Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-19
AxEwsY LETTER.
COLORADO RIVER AGENCY,

AhhisN, ~As -, coit v, tNtp' Fps. BELT:--As it IS Sunday and al Is quIet about the Agency, will writ you letter, just to let you know how
 l am getting along. After leaving Globe l spent about one month Tn tn,
 city of the Angels and l can assure
 you that denied myself nething tha,
 l thought l wanted in the way ot
 pleasure.
 l While m Los Angeles met several
 former Globeites, Judge Porter is as
 fat and jolly as evsr; the McDsnslls
 are still on top, also saw your
 young friends, John and Frank Hise;
 they look as if you were tue only
 friend they had on earth. saw them
 several times standing on the street
 corners looking like two children that
 were lost. l understood that John
 had real estate office somewhere on back street. Chapel also has real estate office,
 Your old friend Eads 0hs typol is on the Tribune. Eads Is regular
 Bohemian. Some fellow tried to lick him but Eads objected, and in about ten minutes (ike Tom Fielding) the other fellow put in an objection, or rather threw up the sponge. facs is still a practical joker; not long since he found Peter Jackson who wanted to fight prize fight, so Eads tsld him that he }nsw of nlgger that would fght for five hundred, and that he tEads) would put him Tn framing and back him (nigger No, 1); so Eads got aboard cable car and had that niggsr run behind every afternoon for about week, much to the amusement and mystery of all Los Angeles. When he had about worn that nigger out chasing cars Eads had the gail to tell hun that the fight was sif
 1 made trip to Phoenix in June on some business for the Indian Depart ment. On the trip l saw Joe Caldwell and Judge LaRue at the Harqua Hala camp, both old and feeble. ] also saw Mr. James and Mir kaler, formerly of Gila county; old man Peoples keeps saloon there be inquired after Dr. Stallo; saw tue old man Wickenberg. Dan Rice and lots of old time pros pectors, who used to be about Globe.
 ] have had charge ot the Colorado River Agency three months and us said that l have made more improve asnts at the Agency than were made by all the former agents Tn ten years. (Gen. Biggs had charge for some time after he left Globs) I have ridden six hundred and fifty miles on horse. back during the time have been here On the 4th of July we had a big cele- bratien; had horse races, foot races, l greased poies, burro races, tug of war, ! and last but not least, had barbecned 1 two whole beeveS, and nine sacks of | four baked into bread, and the Mo. have Indians got full for once.
 l have about twenty-five hundred i Indians under my charge, although they are not all on the reservation. i The Hualapais, ChimabuayeS, and | some of the Mohaves are of, but if the 1 Government will adopt my plan, l i will put them all on the reservation i together with the Yumas, as there is at least fifty thousand acres of the finest land in Arizona on this reserve. l have made an estimate to tue Hen. l Secretary oi the Interior, for about l twenty thousand dollars, and with . that can make all these tribes sell 
 Your friend Dent once had charge here and be built ditch that cost the over a hundred thousand l dollars, and 1t proved an entire fail ure, so far as the supply of water was concerned; but evidently not 10 Dent. Now propose to put in two large vacuum irrigatiug pumps, and by that means I can utilize about nine miles of the ditch, and give all the Indians water to irrigate with. All l want is just for Gen. Morgan ts rec ommend the appropriation to Con gress, as have friends cn both the House and Senate committee on in- dlan appropriations, and l think there IS no doubt about getting it through The Mohayes have long been neglect ed by the Government; the agents have all been tenderfeet, and knew nothing about lrrigating, and cared less; but if am to stay here 1 want to have something to show what I have done. l have already guaran. teed to the Government that 1 can have these pumps put in and war ranted to fill the ditch with constant flow of water or no charge. The pumps and boiler cost Tn Los Angeles on board cars only $2S0l, and it would cost hundred thousand to get water from the natural flew of the river The Indians will furnish the wood, so the Government will only have to nav