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Excerpt from A Vanished Race of Aboriginal Founders: An Address
If a right-angled triangle were to be erected in New Mexico, the base along the Rio Grande from Las Cruces to Socoro, the perpendicular west to near the Arizona line, the hypothenuse from this apex to the point of departure, Las Cruces, within this triangle is embraced some of the fairest mountain regions that it has ever been my fortune to explore. My first visit to this region was rather exceptional, even for the very varied duties of an army officer on frontier duty.
Under army supervision several bands of the Apaches had been gathered together on the eastern slopes of the Membres Mountains, and had their agency for several years at the little Mexican pueblo of Canada Alamosa. It was found that this situation brought the Indians into close contact with the demoralizing influences of the small Mexican towns along the Rio Grande. It was, therefore, determined, if a suitable place more remote from the settled portion of the country could be found, to establish a reservation and build an agency and an army post and to remove these Indians to it. A Board consist ing of the Commanding Officer of the District of New Mexico, the Indian Superintendent of New Mexico and Arizona' and myself were appointed to examine and select a proper spot for such an establishment.
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