The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-03-05
THE WEEKLY ART0NAN
MARCH 5..- ........l87o.
RAPHAEL PUMPELLY.

mine some fifty miles distant from Tucson, aHt
 who has since become an author-haying writ
 tena work entitled ''Across America and Asia,
 There ..-e, to-day, in Arizona, men who were
 personally acquainted with him while ha wa,
 employed as engineer at the above named
 mine, aud speak iG the highest terms of his
 profcieucy as a skilful engineer and miner IL
 is not. however, for the purpose of descantiDg
 upon his professional superiority that We place
 his name at the head ot this article his work,
 "Across America and Asia, f5r a copy ol
 which we are indebted 10 Mr r. F. Brady, has
 obtained for it this position. The character
 ofthis volume furnishes a sufficient argument
 the establish the great power of the authors
 pen; indeed, the ability of "magniying mole
 hills into mountains" displayed in the accounts
 which he gives of his observations in Arizona
 has rarely been surpassed. When we claim the
 existence of representations of this character
 We exrect to be understood as contendng that
 the work is gross exaggera,ion; and with the
 volume before us while Be are ID possession of the facts, that such it is we are prepared to prove. Wenay here remarkthat in work ofthis character the reader would very naturally ex- pect to find an opinion regarding the mineral resources of the country, but the author never touched upon the subject.
 Mr. Pumpely arrived at Tucson at n time when the condition of society WAS less sys- temalic than itnow is The coarse habits of the frontiersmen at first filled him with disgust, ! which soon gave place to terror His timidity served only to render his position the mora terrible for 1t induced tGe reckless frontiers man, (with all his apparent roughness, yet, ire quontly. the very soul of magnarinlity, but with an anquencha5Ie thirst for the ludicrous,) to represent him5eifas most unscrppulous vi!- lain and murderer, that he might enjoy lhe error of the credulods newcomer, Those were he days when it was common practice with to discharge their revolyers in he direction of cro@d of''green u"s, taking are, however, that the outlet shoall take et- ecs in wali-of.ea oaly fsS inches fgom mes heai or escape over the heads of he rusalists. 2unpeljy doubtless, wit essed such scenes, or vas, perhaps. made the ictim sf this dangerous j Ike, and it is net therefore surprising, that lie shcuid regard the as cut-throa;s and nlarderers; and lhuenced by his fears, that fancy should fix ' le perpetration of crime upon his imagination ith sufficient force to convey to him the idea . Ieahly. We would rather believe that he rote under some sach infuerce than that ke nowingly falsifed. In nspeaki@g of his journey ',
 Tacson he mentions having seen number Indian camp fires at Apache Pass, and then {, -oceejs es follows :- =, Ny first recollection B .cer the, is of being gakened by therepov5 oi Dis lol, and of start :" 2 up to find myself n a crowded room, where score or more of people were quarre ling at a ming table, l had reached Tucson, anu had b rown myself upon the floor of the first room ! could enter" The fact is that MT. Pumpolly neither threw mselfon hoor, nor swoke at he report of pistol, nor started up 10 vitnes a scene at a .ming table. He arrived ia the morning a. e Bucky House bathed his literary head and ieatGc hands in cold water, went quietly to d, slept Snored, and when t5e bell rang for :. aner arose. washed again eombed his si,ken sAs, and diael. After this he walked out 70 :" aw the surroundings and it was during this e' .ik that he made the following observetoa:- '' Al the ravines and rocks of the Santa Rita S' IuUiainS are distinct visible from tucson a q in the very dry season, as at the time Of ;i' [ visit, the tail pines on the summit coaid b. cc arly distinguished standing out against the ,;, '" .' What an atmospheric change must necessa " 7 have taken place since 1861, if this state - .nt be correct! Neither rock, tree, nor ra- " e of the Santa Rita mountsins is now visible ie q m Tucson vast blue ridge, binding the na theru horizon, is the Santa Rita of to-day,
 viewed from Tucson, and neither pine tree rock can be dlscerned even with the aid of ed nmon spy-glass, much less with the naked Ne ed We have given it as our opinion that the au- rs' ITS observations were, to great extent, tn