Arizona citizen., 1878-09-28
InternaI Navigation In Arizona In COnneetion rirh the Indian
 Service.

We have heard of a map, made by
 some of the hardy and honest pioneers
 of this Territory, which shows steam
 vessels on the Santa Cruz opposite
 Tucson, and of otber maps showing
 steamers on the Gila It is but few
 years since some newspaper man of
 the modern type put steamers on the
 Gila river, at least did 30 on paper
 Now comes Hon. E. A. Hayt Commis
 sioner of Indian Affairs, with serious
 official direction 10 a special agent
 bound for San Carlos Agency, telling
 him to travel by ihe Overland and
 Southern Pacific Railway to Yuma,
 thence up the GiIa by steamer to with
 in thirty miles of the agency. sod thence by daily stage to his destina- tion. This special agent will or ought to be removed from office. He reached
 Yuma all right, but was so bewildered by the bewitching scenery or intox | icating entertainment cf tha, railway and steamboat metropolis, that he could not or did not find the office nor any of the passenger steamers of thel Gila Packet Company. and returned toI Los Angeles, under the impression, itl is presumed, that the Commissioner instructions did not authorize him tnI come ahead by Kerens & Grifiths stage or on any of the many freight schOoners sailing up the Gila by every breeze, no matter from which point of the compass 1t blows The special agent is doubtless assiduOusly engaged in the arduous and apparently neces- sary duty of trying To convince the Commissioner that his instructions must be so modified as to permit him to travel up the Gila by stage or by the slow schooners which carry freight, however i'll adapted to transporting special agents. h the meantime Es- kiminzin and the other San Carlos In dians are doing without the advice and servIces of this dutiful special agent
 Al first thought we were disposed to join others in csusuring Commissioner Hayt, but he is probably excusable Being a reformer, he had little con- fidence in the methods of business in ! vogue when be took charge of the h. dian office, and believing in the purity of the fathers and early ArIzona pio- neers, he naturally enough looked up the early geographical and naval his tory of our Territory where many of his Indians reside, and when his eagle eye fell upon tine plats showing steam CTS on the Santa Cruz and Gila, his economical soul was SO transported that it was just like him, good man that he is, to give orders to avoid the slow and expensive transportation by Kerens & Griffith's stages and the freight schooners, and take the more expeditions and cheap Gils steamers.
 The sneers at Commissioner Haytl because of any error he may have fallen into from his researches on the early maps of Arizona, are all wrong and tend 10 discourage reform in the Indian service Should he step over to the Navy or Treasury department and find record of vessels in com to navigate the Gils river, the laugh would be in his faYor, and the retreating special agent would be made to regret his failure ito proceed by steamer from Yuma 10 within thirty miles of the San Carlos Agency"
 The further discussion of this deli cate subject is intrusted to the Yuma journalists.