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Title: Arizona, the wonderland; the history of its ancient cliff and cave dwellings, ruined pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Jesuit and Franciscan missions, trail makers and Indians; a survey of its climate, scenic marvels, topography, deserts, mountains, rivers and valleys; a review of its industries; an account of its influence on art, literature and science; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the automobilist, sportsman, pleasure and health seeker. By George Wharton James. With a map and sixty plates, of which twelve are in colour
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
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Publisher: Boston Page company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n the center ofa great valley surrounded by towering mountains, theSanta Catalinas, Rincons, Santa Ritas, Tucsons, andothers. These, especially at the sunset and sunrise hours,present such visions of glory, sublimity and color splen-dor as to suggest scenes worthily belonging to the verita-ble Garden of Allah. It is no fiction of the imaginationto say that no sensitive soul can look upon them unmoved.One feels, as he gazes upon them, as though he shouldremove his shoes, as well as his hat, and sink upon hisknees, for verily he stands upon holy ground and is look-ing upon one of the sights fitly reserved for angels. The mines of the Tucson region are now exceedinglyactive. In every direction, in the mountains and on thefoothills, the sound of the hammer and drill, and the loudblast of the exploding dynamite of the miner are heard.To merely catalogue the mines of the county would fillseveral pages. There are mines like the Silver Bell,those of the Twin Buttes, Mineral Hill and Old Yuma,
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Old — Tucson — New 307 all of which have been great money-makers for theirowners. But new mines are springing up everywhereand some of these are already giving forth clear indica-tions that they will go far beyond any of the older minesin their money-making qualities. Hence the establishment at Tucson of the UnitedStates Bureau of Mines Experiment Station in connec-tion with the State Bureau at the University. Miningactivity was never so great as now in and around Tuc-son, and never were the results so generally profitable.What with new and cheaper methods of mining, and therevolution in methods of extracting even the lowest gradeof ores, it is not unreasonable to forecast for Tucsonthat, within the next few years, it will be one of the greatmining centers of the West. Tucson owns its own water system. Deep wells,which yield an abundant supply of purest water for a cityfour times the size of Tucson, have been bored and re-cently nearly $200,000 was voted to improve and enlargethe

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