January 2012 Nugget

Volume 5, Number 4 January 2012 FREE

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Who was this man?

Guest columnist Gary Every explores the world of James McAvoy, Pages 8 & 9

Marshall Trimble to

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Centennial celebration,See Page 12

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We all realize that the need to discuss Self-De-fense must mean that the accompanying presence of violence must also ex-ist. Facing the darker side of human nature is often unpleasant, but it is nec-essary. I thought, during this holiday season, that I would share with you the more virtuous side of the warrior spirit. Being proud to be an American and feeling blessed that

fate allowed me to be born here, does not diminish my admiration for those hon-orable traits found in other cultures. For our purposes, we will address a few in-teresting characteristics of the Japanese Samurai.Their warrior spirit was

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An end of the year messageregret. A man’s word was held in high regard. Once an oath was made, he was duty bound to fulfi ll his obligations. There was no fi ne print to dilute or distort the promise made. Shame, a word sometimes lacking in our vocabulary, was something that held and still holds enormous weight on ones conscience and is a stain on oneself and ones’ family.The end of the year was

considered to be an op-portune time to repay ones debts. These debts could in the form of money, gifts or favors. Their logic was to end the present year with a clean slate so that the New Year could offer op-portunities free of the past. The New Year started with Kangeiko, winter train-ing. Hard training, while exposed to the elements of cold weather can certainly put life in perspective. It

rids your heart of useless baggage and clears the mind. I’ve done it myself. I share these things with you with the hope that it will provoke Thought. Happy New Year. Mr. Weber is the chief

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By John Hernandez During the Civil War, nearly all the Federal troops were pulled out of the Arizona Territory. This left the territory unprotected from hostile Indian raids. The Indians in the Territory especially the Apaches used the opportunity to attack and drive settlers, ranchers and miners out of what they considered their homeland. After the war’s end, troops returned to the territory offering better protection. Settlers, ranchers and miners began moving into areas where military forts provided them protection. The forts which helped protect people along the Copper Corridor were Fort Apache near the San Carlos Reservation and Camp Grant located between Mammoth and Winkelman near the current site of Central Arizona College. Soldiers from Ft. Lowell in Tucson also ventured into the Copper Corridor area. The military now turned their attention towards the conquering of the Apaches. As more settlers poured into the area, Eastern investors saw the need for better transportation and communication services. Railroads were expanding westward, telegraph lines were being installed and the stagecoach system was set up. The town of Riverside

was near what is now Kelvin. A post office was established there on October 17, 1877. In 1879 a Butterfield – Overland stage stop was established at Riverside along the Globe – Florence route. It was built along the banks of the Gila River. This was a major stop between Globe and Florence where the horses could rest, feed and drink water. The customers could rest and get a good meal. It was 81 miles along the Butterfield stage route. It was a 10-hour trip between Globe and Riverside and a five-hour journey from Riverside to Florence on the rugged road. The Riverside station was a welcome sight for the tired passengers and crew of the Wells Fargo stagecoach. The Globe – Florence route carried payroll for the miners and bullion from the mines as well as passengers and mail. Besides the stage stop, there were ranches and mining claims flourishing in the area. One mine, the Pinal Copper Company had a mine and furnace near Riverside. Newspapers of the day were saying that it was booming and would be a prosperous area to live in. In 1882 the Weekly Citizen reported, “The mines in the vicinity of Riverside and in the Mineral Creek country are the most promising in

Tales and places of the Copper Corridor: Riversidethe territory.” With the coming of people and prosperity to the area, bandits and robbers saw the opportunity to ply their chosen profession. Stagecoach hold ups were a regular occurrence on Arizona highways and the Florence to Globe trail was no exception. The Riverside stage

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By Punch Howarth Guest conductor Tao Fan and his sister Cong Fan, piano soloist, will join the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra in a program of Chinese and German works. The concert opens with Yao Dance Overture by Tieshan and Yuan followed by Yellow River Piano Concerto by Chenzong and Wanghua featuring Cong Fan. One of the great works from the German Romantic catalogue is the Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D major following intermission. This 4 part symphony will be outlined in a future article. Tao Fan returns to lead SASO following a very impressive guest appearance on the podium last season. In 1995 he graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory and was appointed conductor of the National Film and Radio Philharmonic in Beijing and became a student of Essa Pekka Solonen. He later conducted the Helsinki Philharmonic and Finnish National Radio Orchestras. Mr. Fan premiered contemporary works by American composers at the Florida Contemporary Music Festival and made his Carnegie Hall debut in New York City. He was selected by China’s Ministry of Culture in 2006 to conduct an orchestra in Cambodia of musicians selected from 10 Southeast Asian countries. Since then he has conducted: The Bogota[Columbia] Philharmonic, toured Eastern Europe, SASO, and the China Philharmonic in Australia at the Sidney Opera House. Dr. Cong Fan will be guest soloist in the Yellow

SASO features brother and sister guest performers in FebruaryRiver Piano Concerto. Graduating from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in 1997, she then won full scholarships from Temple University where she earned her doctorate in Piano. She has received many awards in Canada, Germany, Austria, and a Carnegie Hall debut. She made her first orchestra appearance at age 16 with the Shanghai Symphony. The Yellow River Concerto is one of the piano repertoire she specializes in and has recorded it. There are several compositions depicting rivers such as The Blue Danube of J. Strauss, The River Moldau by Smetana, Grofe’s Mississippi Suite and a Rhine River Symphony of Schumann. SASO will perform another, the Yellow River Piano Concerto, a four movement work depicting “China’s Sorrow,” the Hwang (yellow) Ho (river) that has caused an abundance of flood catastrophes through the centuries. Starting in Tibet, this 2700 mile river is

China’s 2nd. largest and the yellow silt it carries and deposits causes a continual rise in water level. The Concerto has an interesting evolution starting in 1939. Originally an 8 movement cantata composed in a cave by Xinghai, many others revised and modified its contents. The present day work is in four movements and was finalized by Yin Chenzong and Chu Wanghua. Each of the movements has a descriptive label and each could be construed as a Tone Poem: 1. Prelude-The Song of the Yellow River Boatmen 2. Ode to the Yellow River 3. The River in Anger 4. Defense of the River. Both the Cantata and Concerto were politically banned during the Cultural Revolution. The Concerto received a go-ahead by Jiang Quin (Madam Mao) the wife of Chairman Mao. In China the work is very political as were many Russian compositions during Stalin’s reign. The scoring calls for full orchestra plus

“pipa” a Chinese lute. This concert in SaddleBrooke will be on Saturday, Feb. 11, at the

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Take a few minutes out of your day to read to a child. Contact Head Start, a Child Care Center or Elementary School (Pre K or Kindergarten class) of your choice in Pinal County and schedule a time to read. When children are read to they acquire a love for reading, build a strong vocabulary and develop healthy brain connections. For every volunteer who reads on January 26, 2012, Success By 6, with the generous support of our sponsors will donate a new book to that classroom’s library. As an additional benefit every child that attends the event will receive one age appropriate book of their own to take home.

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What do you know about our western heritage? Find out at the Second

Annual SaddleBrooke Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering to be held on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012 at the SaddleBrooke Desert View Performing Arts Center (DVPAC). Attend either performance, the first at 2:30 p.m. and the second at 7 p.m., and a free “Meet and Greet” reception (no host bar) with the performers at 5 p.m. New this year is a free Western Art Show and Silent Auction from noon to 7 p.m., also at the DVPAC. Tickets for the Gathering

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By Gary Every Recently I moved to the quaint little town of Oracle, Arizona on the edge of the Santa Catalina Mountains. As I was exploring my new home town I wandered the local cemetery, or “cementery” as the mislabeled trash cans call it. It is a beautiful graveyard; many of the

graves are decorated in the traditions of Mexican folk art – there are many paper, plastic, and real flowers. There is the headstone of a famous writer. The bodies are scattered across the hillside, forcing visitors to follow a meandering path through an oak forest filled with scrub jays and rabbits. Tucked off in one corner at

the base of a gnarled tree trunk is a tombstone that reads, “James McAvoy - prospector and friend.” It lists his date of birth as 1889 and the place as Ireland. This is one Celt buried a long way from home. You have to wonder what it would take to lure a man to leave behind his

native land and family to be willing to end up dying here alone. In this case the mystery is solved by the tombstone. James McAvoy was a prospector and for some men, once they get the thirst for gold in their blood, they can think of nothing else. Who knows what kind of tales James McAvoy had heard about

The Prospector: The life the American frontier as a boy. Perhaps he had a grandfather or great great uncle who had come over as a 49er and returned to Ireland a prosperous man. Only James McAvoy never returned. He must have fallen in love with the mountains or perhaps he spent his whole life believing he was on the verge of discovering some great treasure. I know which treasure story it must have been to lure him here, to these mountains, the same treasure story which lures every prospector who comes here - the legend of the lost mine with the iron door. The legend dates back to the days of Spanish conquistadors and an old mission established by the Jesuits on the north side of the Santa Catalina Mountains, just beyond Tucson. The church was established among Native Americans whom the friars described as “fierce”.

These Native Americans would come to be known as the Apache and the church was called Santa Catalina de Cuitabaga, an Apache word meaning “spring where the people gather mesquite beans” but it later became known as the Lost Mine with the Iron Door. This is how the story appeared in print in the Arizona Weekly Star of February 4, 1880. “The principal gold mines were situated in these mountains and there was a place called Nueva Mia Ciudad, having a monster church with a number of golden bells that were used to summon the laborers from the fields and mines, and a short distance from the city, which was situated on a plateau was a mine of such fabulous richness that the miners used to cut gold out with a ‘hatcheta’. At the time of the Franciscans acquiring supremacy, the Jesuits fled, leaving the city destitute of population;


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buried beneath a massive avalanche. James McAvoy, the adventurous young man from Ireland, was not the only prospector to fall under the legend’s spell. The mountain pass, Charleau’s Gap, is named after a Swiss man who had lost the family fortune in Guatemala before searching for treasure in the Santa Catalinas. The town of Oracle was founded by prospectors and miners such as Alexander McKay. Harold Bell Wright wrote

the novel The Mine With The Iron Door, which became a movie in 1925. MacAvoy was renowned as something of a hermit, but from time to time he would leave his mine workings behind and venture into town to acquire supplies. Oracle, like most frontier towns, had problems with stray dogs. In the days before spaying and neutering, canine populations frequently soared out of control. For a time, Tucson

passed a law which stated that if a man saw a dog without a collar roaming the street and did not shoot it immediately, he could be arrested on the spot for not performing his civic duty. James MacAvoy would pull into Oracle for supplies and his first stop would be the local butcher shop. There MacAvoy would purchase

meat scraps and proceed to feed all the stray dogs in town. For the next few days, a pack of dogs would follow MacAvoy wherever he went about town, and he would toss them scraps from time to time. When his business had been transacted and it was time to leave town, MacAvoy would make one last stop

at the butcher shop. As the Irish prospector walked out of Oracle, all the stray dogs in town followed like he was the Pied Piper of Hamlin. The hungry dogs would follow him all the way to his remote mountain shack. It wasn’t that MacAvoy loved dogs… saw himself as more of a rancher.


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Oracle Listings - Homes•Solid brick home on 1/3 ac., with oak trees and a spacious backyard. Wood, slate and travertine fl oors, ceiling fans, wood burning heat. $159,000.•Excellent MH on 2.5 ac. with fantastic views, split fl oor plan with large MB, block skirting, covered deck. $78,500.•Over 1 1/2 ac. completely fenced ready for your children, horses & pets, 2 story home with 2 bd upstairs, 2 down. $120,000.•Lovely slump block home high on a hill with unobstructed views, 4 bd, 2 ba in pristine condition. $199,000.•Stunning farmhouse on 3.3 ac in Cherry Valley, horse facilites, garden area, peace and quite, lovely interior details. $325,000.•Enjoy the wildlife and views from this immaculate home on an acre. So many upgrades inside, fl agstone patio. $225,000.

•Views in every direction from this lovely MH on 1.25 ac., heated swiming pool, horse property, everything you could want! $195,000.•Beautiful 2300 s.f. MH on 2.5 ac. with amazing views, plenty of room inside and out. $119,900.•Open plan 5bd, 2 ba home on a very private lot with great landscaping, a playhouse and lots more. $178,900.•4 bd, 2 story home also includes a rented duplex, home has new AC, carpet & remodeled bath. Only $130,000.•Country living on Hwy 79, 2.49 ac., desert wonderland with private well, fully fenced. $110,000.•Excellent business opportunity on America Ave. Offi ce or retail space, recently updated. $39.995.•Lease with option to buy. Spacious MH on 1.25 ac. Rent for $750 and have $150 go to closing costs. $98,500

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•Great lot in center of Oracle. Ready to build on, utilities at lot line. $31,900.•Best price for 5 ac. in Oracle area, can be split, shared well. Reduced to $44,900•4 lots, 1.25 ac. each, custom home area. Owner will carry. Submit offers. $82,000.•Horse Property! Build your home or put a manufactured home on this great 3.34 ac parcel. $109,000.•Unique .69 ac parcel, awesome views, no impact fees. $55,000.•Commerical property on America Ave. owner has started construction on approximatly 6,000 sq. ft. bldg and is including building materials on site. $145,000.

Surrounding Area•2 parcels on the east side of the San Pedro River near Sacaton. 2 - 40 ac. parcel for $120,000.•Beautiful views, 37 ac in secluded area, State land on 2 sides, zoned for site build or MH. $240,000.•4 lots with great mountain views, lots range from .34 to .60 ac. Lot 2 is $12,500, other lots are $14,500.•Large well-kept home, great views, 3 bd, 3ba, 616 sq. ft. basement with its own entrance, rock fi replace with pellet stone insert, large RV carport includes a 500 sq.ft. beauty shop with equipment. $249,000. •5 bd. home on 40 ac. on Redington Rd., quality home, artesian well. Views. $250,000•2 view lots, city water, sewer, paved roads. $16,500 each.•Spectacular 7 ac. in Aravaipa Canyon, well and septic already installed, rustic barn on property. $147,000.•3.92 ac. on Barrows Pl. with hilltop views. You can have site-built or MH, horse property. $59,000.

•Well-kept home on 3 lots, wood kitchen cabinets, workshop, 2 car carport, great views. $86,500.•2 ac. parcel in Mammoth w/older MH & shop. Has been surveyed into 4 parcels or you can build on it. $79,000.•Almost 1/2 ac. with MH that has a lot of upgrades added recently, hanidcap ramp. $40,000.•Privacy at the end of the road in Mammoth. Many upgrades in the home, cozy home, country charm. $110,000.•PRICED REDUCED! Hilltop views beautiful open plan, custom kitchen cabinets, SS appliances, wood burning fi replace. $125,000.•Great mountain views from this 3.75 ac. south of Mammoth. $47,000.•Just under 44 acres for your own little ranch, hilltop location south of Mammoth. $344,000.

•Choose your own parcel from 1.25 to 3.75 ac., fl at, easy to build on, utilities at street. $84,900 to $210,000.•40 ac. for your own ranch, can be split, great investment property. $60,000.•4 view lots, 1.25 ac. each in high view area of Oracle, homes only. Utilities at lot line. 3 lots for $95,000; 1 lot for $96,000.•REDUCED!! 3.3 ac. on Linda Vista Rd with great views, ready to build, utilities at road. $164,900.•Two Lots with shared well 1.5 ac each. Price reduced to $26,500.•Half acre plus lot with all utilities, paved road, homes only area. $33,000.•Beautiful hilltop views from 5 ac. parcel. Can be split. Horse property. Well Share. $89,500.•14 to 19 ac. lots on Florence Hwy in beautifully developed Painted Sky Ranch. $185,000 to $195,000.•1.25 to 10 ac., buy part or whole, has excellent well, borders State land, no fi nancing necessary, owner will cary. $32,000 - $125,000.

•20 ac. of fl at usable land on Florence Highway, 2 wells, completely fenced. $189,900.•.34 acre with concrete slabs and a single car garage/work area $61,000.•One acre with new access off Linda Vista, boulders, views, trees. $105,000.•7.14 ac. in Oracle with 360 deg. viewås. Can be split, horses allowed, MH or site built ok. $150,000.•Just over 1 ac with beautiful views, very private. Utilities in. $39,000.•1ac. in homes only area with fantastic views & natural features. $69,900.•Sunrise, sunset and Catalina Mountain range all in your view from this 1 ac. lot. $74,900.•1.25 ac with views of several mountain ranges, homes only area, fl at usable land. $59,500.•Lush vegetation, oak and boulders on 1.36 ac. Owner will carry. $110.000.

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•Mammoth Bar, all equipment. $99,000 Liquor license also available. Call for details.•Nice large lot, covered patio, wheel chair ramp, metal skirting on MH, fenced yard. $19,500.•Historic Mercer Ranch, HQ parcel, 47 ac., remodeled home, corrals, hay barn, hanger & airstip., great well. $295,000.•5 ac. with beautiful views of the Galiuros, zoned for site built or MH, horses allowed. $45,000.•Well cared for home with fi replace, ceiling fans, covered porches and covered RV parking. $70,000.•Secluded area with great views, being sold as is for value of 1.3 acres. $39,000.•3-lots to choose from. Hill top views shared well, horse property, leveled off areas for home sites. Two lots $50,000 each & one lot $70.000.•Hwy 77 and Main, zoned commercial/residential, water, sewer and electric at property line. Leveled off pad area, great views. Owner will carry. 2.1 ac. Price reduced to $24,500.•Beautiful MH with fantastic views and 3.3 ac. to spread out in, well, fi replace, large MB, $119,000

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Festival, and many other gatherings. Randy has spent the last 30 years making his living horseback from cow/calf operations and grazing associations in Montana to stocker operations in Nevada and California. After several years of working with some of this generation’s finest horsemen, Randy spent nine years starting hundreds of colts for the Parker Ranch in Hawaii. Now, after 20

years of colts, clinics and travel, Randy is back home in Dillon, Montana and has started the Pioneer Mountain Ranch for people seeking to improve their horse handling skills. Since 1989 The Desert Sons have been performing traditional and contemporary music of the American West. Unique vocal harmony and classic instrumentation are combined with an energy and stage presence that always engages the audience in a celebration of the west and its music. Their music is an expression of the deep roots each member has in the American West; they write and sing about what they live and love. And the beauty and excitement of their performances comes from more than musical talent, it’s from the soul and spirit that’s unique to those who belong to the west. The Sons include Buck Ryberg, Benny Young, Skelly Boyd and Slim Tighe, all living in Southern Arizona. The First Western Art Show and Silent Auction features western art by artists from SaddleBrooke, Catalina, Sun City Vistoso, Sanoita and Oracle. This event at Desert View, noon to 7 p.m., will also donate all net proceeds from artwork sales to the Tucson Troop Support Group. For more detailed information about the Gathering and the Art Show, go to www.almollenkopf.info.

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By John Hernandez The Oracle Historical Society will help celebrate Arizona’s Centennial with exhibits and events throughout the year in 2012. The Acadia Ranch Museum will put on a display of “Oracle in 1912.” The exhibit will include a three dimensional diorama of the village of Oracle as it appeared in 1912. There will be photographs of buildings and people from the early 1900s. Various maps of Oracle and the surrounding area will be displayed as well as a list and text of people who

were living or visiting Oracle in 1912. Maps showing the ranches of the area such as Rancho Linda Vista, Triangle L, 3C, Kannaly, and Cherry Valley will be available for viewing, as well as artifacts from that era. Curators for the Centennial exhibits are Cathy Ellis and Chuck Sternberg. The Centennial celebration and grand opening of the Oracle in 1912 exhibit will start on Saturday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m. with Arizona’s Official Historian Marshall Trimble singing and telling stories at the Acadia Ranch

Oracle Historical Society celebrates Arizona centennialMuseum. There will be monthly events and activities throughout the year at the museum. Some of these events include guest speakers, geological field trips with renowned southwestern geologist Bob Scarborough, historical field trips, art exhibits and of course the Oracle Historical Society’s annual events: the Oracle Run; the Arizona Wine Tasting and the Spring Run Car Show. Historic photo of the Acadia Ranch in Oracle, c. 1908.

By John Hernandez Marshall Trimble, Arizona’s Official State Historian, will appear at the opening of a new exhibit, “Oracle in 1912,” to kickoff the Oracle Historical Society’s Centennial celebration at the Acadia Ranch Museum in Oracle on Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. The cowboy singer/storyteller was born in Mesa in 1939 and raised in the small northern Arizona town of Ash Fork. Trimble’s homespun humor is a reflection of those times. After a stint in the Marines, he began

his career as a folk singer in the 1960s and today appears on stage, radio and television as a humorist and storyteller of Arizona and the West. He has performed with Rex Allen, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis and the Oak Ridge Boys. He hosted the television show Arizona Backroads which won him a regional Emmy in 2006. In February 2011, he was inducted into the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame. Marshall has written more than 20 books on Arizona

Marshall Trimble to open Centennial celebrations in Oracleand the West. His column in True West Magazine “Ask the Marshall” answers questions from the readers. Trimble has taught Arizona and Western History at the college level for 40 years including the past 25 years as the head of Southwest Studies at Scottsdale Community College. He is considered the “Dean of Arizona History.” “Arizona’s colorful history is alive and well with Marshall Trimble,” said Barry Goldwater. The Arizona Republic calls him the state’s “most recognizable goodwill ambassador.” Marshall has received numerous prestigious awards over the years including the Governor’s Council Arizona Office of Tourism first “Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2007 and in 2008 the first “Spirit of the West” award for his contributions to preserving the history of the West. He was appointed by the Governor to

the Centennial Committee and the Oracle Historical Society is honored that he is taking time from his busy schedule to perform at the Acadia. Trimble’s CDs and books will be available for sale and refreshments will be provided throughout the evening. Come and meet and mingle with the man that some have called the “Will Rogers of Arizona.” It should be an exciting evening and a great way to start the Centennial year in Oracle.

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