Show I 1 boundary items the following interesting gleanings from rom the boundary commission recently arrived a in san diego are from the herald of that place the apaches whose displeasure was first incurred by the death of one of their heir warriors shot hot by a mexican arriero arciero in the employ of the commission and the forcible arrest and detention of two mexican ca captive five boa bo s had bad made four descents upon the cabal lada la of the commission in each of which they were successful in driving off a considerable number of horses and in mules iles the entire loss sustained in th s way amounted to perhaps eight or ten thousand dollars A combination of forces was wa s supposed sun posed to have e existed r between the apaches and Nava joas Joes with th design of unremitting hostilities against all americans and american property talling falling into their power the country between the mouth of the san pedro river and the junction of the gila and colorado is almost entirely destitute of grass the valley of salt river and of the gila between the mouth of the former and the villages is admirably adap adapted teil to the growth of sea island cotton the and the maricopa maricola Mari copa indians produce an excellent quality of it in moderate quantities the adaptation of the soil to this production is i is principally cipEk lly owing to the extensive deposits of salt which cover the surface of the ground like snow in a crys form and of virgin whiteness the valley of the gila contains and particularly particulars y about the villages some excellent arable land 1 the amount is very small however in proportion to the whole extent of af the river the goldin golden anticipations si 83 far as they relate to the gila have received a stagg staggering ering blow by the explore tion of that river no evidences of the existence of any such treasure were discovered and the river has but few attractions to offer in any other respect the are pronounced among the finest specimens of the indian kind in physical proportions upon the continent the approach to the aprin sprin sp springs rin of carissa ci crock eck up its dry bed after crossing the long iong and inhospitable desert desert in inspires the liveliest hopes imag imaginable anable to be conceived the parched tongue and swollen throat of the famished emigrant grown painfully ully insupportable cry aloud for water to meet with disappointment were in in many instances actually i death mournful evidences are exhibited by the man many V skeletons in its neighborhood of the suffering endured by animals which have toiled over the mountains along the plains lains and across the desert to die on the th threshold re A old of water the place is literally a golgotha 31 the carcasses carcass ps of over fifteen hi hundred indred sheep mingle with the bones of horses mules and oxen these interspersed occasionally with a human skeleton |