Report to Hon. A. V. Brown, Postmaster-General : $b on the opening and present condition of the United States overland mail route between San Antonio, Texas, and San Diego, CaliforniaWoods, Isaiah Churchill
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Report to Hon. A. V. Brown, Postmaster-General : $b on the opening and present condition of the United States overland mail route between San Antonio, Texas, and San Diego, California
Woods, Isaiah Churchill
Postal service -- West (U.S.); San Antonio and San Diego Mail Line
26.--From camp to 9 miles east of River Saur 43 ”
27.--From camp to 9 miles west of Dos Cabesas
Spring 50 ”
28.--From camp to ford of San Pedro river 40 ”
29.--From camp to Mission San Xavier 53 ”
30.--From Mission San Xavier to 30 miles west of
Tucson 38 ”
31.--From camp to 1-mile camp on Gila 40 ”
Sept. 1.--From camp to Tezotal 69 ”
2.--From Tezotal to second crossing of Gila 58 ”
3.--From second crossing to Antelope Peak 52 ”
4.--From Antelope Peak to Fort Yuma 40 ”
5.--From Fort Yuma to Alamo Mucho 42 ”
6.--From Alamo Mucho to Carissa creek 53 ”
7.--From Carissa creek to Lassator’s 36 ”
8.--From Lassator’s to San Diego 49 ”
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1,476 miles.
Making the trip personally from San Antonio to San Diego in
thirty-eight days.
[From the San Antonio Herald.]
_A few notes and distances from San Antonio to San Diego._
The following information in relation to the distances from this place
to San Diego, has been obtained from the superintendent of the S. A.
& S. D. Mail Stage Company, who has passed over the route and back,
and the statements as to distances and the nature of the route may be
implicitly relied on:
1. The distance from San Antonio to El Paso is 652 miles, and the
character of the route is so well known to most of our readers that
we deem it unnecessary to enter into any description of it. Grass and
water are considered sufficiently abundant. The road passes by a number
of the military posts, and though Indians are occasionally met with,
they have seldom made any hostile demonstrations, and have never, but
once, made an attack upon the train.
2. From El Paso to Messilla Valley in the Gadsden Purchase, the route
running up the east bank of the Rio Grande to Fort Fillmore, (N. M.)
where it crosses the river into the Messilla Valley, the distance is 50
miles.
3. From Messilla Valley to Tucson the distance is 305 miles. This
portion of the route is remarkably fine travelling, with good grass
and water. The streams on this section are the Mimbres and San Pedro,
both fordable, and usually crossed with but little trouble. The Apache
Indians are met with occasionally on this route, yet the mail party
which here consists of eight men, has never been attacked in making
some thirty-two trips over the route.
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