Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-06-04
FROM TUCSON TO PORT LOBOS.
The Boundary Line Discovered Eight Miles Mort Of ArIzona--sasabe staron--Poso Verde Valley Mistaken for Apache Linguistic Accomplish meats-Utility of Rawhide-
POsO VERDE CAMP, MEXICO, {
 MAY I6th, 1889.


 c MAY 18th, lSS2 !: The De L"ng surveying party is stil
 near the Mexico line, having been en
 gagged for some days in finding the ex ' act line between tie United States and ' this Republic. The monument discUv \ cred first by the surveying party, and | from W oh line WIS run some miles '. east, P owed upon investigation not tc D be to one for which we were looking | IL was doubtless a monument erected tC z the corner ofsOme grant, or perhaps one r put up f-- "bluff'' m cases of emergeny. l We at last fouLd az old PapagO Indian ! in the Indian village Beai The Poso Yer. . de wells who knew the exact location ? of a monument put mp by the Emoi .' . surveying party just after the treaty Of ? 1853, and by the malicious use of few , shekels was induced to accompany our party and point it out. This monu- , Inent is number l5, and Is located on the } top of mountain northeast of the h. , dian village above mentioned, and about : six miles west of where the line of the : T. 6 G. of c. R. R. crosses the Arizona and Mexico line. The men vest rday
 ran a line from monument 15, to tc a
 point where the location of monument
 I6 could be seen, and at the crossing of
 the railroad route and the Altar stage
 road, put up the posts, mentioned in
 former letter. designating the Meuco
 line. There IS no doubt of this being
 the correct line which was surveyed by
 the Emory partyand aioint commission
 in ls54,as the bearings illustrated in Elm Ory's report correspond exactly with the
 bearings and general topography noted by our party. We find that the Mexican
 authorities have been claiming iurisdic-
 ton for a distance of about eight miles
 inside the Territory of Ariz na, and ID fact came near locating the Sgsabe GUS tom house in the United States. The line is less than mile north of Sasabe.
 Not only this, but number of large
 ranches which have always been claimed
 as inside the Mexican border are found
 to be inside the United States. pre-
 sume Sheriff Paul will make note of
 thIs fact and assess accordingly. Even
 the old cave where large den of smug- glers were discovered and broken up
 some two years ago, Is found to be
 some distance in the United States
 However, do not presume that this ' fact will in the least tend tomiti-ate the ! crimes committed by that gang.
 ! Grounds for the seventh depot were laid cut just across the line in Mexico.
 The station is located about half mile north of the Sasabe custom house and seventy miles from Tucson and k called 1 Sasahe The eighth stati Is located m the Poso Verde Valley, eighty miles from
 Tucson and has been cnristened | Peso Verde.
 ! An incident occurred last Friday
 which afforded vast amount of amuse- ment for the boys and was the only ! theme discussed some time. Our party had just crossed tn line into Mexico and were in high glee when covered wagon which was coming tom the south suddenly turned back and the driver began to lay whip as though bis liiedepended entirely on speed. Alter i liv Lad ruu bic i.s,-aes more tl,nn q mile. all the while looking back Oves the wagon cover. he again turned and came ! towards us Meeting NJ. De Long first, | he at once extended his hand and with | a sigh of relief, explained his cOndEct by | saying that when the women saw us they were sure we were Apaches and | insisted upon him taking the back track as last as the horses could run. The whole Outiit-one man and three women were scared nea'ly ont of their wits, | but did their best to smile when the bows gave vent to their feeling by pro- 1 longed shouts. The question now is
 who gave the party the appearance of ! hostile Indians. Some think John 1 Finch did it with his his little ha1d-ax,
 others have it that Chillson did II with
 his transit or Coutts with his level and | some think 1t was Roll Palmer wit his
 leveling rod or Jim Coleman with his
 crimson capped shepherds crook and
 picnic hat The CITIZEN colporteur came in for a gOodly share of the blame,
 but he inclines to the belief that Tom
 White and Lew Nicely raised the dIs- turbauce with their | and white flags.
 We spent one day at the SasaDe
 custom house, and l cannot say that l
 am favorably impressed with the Mexi-
 can interpretation of Republican form
 of Government. For instance they have
 a law-it is called special law-which
 permits persons or corporations con
 templating the construction of railroads
 in the republic to bring with them into
 the republic. wagons, teams, tools, pro-
 visions and other supplies, provided
 such persons or corporations pay duties
 on the same The act was evidently In-
 tended to exempt such articles from
 duty, but 1t in some way became stuffed
 with a clause that made it useless and
 in fact a d-aI letter. We were required
 to unload all our wagons and weigh the
 goods, and the duties amounted to
 almost the amount of the original cost
 Witt in the last three weeks postofIice
 has been established at Sasabe and
 Sanor Ortiz, the collector of customs,
 has been appointed postmaster.
 In travelling through thus country I
 find 1t almost absolutely necessary for
 man to be conversant with the Spanish language. You rarely find Mexican w.O can speak English. and unle one
 IS able to speak the native language he
 Is liable to "set left" An incident oc- cured the other day which brought
 these thoughts forcibly to my mind As } We have had no butter since leaving ! Tucson, your correspondent concluded to visit ranche and if possible pur-
 chase some. I called one of the boys } aside, told him my intentions and asked him how to inquire if they had some butter to sell, in the Spanish language. ? He eheerfully repeated a coDglOmera- tiou Of outlandish words which I indus 9 triously rep ated tO myself until l reach
 ed the ran, he. Entering the low. .thatch-
 ed adobe I was confronted by a mother
 ly and kind hearted appearing matron, short Of stature but extremely stout.and :. a couple Of good looking senoritas. I
 timidly seated myself in n rav-hide