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The following extracts from letters received by the writer tell the story of the necessity for early action on the part of Congress, in urgent terms. TUBAC, GADSDEN PURCHASE, August 15, 1857. Affairs in the Territory have not improved. They have again been turned loose upon the community.
As soon as it was known in Mexico that an American company had arrived in Tubac, Mexicans from Sonora and the adjacent States came in great numbers to work, and skillful miners could be employed at from fifteen to twenty-five dollars a month and rations. Sonora furnished flour, beef, beans, sugar, barley, corn, and vegetables, at moderate prices.
There seems probability that they were from one of the southern States, started directly for San Bernardino, instead of via Salt Lake, in the same manner that an Arkansas expedition went directly to the Little Colorado settlements in later years. Tubac dates back to about 1752.
Among others whom I remember as living in Tucson or near neighborhood in 1866 were: Henry Glassman, Tom Yerkes, Lord & Williams, Pete Kitchen, Tongue, The Kelsey boys, Sandy McClatchy, Green Rusk, Frank Hodge, Alex. Levin, Bob Crandall, Wheat, Smith Turner, "Old" Pike. Glassman lived most of the time at Tubac. Yerkes owned the Settlers Store in Tubac.
"And those men who are with him who are they?" cried he. "The two tiger-killers," replied Baraja. A short deliberation took place in a low voice between Don Estevan and Pedro Diaz, which ended by these words, pronounced aloud: "We must destroy the bridge of the Salto de Agua, and the devil is in it if they overtake us before we reach Tubac;" and at this they all set off at full gallop.
It was in 1774 that Captain Juan Bautista de Anza, of the presidio of Tubac in Arizona, was detailed by the Viceroy of New Spain to open this road. He made quite an expedition of it, 240 men, women, and Indian scouts, and 1050 animals. They named the San Gorgonio Pass the Puerto de San Carlos, and the San Bernardino Valley the Valle de San José.
"'Twas youth, my friend, and joyfulness besides, That made me breast the treachery of Neptune's fickle tides." When Spring came around in the year 1867 we were moved to Tubac, where we were joined by K Company of my regiment and C Company of the Thirty-Second Infantry.
I do my best to keep myself from thinking of it and, for this reason, I abstain from dwelling on the subject here. Mr. In the present disturbed condition of the United States, he recommends me to sail for a port on the eastern coast of Mexico, and then to travel northward overland, and make my first inquiries in Arizona at the town of Tubac.
This oath Arellanos took, and his death of course prevented him from betraying it." "You have said that after his return from his first expedition, you met him in Tubac. Was there no woman whom he may perchance have had in his confidence?" "His wife only he may have told it to her. But yesterday a vaquero gave me the news that she has lately died.
During the Civil War times they put the Butterfield stage line out of business and were an important factor in determining the northern route for the carrying of the United States mails to California; they wiped out the ranches of the valleys until cattle-raising and agriculture ceased entirely; they raided the pueblo of Tubac until its people finally fled for safety to Tucson and then they burned the deserted buildings.
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