Tucson
a city and county-seat of Pima co., Ariz.; on the Santa Cruz river, and on the Southern Pacific and the El Paso and Southwestern railroads, 250 miles E. of Yuma. Here are the University of Arizona, the Institute of St. Joseph, a high school, several libraries, court house, hospital, convent, National banks, and daily and and weekly weekly newspapers. It is in the heart of a large farming, stock-raising and mining section; has a valuable trade in hides, wool, precious metals. The place was first settled by Jesuit missionaries in 1760.
Prior to that year it had been an Indian town. In 1867-1877 it was the capital of the territory of Arizona. The United States Signal Station here is 2,404 feet above sea-level. Pop. (1910) 13,193; (1920) 20,292.