Arizona citizen., 1873-01-11
of the insane at the expense of the Territory.

of the insane at the expense of the l Territory.
 MURDERERS AND OUTLAWS. Since the adjournment of the last ; legislature, a number of murders have been committed by Mexican outlaws.
 One whole family was murdered at Blue Water Station; two men were
 murdered near Date Creek; and still others along the Gila at Arizona City
 and other points. These crimes be-
 came so frequent that l instructed of
 ficers and citizens that would allow
 suitable rewards to the extent of the
 appropriation, for services rendered in
 capturing these offenders, without con- polling them to delay action until af-
 ter communicating with me. This
 plan has operated admirably. Sev-
 eral who resisted attempts of officers
 and citizens to arrest them, were kill
 ed at the time; others are now in iail
 awaiting trial; and crime of this
 character has materially decreased. I
 would suggest an increased appro-
 priation for this purpose. If not
 needed, it will remain unused in the
 treasury if needed, the tax payers can we'll afford to have it properly ex-
 pended.
 TERRITORIAL PRISON.
 No provision has yet been made by the general governmsat that has re- suited in the erection of Territorial penitentiary. By law, criminals un- der sentence to the penitentiary are confined in the several county jails. These jails are generally insecure, affording frequent opportunities for the escape of the inmates, besides they have no conveniences or room where by prisoners can be made to labor, which is essential to their health and reform as we'll as to afford some re- turn for the cost of their care and maintenance. By act of Congress, January p, 1867, the net proceeds of the internal revenue collected i'll this Territory during the fiscal years end ing June 30, 1S66-7-S were to be ap- piled for the erection of a Territorial penitentiary.'"I have been unable to learn the amount accumulated under this act. Your careful attention is expected to be given to this matter, with the hope that government may be induced to adopt such measures as will insure the erection of suitable prison buildings.
 
 Perhaps no question of greater inn portance to the Territory, will claim your attention than that of devising means to stimulate and aid the sink ing of artesian wells. There are vast tracts of land in Arizona as beautiful and capable of being made as fruitful as any the sun shines upon, by being supplied with water. With water, these dry lands would become alive with civilization, farms and settle ments would spring up on every hand and the plains would be covered with almost countless herds; without it, they must remain unoccupied by man or beast, and the silence of the grave must ever rest upon these tracts of I have given considerable tune and thought to the study of this subject, and find that the nature of our climate, the geology and forma- tion of the country combine to give assurance that i'll Arizona, artesian water can be found at almost any point. I will state few facts per- tinent to this subject, as given by Professor Ansted, who has paid great to the matter. He says:
 The most ancient of such wells that arc known, are to be found in the north l eastern part of Africa. They appear to | have been sunk through about eighty feet | of clay mari by shaft, and then bored | three hundred feet of limestone. | These wells are not less than four thou sand years old. Others of very ancient but unknown date, were sunk by the | Chinese who have long known and used the method with success. <. But the chief artesian wells, and the oldest in Europe, are those in the north of France. < x x. The artesian wells | of Artois date back, certainly, to the twelfth century, and there is one in Sillers said to have been sunk in l126, and to have yielded always, so far as Is known, the same quantity of water. In Italy at Modena and Bologna, and in Germany at Vienna and elsewhere, ancient and sue cessful wells of this kind exist; but it is | only since the commencement of the | present century that they have become general in Europe. * x. As specimen of the larger operations in arte- %Nt th,c cfr ,l-i,