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rim up the gulf, but almost always easy to run south. 

 These circumstances render the employment of steam 

 vessels very advantageous. If the navigation of the 

 gulf permits the Edith to be used, she will answer, 

 having both sails and steam. If she draws too much 

 water, others, of lighter draught could be procured. 

 I mention this now, as the boundary commission will 

 commence their labors on this end of the line, and 

 will be on the Gila next season. I should have ob 

 served that the Colorado is supposed to be navigable 

 only for boats drawing three or four feet. 



I see no reason for posting troops on any other 

 point out of reach of the ports on the Pacific. The 

 Indians in the interior do not make it necessary, and 

 it would be useless to place them near the mines to 

 maintain order there. Nothing but the establishment 

 of a regular civil government, to be carried on by 

 those most interested in the existence of good order, 

 will answer that end. 



Such detachments as go to the southern part of the 

 Territory will accordingly be placed, as heretofore 

 mentioned, in healthy arid convenient positions, and 

 those on this bay at such points as will combine good 

 climate, convenience of supply, and facility of move 

 ment. I propose, when such a point is found, to have 

 removed all the public stores there, both from this 

 place and Monterey, leaving the heavy ordnance and 

 stores. 



The town of San Francisco is no way fitted for 

 military or commercial purposes; there is no harbor, 

 a bad landing-place, bad water, no supplies of pro 

 visions, an inclement climate, and it is cut off from 

 the rest of the country, except by a long circuit 

 around the southern extremity of the bay. In time 



