Arizona citizen., 1871-04-15

of the Agricultural Bureau at Wash ington will show that it can be done cheaper in Illinois.
 We hoped that when the Col. came here to command the Dept, with head quarters located in the heart of the Indian country, a new system of busi- ness would be established, that war would be carried to the homes of the Apaches, that settlers would be en- couraged to till the soil, develope the mines, and make permanent homes j; instead, we see only complaints and growlings at the cost of sundry articles, without Q word in the Col.'s report in explanation of the cause Is 1t strange that corn, wheat, or barley, is 6 or ' cents per fb, beef 10 or 12 cents per fb, or hay $50 per ton, when the men who produce and furnish those articles do their work with one hand, carry ing weapon of defence in the other ? when no man can deliver load of grain, hay, or fuel, at a military post, without leaving men at his house on guard, without taking men with his team well armed to protect it against attack from Indians? Let the Col. quiet the Indians and troops be recalled from Arizona, and in two years time, we will show him that beef, hay and grain can be produced in Arizona as cheap as in Missouri. But he aston ishes us by stating that since the or ganization of the Department, the Mo- javes, Hualpais, Yavapai, and Coyo- tero Apaches have become quiet, and are fast becoming domesticated! Care full inquiry will show him that the Mojaves as tribe have been peacea- ble and quiet for years, that the truce of the Hualpais was never trusted in for moment by any white man who has lived in this section of Arizona five years, nor by military officers, when moving among their haunts, ,and that the Yavapais are fed a: Date Creek on government rations, while depredations constantly occur through their country in which all the settler, are confident they are concerned. The reports of Col. Van Viet, command ing at Camp Hualpai, will by this time have informed Col. s., that the Hualpai tribe has just again taken the war-path, and if the Col. himself had remained in the Territory, and known of the depredations and mur- ders committed since the first day of December last, he might have changed his opinion Ill regard to the above mentioned tribes. No doubt he will approach the topic again with reluct- ance, when reporting such disastrous military expeditions to the authorities, as that of It. Cradlebaugh, of Camp Verde, few weeks since, in which Dr. Stigers was shot by an Indian and lost his arm, a soldier was wounded, the. command of 20 men and several citizens besieged by the Apaches all night, 27 of the 54 U. s. horses and mules taken, and the camp eQuipage burned next morning to prevent the Indians from taking the same-becauSe such reports show that the Indians are no respecters of persons, and are still hostile.
 In conclusion, the Col. expresses his pleasure at being able to state that the Indian affairs in the Department were ill as satisfactory a condition as could be reasonably expected. We, the peo- pie, feel as though there is nothing to be. congratulated upon in that line, and the records of Indian atrocities published in the columns of THE Orr ZEN at Tucson, and The Miner at Prescott, do not for the past three months seem more satisfactory, than those for the three years previous to the organization of the Department.
 The reluctance of Col. Stonenan to refer to our Indian troubles, IS fear fully cutting joke on every citizen of Arizona, and his economical programme of hostilities must prove to us not to bring in its train profuse expenditure of life and bloodshed before Arizonans will approve 1t. H.
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