Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-11-01
ARIZONA INDIANS.
REPORTED UPON BY GENERAL
 GARRISON.
Improvement Noted Among the Apsci,es-- He Advises the Abandonment of Fort Grant, Lowell, Rayard
 and Union,

A Washington dispatch of October 18th says:-In his annual report upon the operations of the army in the department of Arizona, Brigadier General Grierson says:
 Now the Fort Mcdowell and Verde have been abandoned with a view to their early transfer to the Interior Depart ment for Indian school purposes, the authorities should consider the advisa- bility of reducing with the least possible delay the number of Indians in the vicin- ity of San Carlos agency by the removal of the Yuma and the Mohave Indians off their reservations. White men have taken up nearly all hunting and grazing grounds of the peaceable Yavapai In dians in the caflons of Arizona and these Indians have become eXasperated to such a degree that trouble is likely to arise at any time" Therefore General Grierson recommends the 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 that recent surveys have shown that railroad can be con structed throughout the Grand Canon of the Colorado at feasible cost, and liber- al encouragement should be given by the government to hasten its completion and open up that famous wonderland.
 Grierson disapproyes of the propo- sition made by the Indian inspector, to organized regiment of Indians, as dan gerous The posts at Fort Lowell, Grant and Bayard, says General Grierson, can be abandoned without detriment to the service. 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 sby transfer ring the troops of the Sixth Cavalry to Fort Wingate, Company c, Tenth 1nfan- try, to Fort Marcy, and Company H, of that regiment, to Fort Stanton.
 Grierson renews his recommendation that the present military reservation at San Pedro, Cal. be enlarged, as 1t is a most desirable place for harbor and ad- jacent to Los Angeles. The small, poor ly situated post at San Diego should be disposed of and suitable reservation ob- tained without delay, in order that large post may be permanently estab- hshed at that important seaport and fa- cuities afforded for the proper fortifcation of Point Lomo. The best site is at North Island and the peninsula on the east side of the bay entrance Grierson says Con- gress should make liberal appropriation for the purchase of such tract and the construction of permanent posts for the accommodation of troops now at inland stations where they are no longer needed and which must soon be abandoned to obviate the necessity for keeping so many troops in the Territories. These troops should be concentrated on the seacoast where they can be made comfortable, be instructed and thoroughly disciplined. In view of the recent unwarranted attempt to grasp Lower California from Mexico, the the present time is suspicious for the es- tablishment there of permanent posts
 The General speaks with satisfaction of a marked improvement in the condi- tion of the Indians of the White noun tain reservation, and recommends that they have separate agency and that a good school be established at Fort Apache. General Grierson says the Jicarillas still attached to the Ute agency should have a separate agency.