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Show L REPORT OF THE COXMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The following is the language of the resolution: JOINT RESOLITTIOX autborieina the Secretary oftha Interior to lease certain ooal lands enllrrmed within the limitits of the 7Vhite Mountain Indian Reaermtiotion in the Territors of Arizona. Whereas ithas been discovered that large and valuable deposits of coal exist aithiu the limits of the White Mountain Resen.stion,iu the Territory ofArisona, a reserva-tion set. apart b>- sundry executive orders; and Whereas it ~vonldb e eontrarr to the practice. if not Lasoud the lawful power of the exeentive department of the government having the management and control of the Indians and the Indian countr.y., to remore the coal there known to exist, or to permit its relnoval for the purpose of profit., or for any purpose other than to meet t,he necessarywaots of the Indiana or the agency or military service in the care and over-sight of the Indims, without the express sut,hority of Congress therefor; and Whereas the guvekumcnt is orpe~~rliuagn nually not less than three hnndred thou-mnd dollars for the support of tbe Apaobe aud other Indians in Arizona. and New Moxieo, which auroaut, it is suggested by the executive department aforesaid, might be 1s;rgely if not wbnlly r*imb!~rsed to the go~enrmentw ithout hardship to those who would be the natora.1 purohasers and consumers thereof, if said coal were made available su an nrtiele of commerce, by leasing the cad-bearing lands to persona ~ h o would mine the same if permitted to do SO: Therefore, Be it 1.esobed bg the ~Smn.tea nd Bouee of Represenlntivea of tke United States of Anwica in Cmgess assentbled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and heis hereby, authorized and empowered to lebse, after due publio advsrtiselueot in not less than three news-n. i tu. ers havine tho lnrsest repnlareiroulation in the Territory of Arizona, for a period of not less rh>tcot ltiory dxys, to tile ltighew ~r~l ,~ms iIln>cliede r tLr cas1>,U II a sy~tenbO P l~nsia0 1' ruyalty, it!.drr such rel.u~.,r cntricrium, and l i u ~ i t a t i uus~ ~i n~ l lis i,c!at j u d p mont be maS see 6t. to require, and in such traots or parrels as he nmy deem proper and necessary for the public good, any or all of the coal beds now known to exist, or that may hereafter be discovered, within the linlits of said reservation; the moneys aooruing therefrom to be covered into the Treasury of the United States in reimburse-ment of any maneTs t.hxt n~a yh ereafter be appropriated for the support and onre of the said Apache and other Indians in Arizona. sud New Mexico: Prooidrd, That if any amount in eseeaa of the mm required annually to maintain and care for said Indians shall be realized from the lease or leaees that may he executerl under the sothority of this act, such amount ahall be used to reimburse the government for any monqe that may hereafter he appropriated for the support and care of any of the other hands or tribes of Indians in the Soothwest. I respectfully renew my recommendations in respect of the foregoing. HUALAPAIS. The oor~ditiou and wants of the Hnalayai Indians in Arizona were ~eferredto in my last annual report: and mention mas made of the fact that at their request General Vrilloox had ordered that a tract about 50 miles wide and 100 miles long, lying along a bend in the Colorado River, be set apart as a &'militaryr eservation for the subsiste~lcea nd better control of the Hualapais Indians." General Willcox, in a communica-tion to the Secretary of War dated June 30, 1582, earnestlx recom. mended that the reservation prescribed in General Orders No. 16, series of 1881, Headquarters Department of Arizona, as above, be r~nfirmed by the President, and that further steps be taken for the care and pro-teetion of these Indianlls. In a report dated September 5,1882, I submitted a draft of an exec. |
