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.

PRESENT CONDITION.
Should the reader ask upon what evidence we venture to
make this assertion, we have only to carry him to the Moqui
towns mentioned in a previous chapter, and bid him examine
for himself the paths between the villages, worn deep into
the solid rock by the moccasined feet of the inhabitants;
then let him tell us, if he can, how many centuries have
elapsed since these stony ways were first trodden by the foot
of man.
Since the organization of the Territory, every year is
adding valuable evidence relative to the immense mineral
wealth of Arizona, and proving that the deposits of gold,
silver, copper, and lead within her borders are unsurpassed
in extent and richness by any in the known world. Post
roads have been located, towns are springing up, new mines
being discovered, and old ones re-opened. But the distance
from any available market, together with the frequency of
Indian outrages, tends in a great measure to check the flow
of emigration to the Territory; thus the broad and fertile
bottoms of the rivers, which, decades of years since, were
under successful cultivation, are at the present time untilled;
and lands that might be made to yield two crops of cereals
in a year, or, if properly cultivated, bring forth fine crops of
cotton, rice, and sugar-cane, are now barren plains, covered
ronly with the suwarrow,* the amole,t the maguay,[ or
the mesquite.~
* Cerus Grande.
t American Aloe.
t Soap-plant.
~ Gum-arabic tree.
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