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Title: The resources of Arizona; a description of its mineral, farming, grazing and timber lands; its rivers, mountains, valleys and plains; its cities, towns and mining camps; its climate and productions; with brief sketches of its early history, pre-historic ruins, Indian tribes ... etc
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Hamilton, Patrick. (from old catalog) Arizona (Ter.) Legislative assembly. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & company, printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ards, who braved the perils of hunger and thirst, and the dangers of death at the hands of its unconquered savages, had their imaginations fired by the tales and traditions of the Pimas, and the mystic region to the north of Mexico was to them a land fraught with the rarest charms of romance. Its massive mountains, its jagged and fantastically shaped peaks, its vast and solitary stretches of plain and mesa, and over all, the rich, glowing atmosphere,that lent such an inexpressible charm, was to them a country where anything was possible. A country whose wonderful streams, like those Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea, had their banks three leagues in the air; whose glowing skies eclipsed in brilliancy their own Castile, and whose every breeze wafted across mountain and desert, whispered golden tales of in-exhaustless wealth. No wonder Coronado and the daring band who followed him were ready to risk life and limb in the eager quest, and undergo
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MINES AND MINING. 65 any hardship, however great, to gain the prize in view. They did not find the golden treasures they expected in the Moquis towns, but the hidden wealth which they passed over in their journey thither was greater than that which Pizarro wrung from his Peruvian captive, or that Cortez found in the halls of the Montezumas. But the men who made the expedition to Cibola were not of the kind who dig and delve for gold and silver. If there was a chance to win it by the aid of their good swords and strong arms, they were ever ready to undertake the job;but when it could only be had by laborious toil they preferred that some one else should do the work. So the first white men who penetrated Arizona did nothing to demonstrate its great treasure of precious metals, and it was not until more than a century had elapsed that the first effort was made to develop the hidden wealth of this region. The Jesuit fathers were the pioneer miners of Arizona, and the first Europeans to attempt the extra

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