths, the waitress in western garb, Blanch Richardson’s trophy animal heads.

And of course the food, especially the garlic toast and the vegetable soup.

Arizona Baking Company – "The bakery with the round windows." A nickel bag that was folded over so you could not see what day old items you got for a nickel. Sometimes you were very lucky and got lots of good stuff.

Pauline’s – on the hill by the old Miami High was a dime for a hot buttered flour tortilla.

Any of the Mexican food restaurants – Both El Reys, El Farolito, La Casita, Chalos, Guayos

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HEY! WHAT'S SO FUNNY? The Greyhound Bus Station Apache Land Restaurant with the Mural Room and a small painting by Ted DeGrazia HiLo Fish that was below the slag dump in Lower Miami. It had the best fish and chips served by two little old ladies out of a small yellow shack.

The Smithsonian’s “Key Ingredients Exhibit” which will be hosted by the Gila Historical Museum beginning on January 29th and running until March 13th, will explore the connections between food and culture. The museum has planned many associated events to be held concurrently with the show and we hope you’ll join us in sharing your memories of favorite foods and the restaurants which helped to make memories in the Globe-Miami area.

GMTnewsnviews and GMT facebook will be hosting photographs, memories and comments on this topic throughout February and March.

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A dietitian was once addressing a large audience in Chicago.

"The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago.

Red meat is awful. Soft drinks erode your stomach lining.

Chinese food is loaded with MSG. Vegetables can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water.

But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?"

A 75-year-old man in the front row stood up and said,

"Wedding cake!"

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Apache Trail, Continued from page 1 Since the road climbed almost two thousand feet up the Mogollon Rim in the shortest possible distance, it had to be built with many hairpin curves. Near the road’s edge sheer drops into the canyons below often frightened the less adventurous motorist. But the spectacular views and ancient ruins made the trip a “must-see” for tourists.

In 1920, an author describing two southern routes to California for Outing Magazine admitted that the Borderland Trail was a better road and passed through Douglas, Bisbee, Nogales, and Tucson, but said the Apache Trail was far better “in the way of marvelous scenery and charm.”

The Apache Trail was constructed and named by 1920, but was not all that famous yet. Ironically, it took an English immigrant named Fred Henry Harvey to help make that happen. Harvey immigrated to America in 1850 at the age of fifteen, and the dynamic Londoner worked his way up from dishwasher to the owner of a restaurant and hotel chain that stretched from Missouri to California before he was 50 years old.

As a railroad mail clerk in the 1860s, Harvey learned about the unsanitary and unsavory meal choices that travelers suffered and tackled the problem for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company. Since he once sold advertising for a living, Harvey applied his experience to create and distribute countless marketing pamphlets. Success led him to hire advertising mastermind William H. Simpson, who combined fine arts with commerce by hiring leading artists to create images of the Grand Canyon and New Mexico Indian culture. The Fred Harvey Company joined forces with the Santa Fe railroad to invent a romantic and adventurous view of the Southwest in order to bring in customers.

Although railroad tourism began to boom in the 1880s, most of the potential attractions were not close to towns or railroad stations. But thanks to improvements in automobile design, by 1926 that the Santa Fe/Harvey Company was able to establish comfortable “Indian

GLOBEMIAMITIMES Detours” to solve the problem. Using luxuriously-designed twelve-passenger Packard touring cars, the motor coaches shuttled tourists to remote locations for firsthand experiences with Native Americans and prehistoric ruins.

These well-advertised tours succeeded in taking hundreds of Easterners into the New Mexico and Arizona hinterlands for almost a decade.

During those years, Harvey and the Santa Fe created the iconic Southwest “Land of Enchantment” through beautiful images and designs, as well as thousands of romantic phrases penned for brochures, ads, and travel articles. They sparked their readers’ imaginations as they were “Beckoned to an idyllic adventure, to a country within a country.”

Experiencing the ancient cliff dwellings offered tourists a getaway from urban stress. “While Western Europe was yet a wilderness,” the brochures stated, “prehistoric American peoples wove fine cotton cloth, built great irrigation systems, reared many-storied cities.”

The Harvey/Santa Fe marketing captured a nation experiencing an economic boom in the 1920s, but it also drew the attention of their major competitor, the Southern Pacific Railroad. Not to be outdone, the SP built a hotel near Roosevelt Dam and began offering their own “detours” by 1926, featuring the cliff dwellings at Tonto National Monument as the main highlight of their route.

The Southern Pacific’s Sunset Limited ran between New Orleans and Los Angeles, and a coast to coast ticket was $360 per person, round trip (more than $4,000 today). In addition, the line offered an extended 120 mile motor coach excursion over the Apache Trail, embarking from the Bowie depot near Willcox and meeting the train again in Phoenix. Southern Pacific passengers could have their own Indian detour for an extra twenty dollars per person and another four dollars for the “Ancient Cliff Dwelling Tour.”

Southern Pacific marketers also used famous artists to advertise the Apache Trail, and in a 1928 Sunset Magazine ad, they promised riders a glimpse of “Vanished Peoples,” and their “cliff dwellings, adobe castles, and strange forts and apartment houses.” They also promised that along the Apache Trail, “You will have

a good opportunity also to marvel at the New West— gigantic irrigation works of which the Roosevelt Dam is but one example.”

Unfortunately, a terrible crash brought an end to motor coach tourism. The accident wasn’t on the Apache Trail however, but on Wall Street. On Black Thursday, October 24, 1929, the stock market collapsed. With less wealthy customers as clients, the tourism business fell off drastically. The Southern Pacific Railroad stopped advertising the Apache Trail as a “side attraction” in the late 1930s, and World War II sounded its death knell. Passenger trains were jammed with soldiers, and people stayed close to home for safety purposes.

However, even though the railroad no longer promotes the tours, the attractions are still there.

Because of its remote location and rugged terrain, Route 88 has not changed all that much. The narrow roadbed, hairpin turns, and steep drop-offs remain to give tourists a sense of perilous adventure. The ruins, cliffs, and canyons will endure long after anyone remembers that the place was once called the Apache Trail.

The Sunset Limited was Southern Pacific’s premier train built for luxury first-class, longdistance travel. Established in 1893, it initially consisted only of sleeping cars and no coaches - running from New Orleans to San Francisco.

The name Sunset Limited is the oldest name train in the United States and is still operating today as part of Amtrak’s fleet.

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The value of mining lamps varies with their age a and manufacturer, with prices ranging from just a c couple bucks for a common lamp in fair condition to u upwards of $10,000 or more for a rare lamp in m mint condition. Also highly collectible are Miner’s c candlesticks which preceded carbide lamps and were u used before 1900 by mostly Western hard rock miners.

At the Old Dominion Mine, for instance, miners w were given ten stearic candles for their ten hour day d deep underground. Unlike the Eastern coal miner w who used oil wick lamps and moved around though o the mine, those in the West generally established out o one working area and would hang their candle on a ro ledge or in a piece of wood. The fact that the rock c company provided the candles for the Western hard Page out of David Thorpe’s book showing detailed drawings on a Lu-Mi-Num lamp and one of Todd rock miner was an added benefit which the Eastern Towns’ collection. miners did not enjoy.

The candlestick holders themselves evolved over Thousands of carbide lamps which were designed time from simple designs to those quite ornate. Town and patented by their inventors and cherished by explained that back in their hey day, a common design the miners who relied on them have become highly migh mi g t sell gh sell for for seventy-fi sev even enty ty-five cents, while an ornate might oug ug ght a fter ft er collectible to mining aficionados. They are ssought after ccandle incorporating a fuse n not only for their indelible imprint on ccutter and entailing some mining history but for the vast amountt e engraving might sell for as of energy and ingenuity which wentt m much as three to four dollars. into their design and production.

Town said he got his best Todd Town, who is a Globe native,, ccandlestick in Globe from y and grew up in the mining industry a miner who had worked d where his dad and grandfather had tthe Iron Cap in Copper Hill n an asbestos mine until 1973, began w which was active in the ‘20s. his journey as a collector, because off T The man had called Town his dad who started out with a smalll a and said he had a folding collection of carbide lamps which satt ccandle stick, but it took him n on a shelf. Soon both father and son a month to get around to a were haunting antique shops and flea llooking because he didn’t markets to see who could find the mostt b believe the guy really had unique lamp. a anything special.

Nearly 30 years later Todd Town’ss “But the minute I walked collection puts him in the top tier off iin and saw it on the coffee serious collectors and his inventory off ttable, I knew. He had a C. mining lamps numbers in the hundreds..

C Cleves sitting there.” Cleves, n Town holds a Copper Queen lamp.

Dozens of his lamps are featured in Just Rite was inspired to customize who was a metal worker in Dave Thorpe’s definitive book on the lamps with the names of mines when the late 1800s was well known subject, “Carbide Light, The Last Flame it was discovered that this simple process helped them sell more lamps. for the quality and design of in American Mines.”

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This box of stearig wax mining candles dates back to the late 1800’s when miners would be given six candles for a ten hour shift underground. Candles gave way to carbide in the early 1900’s. And Carbide gave way to electric lamps lafter 1923.

C Cleves Candlestick Todd Town Collection.

his work. Town's candlestick includes a swivel bar fuse and cap cutter. Today, the C. Cleves sits among Town’s other pieces; a true prize in a sea of prizes.

He tells the story of a friend who bought a candle stick in Colorado made by John Cox – a prisoner in Canyon City Colorado in the late 1800s to early 1900s.

Cox was known for his fancy spurs, but also turned his talent to producing ornate miner’s candlesticks which are highly prized today. His friend paid $12,000 for the one he found in Colorado, and before he got home, Town says, he had offers from other collectors for $30,000.

Candlesticks were a matter of pride with miners and a primary light source up to the early 1900s, when the discovery and development of carbide lamps eliminated the market for candles. Today, these old, and highly collectible ornate candle stick holders are still given as prestigious retirement gifts to mining engineers and managers.

“Presentation candlesticks are like a service pen,” explains Town. “The workmanship on some of them is unbelievable.” Many are handmade, and involve intricate scrolled designs reminiscent of custom Japanese swords.

When carbide was discovered accidentally in 1862 it was the beginning of a new way to light the world. It seems, in an attempt to make metallic calcium, a young inventor by the name of Thomas Wilson, unexpectedly produced calcium carbide. Coal tar and lime were placed in an electric furnace, and the resulting melt, when placed in water, was found to produce a flammable gas, later identified as acetylene.

A collection of old Time Checks. Miners were issued employee #s on metal ttags a which they left on a board by the shaft before going underground for their shift. That way, mine mgmt could simply look at that board and know th whether they had 80 or 100 miners working below. And when you came w up out of the shaft you better take your time check with you - or you could get fired.

GLOBEMIAMITIMES It wasn’t until the Baldwin Company, who had used carbide in their bicycle lamps, designed two lamps for use in underground mining in 1900, that others quickly followed suit.

Soon, there were over 90 manufacturers of carbide mining lamps with names such as Guy’s Dropper, Auto-Lite, Justrite, Maple Leaf, Acme and ITP. In fact, the lamp which is shown on the cover of the Local Pages phonebook this year is an ITP, which stands for “It’s Trouble Proof.” Made by the Dewar Mfg. Company, the lamp used a patented automatic water feed. It’s name may have been appropriated from a Justrite advertisement which used that marketing phrase, but it was Dewar who patented the name in 1916.

Old Advertisements from the early part of the Century carefully detail the design and unique features of each lamp and underscore the point that, although the process was simple, using just water and carbide, the delivery of that system gave wing to literally hundreds of designs.

The history of the lamps themselves and the men and manufacturers who helped to change an industry is a fascinating look at true American “Can Do” ingenuity which marked the first part of this Century.

Local author, caver and collector, Dave Thorpe, spent years researching and compiling a vast body of material on this subject before publishing “Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines” in 2005 and most recently a companion book, “Beneath the Surface: Inventors & Marketeers of the Miner’s Carbide Light.” His books are considered a collectors’ bible on the subject and offer both the serious collector and curious reader a comprehensive look at this part of America’s mining history.

Today, carbide lamps can still be found in Indonesia and other far-flung places. Yet, it is the legacy of the first carbide lamps which still shine a bright light on the entrepreneurial ingenuity of the early manufacturers, and a time when these small, beautifully crafted lamps gave light to the underground darkness for generations of Western Hardrock miners.

Front cover photo: The early designs of carbide lamps included a wide variety of design and engineering elements which made each unique to the user – and much later to the collector’s marketplace.

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Author Dave Thorpe Book Signing Extravaganza!

Beneath The Surface Inventors & Marketeers of the Mining Lamp $59 on Amazon.com

Home Tour Price $30

Carbide Light The Last Flame in American Mines $79 on Amazon.com

Home Tour Price $40

– Amazon.com Rating

Dave Thorpe and Todd Town will be on-hand during Globe’s 27th Annual Historic Home & Building Tour to showcase some rare lamps from their collections.

Dave will bring a limited number of his books for this event and have them for sale at Half-off for the duration of the Home Tour.

PLUS! If Mining is in your blood or History speaks to you – these books are a must-have for your library!

r Visit with thuep ayuotuhro and pick ook! signed b Books will be offered d ffor 1 1/2 price during the two days of the Home Tour.

Limited Offer! Only 200 books will be available at this price!

LOCATION: Home Tour: March 5-6 Historic Downtown Globe The Center for the Arts Broad Street & Oak

“Thorpe brings to life both the individuals involved in mining inventions and the spirit and culture of a vanished industrial era unique to the United States.

A great book for collectors, American-history buffs, and curious readers.

– Deric English