The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-29
Brigadier-GeneraI Grierson's Report.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-In his annual re-
port upon the operations of the army in the
department Of Arizona. Brigadier-G General
Grlerson, commanding, says now that
Forts Mcdowell and Verde have been
abandoned with view to their early trans
fer to the interior department for Indian
school purposes, the authorities should con-
slider the advisability of reducing with the
least possible delay the number of Indians
in the vicinity of San Carlos agency by
their removal TO Yuma and the Moiaye In
dams to those reservations Keeping so
many Indians at San Carlos is detrimental
TO their advancement, and tends to the re-
neWal of old feuds. White men have
taken up nearly all the hunting and graz
ing grounds OF the peaceable Yavai Suppai
lndlans IN Cataract canon, Arizona, and
these Indians have become exasperated to
such degree that trouble is likely to arise
at any time. Therefore Guerson recon-
mends that Black Tanks, their hereditary
winter camp, taken from them by white
men two years ago, be restored; that their
reservation be enlarged and defined. and
their title made good
The report says surveys show that a
railroad can be constructed throughout the
Grand canon of the Colorado at feasible
cost and that liberal announcement should
be given by the government to hasten its
completion, and open up that famous
wonderland now beyond the reach Of MANY.
Grlerson disapproves of the proposition
made by the Indian inspector to organize
regiments OF Indians as a dangerous ex-
pertinent The posts at Forts Lowell,
Grant and Boyard. says the general. can
be abandoned without detriment to the
service and such of the troops stationed
there as cannot be provided for in New
Mexico and Arizona, may be removed else
where. The post at Fort Union could be
abandoned at once by transferring Troop
q, Sixth cavalry, to Fort Wingate, Com
pany q, Tenth infantry, to Fort Marcy.
and Company Fl, of that regiment, to Fort
Stanton. Grierson renews his recon-
menoanon that the present militar reser-
walton at San Pedro, Cal, be enlarged as
1t is the most available place for
q maroon adjacent to Los An
geles. The small poorly situated post
OF San Diego, Cal, should be disposed of
and a more suitable reservation obtained
without delay, in order that large most
may be permanently established at that
important sea port and facilities afforded
Tor the proper Qualifications of Point Iona.
The best site is at North island and the
peninsula on the east side of the bav en-
trance.
Grlerson says Congress should make lib
eral appropriations for the purchase of
such sites and the construction of perma-
nent posts for the accommodation of troops
now at inland posts, where they are no
longer needed and which must soon he
abandoned. Railroads obviate the necess-
ity for keeping so many troops in the terri
tories where hardships and privations have
to be endured, as they should be concen-
trated on the sea coast, where they can be
made comfortable, instructed and dici-
plined. In view of the recent unwarranted
attempt to grasp Lower California from
Mexico, the present time is suspicious for
the establishment of these permanent posts.
The general speaks with satisfaction of
the marked Improvement in the condition
of the Indians of White Mountain reserva
ton and recommends that they have sep
arate agency and that good school be
established at Fort Apache. Grierson saws
the Jicarillas still attached to the Ute
agency, should have separate agent, that
Bartholomew, the agent, spends his time
with the Utes seeking to accomplish their
removal. His clerk, Stallsteimer, the
former agent, who converted the Ute reser
vation into cattle range, used the Jicar-
Has reservation for the same purpose and
IS the enemy of the Indians and should
have nothing to do with either agency.