Indictment, arrest, trial and release of participants in massacre-First President of Arizona Pioneers' Society— Granville H. Oury-Commanded expedition out of Tucson to join Crabb-Sent as Delegate to Confederate Congress EARLY PIONEERS AND SETTLERS (Continued). Peter R. Brady-Graduate of Annapolis-Member of surveying party-Farmer, miner and stockman-Candidate for Delegate to Congress-Defeated by R. C. McCormick-Assists Gov- ernment in detecting Peralta-Reavis land fraud-His part- ing with H. F. Ashurst-Death of-Michael Goldwater- Early business man in Arizona-Lays out townsite of Ehrenberg-Many business ventures-Mayor of Prescott- Death of Charles Trumbull Hayden-Early Santa Fe Trader-Rides first Overland Stagecoach to Tucson-First Probate Judge at Tucson-Established first ferry and first PAGE FORMATION OF MINING DISTRICTS. Gold Placers on Colorado-Eureka District-Castle Dome-La Paz-Weaver and Walker Diggings-Planet Mine-Antelope Peak-Lynx Creek—Big Bug-Vulture Mine-Castle Dome Mining District-Weaver Mining District-Pioneer Mining HISTORY OF ARIZONA. CHAPTER I. STAGE LINES AND NAVIGATION. SILAS ST. JOHN-SAN ANTONIO AND SAN DIEGO STAGE LINE-JAMES E. BIRCH — ISAIAH C. WOODS-FIRST MAIL-WAGON ROAD OPENED BY LEACH AND HUTTON-FIRST STAGEBUTTERFIELD STAGE LINE, AFTERWARD OVERLAND MAIL LINE-MASSACRE OF EMPLOYEES BY MEXICANS-BUTTERFIELD ROUTE ABANDONED HEINTZELMAN AND MOWRY MINESLIEUTENANT J. C. IVES' EXPLORATION UP THE COLORADO-EXPLORATION BY CAPTAIN SITGREAVES AND LIEUTENANT WHIPPLE — CAPTAIN JOHNSON-LIEUTENANT IVES' BOAT, THE "EXPLORER" - LIEUTENANT IVES' REPORT-CAPTAIN JOHNSON'S ANTICIPATION OF LIEUTENANT IVES' EXPLORATION - CAPTAIN RODGERS EARLY EXPEDITION BY THE MORMONS-JACOB HAMBLIN. To Mr. Silas St. John, who was connected with the San Antonio and San Diego Line, established in 1857, we are indebted for the following facts in reference to this, the first stage line ever established across Arizona: "The initial contract was for a semi-monthly service between San Diego, California, and San Antonio, Texas, via El Paso. Mr. James E. Birch, President of the California Stage Com pany, took it as a personal venture for the sum of one hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars per year. Mr. Isaiah C. Woods, previously at the head of Adams & Company's Express in California, (which failed in 1855), was superintendent and manager of the line." "The first mail eastbound was started from San Diego, California, in October, 1857, (about which time a contract for the opening of a wagon road was made by Superintendent James B. Leach and Engineer N. H. Hutton. This, according to Bancroft, corresponded largely with the route taken by Col. P. St. Geo. Cooke in 1846, but led down the San Pedro to the Aravaipa, and thence to the Gila, 21 miles east of the Pima Villages, thus saving 40 miles over the Tucson route, and by improvements about five days for wagons. The work was done by Leach and Hutton from the Rio Grande to the Colorado, between October 25th, and August 1st, 1858.) Although the advertisement in the San Francisco papers noted four horse Concord coaches, it (the mail) was really carried in saddle bags until some months later, when stations were established and stock strung along the line. "The first four horse Concord stage left San Diego at 12 M. sharp, November 15th, 1857. There was a relay twelve miles east, and another fifteen miles east of that; this twenty-seven miles was all the coach work on the first trip. At this point Charley Youmans took saddle, and with two remounts reached Cariso Creek via Warner's Ranch at 8 P. M. Here the mail was taken by Silas St. John, accompanied by Charles Mason, to the next station, Jaeger's Ferry at |