Silver and Copper; and, as your petitioners most firmly believe,
the development of these mines will make a change in the currency
of the world, only equalled by that caused by the gold mines of
California.

That a great part of the Territory, between the Rio Grande and
Tueson, is susceptible of cultivation and will support a large
agricultural population.

That this portion of the Territory is in the hands of the
Apaches, and useless, unless redeemed from their grasp and
protected to the farmer.

That the highways of the Territory are stained with the blood of
citizens of the United States, shed by Indians and by public
marauders, who commit their crimes in open day, knowing there is
no law to restrain and no magistrate to arrest them.

That this Territory, under a separate organization, would attract
a large population and become immediately developed: and, that
its isolation--its large Indian population--its proximity to a
semi-civilized Mexican province, and its peculiar and wonderful
resources, demand protection from the Government more
emphatically than any other territory yet recognised.

That our soil has been stained with the blood of American
citizens, shed by Mexican hands, in an armed invasion of our
Territory near Sonoita, and that there is no civil magistrate or
officer here to even protest against such an outrage.