The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-02-12
Interview between our Governor and a
 Reporter of the New York Herald.

uhi1 otu, lo'Vi tuhh oui eHei SSstS 'N'N'HS' is spending his time in the East to good pur pose-enligh ightening the Press, people and Government upon our wants and resources. That his efforts may be crowned with success is the prayer of our suffering people:
 Governor 4. r. K. Stafford passed through this city yesterday afternoon on his way to the national capital. Prior to his departure he favored one of the Herald representatives with heightened visit, and, in the course of an interesting conversation some very import ant facts were elicited, to which the attention of the public may well be attracted. Gov ernor Safford is a genial gentleman, and, though evidencing the first principles of A true Americas, could scarcely conceal his feelings regarding the action of the United States government towards the vast and fruitful Territory of Arizona. He appeared to regret exceedingly the callousness of the authorities to the wanton and terrible outra- ges daily perpetrAted by the Indians through out the wide domain. The sad want of sufficient military force to repress the fre- quent crimes of the Apaches, committed with a bold and fiendish defiance, was a subject upon which he dwelt with some earnestDess. After adyerting at some length to the war fare at present existing between the inhabit- ants of Arizona and the Apaches, who, be said, lived entirely by pillsge and plunder, Governor Stafford went on to state that hith- erto the most determined resistance had failed to counteract the terrible destruction they were daily spreading. "The Apaches,n he said, ''are of n brownish hue, small in stature, cunning, treacherous, very fleet and generally travel in bands of twenty-five and thirty 1 They fight mostly in ambush, their action is instantaneous and their purpose deadly. They have entirely exterminated a people who lived there long since, people that once largely populated the territory, built towns and cultivated fields. Nothing is now know n of that people, except some broken ruins, which point woef0lly to their destruction ; while the time they existed can only be esti- mated by the soil that has accumulated over them The Apaches are. indeed, cruel in the extreme, generally dispOsing of their victims | by slow and dreadful tortures.
 REPoRTER--I presume, sir, that the mili- tary force is insufficient to repcl a we'll direct ed attack on the part of the Indians. GOVERNOR SAFFoRD--Up tO the lst of January we have had an army of 800 men, while the Apaches, every one of whom is a savage, number over 20,000. There are only fifteen or twenty military posts throughou, the Territory, and need not add that the force is barely sufficient to carry on even de- fensive warfare, while the lives and the prop erty of the inhabitants, removed at some dis. tance from the posts, are constantly in immi- nent danger.
 RrroRrER-Have any overtures been m ade to tLe Apaches-have you ever approached them in friendly spiriti
 Governor Satford-They want no peace | A.s A Al earnest endeayos been made to bring them to terms, to teach them agricultural pursuit, and change their mode of existence But no; scarcely had they been conrteously re ceived when some daring outrage would b, committed, after which tLey would fly tC their fastnesses in the thiekly wooded forests Plunder is their ruling passion and they fol low 1t with will. It is almost impossible tC get at them.
 Reporter-To accomplish the object sough by the inhabitants of Arizona in the way O arresting the devastation of the Indians wha military fierce do yen think would be re quired7
 Governor Safford-About three thousand cavalry and one thousand infantry, it is th, opinion of military men that such fore, would within year eradicate the difficulty
 Reporter-The land of Arizona is said ts be exceedingly fertile.
 Governor Safford-You are right, indeed sir. The country is very rich, possesses tn, best grazing ,nutritious grasses and every vari ety ot corn. tell you, if we were free iron the annoyances of the Indians we could sup ply the world. The varieties are very ex tensive. The arable land produces two crop a year--one crop of wheat barley and oats and afterwards crop of corn. The countr, ! has two rainy seasons, tho result being mos : advantageous. In fact there is produced glorious yariety--anythi that Is raised ii any of the zones. But what is the use of it
 The inhabtants--a brave, whole soulcd, in
 dustrious people--are daily harassed, to sa, nothing of the direful calamities that dail, occur. It is estimated that within the las
 eighteen months one-ninth of the adult pop
 ulation of Pima have been murdered, woun ded or made captiyes of.
 Reporter-May enquire whether any pro
 vocation is given to the depredators you com plain of You know, sir, of course, tha there are two sides to a story.
 Governor Saford- Why, cer
 tainly not. The most earnest efforts to secur, ] peace have proved fruitless. Moreover, they
 are most merciess in their diabolical cruel
 ties. For instance, when they secure few captiyes they celebrate the event in the wood
 with barbarous festivities. The tribes assem- ble together for two or three days, the vic tins meanwhile being publicly exposed tc the yilest tortures. They are then slowly put to death. l have referred to the great
 wealth of the soil, and l should have men toned the fact that it is exceedingly rich ir minerals, the mountains abounding in gold and silver; but the efforts of the industriou. in striving to develop the mines are complete
 Y Paralyzed. There is one mine, perhap. the richest on the Pacific coast, called the , Xulture mine hnt 70 great Lara haa. .L.