WHERE AND WHAT IS ARIZONA.
THE TERRITORY, GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION, AREA AND BOUNDARIES. WHEN ORGANIZED. HOW TO GET TO IT. FROM THE EAST, VIA Kansas, ColoRADO AND NEW MEXICO, THE KANSAS PACIFIC, ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FÉ, AND THE DENVER AND RIO GRANDE NARROW-GAUGE R. Rs. FROM THE SOUTH, VIA THE INDIAN TERRITORY AND TEXAS. FROM SAN FRANCISCO VIA THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC R. R. A MARVEL OF ENGINEERING. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. THE MOJAVE DESERT. THE RAILROAD LOOP. LOS ANGELES. SANTA MONICA. COLORADO DESERT. HOW IT LOOKS AT YUMA.
The Territory of Arizona lies in part between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, and is bounded by New Mexico on the east, Utah on the north in part, by Nevada on the north and west in part, and by the southern portion of California for the balance of the western line. The northern line of the Mexican Republic constitutes the southern boundary of this territory. It extends from 109 degs. to 114 degs. 25 min. west longitude, (Greenwich) and from 31 degs. 37 min. to 37 degs. north latitude, is therefore about 325 miles wide in both directions, and contains an estimated area of 113,916 square miles, or 72,906,240 acres, thus varying but very little from the united area of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware, which together contain over one-third of the wealth and more than that of the total population of this Union. As part of the Union the area embraced by this territory was first acquired from Mexico, of which it had formed a portion for at least the three centuries and more which the Spaniards and their American descendants have ruled that country, and was acquired by the treaties of February 2, 1848, and of December 30, 1853. Under the former, the region south of the 32d parallel, or the Gila River, was not included. Under the treaty known as that of Guadaloupe-Hidalgo, all the territory (except the Gadsden Purchase, so-called) now embraced by New Mexico and Arizona, with a considerable area that has since been added to Colorado, Utah, and Nevada, was ceded to the United