Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-29
QUITE TO THE POINT.
General Grierson's Last An
nual Report.
Kindly Suggestions in Behalf of
Indian Wards.
Wise Recommendations as Regards
Sea Coast Military Posts.
He Urges That the Reservation at San
Pedro Be Enlarged as 1t
Deserves.
Associated Press Dispatches.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.--In his annual
report upon the operations of the army
IN the department of Arizona, Brigadier
General Grierson, commanding, says
Now that Forts Mcdowell and Verde
have been abandoned with view to
their early transfer to the interior de-
partment for Indian school purposes,
the authorities should consider the ad-
visibility OF reducing with the least pos
sible delay, the number of Indians in
the vicinity of San Carlos agency, by the
removal of the Yuma and Mojave In
dians to those reservations. Keeping so
many Indians at San Carlos is detri-
mental to their advancement, and tends
to the renewal of old feuds. The white
men have taken up nearly all the hunt
ing and grazing grounds of the peaceable
Yavai Suppai Indians, in Cataract caiion,
Arizona, and these Indians have become
exasperated to such a degree that
trouble is likely to arise at any time.
Therefore, Grierson recommends that
Black Tanks, their hereditary winter
camp, taken from them by white men
two years ago, be restored; that their
reservation be enlarged, defined and
their title made good.
The report says the recent surveys
have shown that railroad can be con-
structed throughout the Grand canon
of the Colorado at feasible cost, and
liberal encouragement should be given
by the government to hasten its compile
tion and open up that famous wonder
ho of
Grierson disapproves of the PROPOSE
tion made by the Indian inspector to or
ganize regiment of Indians, as a dan
gerous experiment.
The posts at Forts Lowell, Grant and
Bayard, says the general, can be aban-
doned without detriment to the SER
vice, and such troops stationed
there as cannot be provided
for in New Mexico and Arizona may be
removed elsewhere. The post at Fort
Union could be abandoned at once by
transferring the 10Th cavalry to Fort
Wingate; company G, 10th infantry, to
Fort Marcy, and company I'll of that
regiment to Fort Stanton.
Grierson renews his recommendation
that the present military reservation at
San Pedro, California, be enlarged, as it
is the most available place for harbor
adjacent to Los Angeles. The small,
poorly-situated post at San Diego, Cali
fornia, should be disposed of and a suit
able reservation obtained without delay,
in order that large post may be perma-
nently established at that important
seaport, and facilities afforded for the
proper fortitication of Point Iona. The
best site is at North island and the
peninsula on the east side of the bay en-
trance.
Grierson SAYS congress should make
liberal appropriations for the purchase
of such tracts, and the construction of
permanent posts for the accommodation
of troops now at inland posts where
they are no longer needed, and which
must soon be abandoned. Railroads
obviate the necessity for keeping so
many troops in the territories where
hardships and privations have been
endured, and they should be concen-
trated on the sea coast where they can
be made comfortable, instructed and dis
ciplined. In view of the recent unwar-
ranted attempt to grasp Lower Califor-
MIA from Mexico, the present time is
auspicious for the establishment of these
permanent posts.
The general speaks with satisfaction
OF the marked improvement in the con-
dition of the Indians of the White
Mountain reservation, and recommends
that they have separate agency; that
good school be established at Fort
Apache.
Grierson says Jica Rillas, still attached
to the Ute agency, should have a separ-
ate agent; that Bartholdi, the agent,
spends his time with the Utes seeking
TO accomplish their removal; his clerk,
Stallsteimer, the former agent, who con-
Verted the Ute reservation into a cattle
range and used Jica Rillas for the same
purpose, is an enemy of the Indians and
should have nothing to do with either
agency