The Arizona sentinel., 1878-01-12


 feet, now half filled, through long neglect with debris, and scattered round them rudt worked; cities long ago deserted, built il the mountain side, and so omarvelously pre- served that one could fancy that it was bu yesterday their inhabitants were slain; olC Jesuit missions, now forsaken, standing yet, with dome and cross intact; in tho mountains, here and there a mining camp with its rush of human life; valleys, broad ana narrow, covered with herds and fiocl1s which scarce know human voice, and al long intervals town growing into new and almost unknown life; and over all g sky wondrously blue and an atmosphere so wondrously pure that through it the eye looks up to see the sun a globe oi flame, and in the solemn stiffness of the night to gaze upon the stars as so many balls of light, and on beyond them through space into the great unknown. Such is | Southern Arizona to-day, the land of beau. ty, the land of marvels, the wonder land of the continent.
 But little, however, has been known about Arizona until within the past few months. For the last fifty years it has been the land of the terrible Apache, and few have cared to examine into its wealth, ad- mire it's beauties, or study its past so long as scalping was practiced as speciality.
 Some twenty years ago, and shortly after what is known as the Gadsden Purchase, a Cincinnati company had the hardihood to push out men to occupy and work some rich old mines which they had acquired in the Santa Rita mountains. But the men were slain, So being killed at one time. More lately an English company of emi- nent capitalists made similar attempts, but their men met with the same fate. Then, for time, all enterprise of this kind ceased and so likewise with many who have at tempted to occupy the grazing and farm ing land. They were either slain or com pelled to abandon their homes and tlocks. But a few years since Gen. Crook, who was sent out to fight the Indians, said:
 "This is most remarkable country The Indians own it and the white people are on reservations"
 Which was the case. Now all this is changed. Under the orders of the general government and through the energy of Governor Stafford, of Arizona, the hostile Indians have all been removed and placed upon distant reservations near New Mexico, and the country is open to all who may go. The last of these Indians were taken out of the Santa Rita mountains last May, and these few months of peace and safety have produced decided change in the country Hardy, adventurous miners and farmers at once pushed in to occupy the land, and as their words of good cheer came back hun dreds were quick to follow their steps, and now the rush is to Arizona.
 The writers of the country have found a new field for the display of thelr powers of description and for bringing "back to the memories of men the forgotten lore of other days" A book just out, by Col. H. c. Hodge, is meeting with a ready sale Col. R. J. Hinton, journalist well known in the East and now editor of the San Fran cisco Evening Post, has a book in press just ready to be issued; and there is soon to appear another by writer well known in New York. These, with the works of Prof. Pumpelly, now professor in Harvard, and of Hon. J. Ross Brown, late commis- sioner of mines and minister to China, will make an interesting and reliable literature on the subject; while the more prominent journals of the land, with their accustomed enterprise, have not failed to give the inn pression of their correspondents or those of men well qualified by practical knowl- edge and experience in the land. But while the pens of eminent men have been busy disseminating Information the Terri tory has made 8 rapid and substantial progress. Since the removal of the Indians no less than 5000 people have moved iii and set about the task of speedy location. Tens of thousands of acres of land have been taken up in and along the valleys of tie Gila and Santa Cruz r1vers As many as ten new mining districts have been opened up, and now give employment to thousands. New towns have sprung up and are taking to themselves all the airs of cities, while the old established towns have so wonderfully grown that they each lay claim to being the metropolis of the great Southwest Florence from little village has sprung into busy city, with its streets thronged with traders. Tucson has almost loub1o6 ,o,1uIo{;o,,