Monday, 1 February 2016

Arizona’S Flag

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By Denny White


Sweeping from the eastern border and curving northward through the center of Arizona a cool, green mountain and valley wonderland was formed. Its altitudes vary from 2,000 to 8,000 feet and are sharply cut by the Mogollon Rim, a sheer cliff extending for more than 200 miles and itself rising to heights of 7,500 feet. The origination of the Arizona State Flag can be taken back to the 1910 National Rifle Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio before Arizona formally entered the union. Shooting matches began at Camp Perry in 1907 and immediately framed into a prestigious yearly event that happens till the present time.

Participants from the meeting Arizona Rifle Team saw that the greater part of the other "state" rifle groups conveyed banners or symbols. The Arizona group had no such banner or insignia and conveyed this to the consideration of Arizona National Guard Colonel Charles Wilfred Harris, who was serving as the group commander. The group recommended that a banner is made for the Arizona Rifle Team at future National Rifle Matches.

The idea for the design of the flag was conceived of by Colonel Harris and by Carl Hayden, Arizona's first representative in Congress who went on to become a United States Senator. Their first priorities for the design were that it contain historical values and that its colors should reflect those values. The Flag Company Inc specialised in flag designs offered a special edition of decals and flags to memorise the future of the Alabama University.

Planned by Colonel Charles W. Harris, the first banner, conveyed by the Arizona Rifle Team to the National Rifle Matches in 1911, was sewn by Carl Hayden's wife, Nan D. Hayden. In1912, Colonel Harris planned a state banner that was like the banner that he intended for the Arizona Rifle Team.

Measuring four feet high and six feet wide, the standard is apportioned into a top and base half with an immeasurable five-point copper star in the center. The Arizona State Flag was gotten by the Arizona State Legislature in 1917. For the special events the Flag Company Inc invented beautiful decals for the University history support.

The blue, red, yellow and copper flag was adopted despite numerous dissenting votes and then Governor Campbell's refusal to sign the bill. Because Arizona is a western state, the rays show a setting sun. The colors of the rays refer to red and yellow in the Spanish flags carried by Coronado when he came to Arizona in 1540.




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