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Show CHAPTEB XXIII. A CITY IN THE DESEET. Nowhere is the dividing line between the old and the new so sharply drawn as in Tucson. I do not mean the growth from a frontier or bush village into a city or that of a mining camp into a town as in the mineral states. To this transition we are accustomed. Here the modern city has grown away from the old Mexican pueblo which is yet a numerically strong part of it, growing out into the desert, leaving the quaint old Mexican village in possession of the fertile valley of Santa Cruz. It is not a divorce a mense et thoro from bed and board, nor yet a separation, but rather a spreading out, an elongation of the young giant towards and into the desert. The his toric pueblo, so full of romance and story, is left in pos session of its own ground, its own religion, language, tra dition and customs. Its people have a voice in the selec tion of the mayor and are eligible for any office in the gift of the citizens, are protected by the same laws and the same police as are those of whiter color. Tucson had a name and was a rancheria of Pimas, Papagoes and Sobaipuri before the great missionary, Padre Kino, visited it in 1691. He was the first white iran that ever crossed the Santa Cruz from the west and entered Tucson. In 1773 it was still a rancheria, but many of its swarthy denizens had already been received into the church; it was visited regularly by the priests of San Xavier del Bac and was now San Jose de Tucson. In 1771 the Spanish garrison or presidio at Tubac was shifted to Tucson, a resident priest appointed and the |