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Show THE WAR WITH MEXICO 217 California; the great copper mines of Arizona and New Mexico had not been dreamed of by men of Anglo -American blood, and the immense agricultural and horticultural resour ces of the golden state, not to mention those of New Mexico and Arizona, had not been given the slightest thought by the statesmen of that day. The possession of the ports of San Diego, Monterey, and San Francisco immediately enabled the United States to comma nd the commerce of the Pacific Coast, and at that time, in the whalin g business alone, the capital invested exceeded forty millions of dollars. Today the assessed valuation of property in some of the cities in California exceeds by many millions of dollars the entire cost of the war with Mexico; a single copper mine in Arizona has produced copper bullion of greater value in dollars than the total amount of the national debt of our country after our war with Mexico had been concluded, and the value of the coal and coke already produced in New Mexico and Colorado exceeds the cost of all that portion of the United States embraced within the Louisiana purcha se and the territory acquired by the annexation of the republic of Texas, as well as that Secured under the terms of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Colonel Sterling Price with his regiment of Missouri volunteers arrived at Santa Fé about ten days after the departure of Kearny. On the 9th and 12th of October, in two COLONEL STERLING PRICE divisions, came the Mormon Battalion, ARRIVES AT SANTA Ff which later moved on to California. While on the march to the south Kearny sent back orders to Santa Fé to Colonel Doniphan to undertake a campaign against the Navajés before proceeding to Chihuahua. Doniphan and his regiment left Santa Fé on the 26th of October, and from Alburquerque he sent a portio n of his troops down the valley as far as Valverde for the protection of a caravan of traders. With a small party he then went to Cubero, to which Place Colonel Jackson had moved his force from Cebolleta. Here he received a despatch from Major Gilpin, at that time on the San Juan river in the Navajé country, to whom he sent word to assemble all the Navajés possible at the Bear Sprin g—Ojo del Oso. Doniphan and Jackson now left Cebolleta and marche d to the headwaters of the Rio Puerco, thence northwestward and joined Gilpin on October 2Ist. Here they met the chiefs of the Navajés, who professed |