The Arizona sentinel., 1893-05-13
THE ARIZONA OF THE FUTURE
By J. AUSTIN HALL.

half century ago. For nearly tw,
 generations nothing has seemed
 further from the truth. In fact ul
 until about IA years ago, the state
 ment seemed the most biting sarcasm
 Probably there never has been pub
 lished in a representative American
 periodical lampoon equal in severity
 to J. Ross Browns article on Ari-
 zona in Harper's Magazine 1864-65.
 The powerful effectiveness of it was
 in its apparent truthfulness. For
 Arizona even now lends itself to the
 most contradictory reports. All seem,
 ingly of equal veracity. But truth
 will raise again, though ten thousand
 Apaches and more than double that
 of mislnformed Scribes have done
 their best to crush it. The Apaches
 are dead or in prison, the remainder
 are peacefully tilling the soil. And
 as for the malignant or ignorant scribes; their days are numbered too, for at last it is becoming a disgrace to be ignorant even about Arizona. The Arizona of Alexander von Humboldt, the Arizona of the worlds wealth" is rising out of the mist, while the, misfortunes and the dense mass of conceited ignorance that has obscured it's magnificent possibilities with the occupation of the "Arizona Malingner" are gone for ever.
 The City of San Francisco, among many others remarkable combinations
 harbors a would-be great Historian.
 This party, among other peculiarities, laborS under the delusion that the cataloguing and collecting other peoples manuscripts and historical "reminiscences converts him into great historian. It is as if the marble quarry should rise up and proclaim "what great sculptor I am." This would-be sculptor, who, however, is only stone quarry, informs a weary world, "that the annals of this South ern region, the ancient Primera Alta, might almost be disposed of by adding let cetera" to the single chapter in which the record has been brought down."
 That is a spurious historians man. ner of "disposing" of the history of one of the most fascinating regions, historically speaking, in the union. But 1t is easily understood. Our Pacific Coast Bancroft. sadly unlike his Atlantic Coast name-sake, resided too close to the bulls and bears of the San Francisco Stock Exchange in it's palmiest days, to ever become any thing but a chronicler ''for revenue only" and the revenue to be had from Arizona at the time comparatively | 'light, hence its history can be disposed | ,f by an Get cetera." Real scholars. however, who are not working for 'everue, except so far as it flows as he legitimate and incidental result to scholastic performance, men ike Professor Putnam of Harvard, are buslly engagedin prepar- ng an object lesson in the Ancient History of Arizona, which will de- nonstrate to the world that she was 1t one time the densest populated and most throughly cultivated region on the North American Continent. We 'efer to the relief object maps of the whole of the Ancient Irrigation Sys- em of Arizona, that is now being pre- pared for the great Pathological Exhi- pit of the Worlds Fair under the au- 'pices of Professor Putnam. It will prove revelation to the world at arge and most of all to those who nave so long considered Arizona the Scrap Heap of the Universe. Profess or Putnam says of this exhibit:
 "As tangible proof of my interest n this matter and its importance to cience l have guaranteed to contribute J ,OOO in the name of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology nd Ethnology, and to appropriate 1000 from the funds placed at my isposal by the exposition authorities. he state board of Arizona has ap- ropriated the sum of 5000, for this urpose, and the remaining $3,OOO equired to carry out the plan has cen provided for, so that this. mos t work of the ancient 'ueblo people may be preserved in miniature for all time"
 Lieutenant Frank H. Gushing we'll nown ln his connection with his in- ,