Notwithstanding the recent hostility of the whole tribe of Apaches, Colloteros, Pinal Llanos, and Tontos, through which we passed without an escort, nothing but kindness was received from them. The Yumas and Cocopas, though glorying in the belief that they had driven away the small detachment of United States troops stationed among them, still treated us with respect and favor. The vigilance of Colonel Craig gave them no opportunity of showing hostility. One sad accident I have to record: it is the death of Thomas Harper, an excellent young man from Kentucky, and a member of my party. While bathing in the Colorado, he was seized with a cramp, sank, and, although a dozen leaped into the water to afford assistance, the rapid current swept him far beyond their reach, and search for him was fruitless. Major Heintzelman is now preparing to re-establish the military post at the Colorado. As soon as this is done, I hope to be able to obtain supplies of provisions, and in ten days after the recommencement of the work the survey of the Gila will be completed. In the mean time, until the arrival of Mr. Bartlett, who is supposed to be at Guaymas, or while awaiting other means of procuring supplies for our return, myself and assistants are actively employed in computing our observations and plotting the notes of the survey. I remain, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, A. W. WHIPPLE, Lieutenant U. S. Topographical Engineers. Lieut. Col. J. D. GRAHAM, U. S. Top. Eng., Head of the Scientific Corps for the survey of the U. S. and Mexican Boundary. No. 172. Colonel Graham to the Secretary of the Interior. WASHINGTON, March 25, 1852. SIR: I have the honor to enclose to you, herewith, Brevet Major W. H. Emory's receipt to me for instruments, stationery, and camp equipage, turned over to him at Frontera, near El Paso del Norte, on the 6th of December last, in conformity with orders from your department. This document has just arrived from Indianola, with other articles which I was obliged to leave there to be forwarded. I have respectfully to request that I may be allowed to have a duplicate of the copy of Lieutenant Whipple's report to me (which he forwarded to the department, from San Diego, in January last,) of the survey of the river Gila, as it will probably be a long while before I can receive the original, which he forwarded from San Diego, addressed. to me at El Paso del Norte.† I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. A. H. H. STUART, J. D. GRAHAM, Bvt. Lieut. Col., &c., &c. Secretary of the Interior, &c., &c., &c. * An abstract of this receipt will be found in No. 176 of this Appendix. + It is No. 171 of this Appendix. J. D. G. Remarks. No. 173.-Synopsis of the return of instruments belonging to the Mexican boundary commission, made by Major William H. Emory, as appears by his “return,” dated March 30, 1850, and the receipts, respectively, of Lieutenant Whipple, Brevet Captain Hardcastle, Mr. A. B. Gray, and Dr. C. C. Parry; also of the instruments with which he is chargeable on the books of this department. [Made out at the Department of the Interior in January, 1851.] No. 13. Column No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. No. 5. J. D. G. *The contents of the three columns Nos. 7, 8, and 9 were still at San Diego, and its vicinity, on the Pacific, when this return was completed, in January, 1851. The instruments left with Messrs. E. & G. W. Blunt, and those shipped to Boston, were, by order from the Department of the Interior, thrown open to Lieutenant Whipple to take such of them as he might require for service at the Paso del Norte. Left with the quartermaster at San Francisco to be sold: unfit for use. This return was received by me from the Department of the Interior, Washington, January 10, 1851-endorsed "D. C. GODDARD, chief clerk." J. D. GRAHAM. No. 174-(being an abstract of No. 173.) A more condensed synopsis of the return of instruments [made out at the Department of the Interior in January, 1851] belonging to the Mexican boundary commission, made by Major W. H. Emory, as appears by his "return" dated March 30, 1850, and the receipts respectively of Lieutenant Whipple, Brevet Captain Hardcastle, Mr. A. B. Gray, and Doctor C. C. Parry; also; of the instruments with which he is chargeable on the books of the department. * Left with the quartermaster at San Francisco, to be sold: unfit for use. NOTE.-The instruments left with E. & G. W. Blunt and those shipped to Boston, were, by order of the Department of the Interior, thrown open to Lieutenant Whipple, to take such of them as he might require for service at the Paso del Norte. These are contained in columns Nos. 5 and 6. A true abstract of the original received by me from the Department of the Interior, at Washington, January 10, 1851. The original is endorsed "D. C. GODDARD, chief clerk." J. D. GRAHAM, Bot. Lieut. Col. Top. Engrs. |