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TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



stances, the people having found, in the possession 

 of the Indians killed, property belonging to men and 

 women who were murdered while the Indians were 

 fed at Grant, and for this act the perpetrators have 

 been indicted by the grand-jury, showing that in 

 Arizona our courts and judges do not screen any 

 one. The Territory is out ot debt, and by January 

 1st we shall have a free school in every district in the 

 Territory. But, with all this, men who are making 

 money at the cost of the lives and property of their 

 countrymen will denounce us as every thing that is 

 bad, and declare the Apache Indians, who for four 

 hundred years have lived by murder and robbery, are 

 every thing that is good. The people of Arizona want 

 peace, they care not how it is obtained ; but they 

 know by years of experience that to feed Indians and 

 let them roam over large reservations only places 

 them in a secure position to raid upon the settlers, 

 and return to the reservation for safety and rest. * * 

 With one of the richest Territories, every one feels 

 discouraged. At least 500 men have been killed, and 

 a large number of them were horribly tortured ; and 

 those who are left, after fighting for years to hold the 

 country, find themselves in poverty and are looked 

 upon as barbarians. General Crook struck the key- 

 note when he enlisted Indians against Indians. It 

 threw consternation among them such as was never 

 seen before, and had he been allowed to pursue this 

 policy it would have taken but a few months to con- 

 quer a lasting peace. But Mr. Colyer countermanded 

 this order, and millions will have to be expended 

 and hundreds of lives lost before the end will be 

 reached. 



A petition, signed by the Territorial officers 

 and a large number of citizens, was presented 

 to the President in November, which set forth 

 the sufferings and hardships of the people, and 

 prayed for measures of protection. Assur- 

 ance was at that time given that more vigor- 

 ous measures would he adopted, and orders 

 were sent to General Schofield accordingly. 

 The population of the Territory in 1870 was 

 9,658. The seat .of government is at Tucson, 

 and the present Governor is A. P. K. Safford. 

 The salaries of the Governor, Chief Justice, 

 two Associate Justices, and Secretary, amount 

 to $13,500, and the contingent expenses of the 

 government amount to $1,000, besides $500 

 paid to an interpreter and translator in the 

 executive office. 



CENSUS OF 1870. 



POPULATION. 



There were included in the aggregate, ac- 

 cording to the census, 26 colored persons, 20 

 Chinese, and 31 Indians. 



According to the census of 1870, the as- 

 sessed value of real and personal property 

 was $1,410,295 ; the true value, $3,440,791 ; 

 and the total taxation, not national, $31,323. 

 149 children were attending school, 2,690 per- 

 sons, over ten, cannot read, and 1,167 males 

 and 767 females, over twenty-one, cannot write. 

 The number of acres of improved land is 14,585 ; 



value of live-stock, $143,996 ; estimated value 

 of all farm-products, including betterments 

 and additions to stock, $277,998. The produc- 

 tions were 27,052 bushels of wheat, 32,041 of 

 corn, and 55,077 of barley. The number of 

 tribal Indians is officially estimated at 32,052. 

 COLORADO. Colorado is by far the most 

 flourishing of the Territories. It contains 

 about 106,000 square miles, or 66,000,000 acres, 

 peopled in 1870 by 39,681 inhabitants. The fol- 

 lowing statistics are for the same year, but 

 considerable progress has been made since in 

 developing the agricultural and mineral re- 

 sources of the Territory : 



Product of the Mines, etc. 



There are twenty-one counties in the Terri- 

 tory, but the Auditor received returns in 1871 

 from only fifteen, and from these they were ap- 

 parently very imperfect. . The total value of as- 

 sessed property, according to these returns, was 

 $24,112,078.37, an increase of $7,334,073.37 

 over the assessment of the preceding year. Of 

 the agricultural counties, Jefferson returned the 

 largest number of acres, 130,669, at a valua- 

 tion of $632,617.51 ; Saguache ranks second, 

 with 100,000 acres, valued at $34,480 ; El Paso 

 third, with 95,324 acres, valued at $395,095 ; 

 Arapahoe fourth, with 80,818 acres, at $1,624,- 

 288 ; and Douglas fifth, with 69,820 acres, at 

 $256,433. The other agricultural counties 

 take rank after Douglas as follows : Boulder, 

 Weld, Puehlo, Larimer, and Fremont. The six 

 counties which failed to make return of the 

 number of acres were Conejos, Costilla, 

 Greenwood, Huerfano, Lake, and Las Animas. 

 Had the record of these counties been com- 

 plete, it is estimated the abstracts would have 

 shown at least 1,000,000 acres of improved land. 



The whole number of cattle assessed was 

 142,148; horses, 15,580; mules and asses, 

 2,724 ; sheep 184,577. It has been stated that 

 these returns do not indicate more than one- 

 eighth of the actual number of domestic ani- 

 mals in the Territory. The bullion-product 

 of the years 1870 and 1871 was $8,338,000, an 

 increase of 50 per cent, over that of the two 

 preceding years. At the beginning of 1869 

 there was a public debt of over $10,000, but 





