Phoenix Settlement

"Phoenix and the environs is a beautiful playground, but is also a busy workshop. It is our hope, our desire and our plan to make our playground more beautiful than all others by 1993, and to speed up the wheels of industry by utilizing the great variety of resources spread over most of the state.

"For many years conservationists have been protecting the forests, water resources, minerals, and wildlife of Arizona. The Phoenix of 1993 will be the result of having been well blessed with the four primary sources of all wealth-farming, forestry, mineral resources and wildlife. All of these will exist in great abundance in Arizona in 1993. The value of these resources will increase in importance with the standards of living. Man's needs and wants develop with new devices which are useful in increasing the comforts and conveniences of life.

"At the present time we realize, in Arizona, that we owe a certain duty, not only to ourselves but to our children and our children's children that we must sustain our agriculture, our forests, our industry, and bring about a development and a way of life much more consistent with American ideals and much more broadly effective than in the past.

"Anything that tends to build up Phoenix, is more than local; it helps stimulate growth in other sections of the state; the whole region will share directly or indirectly in the benefits. Conservation involves making the best economic use of natural resources and advantages wherever they may be found. Each area will be developed for those purposes for which it is best endowed by nature."

An enlightened citizenry plans for tomorrow. People who have settled in Phoenix the past several decades have come to seek a home, a congenial and wholesome place to live permanently. They did not come for easy riches, to despoil the country, and move on. These homeseekers are the people of Phoenix today, who are planning for tomorrow, and whose dreams of Phoenix, 1993, are of a great and beautiful city, a monument to the vision and the industry of the pioneers, a shining symbol of the majesty that is America and the West. R.C.

DARRELL DUPPA, fifteenth child of an English family which traces its ancestry through eleven generations, died in Phoenix January 29, 1892. Duppa named Phoenix and is credited with naming the town of Tempe. Bryan Philip Darrel Duppa was born October 9, 1832, in Paris, France, of English parents and the family was active in English church and governmental circles through many generations.

Around his grave career and canter And grieve the loss of beads and manta. His head so large, endowed by fate, No hat could fit but number eight. He died as leaves of Autumn fall And, dying, said, “I've fooled you all!” But Morgan fooled Duppa by outliving him fourteen years, in fact living to within four years of the time when the Daughters of the American Revolution erected a modest headstone in Duppa's honor, with inscription as may be seen now in the Phoenix Greenwood cemetery, where his remains were moved from the old Pioneer's Cemetery by the D.A.R. in 1910.

Interest in mining accounted for Duppa's presence in Prescott, where he came to investigate some mining stocks acquired from his older brother, George Duppa, in New Zealand, where he went after completing his classical education at Cambridge and graduating from the Sorbonne in Paris. From Paris he went to Madrid, Spain, and as a linguist readily passed as a Spaniard or a Frenchman. From Spain he took passage on a sailing vessel for Valparaiso, South America, but nearing that port a heavy storm struck the vessel, which was wrecked, Duppa escaping by swimming ashore. After wandering over most of South America, Duppa went to New Zealand, then to Australia, all the while seeking his fortune, and finally, on acquisition of the Arizona mining stocks from his brother, to California.

Analysis of human nature that he must have been, Duppa, taking the opposite route of most of his transplanted countrymen, became thoroughly American and was permeated with the “spirit of the west,” being fearless, just and generous, and entirely free from the arrogant and bullying instincts of the average Englishman of that day.

As the territorial government was being established in Prescott and Apache Indians were raiding the miners who were seeking gold in central Arizona, Duppa joinned King Woolsey, famous frontiersman, miner and freighter, in two and possibly more, raids by the settlers to punish the marauding Apaches.

Between Indian fights and prospecting around Prescott, Duppa met John W. “Jack” Swilling, who was freighting to the army posts at Ft. McDowell, 35 miles north east of Phoenix, and at Tucson. Whereas Swilling always had two guns strapped about him, with either of which he was accurate, and Duppa usually went un armed, the latter became known as a leader in civilian sorties against the Apaches.

Swilling persuaded Duppa to accompany him to the Salt River Valley, in company with

BY GUY L. JACKSON

An epitaph written by Duppa in 1878 during the severe illness of his Indian trader friend Morgan, who operated a ferry and station on the Gila river, expresses the “tongue in cheek” attitude of Duppa, who was described as “the prototype in Arizona of that Western American figure, the English remittance man.” As his Indian trader friend lay ill, apparently to cheer him on his sick bed, Duppa penned this satirical epitath: “Weep, Phoenix, weep! and well ye may, Great Morgan's soul has passed away. Howl, Pimas, howl! Shed tears of blood And squaws bedeck your heads with mud!

The simple inscription to one of America's enigmatic characters reads, “In Memory of Darrell Duppa, an English Gentleman and a Pioneer of Arizona who Named the Cities of Phoenix and Tempe. Died in 1892. Erected 1910 by Maricopa Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Duppa was first known in Arizona in Prescott, where, listing его occupation as miner, he was registered in the U. S. Territorial Census, taken in April, 1864, having resided in Arizona at that time five months. He listed personal property valued at $800 according to the census record.