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Show 40 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS. Miguel's baud of peaceable Apaches from the White Mouutaiu reservation, who said they had to eulist in the service or be considered enemies. These stories, circulated by Trojero among them ; his having been sent back by Gen-eral Crook, together with the excitement produced by the throats of massacre from the settlers at Rio Mimbres, so alarmed the Indians that it was next to impossible to se-cure an interview with them. Although Agent Piper had promised any and all of them presents, who would come out to meet the " commissioner from Washington," whom they were eager to see, only two, Loco and Francisco, the Na\ 7 ajo interpreter, could be persuaded to trust themselves, and Loco trembled like a frightened child when they saw us coming. Time, however, with patience and care, will yet succeed. We left Ojo Caliente on Saturday, 26th August, resting over Sunday, and, after a very inter-esting trip, we arrived at the Tularosa Valley on the 29th August, and the White Mountain reservation, this place, on the 2d September. VALLEY OF THE TULAROSA. 1 carefully inspected the valley and neighborhood of the Tularosa River, and finding the same to possess most of the requisites necessary for a home for the Indians, it being remote from white settlements, surrounded by mountains not easily crossed, sufficient arable laud, good water, and plenty of wood and game, I officially notified Colonel Pope that I would designate it as an Indian reservation, agreeably to the authority given to me by you in your letter of the 21st July ; and I telegraphed to the Secretary of the Interior, via Santa F6", to that effect, on the 29th August. ( See Appendix A b, No. 15.) CAMP APACHE, ARIZONA. I was received very kindly by Colonel Green, commanding, and the officers of the post, at Camp Apache, and found that at the time of my arrival dispatches had been received from General Crook at Camp Verde, countermanding his order to enlist Apache Indians to fight Apaches, which was construed by those present to mean a virtual suspension of hostilities. This order of General Crook, abandoning the prac-tice of taking peaceable Indians from the corn- fields and compelling them to go oil the war- path against their brethren, speaks much for his humanity and good sense, and was a great relief to my mind. The General being on his way to Prescott, where his headquarters are established, and his campaign for the present being at an end, all fears of my orders crossing his movements are now removed. There are several tribes and bands of Indians, who have lived here for many generations, and who could not be removed to either Camp Grant or the Tularosa Valley without great suffering to themselves, possibly a war or great expense to the Government, and as this reservation had been set apart for this special purpose by the War Department, under the advice of the late General Thomas, I concluded, with the matured advice of Colonel John Green, to select it as a reservation, and asked that the protection, provisioning, & c., ordered by the Government, be extended to the Indians at this place also. I inclose you a copy of my letter to Colonel Green upon the subject, ( Appendix A &, No. 15.) Before leaving Santa Fe~ I believe that I reported that I had set apart $ 2,000, to be expended and forwarded, under the superintendence of W. T. M. Arny, agent of the Pueblos, for clothing, a few agricultural implements, subsistence, & c. Agent Arny came in the day after our arrival, with about $ 1,200 worth of clothing, & c., in good order and well selected. We have waited four days for the Indians to come in, and to- day about three hundred and forty reported. INDUSTRY OF THE APACHES. I inclose several reports of Lieutenant Colonel Green, ( see Appendix A I, No. 15,) giving an account of his experience with and the character of these Apaches. By referring to one of these letters you will see Colonel Green, First Cavalry, says: " The Apache Indians furnished 1 one hundred and ninety tons of hay, for which he paid them in flour. They brought it into his camp, in White Mountains, fifteen tons a day. They supplied the garrison with all the wood they used, bringing it in at the rate of thirty cords a day, using their hands and a few old broken axes to break it off, and the hay they cut with old knives, and the whole was brought into the post on their backs, and it was really interesting to see with what spirit they went to work, and what nice, clean hay they brought in, much superior to any I have seen furnished by con-tractors in Arizona. Yesterday upward of four thousand pounds were brought. Even the children went to work with alacrity. One little child that could scarcely more than walk brought in nine pounds, for which he received three- quarters of a pound of flour, and was highly delighted with his success. I propose to supply the new post with hay in the same way, ' which will be much cheaper than if done by contract." I was sorry that the supply of grain at this post did not admit of my complying fully with the general's wishes in giving them corn for seed. 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