5. Nogales to Tucson, Arizona, beginning 1091. A large group of missions was built below and above the present .Mexican border. Mission San Xavier del Bac. 9 ml. south of Tucson, ranks with San JosG at San Antonio In stateliness; It 8till stands In solitary grandeur on the desert serving the Pima Indian descendants of the Plraerla Alta of the padres. Tuma-cficorl mission, near Nognles, Is now a National Monument.
Tucaon is a gem of the mystic deaert, home of the University of Arizona, a city of Spanish tradition and atmosphere, a resort loved by many.
C. Snn Diego, California, settled 17C9. first mission and first settlement In California, two centuries after Saint Au-gustiuc, Florida. California was inaccessible and barren; generations of failures preceded this sucessful effort, then privation, famine and disease beset the settlers. The padres brought In seeds, palms, shrubs and livestock and the missions became estates of hospitality and abundance.
California was the latest supreme effort of the Spaniards in America. Their period there lasted hardly a half century before Mexican independence destroyed Spanish power northward, and then followed the years of turmoil before the Americans entered and finally cues sotting in reducing the country to orderly government.
The padres built twenty-one missions from San Diego northward to San Francisco and'above. J Some are destroyed; some preserved. The Californian;!^ love of beauty, sentiment and history has led them to preserve in eccg, story and works, the culture, legenda and lays of those years of the Spanish grandees.
The conquerors wero often cruel, the explorers heroic, the colonizers were empire builders, the padres with their Government cooperating built temples to their God seeking the temporal and spiritual good of their red brothers,	-	v	-	—
The Spanish empire in the Americas, true to the principles of all life, rose from the soil through travail and turmoil to flourish And
flower then to decay and die......but they left a heritage of romance,
culture and works for the people of today and/of-the years to come.
“Old Conqulstadorcs, Oh brown priests nnd all,
Give us your ghosts *----------------
There’s many a road
j for company d to travel, ’ -With the breath of God about
night begins to fall;
travel, but It's this road today,
. -	--j	the King’s Highway."
DAM OK TIIB MISSION IRRIGATING SYSTEM. SAN DIEGO THE MOTH EH MISSION OK CALIFORNIA.
SAN DIEGO DE ALCALA.