The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-12-09
The ~x 9Niner.
COLYER'S REPORT.

CTS in Arizona who would hc plca>tu 'o ha'c a glimpse at the official report submitted by Mir. Colycr upon his return to Washington, after his race for life through Arizona. We have not seen the report in full so we will substitute the following synopsis thereof as published in the New York HraH of No yembcr 9th:
 The President, Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of War devoted over two hours to-day listening to Vincent Colyer's report on his recent work among the Apaches of Arizona and New Mexico, which has at tracted much extended comment through the press. After narrating the enthusiastic way in which he was received by the Apaches, of their coming in scores from the hills and valleys ali along the route, carrying white flags to meet him, and of their focking to the reservations by hundred, as soon as they learned they would be protected and fed, ne read cNtracts from reports made to him by old army officers who had been among them for years, showing their industrious and peaceful character whenever they have an opportunity. Colonel Green, First Cavalry, says:-
 "The Apache Indians furnished one hun dred and ninety tons of hay, for which he paid them in flour. They brought 1t into his camp in White Mountains, fifteen tons a day. they supplied the garrison with all the wood they used bringing it in at the rate of thirty cords day, using their hands and few old broken axes to break it of, and the hay they cut with old knives, and the whole was brought into the post on their backs"
 Mir Coyer said the Apaches were more civilized than Red Clouds Sioux, and he be- leved if the American and Mexican Papago and Pima Indians could only be induced to let them alone for two years they would prove themselves more easily managed than the kiOwas or Chcyonncs. The chiefs vol untarily dressed themselves in pantaloons and coats, and were disappointed when there was not enough to distribute to the other men ot the tribe. In their talks they were most friendly, and their accounts of their most pltiable condition-starying and hunt cd by every onc-was touching They ac knowledged they stole horses and cattle. but declared 1t was only for food, and to prove ii pointed to the fact that they had not horse among them. Stealing led 10 fighting, in which both whites and Apaches were killed. When sleep said one chief, it is always with one eye open. If the wind rolls a stone down from the hillside l think it is scout alter us, and my women and children wake up and rum MT. COlyer investigated the Camp Grant massacre, and brings sworn eyi- deucc from army officer. and oi white set tiers Corroboratiye of Lieutenant Sbitnan's statement, making the detail, of that affair even more horrible than already published. Tho story that these Indians left the reserva. tion and went on thieviE- raids, which was so indvstrously published as the cause for the massacre, Is pronounced false by several unimpeachable witnesses under oath. and NIT. Colyer says that the reports which are now being 80 extensively telegraphed from Arizo- ma to the press that the Indians are leaving the reservations and depredating are equally untrue. The story telegraphed yesterday that Cachis had left the reservation at Ca6ad Almosa and gone on the warpath Mir. Colycr doubted. Seven days ago Cachs WAS on the reservation, and ir was not possible for them 10 get any news from there in less time than that ria tue Pacific Ocean, as the reservation IS near the Rio Grande. in New Mexico. The story that out of 4pD Apaches on tLe reservation at Camp Grant only fifty rcported on ration day IS explained by the fact that party ot armed citizens from Tucson had been allowed to come on the reservation to hunt for fugitive Indians. The marvel is that htty remained. The tale that l" A marty oi mining prospcctors who had travelled thir- " miles without water, were warned off from Camp Grant and the artillery brought 10 bear upon them, despite their protestations that they were peaceful citizens and liable to perish unless permitted to come to the water ], was disposed of by the official report of Mai Nelson, the officer commanding Camp Grant For this action of Captain Nelson which MT. Colyer believed to be the only course he could pursce and protect the Indians, he was severely censured by General Crook. Mir CoIyer read extracts from a letter he received rom General Stoneman, General Crooks predecessor m Arizona, showing that out of every hundred dollars that goes on to Ari- Zohai hlhety-hlne are sent there by the gov efhment; that the officials, contractors. farm ers, euitors, ieighters, drinking saloon and gahoiihg shopkeepers depend upon the army TOT supportj that the annual expenditure of the War Department is over three and n | hall millions of dollars a year. and as tbern are not over two thousand Americans in inc Territory this is the reason why they arc now yelling so loudly against stoppin1 inc war, placing the Indians on reservations and establishing peace; that the editors of the TWO small papers published in the Territory nave no regard for truth was shown by doI- | ems oi Slarlng ialsehoods, and by their abuse oi each other and of nearly every officer of the army in the Territory, Mir. Colver savs they did not represent the sentiment of fine | miners and hardy frontiersmcn, who. beinc | exposed to the Indians by their immediate ! proximity, are in favor of peace but only of 'ae officials, contractors and saloon keeners | oi 'hc towns remote from danger with whom | saey immediately associate. i;,-Ep.I Cen, Stonema" Eays:-- "'
 4. inc ihu''ns cannot be quiet, because .ney must starye or steal, as the goyernment VIII not ieed them, sud when they have Lc' come 4niet they ,cannet long remain SD ms