The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1892-08-06
More About the Dead.

Ever since the search for Farm
UNI T. Fish, the capitalist of Mead
Vile, Pa, and S. j. and G. w.
Breedlove, ofSan Diego, who per-
ished in Maqueta valley, was begun
it has been a query where they
could have spent the nine days
time referred to by Mr.. Fish in his
diary, as spent in looking for
something, no one could tell what.
The mystery is solved by the ar
rival of Geronimo Elizaldo from
the Cocopah mountains Thursday,
bringing with him letter written
by Mr.. Fish on June 23d in
Geronimo's camp at the point
where New river touches the foot
of Mt. Mejor, directed to his
brother at Meadville, Pa, and
which Geronimo mailed on the
westbound train Thursday before
he knew that Mr.. Fish was dead.
Geronimo stated that on July 22d
Mr.. Fish and G. w. Breedlove ar
rived at his camp in company
with an Indian and wanted to get a
boat with which to go to the
Colony, 81 miles distant after
some corn. The man in charge of
the camp sent for Geronimo, who
was at his mine eight miles dis
tant. When he arrived he told
Mr.. Fish that there was no corn to
be had at the Colony. Mr.. Fish
saw some ore that Geronimo had
brought from his mine and he at
once wanted to go and see it, say
ing that he had been to see very
rich silver mine near Cocopah pass
and that he wanted to see what
there was in that section in gold.
This was on June 23d. The next
day Fish and Breedlove went to
the mine guided by an Indian and
returned the same day. They
were well pleased with the mine
and after agreeing with Geronimo
and his partners as to the price,
they left on Saturday, June 25th,
to go to where they had left their
wagon in charge of the elder
Bleedlove, at the west end of Mejor
lake, three miles distant. On ar
irving at the wagon they hitched
up their mules and went up to the
Tucolote rancheria, twelve miles
where they remained over night.
On Sunday, June Goth, they made
an early start for Palm spring 16
miles northwest where they had
camped a few days before. Previ.
Gus to their leaving Tucolote's
camp, they offered him 55 cents
day he would go with his horse
and accompany them as far as
Jacumba, % miles this side of
Campo, and show them where
water could be obtained, but Tu-
colote said that he did not care to
go for that price. Mr.. Fish told
Tucolote through Cocopah Charlie,
who speaks good English, that he
was much better pleased with the
mines than he expected to be, and
that he would soon return and be-
gin work on both mines with a
large force of men. Both Geroni-
mo and Tucolote told the party
where they could find water, and
very particularly that they would
find plenty of it at the foot of the
Cantilles, near the place where
their bodies were found. Mr..
Fish told Geronimo that they
should 60 directly to San Diego
and that he might expect to re-
ceive a letter from him by today.
He also gave Geronimo his address
that he might write him in regard
to how the mine looked on further
development. For this purpose he
came here Thursday.
Tucolote was born in that Sec
ton of the country and has lived
there for more than so years and
knows every inch of it, Geronimo
has been in the Cocopah region
most of the time for the past three
years, and was at Coyote Wells
three years ago when c. w. Breed
love and party came into his camp
after they had been here to Yuma
and had been lost for nearly two
days about SC miles northeast from
where he died. Had either Geron-
imo or Tucolote been with the Fish
party they would never have per-