Mohave County miner., 1884-04-27
SCRAPS OF HISTORY Furnished by one who Help ed to Make the Scraps. OId-TinerS and Ne".COAners Will be interested In its
 Reading

ZatiOn of territorial government Dy Congress. by an Act approved Feb ruary 24, 1863. Previous to that time there had been virtually, neither civil nor military government in the territory, as acquired from Mexico. True it was attached to New Mexico by an act of Congress, but the capl- tai at Santa Fe was so remote that little or no action was taken by the New Mexican legislature for its gov ernment All the country acquired by the "Gadsden Purchase" was an nexed to t1e county of Doua Ana, on the Rio Grande, with the county seat at Mesllla, but a feeble juris- diction was exercised west Of there. 6
 The Butterfeld overland stage line from St. Louis and Memphis to San Francisco passing through Arizona daily, was giving an impetus to tue settlement of the country, and some mining enterprises had been organlz- ed ID what is now Pima county, prin- clpally by Chas. D. Poston and his associates east.
 The establishment of Fort Buchan- an (noW CrittendenI had been secur- ed on the Sonoita, for the protection of the inhabitants, and farms were being opened on the Senta Cruz and Sonoita in 1S56-7-8 and g.
 TLe effects of tue civil war began to be felt in Arizona early in 1861. The Butterheld overland mail was broken up and the stages and stock withdrawn, leaving the few peo- pie in the territory cut off from any communication with the States, and comparatively helpless.
 la the month of June Fort Buch an an was burRed and abandoned by the United States troops under Ut. Chapin, by all order from General Lynde, commanding the Department of New Mexico, with orders to ''burn everything that would feed an enemy between the Colorado and the Rio Grande, and not to allow any citizen within three miles of their lines.
 I had been appointed, on my over land journey, in 1856, deputy county recorder for the county of DonaAna, territory of New Mexico; used a seal for the attestat1on of documents, cele- brated the rites of marriage, and kept a book of records, which is now in the office of the county recorder of Pima county, at Tucson, in a very diIapitated condition.
 A deputy sheriff had also been ap pointed. at my request, by the sherif at Mesllla, to reside at Tucson; but the ''rawhiders" refused to pay taxes licenses, or to recognize New Mexi can authorities; so the new purchase of Gadsden began it's career in chaos and lawlessness.
 This state of affairs continued from 1854 till the organization of the terri torial form of government in 1864, (t period ot ten years) and for many years subsequently; and in many districts yet prevails.
 I had commenced the exploration of Arizona in 1854, and by the close of 1860, the company" under m! charge, and its offshoo ots, had occu pied the mines then known in th' San Rita mountains, the Cerro Colo rado district, the Cababi district, th' Arivaca district, and we laid our fin ger tips on the Tombstone m1ne when Bronckowe and his companlon were assassinated there in Octo be 1859. (MeMcans).
 The only member of the old com pany remaining alive Is Chal le Schuchard, of Nueva Leon, and b was not a member of the origina company, but came out with Col. 4 B. Gray, surveyor of the Texas Pacii ic road, as draughtsman.
 The company bought valuabl property, merchandise, machiner and the elements of civilization, int 8 nest of thieves, where there wa neither law nor order, and of cours was despoiled of its property, and it members were all killed or died frol exposure.
 After the robbery of Santa Kit,
 Tubac, and Arivaca by the Apache
 and the pIunder of all south of Tue
 son by the Mexicans with the less . many lives, I went with Rapha'
 Pumpelly, on muleback, with som
 attendants to Yuma and thence
 Los Angeles and San Francisco.
 We first read of the battle of Blu
 Run at Yuma on the 4th of Jul,
 1862.
 At San Francisco we called upo