Arizona citizen., 1871-04-15

actions in other parts of the United States.
 Supplies in the Subsistence Depart ment are abundant, and of good qual- ity, except in the article of flour furn- ished to some of the posts in southern Arizona; an improvement is expected when the supply on hand is con- stunned.
 In the Quartermaster's Department, the supplies, though generally ade- quate, are, many of them, very defec- tive in quality, and to this point par ticular attention is invited.
 The cost to the Government of ar ticles delivered at posts in Arizona is due, principally, to the enormously high charges for freights, and depends, therefore, more upon their weight and measurement than upon the market prices paid when bought, and a due re- gard to economy would appear to die tate that articles of the best rather than the poorest quality should be furnished. Such, however, is not the fact Take, for example, oak lumber, sent out for the purpose of repairing wagons, &c. In some cases observa- ton authorizes me to state that instead of good, tough white oak having been furnished, the poorest kind of red oak, fit only for tire-wood, has been sup piled. The sequence is, breakages are frequent, repairs constant, corsump- ton consequent, and expenditures re- sultant.
 Complaints are very general in re- gard to the quality of nails furnished, large percentage being defective in make, and the remainder deficient in quality of material. Glass is blister ed, warped, and discolored to such an extent as to become fit only for use in Arizona; stationery, with the ''con- demnation mark staring one III the face, is considered good enough for use ill this far-of region. Water buckets, invoiced as 'tgutta-percha," turn out, upon inspection, to have been made of paper. Blankets marked "woolen'' :, prove to have been manufactured from buffalo hair gathered on the Plains, and so on to the end of the list. That the appropriation for. Army supplies has heen charged the full market prices, paid for articles of the best quality, is not doubted or even questioned, and it IS left to the pur- chasing agents of the Quartermaster' S Department to make such explanations as the facts appear to demand.
 The Third Regiment of Cavalry, when it arrived in Arizona last spring, from New Mexico, brought with it the remnant of the mount with which 1t was furnished in Arkansas in the early part of 1866; and these were horses which had served during the war of the rebellion. It is evident that remount will soon be necessary, and acquisitions for that purpose will be forwarded at an early date, so as to obtain 1t early in the coming spring.
 No small amount of labor has been expended by the troops at Camps Bowie, Date Creek, and Mojave, dur ing the past summer, in the erection of buildings, and the troops at these posts, as also at Yuma, are, or soon will be, in comfortable quarters. The troops at Hualpai, Verde, and Thomas are busily engaged in the erection Of buildings, and tis expected that, with the aid of the ample facilities that have been furnished them, they toe will, ill few months, be comfortably housed, and their animals properly sheltered.
 The new location for Camp Grant has not been determined upon, but SC soon as it is, and authority for its re- moval obtained, a steam saw-mill and other facilities will be supplied, the troops put at work, and quarters built at the earliest practicable period. It is not thought advisable to expend la- Dor or material st any of the other posts in the department, trusting that instructions may soon be received au- thorizing their discontinuance.
 A very large amount of labor has also been expended during the past summer by the troops stationed ei Camps Verde, Thomas, McDoweD and Whipple, in the construction ol wagon-roads, and opening up avenues of communication in the Territory, and the people of Arizona are much indebt- ed to Captains W. H. Brown, Fl. E. Smith, and P. Collins, Twenty-frst Infantry, and Captain B. R. Perkins, Twelfth Infantry, and the officers and men of their companies, for the ener-