Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-01
COULD AND SHOULD EARN THEIR

COULD AND SHOULD EARN THEIR
OWN LIVING,
And 1t showed them also that II
they would do as the white man
did-work-they need not go hun.
cry. But, strange as 1t may ap.
pear, this course of proceeding
brought the Indian as an element
into the great labor question, and
made him as obnoxious when
peaceful as he could possibly be
when hostile; and the hay, wood,
grain and other contractors and
spectators came to the conclusion
that the Indians must 90. The
Arevaipas, some $40 In number,
were located near Camp Grant, In
charge of Lieut.. Whitman, a very
correct and capable officer.
A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.
Aparty Of men from the town Of
Tucson, taking advantage Of the
absence of the troops from Camp
Grant on scout, sailed forth
armed with the guns entrusted by
the United States Government
to the care and control Of the ter
ritorial Governor and attacked the
camp of these unguarded and un-
suspeoting Indians at early dawn.
The result was, eighty. five old
women and young children were
slaughtered and some thirty young
squaws carried into captivity. In
credible as II may appear, this
slaughter of the innocents. and
outrage, met with the
OF many of the leading
citizens of the territory.
THE GREAT COLORADO SCHEME
SHOWN UP.
Much has been said of late re.
garding a great geological basin,
lying between the coast range of
in California and the
Colorado river on the east. This
basin is represented as being three
miles long, fifty miles wide
and three hundred feet deep-about
the size of Lake Erie. We are tnld
that Governor Fremont, of Arizo-
ma, has just returned from Wash.
ington, where he has been for the
purpose of inducing Congress to
lend the aid of the Treasury to en-.
able some one to fill this basin with
water. The Governor has been,
during his checkered life, engaged
in some grand and conspicuous en-.
but In this case be has
laid his plans before he
consulted his figures. Let lis make
the calculation for him.
TO FILL SUCH A POND
In one year, supposing the bottom
to be water-tight and evaporation
entirely checked, would require a
small stream twenty miles wide,
twenty feet deep, with current OF
three miles an hour. To fill such
a lake by a stream one thousand
feet wide, ten feet deep. and run.
ming at the rate of three miles an
hour, would take two hundred
years. After this lake was filled it
would require river two hundred
and fifty feet wide, ten feet deep,
and running at the rate of five
miles Ger hour-about the size Of the
Colorado river at ordinary stages
to compensate for evaporation at
the rate OF eighteen inches per
year. Archimedes, you know,
said that he could move the world,
only give him fulcrum. Fremont
says he can make sea, only give
him plenty Of greenbacks. The
one is about as impracticable as
the other chirmirical. When he
makes his estimates he will come
to the conclusion that long ere he
can fill his basin with water, the
great Engineer of the universe will
have filled it with the sands of the
desert, driven down by the ever.
prevailing winds of the north. In
the meantime it will probably be
used for the purposes intended by
the Almighty-the occupation by
the hornedtoad, rattlesnake and
Pacific Railroad.
WE ARRIVED AT Los ANGELES
In the Spring of 1s47. The Com.
pany @, First Dragons, to which
I belonged, had been badly han.
died by the Californians under
Don Andreas Pico at San Pascual,
losing its sCaptain. Ben Moore,
the very ideal of beau sabreur.
The men were located In the quar-
ter where now stands the ST..
Charles Hotel, and their horses
were confined ir the adjoining car
raj, being the ground now occupied
by the Hellman and Ducommon
Blocks. The quarters of the com.
officer, Col. It. d. Stevens
son, now Shipping Commissioner
in San Francisco, were in the adobe
building now used as Furguson &
Roses livery stable, and the hos
pital was on the plaza near the
church. A guard house was built
on the hill back of the Lafayette
Hotel, and our drill grounds were
about where this edifice Is located.
FORT HILL.
A field work or fortification was
commenced on the hill TO the wesl
of, and overlooking the town, and
Lieutenant Davidson ard myself
took turns in the supervision OF itt
construction. Hot weather came
on, and the soldiers being required
for other duties, the work was lie
layed and finally abandoned as Q
useless and standing menace to the
Californian population, who had
become not only peaceable anC
quiet but eociable and friendly
This beginning of a field fortifica'
tion has in some unaccountabl,
manner received the name Of Ere
mont's Fort. Fremont was no
even in California when the worl
was being done, but was in Wash
fnoton and in seriolIs troubla.