My map of Tumacacori has on it the coordinates of 111 degrees and 33 degrees with dots that if you add the dots in thier locations on the map, then show the dots as numbers these are EXACTLY where the Mina Virgon is, which means Tumacacori was not originally where it is today? The Priest were accompanied by Armed Army, so did they have black powder with them? I think so or they were carrying arms for clubs? Does a gun work without powder? They were in hostile territory where the Indians claimed the padres were encroaching on sacred ground. Did the Indians tell them to leave? yes. Were the Indians made to work the mines?, yes, back to why the Jesuits were forced out of new Spain. Plus it says the Indians were mining bat guano for? Was there coal in the area? yes. Was there sulfur in the area? yes, so all ingredients for black powder were available? yes. Who was in the area to notice a large Blasting event? Indians? Was there already blasting going on in the mines? So it would be just another day for the Indians who knew that the padres were mining. Was there a major Indian uprising in 1703? Were the Padres from Tubac and Tumacacori all killed and the sites abandoned and relocated to where they are today? Was Tubac originally in the area of the Sycamore river between Sedona and Perkinsville today? or were they other towns that were abandoned?
Quote from Kino:
On January 4, 1703, when these hostile Apaches had pushed in to San Ygnacio, a mission of the Pimeria, and carried off a drove of horses, Father Agustin de Campos, missionary of that district.
Captain Juan de Casaos, wrote, on January 28, these words:
God grant that we may succeed in catching these malevolent Apaches and give them a good chastising. To this end I shall attempt to secure some men from the West, and you, your Reverence, must attempt to secure those of the North, so that altogether they may accomplish something worth while. And although I was very busy with the building of the two churches of Nuestra Senora de los Remedies and Santiago de Cocospora, the plan being to finish and dedicate them both at the end of this year of 1703, I notified Captain Coro and the Pima and Sovaipuris braves that they should make an expedition to the country through which the hostile Apaches travel and come, the result being that through some good victories by our Pimas the hostile Apaches were greatly restrained, and now molest us somewhat less frequently in this Pimeria.
Captain Cristoval Granillo Salazar, wrote:
My dear Sir: I have just received your letter containing the sad news that the enemies had killed the Indian of Chinapa, and I am greatly grieved to see the inactivity of the soldiers of the presidio of this province, who neither go out on campaigns nor exert themselves at anything else, a cause sufficient to have led the enemies to hold a powerful gathering, of which Father Daniel Janusque wrote me yesterday. They are assembled in the Sierra de Tonivavi in great numbers, well armed and provided with shields, and it is presumed that they are planning to devastate some pueblo of this district. For this reason I was compelled by the urgent necessity to despatch some men as an escort, which may find difficult enough. Near here they killed Manuel de Urquiso; I am just about to bury him. They left him stark naked, scalped him, shot him four times with arrows, wounded him several times with a lance, and killed his horse. At the same time very near there, on the road to San Juan, these same enemies killed the son of Nicolas de la Crus.
March 12, 1703:
A squad of soldiers having gone to convoy a drove of cattle belonging to the captain of this presidio to Janos, on the return march, as they were coming from San Miguel de Bavispe, Sierra de Chiguicagui, two soldiers turned aside to get a young bull which they had left tired out in going; and while they were killing it the enemies sallied out upon them and killed them, their companions being unable to prevent it, because they were some distance behind and occupied with the pack train loaded with saltepetre, etc., while the two soldiers in question were without arms, since they left them on the horses, and the enemies took them. The dead are Cristoval de Leon and Domingo, stepsons of Francisco Pacho.
pack train loaded Saltepetre? one of the ingredients for gunpowder?
The Indians of Tepoca and Cucurpe, have spread the rumor that the Seris of Tepoca and the Pacheco Pimas of El Soba plan to attack the Spaniards of the nearby mines of Nuestra Senora de la Soledad, and, later, the pueblos of Cucurpe and Toape, because of the murders committed by the soldiers eight years ago when those disturbances took place. And the scatterers of such a lie do not consider that the Tepoca Seris are those who, with the soldiers, committed the murders among the Pimas. The lieutenant here has received the letter in regard to this matter, and in other places they have received other reports of this nonsense; but the lieutenant must already have been undeceived and have said to the Spanish miners that they are secure from the Cabotcas and the rest of the Pimas, but not so of the Tepocas and Egadeves,''
Admission to killing Apache eight years before? admission of mines?
In this month of March two letters are written to me in which, with the celestial favors which, thank God, we are accustomed to experience in these new conversions, the good conduct of these Pimas is declared. But one can not help regretting that by wrongly laying the blame for the evils of some, who are hostile, upon others, who are not, they hinder, as hitherto they have so grievously hindered, the much needed relief for our ills, which consists in the real punishment of the true enemies, thereby causing excessive expense and salaries amounting to more than twenty-two thousand pesos from the royal treasury of his Majesty in supporting war, as well as delaying the boon of the eternal salvation of so many souls, peoples, and natives, whom, perforce, they pretend to regard as malevolent evil doers, and robbers, and as barbarous and cruel homicides of so many Christians, which is true of some and not of the others, leaving them intact and not taking the trouble usually necessary to make an expedition against the Apaches.
A Declaration of WAR against the Apache? and here the Apache have been taught one of their greatest warriors was a bad man.
