The resources of Arizona; a description of its mineral, farming, grazing and timber lands; its rivers, mountains, valleys and plains; its cities, towns and mining camps; its climate and productions; (14596434209)

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Title: The resources of Arizona; a description of its mineral, farming, grazing and timber lands; its rivers, mountains, valleys and plains; its cities, towns and mining camps; its climate and productions; with brief sketches of its early history, pre-historic ruins, Indian tribes ... etc
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Hamilton, Patrick. (from old catalog) Arizona (Ter.) Legislative assembly. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & company, printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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e thern upon his neighbors. All possible religious beliefs can be found in the Territory.Christian and heathen, Jew and infidel. Mormon and idolatorlive side by side in peace and harmony. A man may worshipthe sun, or believe the moon is made of green cheese if he solists. There is perfect freedom, and a mans religious principlesare only circumscribed by the bounds of his imagination.Before the American occupation the Catholic faith was theprevailing belief in the Territory. It was the religion firstestablished in the country by the Jesuit Fathers, and all theMexican portion of the population, together with the Papagos,yet worship at the same shrine. It is only within the last tenyears that the sects of the reformed faith have establishedchurches in Arizona, now they are found in all the leading townsin the Territory. Catholics, Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists,Congregationalists and Mormons have erected places of worship,many of them large and imposing structures, with considerable
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SCHOOL HOUSE,PHCENIX. BAXCIiOn-LirH-S I SCHOOLS, CHURCHES AND SOCIETY. 225 pretensions to architectural beauty. The number of churchesowned by the different sects is as follows : Catholics 8 Methodists 6 Presbyterians 4 Baptists 4 Congregationalists 2 Episcopalians 2 The Mormons have places of worship at their settlements onthe Little Colorado, on the Salt, and on the Gila rivers. TheCatholics have the largest and finest churches—including thatof San Xavier del Bac, already described. Arizona forms adiocese under the charge of an Archbishop, resident at Tucson.The Methodists have a strong organization and are under thejurisdiction of a Bishop who lives at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Most of the churches have flourishing Sunday-schools andcharitable societies which do much good in a quiet unos-tentatious manner. They all have a humanizing effect in thecommunity, and even those whose religious convictions are ofthe most vague and undefinable sort, must acknowledge thebenefits which they con