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Show BY PATH AND TRAIL. 203 city and, one of them, the Santa Rita, is architecturally one of the most novel buildings of the southwest. It is named from the Santa Eita range of mountains and forms, with San Augustin's Cathedral, the most impos ing structure in Tucson. The city council is experiment ing in street oiling, not sprinkling the streets with oil, as in San Diego, southern California, but soaking them, so that the fine triturated sand forms with the oil a fairly durable and smooth surface. On these same streets one is always running up against some interesting and peculiar varieties of the Noachic stock. Here are Chinese in quest of the elusive dollar, stage ghosts in Oriental dress, quiet, unobtrusive, always looking down on the dust as if examining the minute particles entering into the composition of their material selves, and apparently doing a " heap" of think ing; here, also, is his cousin germain the gentle and innocent- looking Papago or Pima of the mysterious abo riginal race, sun- scorched and wind- tanned with long coal- black hair and keen snake- like eye. He is in from the reservation of San Xavier del Bac, nine miles south of here, asking a dollar for a manufactured stone relic worth 10 cents. The sons of Cush, the Ethiopian, mo nopolize the lucrative trade of shoe blacking, guffaws and loud laughter. Varieties of the Caucasian race rare varieties many of them half- breeds, mulattos and Mexican half- castes, all have right of way and use it on the beautiful streets of Tucson. |