Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-19

water is sufficiently deep to afford anchorage for a modern vessel.
 Bays Are Shallow
 Adair Bay is quite impossible. It is full of shoals and tide rips, and anything over over 20 tons, which might perhaps, fit under the lee of the bank, could do nothing there.
 Bay St. George is not much better. A little shelter might be found in the extreme lower end, but only for a small craft.
 There is, however, a small bay be- tween these two which might bear investigation.
 . Tt is many years since I have wis tied the head of the gulf and my notes on the, subject have gone astray. so I am writing from memory. There is at the head of the gulf what is known as Rocky Point Bay.
 Tt. lies between Rocky Bluff and Rocky Point. It Is small, but might, I think, be improved by means of a mole or jetty so as to allow freight boat of modern dimensions-say up to 5000 tons-lie almost alongside. This would be worth considerable on a coast where everything has here tofore been done by lightering to an open roadstead.
 ''This bay is about 45 miles in a direct line from the United States boundary, and is certainly the most northerly point at which one might hope to find a harbor
 "The tides in the head of the gulf are very heavy. I have notes in my possession of some which I have measured in which the vertical range was well over 40 feet. This is only exceeded upon the coasts of either of the Americas by the tides in the Bay of Fundy.
 q am inclined to think that this small bay could be developed into a shipping port for southern Arizona points more suitable than Lobos or Libertad. It~has the further advan- tage of furnishing an inexhaustible supply of stone close at hand for jet, ty or wharf building. The depth of water in the cove, as I remember it, was about 2 or fathoms CAP to AS feet) at low spring tides.
 "There is as far as I know no water in the vicinity. Lumholtz, however, found water strongly brackish' few miles farther up the coast at La Cholea, where he camped on his trip from the mouth of the Colorado to Sonita.
 Approach to this harbor would be down the drainage of the Sonorita river to the south of the Pinacate range, and thence up the coast for some four or five miles. In this way the great sand hills which lie direct ly between Pinacate and the lower end of the Adair bay might be- avoided
 Carl .Lumholtz was very close to this bay in 1910 and reported the two headlands as looking like small is- lands The appearance from the sea is quite different.
 ''The Ferguson expedition from Tucson to the gulf was carried out under orders of Edward M. Stanton, secretary of war, in 1862, by Majori Ferguson and an escort of IT men of the First California cavalry. Fer-l guson's report on the route from Tue son to the gulf is complete and ac1 curate, but his knowledge of maritime requirements was but scanty as he confesses.
 His route was via San Xavier, Sa- huarita Arivaca, Sasabe, Altar, Pit iquito and the Angostino pass to Lib ertad. I have driven over this route with car of modern power, and found no particular difficulty in any place. i
 Major Ferguson's report was made primarily for the purpose of demonstrating that transportation byi team was possible between Tucson and the gulf, and also to show that a | railroad might be possible over the i same route should future conditions