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ALL EDITIONS Page 6 (Section II) Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona. Sunday, June 22, 1952 1 i -lw'j! I 3 That Man' And His Wife Effect Some Mighty Helpful Projects i i -M Mr A SJ'L I I I I it I -I II www oi the squaw who wove each basket. Mrs. Burlesdn intends to leave the collection to the state or some public organization that will keep it intact. It was at Chloride that the Burlesons were married, July 14, 1929.

That date also marked an end to the roving of Lafe Burleson. He came to Arizona at the age of 10, 53 years ago. As he grew older, he worked in mines in the territory, later going to Edmonton, Alberta, and Honduras on construction jobs. SEVCE IHS marriage, though, he has spent most of his time in Arizona. As for the traveling before that, he has a comment: "Everything within 20 miles of Humboldt I've seen." As justice of the peace he has lots of legal work some months, and occasionally he is awakened late at night because of a disturbance or killing in some remote part of his precinct.

But there isn't too much crime, particularly among the young people. "We haven't had a bad boy in our community for the last seven or eight years," he said. "The boys," interposed his wife, "look on him as their own father. They come to him with their troubles." "Yeah," he agreed, "and I give them the dickens then we all go fishing together." Then a twinkle comes to his eyes and he says, "I have more trouble with my wife than with the rest of the community." She waved her hands again. That man!" It isn't unusual for one member of a family to have led a highly Interesting life.

But it's rare, indeed, when both husband and wife are completely out of the ordinary. Such a couple are J. L. (Lafe) Burleson, justice of the peace of Mayer precinct in Yavapai County, and his wife, the former Marion Dean. The precinct largest in area In the county extends from Lynx Creek near Prescott to the Maricopa Counpr line far to the south.

Burleson serves the district from his home in Humboldt. HE IIAS TRAVELED extensively in North America and has worked in Canada, many parts of Arizona, and Central America in construction work and mining. Mrs. Burleson has a collection of Indian baskets, completely catalogued, which must be one of the finest of its kind in the state. In addition, she is a painter whose pictures have been exhibited in San Francisco among other places.

Arizona's first statehood governor, the late George W. P. Hunt, had one of her paintings in his collection. Life in the Burleson household must be a picnic. He loves to tease his wife and poke fun at life in general, and she understands him and enjoys it.

As justice of the peace he marries couples frequently married two couples in the office of the Shattuck Den Mining Company's Iron King Branch, in fact but, to quote him: "I goj my own wife," he continued, "from the Hualpais." "Oh, that man," his wife smiled in mock exasperation, "if he can't tease someone he isn't happy." IT TURNED OUT that she did spend a lot of time with the Hualpai Indian tribe in northwestern Arizona. Her father, Jim Dean, was an oldtime mining man who had charge of the Tennessee Mine at Chloride north of Kingman. She and her mother joined him there in 1913, staying in Kingman overnight before going to Chloride. "We stayed at the old Beale Hotel," she said, "and asked for a room with bath before we found out there weren't any such rooms. The town was hot and ddsty.

"While we were waiting for the wagon to take us to the mine the next morning, I told mother, 'We aren't going to like and she replied, know, dear, but we aren't going to live here we're going to live in Chloride. WITH THEIR arrival in Chloride came the awakening, for if Kingman looked primitive before, it must have seemed a metropolis by comparison. Her mother became interested in the Hualpais and they came to look upon her as one of their best friends the person to whom they took their troubles. That's how the basket collection started. Now Mrs.

Burleson, who has maintained the friendship started with the Indians nearly 40 years ago, has a collection of 550 baskets. They are catalogued with the name of the weave, name of the tribe, and the name the main street at Humboldt, old Yavapai County town, man crossing the road from Mayer. The road turns in the left and goes through another part of town and on to VTP Tnhn TTonrv Mayor Joe L. Allen of Pres-yxj. jumi xicni CQtt s.gns a tQ buy government bonds which will be used later to retire the city's bonded indebtedness.

Looking on is Park H. Miller, Prescott's veteran city clerk. (Republic Photo) No Debts Is Rosy Future It's A Future Prescott Faces Mining Town Looks Ahead Humboldt is a mining town that has known better days. But there is reason to believe prosperity is returning. While much of the mining activity In Yavapai County is shifting to the west in the Bagdad area, Humboldt's Iron King Mine is thriving.

The town, named for a German scientist and explorer, Baron Alexander von Humboldt, who died nearly 100 years ago, reached its peak about 25 years ago. At that time placer mining was at its height in the surrounding mountainous country, and much gold and silver poured out of Humboldt's smelter. When placer mining declined about the time of the big depression, the smelter closed and the town began to decline. Now, with the mine and flotation mill in full operation, things are looking up. The biggest problem right now, say long time residents, is housing.

If there were enough houses, they think, most of the mine and mill employes would bring their families and live in Humboldt. Instead, although some live there and in Mayer, most of them ride company buses all the way to Prescott. More housing, and completion of the new Black Canyon Highway, would be bright spots in Humboldt's future. LOiS $50 io $300 or More (550 Costs 55.30 For 5 Mos.) VACATION MONEY EASY TO GET! Call 2-4718, Arrange For Loan, Drive in Our Free Parking Lot and Pick Up Check MARTIN BRAT0N 202 North Ave. Phone 4-1404 Closed Saturday iraiiiiiiiiiiioiia 'i)rJS'A X- being paved by the city.

The work is done under the improvement district act, with the city paying for the intersections from its share of state gasoline tax funds, property owners paying for the ret. With C. C. Overstreet, superintendent of streets, supervising the job, the city has been able to keep costs down to from $2.07 to $2.65 a front foot, not Including curbing and gutters. The city council also has approved expansion of the police station and jail, work for which is all but completed.

Mayor Allen has lived in Prescott 30 years. He shifted from farming to being a groceryman, and made a success of it. He has been in local politics four years. The first year he served on the council. Then when the mayor, the late E.

C. Seale, became ill, Allen' was chosen acting mayor. He was named mayor when Mayor Seale died and was elected two years ago. Miller, with a job corresponding to that of city manager, has become a vital part of Prescott city government. He has been with the city 20 years, was a resident 11 years prior to that.

His jobs are many in addition to the title of clerk, he is treasurer, recorder, and magistrate. Miller also finds time to be active in affairs of the Arizona Municipal League, which he has served as president. Civic Leader Noiv In China Many Chines came to "Prescott In the 1880s, and some returned to China. Among these was- a man known as Charlie Wann while he lived in Prescott, but Jan Con Sang when he returned to his native land to become an outstanding financial and Christian leader. His story was told by the Rev.

Charles Franklin Parker, minister of the First Congregational Church in Prescott, in the September, 1941 edition of Arizona Highways. Under the guidance of T. W. Otis, a' pioneer merchant in Prescott and a leader in establishing the Presbyterian and later the Congregational churches there, Charlie Wann became a Christian. He left the United States in 1902, and in 1941 when the article about him was published, he had amassed a fortune as a merchant and was supporting a Christian hospital in Hong Kong.

PH. 45585 II II fc. it. Main Street This is with a front of the utility pole at Dewey. (Republic Photo) Black Canyon Road Follows Stage Trail In Arizona's pioneer days before present highways and railroads were built, a stagecoach trip from Phoenix to Prescott took 30 hours, more or less.

The route the stages followed was through New River, -Cordes, and Mayer the approximate route of the new Black Canyon Highway. The new highway isn't finished and may not be for another two years, so no accurate estimate is possible on the time it will take to go from Prescott to the state capital, but all agree the 30 hours was probably about 15 times as long as the trip will take then. The completed road will make the distance between the two cities only about 100 miles, and there won't be a steep grade or a sharp curve for the entire distance. What this will mean to the communities along the route is problematical even controversial. Some of them will be bypassed.

One of these Mayer long had hopes that a resurvey would put the road back through town but now has settled for a blacktopped access road through town from the new highway half a mile away. There's no doubt that the" traffic will be increased tremendously. Already, with the road paved and open to traffic only as far north as Cordes Junction, the number of vehicles on the road is steadily increasing. Another branch of the road scheduled for completion about the same time as the Prescott highway will cut the distance between Phoenix and Flagstaff by 77 miles. Work is progressing now at a number of places on the Verde Valley portion, on the stretch of highway extending from a short distance west of Dewey to Prescott, and on the $750,000 traffic interchange-overpass set-up east of Prescott near Whipple Veterans Center.

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If no major improvements are needed in the next nine years, this indebtedness will be paid off by 1961, Miller said. Barring unexpected growth, i the city's fire, police, and street facilities are adequate, officials believe, so there is a chance the debt-free status may be attained. This does not Include revenue bonds which are outstanding for expansion of the water system, but these will be paid off from profits from the city's sale of domestic water In spite of an economy move during the administration of Mayor Joe Allen, Prescott grocery store operator, improvements have kept pace with the city's growth. At present eight blocks of street In a residential section are WE RENT arid SELL HOSPITAL BEDS WHEEL CHAIRS ALL SICK BOOM EQUTPT. We sell mrglcal belts, trasses, elastio hosiery Standard Surgical Supply 710 N.

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