Arizona republican., 1908-07-19
PATAGONIA.

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 4 number of summer boarders'
 have come to Patagonia during the past few weeks and iudging from their remarks are agreeably surprised
 at the discovery" they have made Travelling men, too, make it a point | to Hay over" here for a day or two
 when they want to rest up and cool | of.
 Patagonia has never posed as a resort town, it's residents being too | busy prospecting the Santa Rita and Patagonia mountains for mines
 rather than picnic grounds. But, on ! the banks of the beautiful Sonoita walled in on either side by lofty mountains, Patagonia is in reality one of the most ideal summer resorts in the southwest. At an elevation of something more than 1000 feet, the heat is never oppressive, and there is not day when there is not a breeze through the little valley. The hotel accommodations are high class and there is always an abundance of horses for those who care to ride or drive. And nowhere are there more pleasant drives or more inter esting mountain trails for horseback riding.
 A drive up or down the Sonoita takes one through groves of great cottOnwoods and willows, past fields of green and golden grain, gardens of vegetables and orchards of fruit trees. And these drives stretch for miles up and down the Sonoita.
 ralI q 1.I wagon roads leading to a dozen and one beautiful canyons in the Santa
 Rita mountains, where the crystal
 waters of clear, cool streams splash and tumble over the clean rocks of the canyon bottoms, and where mes Quites, oaks. pines, junipers and manzanitas decorate the canyon walls and mountain sides. Scores of well kept trails wind in and out of can yons and gulches, along the hillsides and up to the tops of mountains great and small; up WriShtson Mountain, Josephine Peak, Sentinel Peak and Santa Rita Mountain (Old BaIdy). the monarch mountain of the
 Santa Rita range, from the peak of
 which one may look down on Pata- gonia. Crittendcn, Benson, Tubac, Tomacacori. Tucson, Calabasas, No gales and a dozen or more small mining camps and other places in
 Arizona; and far into Old Mexico, over it's ranches. it's settlements; and some 7j tO 15O miles to the south can be seen the Magdalena range land other mountains in Sonora. In some of these canyons and gulches
 eli l. tsrrif me. of prospectors' and trappers' cabins, battered down, perhaps, by Geroni- mos warriors. who drove out or killed the men who occupied them about a quarter of a century ago. In these mountains also may be en- countered living reminders of the pioneer days-the trappers, with their dogs, guns and traps and with their cabins and surrounding trees covered with fresh belts, stretched out to dry-pelts of animals not pro tected by the game laws, such as bear. mountain lions, fox. etc.
 To the east a stage runs every day over a road that affords one view of some of the most beautiful and interesting scenery in the Patagonia mountains over rolling mesas and foothills dotted with mesquites. oaks and manzanitas, and during the rainy season green with grass and rainbow colored with wild flowers, the road climbs gradually up into the very heart of the Patagonia mountains So interesting is the drive that one might think the /roads were built to attract tourists and pleasure seekers, but they were not They were built for the more prosaic purpose of hauling freight to and from a dozen mines.
 About eight miles from Patagonia, over the stage line. is the little town of Harshaw, the oldest mining camp in Santa Cruz county, with a score of pretty little country homes hid den away in groves of cottonwoods and willows.
 Six miles farther is the mining camp of Mowry, on Mowry Flat, at an elevation of. about 5000 feet. Were it not for the mine buildings just above the camp, the place might be taken for a ranch settlement or an outing resort, everything about the place so neat and clean and so many pl NhC puliuliiS' ouA AOuiiuN" " Hii'NNN trees.
 Leaving Mowry the road winds the ruggedest part of the to Washington Camp ahd Duquesne. close to the MeXi- can line, passing over heights from which one can view the Santa Cruz valley for miles around and look out over the valleys and mountains for 100 miles beyond the Mexican line.
 Another road leaving Mowry passes from the flat into Old Patagonia where Mexican placer min CTS with their rude wooden rockers are still washing gold from the gravel. About two and a half miles from Mowry the road emerges from the canyon on GuajolOta CTurkey) flat, one of the most beautiful camp grounds in the Patagonias or else where. There is an abundance of good water on the flat and it is GOV cred with oaks, mesquites and juni Ders, with an elevation of about $500 feet. making it an ideal summer place. From three sides of the flat well kept trails lead down the steep mountain sides into can yons and on out into the broad San ta Cruz valley. From the outer rim of the flat one can look down over l, with ranches