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FORT WHIPPLE, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY MAY 25, 1864.
NUMBER 6.
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THE ARIZONA -MINER;
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TUCSON TO 3.EKEZ-TAI.
AX OUTLKT ON TIIK GULff.
MAJOR FERGUSSON'S REPORT.
Mksilxa, Arizona, Dec. 2, J8C2.
pn the 2Gth of September last I received in-
littjietions as follows :
11 KADOUARTKUS Dep't OF TIIR PACIFIC, )
July 26, 18G2. I
Gpneral Carleton will send Major Fergu3on,
with a sufficient escort, to examine the country,
its resources, and the route between I ucwou und
Uobo3 bay, (place koowu as Libertad,) via Ari-
i visa and Altar or Gaborca.
I Mirr nrrlur nf KriimifHiT General Wriuht.
Assistant Adi't General.
iT.innt. J. F. Bkxnbtt. 1st Cal. Vol's.,
3 5! A. A. General, Headquarters Column from
3 California, Santa Fa, New Muxioo.
Gonorai Ordara, Ko. 20.
HitAUtidAirrWB District or jUhhoxji, )
lias (We, New Moxieo, Sept. r, 1882. f
Maior Fertrnaaon will probaod, via Ariracn awl
aula.' or Cubavu, without delay, to point at or
USal .U00O3 Oily, U" Uc n" w juimuhiui, nm.r, u
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Ja8 .Libertad and examine me miermeujaiu couu
rv, with a view to the transportation of supplies
tie will ascertain the resources of the countiy on
tie route, also the availability of Lobus buy as a
tjSbrt where military supplies destined for Arizona
wav bo landed. .Mujur bergusson will then re
ijfoir in person to the headquarters of the district
of Arizona, and make a report of his cxamuin
ition of thy port of Lobos route, to the General
commanding the column from California.
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By command of Brigadier General Carleton,
IH BEJAMIX G. CUTLER,
jfciret Lieut., 1st Juf, Cal. Vols., A. A. A. Gen 'I.
m There betii no cavalry at the disposal of the
MJpmmandiug ofucer at I ucsou lor an escort, I
ga3 delayed until the 10th of October from pro
fcseeding to carry the above instructions into exe
fcution. On the afternoon of that day I started,
fwith an et-cort of seventeen men of Company lv.
gJU't (avalry. California Y olunteera, commanded
"? First Lieut. C. P. Nichols, of the same regi
ent, en route to the port of La Libertad, via
rivaca. Altar, and Pitiquito, and arrived at La
Sfciberrad on the 20th of October. I append
thereto an Itinerary of the route. The distances
gwere measured by an odometer, which I was for
fiuimir hiuuii iu p,ri ui iouii oi I mm -Mr. o. l
miU, jr., interpreter to Lieut. Nichols, com
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wi.iiiwi.i my t-euuifc, uou uutio" us5i3ianL quarwr-
Manter thereof.
'I he port of La Libertad is not on that part of
ie mm ot ualilornia Known as Lobos av, but
t a distance which 1 estimate to be about twen-
y (20) miles south of it. J enclose herewith
traced copy of map ol the Kusenuda de Los
USoboa' so called, and the port of La Libertad,
made by the scientific commission, of which Don
Thomas U-ibiuson. of Guaymas. was chief.
rruvioiw to obtaining or seeing tho oriirinnl
hap of the connnisaion. by aid of a boat, the
Tramo of which was got out in Tucson, by me
chanics ot tile qusrrtot master s department, and
put together at Lu Ltbertad. I took soundnms in
Win port, which are marked on the maps in red
Hnk in feet. Tho figured indicate the depth at
w water.
'lo Mr. J. B. Mills, jr., I am indebted for the
giriangulation of the bay, and for tracing the re
pult, in red ink. on the map. time not nenmttinu
the muking of an original, and. as the result ol
loth surveys are so nearly alike, 1 did not con-
iider an original map. neceBsary. Where there
any uuironou in the eounditiffa, I huvo.nu hi-
Witiun in wyig Umt tko rwqltf mw osfu Inbona.
'parked in. rod hik, mm as correct m airomm
WiXict and lima would pormit. Buying arrived
on tho 20th, aed the 2lst, 22d, and part of the
33d of October b;ing taken up in putting the
boat together. I could nut, contid wring the quan
tity of protiefoni sod foraga on hand, and the
absence of graMt mmio more than ft dnr nd
imhi toogor to arnica rounding, reconnoitre the
fieinity, Ac
Of the valtt of this eoaenuda of Libf rtad as a
port, no one. who ee it can doubt. The soundings
allow a depth of water onffleient for Vessels of
any tonnage ; the holding-ground ia excellur',.
beinj! generally of fine white eand and shell, at
that part marked out on the map as ' JCl Puerto
de la Libertad." except where the ledges of rock
are carefully laid down. These rocks are low.
Hat cropping8 of the bed-rock, and visible in the
water in fair weather.
The bottom in the upper, or Cabode Lobos
part of the bay, is sandy in parts, gravelly and
pebbly in others, and near tho shore composed of
cobble-stones, gravel, pebbles and sand. The
shore or beach is generally sandy, gravelly, and
pebbly. The banks are low sandy loam, except
tin southern part, which consists of high bluffr
of Rand and shell of about a mile and a quarter
in length, broken by ravines and gullie?. From
Point Kino to Cubo de Lobos. the bay extends
about 5J mile3, and has a depth of about two
miles near the centre ; at Point Robinson a ledge
of broken jacged rocks extends into the sa
about 400 yards. The constant ripple at this
place indicates the presence of rocks. By ex
tending a mole or breakwater in the direction of
these rocks, four or five hundred yards, vessels
could ride at anchor in the bay to the south with
the greatest security in almost any storm.
v The soundings on the map will show that the
pftftof the bay between Point Robinson and
() bo de Loboi has dsep w&Ur and a bold shore.
whire veIs nmy discharge witlua a few yards
ol the bank.
Tfca baeali is. in mrly !Hi3 oxtottii admir
ably adapted to Wch msela upon for repairs.
to a dosnxuir
The Sacramento Union has a sensible article
opposing the proposition of Thurlow Weed, and
othersr.to return to the old system of managing
the public lands so as to raise a large revenue
from sales. Mr. Weed estimates that at the
dose of the war the national debt will amount to
four thousand millions of dollars, and contends
that the price of the public lands should be fixed
at the former rate, intead of allowing them to be
settled under the Homestead Law. We quote
from the Union :
Under that law, the cost to the pioneer settler
of occupying one hundred nnd bixty acres of land
is simply the cost of survey and transfer. Under
the old system a quarter section of land cost two
hundred dollars. Tho homestead policy leaves
the pioneer, who possesses the former price of
the land, money to supply himself with stock,
impliments, and the means of temporary subsis
tence. Under the old system, when the price of
land was added to the cost of the journey from
Europe to one of our Western Territories, the
iiHucemetits offered io emigrants were far less
powerful, and thousands of the victims of the
pittance paid labor of the Old World who might
have desired lo come to our Republic were de
terred by the hopelessness of attempting to raise
the requisite sum. At present, lands for the
landless nre. freely offered in some or the British
colonies, and there aio Associations in England
to extend aid to those who wish to emigrate to
those distant dependencies. "We have had abun
dant evidence I hat the better class of emigrants
would prefer to come to the United States, but
it in questionable whether an increase of t(hi
difficulty of obtaining homesteads in our Territo
ries would not turn the current in another direc
tion. Can we, afford to do this? Would not
the adoption of Weed's proposal defeat the ob
ject he professed to have in view ? The true
financier, who seeks to provide tho means for
easing the burden of an enormous public debt,
looks for revenue to an increase of the tax-paying
ability of the nation. This is only to be accom
plished by addihg to the number of the popula
tion and enconngmg the development of the
natural retonrc8 of the country. A busy, thriv
ing community planted in u Territory which is
now a wilderness, is worth far more to the Gov
ernment in point of rovenae than the aggregate
coat of tho occupied .land at tho old rates. In
stead of the original prijen oJ it? acres, tho Gov
ornmant will got nn increased ravanus not only
from tho addiUounl direct taxes, but from tb
incrflftsd consumption of duty-paying- imports
and articles subject to an excise If the Terri
tory happens to be rich in mineral reaomaw, the
rapid devulopoient of thesu, in accordance with
wll knowu precedents, will add to tha income
tax attd the rtxeuati from the bueineae
;.ran$a3ction of such a community. Jt appears
to be clear enough that every inducfctiu nt that
can be ofrrvd to the early eettlerneat of the im-
rnensa tsoir,a;n sow ifiTn up to ins sstj, sn,i
the buffalo will be justified as the sounder finan
cial policy, and that the adoption of any measure
which wouiu nave a tendency to retard the inllux
of population wonld be killing tho goose that
I ay 8 the golden egg.
.Bearing in mind thafc a debt which weighs op
pressively upon thirty millions of people, with
sixteen thousand millions of dollars worth of
property, can be carried with ease by double the
number of people, having double the wealth, the
solution of our financial problem will suggest it
self. We should revise and simnlifv our evstem
of taxatiou, leave no meaua untried to attract
the right kind of population to our vast and com
paratively unoccupied Territories, and develop
the natural resources of the country which in
extent and variety arc unrivaled. There were
rew statesmen in America who, in 18G0, would
have ventured to affirm that the National Gov
ernment could draw from the country all the
money required to carry on for three years a war
of such magnitude, demanding an unprecedented
outlay because of the necessity of creating all the
appliances of warfare on land and sea. Had the
figures of our present debt been quoted at that
time as a ceitainty of the future, the majority of
even the last-man-and -last-dollar" patriots
would have shrunk back afiirighted, and doubted
the ability of the Government and tho people to
go on without plunging into bankruptcy. . Not
only ha tho enormous expense of the war been
Art. 8. Any person or persons, holding ground
for mining pnrpo,ln this District, on ami after
th fi'st day of Octpbar, ono tboaawJ frfghfefetn
lred and eixty-fonr, ahulf tin raqaiwd to pffrfdrqj.
or eaiisa to be perforrowf ihmvw; t li atfiniMtt
thrae day labor to aach elaioi io viry tftraa
months, and if any person, or pera ina, ahitil com
ply with the above provlaioos f;p tha pariod of
one year, he or ihj ehnlf thereby aoqtitra par
petual title ; tlm labor to bo estimated and certi
fied to by the Recorder, or his Deputy, as provid
ed in Article 7th. " V;
Art. 9. Any person or persons, holding ground
for mining purposes, in this District, who may
perform, or cause to be performed thereon, tho"
amount of twelve day labor to each claim, at
any time after the firfitday of October, one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-four, he or they
shall thereby acquire perpetual title to the same ;
tho labor to be estimated and certified to by tho
Recorder, or his Deputy, as provided in Article
7th.
VAN C. SMITH. President.
Bobeut McCoy, Sec'y.
MISCHIEF MAKERS.
This class of persons nre the curse of social
life. They are the mean, low-lived pests, when
they swarm in a community. They are the rap
tilcD and the peiscnens insects, svhen they r.r"
let loose among men. When the tone of society
is high, the sneaking, snapping, hissing crew, ate
scorned and spurned to live among their oivn
kind and associates. Where the condition of
things is somewhat new. and men are not thor
oughly known to each other, the smooth, mali
cious, or conceited mischief-maker is in lrfg eleH
ment. Like the old woman iu Bulwer. who was
! always invited to ail the reputable tEooit.
sustained but the very financial expedients ren ihor town, rather than leave her offended
derod nscossnry by thu contest have given n pow 'loose with ita vituperations ; the mischief-!
erful impetut to numerous branches of industry ;pvbero He ha a position, maices hiiiiETilf t
and to-day. notwithstanding tha crooking of the qaeace by Ins vilhauous tatbngs, 8Hrii
ravans. tha loyal
7 tf
.a. a visit:
Statee are backing in tho sun-1 representation and falsehood
4wo of a prosperity that astonishes the vorid jeh man and condaet are in private lift
Ta rlfth- of the performance of what wa3 regard
ed aa an impossibility, we have loss leason than
ever for indulgiug gloomy forebodmg3 of the
future. The Republic is rich in broad acres ;
its necessity is moro muscle. We must invite
the induelrial classes of the Old World touur
shores by offering them facilities for acquiring
homes. And a3 the mighty swarms follow the
sun across tho continent, and rich communities
rise where now the wilderness waits for tho plow
and tho pick, we shall see such a myriad of
golden streams flowing into the reservoir of the
Government as will awaken wonder at our form
er ignorance of our own wealth.
IIASSAYAIfiPA DISTRICT.
At a regularly called meeting of the miners of
llacfinyampa District, Arizona Territory, held at
Groom's cbin,on the 10th day of May, 18G4,
called for tho purpose of amending the laws, so
as to suit tho convenience of all those who may
desire to join the expedition soon to start eat,
against tho Apaches, Van C. Smith was made
President, and Rob't. McCoy Secretary.
Tho meeting having been called to order by
tho President, the following amendments were
submitted by Mr Groom, and adopted, to-wit:
Articles 7th, 8th, and 9th, of the quartz, min
ing laws, heretdore in force in this District, are
hereby amended, so as to read aa follows :
A ut. 7. All notices claiming ground for min
ing purposes, on any metallic vein or lode of
quartz or other rock in this District, properly
located, according to the provisions of thit code,
and recorded, shall be deemed sufficient to hold
such ground until the first day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty four ; but if
any cluimaut. or claimants, to any ground in this
District, located and held as hereinabove provid
ed, shall perform, or cause to be performed, the
amount of six days laboi, to each claim, on any
purt of his or their ground, at any time between
the date of tho notic5 claiming such ground, and
the first day of October, one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-four, the tin mo shall be deemed
sufficient to give him or them perpetual title ;
the amount of labor, in all cases, to be estimated
by tho Recorder, or his Deputy, who filial!, on
application, visit and examine the ground, and
if in his opinion the required amount of labor hae
been performed thereon, he (,hall certify the fact
in a note attached or written' beneath the notice
on record in his office, 'claiming guch ground ;
and lot-such service ha shall bo entitled to re
cefvo one Cellar for aaoh claim uo oxaminod and
certified to.
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guage of execration is atrang enough ful
signate their meanness and turpitude, whw muad
among public men iu public life. If he i lund
among the officers at a military post, all tbe oth
ers who are compelled to fas associated with hiss
in business, are made by him, to endure tha n
tal nausea and tortures, said to be endoied oy
spirits, confined within the suburbs of tho dawn
ed. The race of such an one, under sue!; circum
stances, is not likely to be long. His vioktkma
of tho sentiments, rights and principles of troth
honest nature and honorable life, change his lo
cation, or put the brand of a life-inlamy npoa
him, by the condemnation of a court martial
If be is found in civil life, among a b.Qdj of
civil officers, whose duties necessarily tttm
them to minglo together, he has a degro of te
vaticn, enlarging the influence of hid batovew
and meanness. He operates banefully. on ail
things around him. Be banishes friendship ami
confidence, or is avoided aa a pbgtt&ifot.
Gentlemen refrain from conversations with mm
upon matters of importance, unlets a witneat im
present. If seen with him, they have no securi
ty that he will not stato to others things tiu$r
never said, nor thought of those others. Ha will
abuse, malign and traduce others, anu! unJaaa von
denounce hi in upon tho snot, be will gow5 aad
tell those he abused, that you wero the one who
did it. He will not bo able to converae. Otieasa
with malice, scurility and falsehood of aotttft ab
sent, upright man. Ho will look wise, and lia&
enough or good men, that it believed, vrold d
their reputations. Give him any portion of or
confidence, und he will abuse it. lib will ir.teh
for days, for an opportunity to throw dtarot
and dissension among friends. Ho will few'solir.
or procure somo creature equally vile aa Jria&ctif,
to trace the footsteps of gentlemen, to sa s life
cannot extract something that he can Oo oi r:to
tcandal. lie will tell one thing to one nn & ad
of &t same matter, another thing to V tr
man, and then deny what ho has told to rtir or
to both. Among men of honor and truth ncSa
an abortion or a monster. Ho is like a po $at
let loose in a garden of healthy fiuits. 11a h a
serpent coiled slimily and hissing around h via
of flowers. He is a fc'wine io n china shop. Vo
U like a carrion bird, with beak and tulona If' ik ed
with offeneivenees. None need Uk Uria
delineations to themselves unless they fit.jN'w
Mexican,
A oow.v easier ppoaks of a heavy fog in bis J ;I.
He fays he hired a mac to shingle a barn. t n"b
tho man complained that it was a terriblQloi -for
he haul been at -svork ail tba mnriaVx 4
ou aoursfriaid. S after (Hi'.u&r h irflbi'lfc v
th man had bftea about, ad famid tafrtfw ,
g! id w:e- thac a haoired ktt right oat ' ' fc