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Mouth. The site of this settlement was visited })y the writer in 

 April, 1902. It is marked by several acres of pot.sherds that are 

 scattered about the sand dunes on the south side of tlie dry river 

 bottom that is scarcely lower than the level of the plain. A few 

 Mexican families have lived in the ^^cinity for many years, punipiii<^ 

 water from a depth of a hundred feet and depending upon crops of 

 corn and beans raised in the summer when a few showers fall upon 

 their fields. These Mexicans plow out stone implements and bit.s 

 of pottery, but have never found any burial places." There are two 

 medium-sized adobe ruins on the flat river bottom : one of these has 

 walls of the same pise type that is exhibited hx the Casa Grande 

 ruin (pi. Ill), situated 25 miles to the northward. 



from S. Ex. Doc. 1, pt. 1, 559, 35th Cnng.. 2d sess.. 18.59. The number of Maricopas is included that the 

 comparatively small importance of that trihe may Iw appreciated. 



MARICOPAS 



[Head chief, Juan Chevereah.] 



Mr Browne, a momlior of Commissioner I'oston's party that visited the villages in .January, 1864, 

 wrotx': ''The numlx-T of I'ima villages is 10: Maricopas, 2: separate inciosures, 1,000." (.1. Ross 

 Browne, .Ydvcnturos in tlie Apache Coimtry, 110.) On a later page (290) he gives the population by 

 villages, of which he names but seven: 



Aqua Baiz 533 , Ilerringuen "lU 



Cerrito 2.59 ! Llano 392 



Arenal 016 — 



Cachimilla 438 Total 3,067 



Casa Ulanca 315 



■' There are 1,200 laboring Pimas and 1.000 warriors." 



James F. Rusling (The Great West and the Pacific Coast. :«»), who visited tlie Pimas in l.si'.7. also 

 states that there were then ten Pima villages. 

 "Font mentionsa Pima-Papago village in this vicinity, culled •■< iiitini." Miinuseripl Diary. Ji-I. 



