The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

THE MISSION OF TUMACCARL
gists; officers of the military fort situated near by, —in
short, the elite of Arizona called Tubac their home. It
was also the head-quarters of the Arizona Mining Company; and it was here that we met Mr. Poston, the agent
and superintendent of the company.
The town itself was very attractive, with its beautiful
groves of acacias, its peach-orchards and its pomegranates,
situated, as it is, immediately on the banks of the Santa
Cruz, and embowered in the most luxuriant foliage. In
close proximity to this town are to be found the Santa Rita,
the Heintzleman, and the Cerro Gordo mines, the richest yet
discovered in the Territory. Game was very abundant, and
our larder was well supplied with venison, wild turkey, fish,
and many other creature comforts, much to the evident delight of Jimmy, who, in addition to the fact that he was
cook, greatly loved "good aitin."
The population of Tubac consisted of about eight hundred
souls, one-sixth of whom were Americans and Germans, the
remainder being Sonoranians, with a few Yaqui Indians. This
town, like Tucson, was originally an old Mexican fort,
which, after the establishment of the boundary line, was deserted by the Mexicans, and the first settlement of Americans was made here in the year 1856. The only business
transacted was that done by the mining company, if we
except the trade in mescal, which was very extensive.
Four miles below Tubac, on a beautiful slope of the Santa
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