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.

GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION.
Gracious Majesty, the King. One can scarcely conceive the
amount of treasure these mines have yielded; and when we
reflect that the value of the peso d'oro, or ounce of silver,
in those days, was equal to eleven dollars and sixty-seven
cents, the yield is simply enormous.
Certain it is that these mines have always been, and
still are, the richest in the known world; they lack but one
thing to make them the most valuable, and that is, protection to the miner. Do you ask me why, if these assertions
are true, the Territory of Arizona is so little known? Why
her mining wealth is, as yet, undeveloped by the present
age? Let me tell you. The mines are mostly situated in
the western and northern portions of the Territory, in the
midst of the Apache country,- a country inhabited by the
most cruel and barbarous race of Indians living on the
American continent, and who to-day bear the same distinguishing traits which characterized them in the days of
brave old Father Kino, more than two centuries ago.
Let us leave the subject of the silver mines, however, to
be further discussed, with that of the Apache tribes, in other
chapters; and I will ask the reader to accompany me for a
few moments, and glance at the geographical position of
Arizona, as located on the map.
We see at once its complete isolation from all the civilized possessions of "Uncle Sam." With no port of entry,
nol. communication with the Gulf of California; separated
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