property interests left in her keeping by the death of her husband.

In June, 1872, Miguel L. Peralta, a Wickenburg merchant opened a store in Phoenix and soon became one of the principal business men of the town. He had but limited capital, and his first place of business was located on the west side of South First Street, about midway between Washington and Jefferson Streets. Remaining here but a short time, Peralta decided to construct another and larger adobe building on the northeast corner of Washington and Center Streets, and when this storeroom was finished he transferred his business to it. Meeting with reverses Peralta sold his various interests, the Washington Street store being purchased by Messrs. Charlie and Leo Goldman, who are still residents of this city, and the oldest continuous merchants in Phoenix. After Adolph, the first of the Goldmans to reach Phoenix, had conducted his store for some years in the Heyman Menassee Building on Washington Street, where he had first located, he found that it was too small for his growing trade, and purchased the building which Peralta had left vacant on South First Street, to which he removed his business, where he continued in business for several years. As a merchant he was successful, dealing extensively, at first, in hay, grain and flour, when, deciding to visit his native land of Bavaria, he sold his mercantile interests to his brother Charles. The latter, after clerking for a number of years for C. P. Head & Co., at Prescott, had opened a small store in Williamson Valley, and had come from that place to Phoenix in

March of 1879, walking, it is said, behind a pack burro.

He conducted the business founded by his brother at the same location until he formed a partnership with his brother Leo, who had previously been in business in the town of Pinal, Pinal County. They bought the Peralta lot and store building on Washington Street, to which they transferred their business. For nearly twenty years they conducted business at this location, selling it in 1900 for the highest price which had ever been paid up to that time for a lot in this city.

When Leo Goldman first came to Phoenix, on May 1st, 1877, he clerked for his brother Adolph, remaining with him for some little time. When the great Silver King Mine of Pinal County commenced its wonderful record of production, Leo Goldman gathered together his savings and opened a small store at Pinal, then a thriving and busy little town some distance to the south of the mine. When the Silver King was in full blast, Leo Goldman enjoyed a lucrative trade from that mine, and when he closed out his business there to come to Phoenix, it was said he had a snug little fortune.

The Goldmans, during their years of business, have experienced many reverses of fortune. At times their losses have been great, particularly in the dry season of 1891-92. Their business was largely a credit one, and many men in this valley, now in independent circumstances, owe their success to the assistance given them in early days by Goldman & Co. They never failed to grant an extension and were, themselves, at times, hard

pressed through their liberality in extending assistance to their many customers. No merchants in the Salt River Valley are more thoroughly identified with its prosperity than Charles and Leo Goldman. They now enjoy a comfortable fortune.

The firm of Charles Goldman & Co., was continued for about twenty-five years, and the business is still conducted as a wholesale grocery store, known as, "The Goldman Grocery Co., Inc."

In July 1872, H. Morgan & Co., who, for a number of years prior, had been engaged in business on the Gila River, as has been noted, began the erection of a store building in Phoenix which was finished in the latter part of August, stocked and opened to the public. The following item in the "Miner" of September 21st, 1872, thus refers to this firm:

"H. Morgan & Co., have finished their new building on Washington Street, joining on to the new building of John George so as to form but one structure. A piazza extends along the whole front built entirely of sawed lumber, neat and tasty in appearance, and with the trees in front, their rich green foliage forming a natural curtain, it is a pleasant place in which to loaf."

Daniel Dietrich was a member of this firm which, in later years became known as "Morgan & Dietrich" their place of business being on a portion of the ground now occupied by Goldberg Bros.' new building (1918). They sustained a heavy loss through the fire of 1886, which, with other setbacks, principally inability to collect accounts due, caused the firm to finally collapse.