Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-07-28
THE SURVEY
or the White MIntain and San Carlos
 DiTisiO Reservations.
An Account of te Journey and the Survey Made by NIrPsuI Biecker-A Bear
 Fight the Coal Fields.

From Mr. Pil Riecker, who returned
 yesterday from his survey of the San
 Carlos reservdon, the following facts
 are gathered ohhe trip:
 The party, ctsisting of eight persons
 and seven p3z animals, left Tucson June 9th, and proceeded to the mouth of the San 'sdro river. From there they followed De Gila river up ten miles and establishd the initial point of the survey. Thei route lay in the bed Of the river between precIpices that aver aged thousad feet in height. They followed this Glla canyon up to Good win-sbout tdty-seven miles. About two miles belov Goodwin the canyon opens into large valley.
 From Goodwin the party went due north till tley were on a line intercept ing the crest of the Gila mountains. There was no water in this country, and 1t IS as desolat, and barren as one can imagine. Thg could not follow the summit eastwa,d to the Rio Bonita as they desired, oa account of precIpices and yawning eulfs that intervened. They had to determine all the principal peaks on the Glls mountains by triangu- latjon, running thelr base line in the valleys north of the mountains and climbing each peak, and putting a mon ument on oaon one. Ihis work tney performed, establishing the inltlal or corner point SIX miles east of the RlO Bonita, it being the southeast corner Of the White mountain Indian reservation.
 They then went down the Rio BOnita canyon to the GIla river. While jour neyIng down this canyon they ran across three cinnamon bears. NIT. RIecker Was a little ir advance of the tram and saw, at what he at first supposed Co be, small horse graZ.ng in the brush. A nearer approach showed 1t to be a bear RIecker biaZea away with hls carblue and hIt tle brute m tIe shoulder. h. bit vlci0u-ly at tie wound and thel started Tor klecker. By thls time sec Ond bear put m In appearance, anu Riecker let him hays snOt also In the shoulder The frequency of the shots alarmed the bears. iud they turned au0 ran up Vulch. cub was observed following them. They were tracked a considerable distante by the blood they dropped, uut finally climbed up al inaccessible steep ani escaped.
 Striking the Glla ryer again the party returned to Goodwin, and surveyed a line south fifteen mics from the liver, and then ran a line vest parallel with the bed of the Gila river fOrty-seveu miles. This vas piece of work as diff fcult and latt rious d that of trlangula tiOu on the dla mountains. The line had to be all the tine within fifteen miles of the Inc they ran along the center of the Gila rIve' bed, beginning from the initial point ten miles abov, tfe mouth otthe San Pedro river auC running eastylrd forty yseven miles {, Goodwin. NuF, comminrlng at pOin fifteen miles south of Goodwin they mad to run paallel line, every point 0. which must bebfteen mles south of the river bed hnaa1d fOIty-seven mic. west to a pJinthf cen niles due souJi of the first inAal poiu- on tue Giia This work was triumphant piece 0 engineering sIcess. T s survey dehu ed tue bonrdarts ot the San Carlo dlv sion of the White Mountain Indian reservation.
 The southern soundary line of this division Is just he and half miles south of the col mines There Is e wagon road to thee mines that has been constructed at a est of S3O,OO0, and the company has man fine improvements there of houses al stables.
 The western boudary line leaves out the settlements aing the San Pedro river, but includes the Saddle Noun tain mining distrlci
 The party were gne fOrty-seven days, and travelled Ove five hundred miles within that time. lr Riecker returns with a good apptite and increased health as a result )f his trip. In ten days he will commnce the survey oi the boundary line between Final and Pima counties to btfollowed by simil- ar survey between Pinal and COchise counties.
 The work of survylng the San Carlos reservation was dne under contract with Surveyor-Genral Robbins.