The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-05-13
MILITARY NEWS.

In compliance with orders tho publication oi which hts been delayed until this issue, Company C. 2ls, Infantry, Capt. w. II Brown, has ar' rived from Camp Verde, and taken DO" at Fort Whipplc This company has been stationed at Camp Verde for long time past, and has done great deal of hard work, budding houses, mak. ing road, etc Its commander LIs taken com. mand of Fort Whpplc
 Troop NJ. Third Cavalry Captain Mi"s), start cd for Camp Mcdowell, Monday .aot. Lieutenant Vessels went with 1t.
 A commissioned officer and thirty more enlist ed men are 10 establish pcblt pos; on the Agua Frio. near tEc mouth Of Blacl, Canyon, or Turkey Creek to watch Aptchcs, ant, ii possible, pre- vent them from riiing on End,hn" and other mining Cistr,cts Some cavalry 10 ead Ici to the command. This Is crrttuya good move.
 Company F, l2.h Infantry, Is 'n its way back, ,o Whipple, and hereafter, Caup Hualpai, will have to guard the Nuhayc road, and keep "its eye" on the llualras.
 IL Is tAe intention of Col St,nemnn to kee, mounted troops constantly scouting on thc i Apache line, between McDoN,li aud Verde, and i between Verde and HualpAi, and in ease 1hc plan 1 ug irl,n,c Is followed up strictly, the ApaChc> ~ill have iu look sharp, when Ihcy break through | tue lines. to rad upon us. else shc troops will run aioul Of, and chi.tse them. IL may be, that ! they VII spend the summer west of Us (as they are as much Al home one place as anothcr), and peg ava, at Us from that side. In which case, 1 the cavalry meu at Camp Date Creck, might have a chance 70 exercise themselves and their fat horses.
 The new post, in the Pinn Mountain country, | Is 35 miles from Florence, on the Gila River; GO from Phuniy on Salt River, ani so from Camp l Apache, on White Mountain River, With all oi which points it is connected by roads and trails IL wa,, at first, thought nr.t to impossible to cou meet it with Florence and rhTnir, by roads, and officers and citizens had ahiGdougd al idea O ever being able to do SO. when Col S,ouemau ar rived, and mounting mulc, kept exploring th, country until hr found very fair routes, when h,
 set hi, men at .ork, and constructed t~o ,erJ fair roads, upon both ol which hc has e,tabli-hc, picket stations, for the protection of traveller.
 This be did, while suffering intense pain from
 disease brought on by hard riding du ing the iat
 war.
 Picket stations have also been established or
 the main road through southern Arizona an,
 troops ot cavalry are ordered to scout continuous iy so that the people Of all portions of the Ter
 ritor, may soon look for better protection ,ha'
 they have had for somc tiiuc past.
 A rumor Is current, to the effect that New Mex
 leo and Arizona are tO be cOnsolidated in on
 Military department.
 Colonel Stoueman started for Wilmington, Cal
 iforuia, ht o'ciocN, last Monday morning, aC vom anied by Col. Foster and Chaplain Gilmore who intended to go with the Colonel, as far a
 Camp llualph and then return to Whipplc Lieutenant Thompson, Sd Cavalry, Camp Ver dr, and Lieut. Rhcein, 2lst Infantry, called on Il , yesterday. Both are young men, and, c4celleu ! officers.
 Captain Hawley, Sd Cavalry, from Camp Verde !. IS here, route to Wilmington, California, q / President of Board of Inspection for Cavar horses for Sd Cavalry, Department of Arizona