All of the text below are quotes from a book on arizona history written by a historian. You can find the quotes at:
https://archive.org/stream/historyarizonaa00oakgoog/historyarizonaa00oakgoog_djvu.txt
"Here as elsewhere I give full credit to the sources
on every point."
"I have consulted the Santa Fe archives, and have had
access to rich stores of the most important documentary
records from Spain and Mexico in my own and other
private collections ; and I have been especially fortu-
nate in being able to utilize, practically for the first time,
the work of Villagrd and several important documents
bearing on Ofiate's conquest, never before correctly
recorded"
"Doubtless writers will
continue to give inaccurate dates and details for Oiiate's
conquest; to seek new locations for Coronado's Cibola
and Tiguex ; to name Cabeza de Yaca as the discov-
erer of New Mexico, and speak of his descendants as
still living in the country ; to talk of the Aztecs and of
Montezuma in this northern region ; to describe Santa
F6 as the oldest town in the United States, dating its
foundation back to the sixteenth or fifteenth century,
or that of Tucson to the sixteenth ; to chronicle the
expedition of Pe&alosa to Quivira; to name the duke
of Alburquerque and other viceroys among the gov-
ernors of New Mexico ; to derive the name of Arizona
from 'arid zone/ or 'narizona,' the big-nosed woman;
to accept the current traditions of rich mines of gold
and silver discovered and worked by the Jesuits"
"My statements should be accepted
or disproved"
"North of the line I
find no records of mining operations in these early
times, though prospecting may have been prosecuted
to some extent, and though popular but whollj r un-
founded traditions have been current of rich mines
worked by the Jesuits"
"
The
Jesuits of course — though the contrary is often alleged
— worked no mines, nor is there any evidence that in
Jesuit times there were any mining operations in Ari-
zona"
