Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1886-09-18
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leaves Arizona free from dagger froa
depredahng Indians, If we except the
White Mountains who are intermar-
gled with the tribes above mentioned
and in this section ar3 loeked upon
with dlstrust} buG the capture Of Ge-
ronimo and ms murderous compan-
ions, and the removal of all their
tribe, together with the Warm Spring
Indians, will doubtless have salu-
tsyy effect in restraining the White
Mountains, through fear, tron ever
again taking 10 tho war path. FOR.
years the people OF Arizona have been
constant in their demands for the re-
moyal from the Territory Of the Pre-
datory tribes on the Whit Mountain
reservation, and their Tatlenco has
been sorely tried wai!lng for the gov
ernment at Washington to come to a
realization OF Ele necessity for this
Step, and 10 see It carried out.
There Is one other matter in con-
nectica with Indian affairs in this
Territory, that needs d thorough in
vestigation, VIZ, the large dimensions
Of our Indian reservations and the adj
visibility Of reducing them to a rea-
sonable size, proportionate TO the
number Of Indians occupying them,
a reference to the report Of the Com.
missioner OF Indian Aigairs for the
year 1883, reveals the tact that there
are in Arizona eleven reservations
having an area estimating threo-Hfths
of the Navajo reservation as lying in
this Territory Of 1e,3isS21 acres, and
that the number Of Indians, including
twelve thousand Navajos (three.fifths
Of the estimated number Of the entire
tribe, is 3S,Sls.
This it viii be seen that the avorA
age number Of acres virtually held ByI
each Indian in Arizona Is apprdxi-
mately, $50. This, certainly, is great
~ in excess of what is actually needed
for the maintenance of our Indians, a
very largo number Of whom draw
their rations from the United States
Government 1.-THE reservations we're
cut down to one-half their present
size they would then be sufficiently
large for the number of Indians quar-
tered upon them. The prosperous
state of Illinois with its 35,S40,0O0
acres, in 1880, supported a population
of 3077,S41-since largely increased
or one person 10 every eleven and six
tenths acres. In the populous STATE
of Massachusetts there IS one inhabi-
tant to every two an eighty eight hum
dredths acres.
The most notable instance Of res
eryation being far larger than the re-
4uiremeRts is the White Mountain or,
as more familiarly known, the San
Carlos reservation, the area Of winch
is 2,528,0OO acres BY the removal Of
the hostile tribes there remain on the
reservation, at San Carlos, $50 men;
945 women, i17 boys, $40 girls .in all
9,0SS; and at Apache, 1869; total on
the whole reservation, 1857. Thus it
Will be seen that each one buck,
squaw and papocse- has almost six
hundred acres to roam over.
OF course it IS well known that a
very large portion of the lands en-
braced in reservations in Arizona, Is
sterile and perfectly wefthless to the
Indians, unless the government en-
courage and assist them in the raising
OF stock, so in many cases the relative
size Of reservations and their popula-
tions does not signify anything.
But the San Carlos reservation is a
marked exception. Some Of the finest
agricultural, grazing and mineral
lands in the whole Territory, arc en-
braced within its boundaries, and were
The Indians inclined to agricultural
and pastoral pursuits a few thousand
acres along the Ciila and San Carlos
rivers, or IN the northern part Of the
reservation about Cibicu, would be
sufficient, with the assistance received
from the government, to support them
in comfort and even allow them to
amass considerable wealth in stock.
Agent Tiffany thus describes the
northwestern portion Of the reserve,
at is also rough but well watered
with running streams Of sweet, limptd
water coming from the White Noun
tains. La the valleys through which
these streams dow is excellent grass
and all about good timber ID found
1t is along these streams rs Indians
delight to live in the summer months
and there they have begun to raise
corn, barley, and vegetables The
streams on which they have beea iv-
ing are known as Cherry, Coon, Cedar,
CibIcu and Carriso creeks Along
these i excellent land for both tillagC
and grazing
The mineral lands on the reserya-
4fon are knoup N he hoth evtoneiya