The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-06-21
Crook and Arizona.

On the 2sth ult we published au editorial, com plalniOg Ui the evil that had resulted, and would ! probably result from tbe withdrawal Of five cOm- panles Of ihe First regiment Uf cavalry from Ari- zono, to help seven hundred other troops in cbas- ing two score ModOcs, and the Bulletin favored ! us by quoting t, with an extract from letter written by Gen Crook, who said, under date oi the lGtb ult.:
 Ut Is all right, as it will still leave mc all the troops want, even should there be . general out break, wbch have no idea will occur"
 The purpose oi putting the two quotations to- gether was to show that the Alta did not under stnnd what it was about. Whether the idea oiex. posiug our supposed bluudcr originated in the Bulletin cditorialroom, ls question in which we take little interest we are willing to let the pub lie judge whether we made mistake or not. A telegram from Los Angeles, under date oi June l, says;
 The Arizona MINER (PrescotO of the 2sth of May says: General Crook will shortly visit Camp Verde and the Indian reservation. The moving of troops from tbis Territory will seriously inter- ! fere with the work Of connecting Camps Verde, New Grant and Apache, by wagon TO ,ds. lt seems | that every wind from Washington blows some evil | to this unfortunate Territory. Although General l Crooks small force has been made smaller by the l withdrawal Of i've companies of the First Cava. J ", he will use every efor, 10 make the Indians
 keep the peace. Scouts will he kept out in every direction and strict watch will be kept over the | reservations
 But Is not necessary to have this sort of tcsti ! inouJ Np ltONt luat llJufS uis utfu uOuc lD AIT
 zona by withdrawing the First Cavalry. We know
 on general principles. that the present force there
 Is insufficient General Crooks opinion that black
 Is white Is worth nothing in this market ln those
 military affairs of Arizona with which the public are not familiar he Is good authority; but every intelli gent man in California knows that the Fed. eral troops in the basin Of the Ga do not do all the military work that should be done They do
 not guard the frontier they do not prevent mur-
 derous raids into Mexico they have not made
 IL safe for American citizens travel in small pat. ties over extensive parts Of the Territory ' We presume that If General crook wrote that be z had as many troops leil as he needed, it be- cause he was a subordinate officer, did not want
 to be held responsible for newspaper complaints, and perhaps out of generous willingness to be. come responsible for any error that might be made
 by personal friend.
 : We willingly copy the foregoing from the
 latest copy of the San Francisco Alta that has reached this office. The Alta is right 3 The Bulletin is wrong. Gen. Crook may have 5 used the language attributed to him we doubt it, though. If he did, he must cer-
 tainly have committed an error of judgment,
 or something else. Previous to starting for , the San Carlos he felt, very keeny, the want
 of more troops, and we are pretty certain
 that be now feels that want more than ever.
 He did not, at the time the troops were or dered out of the Territory, feel in duty bound 70 dictate, or even suggest, to his superiors { in military rank, and quietly acquiesced. !. Nor did he expect that, through the efforts
 of hirelings of the wretched Indian commits sion fellows, conspirators here would succeed ? in breeding dissatisfaction among reservation ;; Indians. This they have done, and right we'll !, 7 does he know it.
 Talk abouta force of 800 men to hold about
 sixteen posts and camps, fight hostile Indians,
 keep down saucy bucks upon reservations, in a large Territory, where there are no rail roads and no other rapid facilities for con- munication or transportation. The idea is pre- : posterous. The thought has entered our mind that, so long as the late Indian soldiers
 would remain true to Crook and us, he might,
 by hard work, be able to preserve the peace, and we believe he could have done 80, would
 do so but for the intrgues of the men Jeff here to breed trouble, by Colyer, Howard < Co.
 A few weeks ago, when Amy was mur-
 dered, and when matters looked very threat enng at the San Carlos Major Brown, com manding Camp Grant, had to stop work on ' quarters for the troops, and on new roads, in
 order to get sufficient force to chase mur.
 derous, thieving Apacbes.
 When word came to Fort Whipple that Indians had attacked the sheriff of this coun- ty, not squad of soldiers could be spared from Fort Whipple, and Lieut.. Bourke had to go, almost alone, to Camp Verde, to get . troops to pursue the Indians should, such a proceeding be necessary.
 The troops near Tucson are employed in , erecting quarters, and can spare no men for
 field duty.
 2 But, pshaw! what is the use of citing fur ther instances, when, as the Alta well says
 neither travellers, prospectors nobody, in
 fact in this Territory, is protected or secure from the attacks of Indian and Mexican de- stroying angels. The bare idea of less than 800 soldiers to do all kinds of duty in
 Territory containing over 20,000 Indians, and bordering Sonora, is, or ought to be sufficient B to satisfy the War Department and tue Gen , eral-in-chief that at least one more regiment 1 of cavalry is badly needed in Arizona.