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I'AIiK HOTEL leads. HOTEL BAKER, lower priced, good. Five cabin and apmt. camps. Free camp space, also cabins, 120 mi. west at Gage; camp space at Wilna. Inf.—■ Chamber of Commerce.
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. 32.5 mi. west of Deming; 27.5 mi. east of LordsLmrg. Elevation 4.5S4 ft. East, the water goes to tlie Atlantic; west, to the Pacific.
*LOKI)SBLRG. A railroad division point. Lead, copper and silver mines in the surrounding country. HOTEL HIDALGO, new, all rms. with bath. 1IOLLEN, moderate l>rices. Three cabin camps.
GRANITE GAP. Elevation 4,400 ft. West of Lords-burg 2S mi., east of Rodeo 20 mi. Cut thru granite mountains that rise in beauty out of the desert. The ocatillu, tlie spindling cactus of the arid, rocky jdaces, is seen in this section; its flowers in spring a scarlet flume and one of the mystic beauties of the desert.
KODEO. A railroad, station village. Mining and ranch interests around. Country hotel. Camp space. Cabin camp, $1.00 and §1.50.
NEW MEXICO-ARIZONA STATE LINE
2 ini. West of Rodeo
ARIZONA—501 MILES
Road Conditions
The road across Arizona is well built and well maintained; gravel prevails. Faving is being extended.
Description of Country
The scenery thru tlie eastern part is varied and interesting— majestic mountains and rich mining districts; deserts that attract by their varied cacti growths and deserts turned to green fields by irrigation. West of Buckeye dry sands and a drab country are traveled to Yuma but small hotels, auto service, camp sites and cabin camps have developed along the way.
The people are hospitable. Tlie drive is an interesting experience.
Arizona is but 16 yrs. old as a state. Its industry, mining, agriculture, education, road and city building are examples of American enterprise. Numerous ranch resorts are in the mountains and valleys. In summer the elevation cools the temperature. In winter southern sunshine instead of snow and ice.
Old History
Tlie Santa Cruz Valley—Tucson, Nogales, and into Mexico— was one of the great seats of mission and colonizing effort by the Spaniards. Numerous missions were in that territory. Some still remain in Mexico south of Nogales. The beginning in Arizona was in 105)2. The Mission San Xavier del Hue, 9 mi. south of Tucson, was apparently founded in 1700. The building, which still stands and functions as a church, restored after years of disaster and neglect, was one of the finest structures erected by the padres in tbe New World. From the Santa Cruz Valley mission works were extended across Arizona to Yuma, down the Gila Valley of the Old Spanish Trail of today. From this base also the expedition started that founded San Francisco in 1770. Tlie great mission chain along the California coast had been started in 170{) at San Diego.	'■*
In this Arizona, New Mexico and Northwest Texas country Coronado and his princely expedition spent three years, 1540—
42, searching for the Cities of Gold and the land of the Gran Quivira.
DOUGLAS. A thoroly modern city, the smelting center for the copper mines of the Phelps-Dodge and the Calumet & Arizona companies at Bisbee. Tlie monthly production 21.000.000 llis. Near is the Chiricahua National Monument in the Coronado National Forest where Nature and her genii have fashioned fantastic figures in the rocks. Ranch camps and resorts in die mountains. Across the Mexican border fence is Airua I’rieta with a pleasant welcome to the traveler. HOTEL GADSDEN, opens spring 1020: all mis. with bath. Hotels PALOMAK and WINTON. lower priced, good. Good cabin camps. Inf.—Chamber of Commerce.
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BISBEE. Phelps-Dodge and the Calumet & Arizona copper mines ; three of the greatest in the country. Production reaohes §57.000.000 monthly. Bisbee is built in a canyon with the houses over one another, clinging to the canyon walls; a never-to-be-forgotten picture. The Warren District around these mines including Bisbee embraces over
15,000	people. The crowded highway thru the crooked canyon is essentially the city of Bisbee. Mountain spring water at Bisbee. Cattle and goat ranches in the mountains and valleys, mountain and ranch resorts for a stop-over. COPPER QUEEN HOTEL leads. GOLDEN HOTEL upstairs. good rms. Cabin camps. Free camp at Lowell, 1 mi. cast. Inf.—Chamber of Commerce.
BISBEE SUMMIT 3 mi. west of Bisbee. 0.030 ft. highest point on the Old Spanish Trail. Tlie highway here is a beautiful piece of engineering, easily driven, while the mountain peaks and canyons are impressive pictures.
Three other OST summits are: S.5 mi. west of Van Horn. Texas. 4.030 ft.—the Continental Divide between Deming and Lordsburg. N. M. 4,584 ft.—7 mi. west of Boulevard, California 4.103 ft.
*TOMBSTON'E. Once a turbulent city as men sought the riches in silver buried in the mountains; §40.000,000 were taken from the mines. One pocket produced about .?840.001). known today as tlie Million Dollar Stope. Tombstone now is a mine of interest to men of literature for it was one of the last stands of the Wild West where men fought and schemed and left behind tales now told by gray-bearded men to enrich the history of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of the West.
Mountain spring water at Tombstone. Several country hotels, ARCADE leads. Cabin camp, good. See A. II. Gardner. OST Vice-President for any information about Arizona.
Tl'JIACACORI MISSION KIIN, ARIZONA South on the Nogales Loop from Tombstone or Tucson
Mission San Jose de Tumacacori, Arizona, 18 ml. north of Nogales. Now preserved as a National Monument. Father Kino, a Jesuit Missionary, began bis visitations in this Santa Cruz Valley in 1091.	When this	building was erected is not known.
A group <>f	10 missions	was	built below and above	Nogales,
a group that ranks with the San Antonio. Texas, and the California group In majeetie construction and courageous work. Five of these missions were in the present Arizona. The missions Tumacacori:	San Xa\icr del liac; San Gabriel de Gue-
vavi; San Cayetano de Calabasas; and St. Gertrude de Tubac. Other missions	are believed to	have been at Tucson.	Many of
the churches in	.Mexico are	still	in service, visited from	Nogales.
NOGALKS—AST KII)K THE MEXICAN ISOKDKK Nogales is a modern city of 15,000 people, the border line fence separating the V.S. and Mexico runs thru a main street. It is tlie gateway to the rich west coast of Mexico. The road from Tombstone to Nogales is good, the scenery splendid. From Tucson to Nogales the road is thru the Santa Cruz Valley, passing Tubac and Tumacacori. Tin* chambers of commerce at Tombstone, Tucson and Nogales have interesting leaflets.