Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-12-19 | Page 16 | The Name of Arizona

I I TilE THE NAME IE OP OF Arizona probably 4 in its its y orl original form was the native e an and probably Pima Pinta name of the place of a hill valley stream or sonic some other local ocal feature just feature just south of or the mo modern mod mod- r ern boundary in the thc mountains still j so called on the head waters aters of or the stream flowing past Saric where the famous Planchas de Plata mine was discovered d in the middle of the eighteenth eighteenth eight eight- century th the name panto being first known to the Spaniards in that connection con con- and n being bE applied to the I mining mining- camp or 01 real de e minas The aboriginal meaning of at th the term teen Is not known nova The name probably probably i 3 a ably l should hould be bt written n and pro pro- 10 Arizona 1 3 as our jj sound gonna soun of of x z does doe not occur occur i in Span in Sp nI n- n i Ban Bancroft sh Bancroft's s HistorY f i a Y J