APPENDIX C. 



TRANSLATION OF AN ARCHIVE FROM TUCSON. 



Seiior Capitan Don Pedro Allande y Savedra : 



Respected Capitan : In virtue of your order, dated the 20th of the current month, to the 

 effect that I and two citizens of the most eminence, well known in the country and reliable, 

 should appear in your presence to give you information concerning this locality as to watering 

 places, lands for corn fields, pastures for horses and cattle, and minerals, and also as to points 

 of ingress and egress of the inimical Apaches, and where they make their ahodes, I, Don 

 Manuel Barragua, and Antonio Romeo and Francisco Castro, (who are the two individuals who 

 possess the requisites which you demanded,) most respectfully ohey, and affirm that the town 

 of Tubac is situated between two mountains, which are distant from each other six leagues. 



In the valley there is much land fertile and suitable for corn fields. There is sufficient water 

 for wheat growing, but scarcely enough each year for corn ; but if that which is at Tumacacori 

 be distributed, one week to the Indian laborers and another for Tubac, it will sufficiently benefit 

 the said laborers, and there will be an abundance of water ; in this manner was it disposed of 

 by our former Capitan Don Juan Bapt. Auga, and recently this same disposition has been 

 sanctioned by your honor. 



There is much pasture, with an abundance of sustenance for horses and cattle, as well on the 

 hills and in the dales as on the mountainless plains. In the same valley there is a great deal 

 of cotton-wood and willow, and in the Santa Rita mountain there is an abundance of excellent 

 pine, of easy access, six leagues distant. 



Of provisions alone, there is raised every year by the inhabitants six hundred or more fanegas 

 of wheat and corn — one-third part of the land not being occupied. 



There are many mines of very rich metals to the west, in the vicinity of Aribac, at a distance 

 of seven leagues ; there are three, particularly, in the aforesaid vicinity, one of which yields, 

 according to rule, {de sopotahle ley) a silver mark from one arroba (25 pounds) of ore, the other 

 yields six marks from a load (100 pounds) of ore, and the third yields a little less. Three leagues 

 beyond this vicinity, in the valley of Bobocomari, there are fine gold placers, examined by Don 

 Jose de Torro and this whole population. After three visits which these people made with Don 

 Jose at great risks, and by remaining there over three days each trip, it was verified, by their 

 having brought away and spent with two traders, who at this time have it, as much as $200 in gold. 



In the Santa Rita mountain and its environs, which is distant from Tubac four leagues, there 

 have been examined five silver mines — two have been tried with fire and three with quicksilver, 

 with tolerable yield. All of this is notorious among this entire population, and they do not 

 work them because there are Apaches in all these places ; because they live and have their 



