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.

VISIT TO THE SILVER MINES.
Cruz, is another old mission building erected by the Jesuits,
known as the mission of San Jose6 de Tumaccari, which
was built about the time of that of San Xavier del Bac,
though it is far from being in as good a state of preservation,
owing,, no doubt, to the vandalism of the Americans and the
depredations of the Apaches. In fact, the building is but
little better than a mass of ruins. Like all these missions,
Tumaccari was located in a fine agricultural country, as
shown by the remains of old acequias, ais well as the manv
cultivated fields that are plainly discernible for miles
around; nor can there be any doubt that the Santa Cruz
Valley was once the home of a vast population, though now,
owing to the constant raids of the Apaches,'tis but a barren
waste.
Gravestones, or rather head-boards, stand by the road-side
like sentinels, bearing the invariable inscription,
'KILLED BY THE APACHES."
Ruined ranches, deserted haciendas, and untilled fields stare
you in the face whichever way you turn, and tell a story
that cannot fail to awaken in the mind of the beholder tht
most melancholy reflections.
A visit to Fort Buchanan, the next day, at the head of
the charming -Sonoita Valley, where we met with Captain
R. S. Ewell and the officers of his command, was a most
enjoyable one in every way. Upon Captain Ewell's express
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