COPPER MINES. 
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On the 28th July, several mules belonging to Colo- 
nel Craig, disappeared and could not be found ; and as 
he believed the Apaches had been instrumental in 
driving them off, he determined to go in search of 
indisposition with which you were afflicted, those officers progressed 
with the work intrusted to them, and fixed the Initial Point of said line 
on the meridian of latitude referred to. 
As the Commissioners coincide in opinion respecting the correct- 
ness of their operations and their results, and are satisfied that the 
Initial Point has been accurately ascertained and determined, it is very 
desirable that the official documents necessary to the settlement of this 
important point should be at once perfected ; you are requested, there- 
fore, to remove the only obstacle which now exists to the completion 
of this branch of the work, by affixing your signature to the requisite 
papers. 
I am, (fee., 
ALEX. H. H. STUART, 
Secretary. 
A. B. Gray, Esq., 
U. S. Surveyor, &c. 
Secretary Stuart to Major Emory. 
Department of the Interior, 
November 4, 1851. 
Sir: I transmit herewith your commission as Surveyor, under 
the 5th article of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, to run and mark 
the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, also a copy 
of a letter this day addressed to John R. Bartlett, Esq., United States 
Commissioner, containing explanations respecting your position and 
duties. 
I also inclose a copy of my letter of the 31st ultimo, to A. B. Gray, 
Esq., late Surveyor ; and in the event of his persisting in his refusal to 
affix his signature to the necessary papers for the establishment of the 
Initial Point for the demarkation of the boundary line as ascertained 
and agreed upon by the Commissioners of the two Governments, I have 
