Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-11

er from the Gadsden Purchase.

Letter from the Gadsden Purchase.
The following letter from old citizen of How
ard county, well known in these parts, will not be
uninteresting to our readers:
CAIABAzEs, GADsDEx PURCHASE. June Sd. 1851.
DEAR SIR:-I wrote TO yon from San Francisco
about the time of my leaving for the Gadsden Pur
chssH, and promised to write on my arrival, and
a Government Express Mail leaves here in the
ing for New Mexico 1 shall avail myself of the OPP
DortUnity this affords drop you few lines, the
exp esses are not regular, and it may be some time
b. fore another express will go. am sorry that
cannot give you full description OF the Gadsden
Purchase, owing to the fact that have only been
here short time, and have had no opportunity OF
making myself acquainted. There is stationed at
/ this point four companies of the First Dragons,
under the command of Major Enoch Steen-but in
! a few days will remove to the Aqua Caliente, where
the permanent location of the Fort will be mlde-
! the location at the Caabazes was only temporary.
! Aqua Caente is about twenty five miles Northeast
of this point and about half way between the San
ia Cruz river and the San Pedro; the new Fort 1
| understand will be called ''Fort Buchanan"
At present, times are very Gull here; there is
| scarcely any mOney in the country, snd the touE
companies of Dragons now here, have not been
paid single cent for nearly twelve mouths. The
paymaster however, is expected here in tie course
| of month"; and when he arrives Will have to dis
| burse nearly one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars, which will make things quite lively for while
|
| the country, principally from California and Texas
with the intention of making permanent settlements,
and in fact the country is all that can be desired
1t is far preferable to any Mexican country that
have ever seen-and better than California In every
respect except the gold mines in the latter. The
Gadsden Purchase is the best grass country in the
world, and vegetation remains green nearly the
| whole year.
California has a great advantage over the Gads-
den Purchase in being located Oh the seaboard. 1t
will always objection to The Gadsden Purchase
''beng so far inland," and without even one port
on the Gulf of California. In speaking of gold
mines-it is not certain that California has any adj
vantage the Gadsden Purchase, as every pros
pect that has been made in the Gadsden Purchase,
shows that the precious metals exists perhaps TO as
great extent as in California The Gadsden Fur
chase is rich IN silver mines, and the whole world
cannot beat the Arizona Copper Mines aud other
copper mines. Both silver and copper mines are
now worked, and when more capital is enlisted,
great advantages must resul:- All that portion Of
the Gadsden Purchase yi the CeloradO-and
even if MIR. Gadsden had secured the Lobos OF
AdaIr's Bay on the Gulf-the whole Is nothing bet.
ter than sand desert-but this country in the
hands of the Amercans-that is Tor a port-theil
enterprise would have made even by this time quite
a town, perhaps city. Sonnet ing of the kind
must be had for depot for the copper, which is
furnished By the Arizona Copper Mines also, to say
nothing of the other copper mines-at present the
ore is hauled to the Colorado at Fort Yuma, and
from thence shipped in sehooners to San Francis
/ co. Your friend,
w. MCNEES.
P. ST. forgot to say anything about the flIbus
tiers; they met with sad fate about the STU 0
April. in trying to make entrance into Sonora
a full account of the whole affIir will have reached
the United States long before this letter can reacl
you.
he action OF the fllbusters is one cause of The
extreme scarcity of money in these parts; bsfor'
there quite trade going on from this country
with Sonora and the SOnOrians had made consider
able settlements near the Calabazes, but became
frightened and ran off into Sonora. My opinion
regards fllibuslering is that it won't do give
up so Mr.. Brown" W. Mon.