Year: 1875



 better understood by the community . general, might save much trouble.

 have just returned from trip to th l. eastern portion of this county, made ostens ply for the purpose of locating silver an copper ledge that I discovered some seve years ago. I went in company with NJ Banta, wEo expected to share the profits a we'll as the hardships of the trip. We go

 there two days too late. The ledge hal been located by Wm. Reed, an old citizen c

 Prescott. There is a great excitemen

 there, with strong probability that th

 Silver City camp of miners will emigrat'

 thitber. They have located many very larg' copper lodges that extend in belt fol

 miles. There is an abundance of ore con taining 80 per cent. of copper and some sil yer The ledge we went to locate is ono o the same series but is rich in silver

 Mir. Banta concluded to stay few weeks, but, being played out of my ledge and seeing no country that offered the inducements and future prospects of the Peck series, stayed

 

 turn trip across the San Carlos Reservation l met many Indians by whom l was well treated and furnished with provisions to continue my trip.

 On the waters of Tonto Creek came across old Sheltapan (high chief of the Ton tos). He told me he had killed old Muc- sene (chief of the Camp Apache Coyoteros) who refused to follow the rest of the tribe to the San Carlos reservation. One of the h. dians who was with Sheltapan's party told me the reason they killed him was that he had shot some animals belonging to white men with arrows for the purpose of getting their party into trouble, as they were the only party with passes from Agent Cum to go off of the reservation, and were known to te in that country at that time. I after wards saw the dead body of old Mucsene. He is good Indian now.

 On the Sunfower Creek (off of the reser- vation) found some white families in camp All of the men but three were over on Tonto Creek looking fer eligible places to locate ranches. The women were scared almost to death. They saw horse come into camp shot full of arrows, and man had been there and advised them to leave at once, that they would be killed if they stay ed, that the Indians were hostile and that twenty men could not travel safely in that that the Inoians had the day te- fore shot some horses for him full of arrows, and that their husbands would likely get killed before they got back to camp.

 know the man that assisted in playing | this little game to prevent the settlement of | that country. Now the fact is, Mir. Editor, am perhaps better acquainted with the se- 'ret workings of the Indian rings of this Territory than any other man in the Terri tory that has never been one of the ring. But it so happened that I was for while in their confidence, and at the same time was n the confidence of Gen. Crook and Mai. Iarabee, the agent at San Carlos. would ike to see this part of Yavapai county set led up. There are many nIce valleys in hat section, with stream of water from which they can be irrigated, offering fine in lucements for stock ranches and farming. To induce these families to stop there told hem what have no doubt is the fact of he case: That it was only bluff game to revent the settlement of that country, that he animals were brought there for the pur- ose of being shot, and old Mucsene was ent there to shoot them, that they were lst as safe there as anywhere else, that the indians were peaceably disposed and would ot disturb them The Indians on the San Carlos reserva- ion are well satisfied with Agent Clum. I llked with many ofthem about him. They :. " he IS good man and gives them plenty , } eat. The prospectors and miners that liked with on the subject give him good ame for honor and honesty. and believe him be laboring in good faith to promote the pod of the whole Territory as well as that ' ', the Indians, and that he is doing the best ling that can be done in his efforts to con- nitrate them all on the San Carlos reserva- on. But there are those who sec in the ,ar future, that by concentrating the In- n ans on the San Carlos reservation and the IL ttlement of the country surrounding it, n e abandonment of Apache and Mcdowell . nce the warwhoop and war against Agent um, and therefore he should be sustained (. the people and press of the Territory S' l have some of the workings of this h. " an ring in days of yore to write up and q we published. I can give the why's and C ierefores and means by which many of the lssacres were accomplished that will star d. the old Arizonans.

 Respectfully, E. s. JUNIOR. IoN. JOHN SMITH, This gentleman, whose ,;