The morning call., 1890-10-29
ARIZONA INDIANS.
General GriersOn's Report On The Condition
Of the AyaCheS.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-In his annual re-
port upon the operations of the army in the
Department of Arizona Brgsdier-General
Grerson commanding says: Now that
Forts Mcdowell and Verde have been
abandoned, with view to heir 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 the
removal of the Yuma and Mojave Indians to
those reservations. The Keeping of so many
Indians at San Carlos is detrimental to their
advancement, and tends to the renewal of
old feuds. White men have taken up nearly
all the hunting ana grazing grounds of the
peaceable Yavapai Indians in Cataract Can
yon, Ariz., and these Indians have become
exasperated to such degree that trouble is
likely to arise at any time" Therefore
Grierson recommends that the "Black
Tank" 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 recent surveys have shown
that railroad can be constructed through
out the Grand Canyon of the Colorado at
feasible cost, and liberal encouragement
should be given by the Government to
hasten its completion and open up that
famous wonderland now beyond the reach
of many.
GrieIson disapproves of the proposition
made by Indian inspectors to organize regi-
ments of Indians as dangerous experiment.
The posts at Forts Lowell, Grant and Bay
ard, 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 elsewhere.
The post at Fort Union could be aban-
doned Mt once by the transferring of the
troops of the Seventy-eighth Cavalry to Fort
Wingate; Company Z. Tenth Infantry, to
Fort Marcy, and Company III of that regi-
ment to Fort Stanton.
Grierson renewS the recommendation that
the present military reservation at San Pc
dro, Cal, be enlarged as it Is the most avail
able place for a harbor adjacent to Los An
geles.
The small, poorly situated post of San
Diego, Cal. should be disposed of and a
suitable reservation obtained without delay,
in order that large post may be perma-
nently established atIthat important seaport,
and facilities afforded for the proper fOrt-
North Island and the peninsula on the east
side of the bay entrance. Grierson says
Congress should make liberal appropria-
tions for the purchase of such tracts and the
construction OF permanent posts lor the ac-
commodation of troops now at inland posts,
where they are no longer needed and which
must soon be abandoned. The railroads OBJ
viate the necessity for keeping so many
troops in the L erritories. where hardShips
and privatons have to be endured, and
they should re concentrated on the sea-
coast, where they can be made comfortable,
instructed and disciplined.
In view of the recent unwarranted attempt
to grasp Lower California from Mexico, the
General thinks the present time is auspicious
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 Reservation,
and recommends that they have separate
agency and that q good school be established
at Fort Apache.
Grierson says the Jigarillas, who are still
attached to the Ute Agency, should have a
separate agent; that Bartholdi, the agent,
spends his time with the Utes. seeking t0
accomplish their removal His clerk,
Stalisteimer, former agent, who con-
verted the Ute Reservat' on into cattle
range and used the Jigarilla Reservation for
the same purpose, is an enemy of the In
dans and should have nothing to do with
either agency.