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Show 162 BY PATH AND TRAIL. presented to the bishop when he was leaving for Du-rango, his episcopal see. In 1870 the last herd of wild horses was rounded up in Arizona, and here, too, corraled like the horses, and at about the same time, are the remnants of the Apaches, who, with no weapons, save bows and arrows, lance, knife and war club, defied for 250 years the fighting men of Spain and the United States. The Standard Iron Company is now tunneling earth near the Diabolo Canyon in search of the greatest me teor ever heard of by meteorologists. When this com posite visitor struck the earth it cut a channel 600 feet deep and nearly a mile in length. The land for miles around was, and is yet, covered with fragments of this star rock. Some of these pieces weighed many tons, and when broken up and reduced, ran high in valuable min erals. The size of this meteor is said to be enormous, and judging from the value of the ore scattered around the great depression, the minerals embosomed in the meteor will amount to many millions of dollars. Distin guished mineralogists of Europe and America have ex pressed a wish to be present when the meteoric wonder is uncovered. Here, also, solidly perched on the breast of a small volcanic hill, is the only desert laboratory in the world. This hill projects from the base of a rugged mountain range, known as the Tucson, and was selected by the Spaniards as a site on which to build a blockhouse and observatory in the days when the Apaches terrified southern Arizona. From the crest of this volcanic mount one may sweep a circular horizon within which repose in awful majesty fifteen ranges of mountains, stretching southward into Mexico, northward into Cen tral Arizona, and extending toward the west far into |