destination. Here all supplies of merchandise for the Territory
are landed, and from this point forwarded to their various
owners. A thriving commerce has already sprung up between Arizona
and San Francisco. In almost any daily paper in San Francisco may
be seen vessels advertised for the mouth of the Colorado. Two
steamers find active employment in transporting government stores
from the head of the Gulf of California to Fort Yuma, and goods
to Colorado city for the merchants of Tueson, Tubac, Calabazas,
and for the mining companies. Should the exploration of the Upper
Colorado by Lieutenant Ives, United States Army, now in progress,
prove successful, Colorado city will become still more important,
as the surplus products of the rich valleys of New Mexico, Utah,
and California to the north, will all find a market down the
Colorado. Property in this new city is held at high rates, and by
the last San Francisco News Letter is quoted at an advance. The
population of Arizona Territory has much increased within a few
months by emigration from California. The massacre of Henry A.
Crabbe and his party by the Mexicans at Cavorca created a desire
for revenge throughout all California. Companies have been
formed, and large parties are settling in Arizona, near the
Mexican line, with the ulterior object of overrunning Sonora, and
revenging the tragedy in which was shed some of the best blood of
the State. The appropriation by the last Congress of two hundred
thousand dollars for the construction of a wagon road from El
Paso to Fort Yuma, and the two mail contracts, semi-monthly and
semi-weekly, which involve an expenditure of nine hundredthousand dollars per annum, will afford employment to a host of
people, and draw at once to the neighborhood of the route an
active and energetic population. The new wagon and mail route
traverses the Territory of Arizona throughout its entire length.
Along the mail route, at intervals, military posts will be