on the head waters of the Sonora River
discretion and good Judgement in
selection of location and purchase can now be made to great advantage
and a company of ten to twenty men can
if ^forced to^ or where necessary make safe location
for families, and the U.S and Mexican
Governments are moving in the matter of
suppressing Cowboys & Indians—and really
with ordinary care, we are preserved
and have no trouble, also about Tombstone
these Cow-boys are killing each other for some
time past. I may state that Bro. Wm. N. Fife is making a location in the sulpher spring valley, about 50 miles east
of Tombstone, and 25 miles north of Sonora line. the locality I have
asked Bros Campbell & Trejo to
visit would be nearly in a south
line from his place, and in fact form
a continous line with either St David
or Smithville on the Gila, via Camp
Apache or Forrest Dale to our settlements
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on the head waters of the Sonora River
discretion and good Judgement in
selection of location and purchase cannow be made to great advantage
and a company of ten to twenty men can
if forced to or where necessary make safe location
for families, and the U.S and Mexican
Governments are moving in the matter of
suppressing Cowboys & Indians - and really
with ordinary care, we are preserved
and have no trouble. also about Tombstone
these Cow-boys are killing each other for some
time past. I may state that Bro.
Wm. N. Fife is making a location in the
sulpher spring valley, about 50 miles east
of Tombstone, and 25 miles north of
Sonora line. the locality I have
asked Bros Campbell & Trejo to
visit would be nearly in a south
line from his place, and in fact form
a continous line with either St David
or Smithville on the Gila, via Camp
Apache or Forrest Dale to our settlements
"Letter from Alexander Findlay Macdonald, 24 April 1882," p. 5, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 2, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/kZvK