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.

FERTILITY OF THE SOIL.
a custom that prevails to some extent among fashionable
young ladies of the present day, and which was, undoubtedly, derived from the Montezuma Indians, who have, for
many hundred years, followed the practice, and indeed have
riceg,arded it as a distinguishing trait of their noble lineage.
As early as 1539, we have accounts of the Pimos livings
by cultivating the soil; and at the time we visited them,
the United States government had just finished the surveys of a reservation embracing one hundred square leagues
of land, nearly all of which was easily irrigated, consequently susceptible of cultivation. This reservation is about
twenty-five miles long and seven miles wide, and is situated
on both sides of the Gila.
Nearly the whole of the land thus set apart, has been cultivated by these Indians for more than three hundred years,
and still, without dressing of any kind, yields full thirtyfold in crops. Golonel Grey, whom we met here, and who
had surveyed the reservation, assured us that they had at
least four hundred miles of acequias already constructed
upon the reservation, and for many years had raised
fine crops of wheat, corn, tobacco, and cotton. Wheat is
sown in January, and harvested in May and June. Cotton
and tobacco in February. Two crops are always raised o0)
the same ground in a year.
There are ten of these villages, composed of about
seventy-five or a hundred wigwams each. These wigwams
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