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Show 74 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS. I also requested, with the advice of General Crook, and the several post commanders, that temporary asylums, where the Tontos, Hnalapais, and Western Band of Apache Mohaves might be protected and fed, shouM be established at Camp McDowell, Beal' 8 Spring, and Date Creek, until such times as the Indians collected there could be re-moved to permanent reservations. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, VINCENT COLYER, Commissioner. Hon. C. DELANO, Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C. NOTE. The Camp Apache or White Mountain reservation was selected and its boundaries fixed by the late Major General Thomas, United States Army, with the view of placing all the roving Apache Indians of Arizona and Western New Mexico upon it. As that scheme did not appear to me practicable at this present time, and yet might become so in a few years, I thought it best to still reserve this extensive tract, as yet wholly unsettled, until such time as the experiment contemplated by General Thomas may be attempted, should the Government ever deem it advisable to try it. V. C, A. Tularosa Valley, New Mexico, rcsei'vation. CAMP TULAROSA, NEW MEXICO, August 29, 1871. SIR : Agreeably to the power conferred upon me by the President, and communicated to me in the letter of the honorable Secretary of the Interior of the 22d July, 1871, that I should proceed to New Mexico and Arizona, and there take such action as in my judgment should be deemed wisest and most proper for locating the nomadic tribes of those Territories upon suitable reservations, bringing them under the control of tho proper officers of the Indian Department, & c. ; assisted by yourself and O. F. Piper, agent for the Southern Apache Indians, I have carefully examined the place and neigh-borhood at Canada Alaniosa, where the agency is at present located, and for several reasons find the same unsuitable for a reservation. Assisted by the officers named above, I have also carefully inspected the valley of the Tularosa, and finding the same to possess most of the requisites necessary to a home for the Indians, it being remote from white settlements, surrounded by mountains not easily crossed, sufficient arable lauds, good water, and plenty of wood and game, I hereby declare the said valley of the Tularosa, beginning at the head- waters of the Tularosa River and its tribu-taries in the mountains, and extending down the same ten miles on each side for a distance of thirty miles, to be an Indian reservation, for the sole use and occu-pation of the Southern and other roving bands of Apache Indians, their agent, and other officers and employe's of the Government, the laws relating to Indian reser-vations in the United States governing the same until such time as the Executive or Congress shall approve or set aside this order. I would, therefore, suggest that Agent Piper be instructed to remove his agency and the Indians under his charge from Canada Alamosa to the Tularosa Valley, as soon as practicable after the receipt of this letter. The War Department having directed the officers commanding the dis-trict of New Mexico and Arizona to afford military protection to such Indians as may be induced to come in, both on their way and after arrival at the reservation, tho agency will be amply protected, and the Department having authorized me to supply these Indians with whatever may be necessary, you are at liberty to incur such moder-ate expenditure as may be absolutely necessary to carry out the above instructions. Verv respectfully, your obedient servant, VINCENT COLYER, Commissioner. NATHANIEL POPE, Esq., Superintendent of Indian Affairs. B. White Mountain reservation, Arizona. CAMP APACHE, ARIZONA TERRITORY, September 5, 1871. SIR : As the White Mountain region has been set apart by the War Department as an Indian reservation, and there are several bauds of peaceably disposed Apaches wlio |