Fayni acknowledges receipt of letter from Bucareli concerning final plan of war. Mentions necessity of horses for Oconor's campaign, and that haciendas may contribute horses. Reports ability to water horses in small groups, owing to limited water supply; but if drought does not lift, water will soon run out. Asserts that process of remounting is most difficult task. Mentions that he has helped pay for campaign to accelerate mobilization. (S. Gibbs, October 1987)

Fayni relates impossibility of remounting cavalry until late June due to water and pasture shortage. Because of delay, Indian hostilities will continue. Mentions Oconor's success in Laguna; remarks that three or four more successes will punish Indians well. Concerns obtainment of cavalry through treasury. (S. Gibbs, September 1987)

(S. Gibbs, September 1987)

Lists number in expedition (180, with 100 Indian auxiliaries). Extensive description of terrain, plant resources and water sources. Extensive ethnographic data on Apache groups weapons, tools, crops, food, both gathered and cultivated; linguistic, intertribal alliances and hostilities. (R. Perez) (1977)

Describes geographical range Pimeria Alta missions. Speaks of continuing Apache menace. Notes depopulation of area due to diseases, Apache attacks. Discusses temporal affairs of missions, including livestock raising, planting communal fields maize, wheat, and vegetables, which feeds widows, sick, military escorts, mission Indians during lean months of April, May, and June, thereby inducing Indians to remain in pueblos instead of wild-food gathering. Notes sale of surplus to mines/presidios to purchase church supplies, barter goods. Notes decline of mission agriculture last 8 years due to lack of seeds, decline of Cieneguilla mines, and increased number of farmers. States mission business is conducted by Indian governors under missionaries' guidance. Describes architecture of Indian houses; agriculture, including cultivation of pomegranates, quinces, cotton, and sugar cane as well as shrubs of gomilla, jojoba, both of which used medicinally. Describes herbs used, including indigo (anil), gediondilla, zimarron, contra yerba. Claims 2 harvests pithaya per year in west. Notes presence gypsum, lime, piedra bezal found in deer, especially those killed near coast. Says province is covered with grama grass, thereby providing forage for much livestock. Describes climate, mineral wealth, including real of Cieneguilla, only settlement of Spaniards in Pimeria Alta. Describes settlements. Tiburones described as Seri groups. Describes excellent salt fields along coast. Describes port of Tepoca/pearl beds nearby. Notes presence of subterranean water. Says Papagos come to missions to sell young boys captured in slave raids carried out by interior nations; these slaves called Vijoras (Nixoras). No active commerce carried on by Indians. Describes uses of cotton. Says Pimas are good farmers, growing wheat, maize, squash, cotton. During harvests, many traders arrive to barter cloth, etc. for produce. Says Pimas stay in pueblos, not like Yaquis and many Opatas who wander (probably to work in mines). Discusses reasons why missions should not be secularized. Estimates Gila Pima population at 2,000. Compares Pimas favorably to Opatas, who no longer respect missionaries. Describes temporary nature of Spanish settlement of Sonora, Pimeria Alta. Says 8 leagues from Aconchi, the San Juan mine, full of water, is abandoned now. Discusses precautions necessary for populating Sonora. Encourages development of Tepoca, Guaymas to give Sonora easy access to sea, Tiburon Island as way station for transportation of livestock. Discusses need to develop educational facilities, including primary schools at Indian settlements. Notes belief among Opatas at Aconchi in Montezuma, who they claimed was their king and had risen and appeared in mountains. Describes his school, which taught girls as well as boys to read, write. (T. Sheridan) (1976)

Cover letter (3ff) and diarios of Ugarte (ff. 235-243); Garza Falcon (ff. 247-251); and Rodriguez (244-248) forwarded to viceroy by Ugarte (as Coahuila commanders in O'Conor's 1775/1776 general campaign); notes such things as; places camped; distances; new presidios of Cordon; chain of command; troop organization; Indian chiefs; locations of water; settlement configurations; battle descriptions; vegetation; topography; Lipan war customs; Apache subsistence; captives; Indian testimony about Cueras blancas. Also includes some biographical notes on Ugarte; he claims he has been prompt in forwarding this report. (J. Williams, February 1987)

Plans by Gonzalez del Castillo to increase production of Fondo Piadoso haciendas and related fiscal correspondence. Exceptionally detailed accounts of climate, livestock management, irrigation techniques, and labor problems. Includes descriptions of miserable living conditions and personal nature of hacienda laborers and servants, and related problems with low labor output, contraband, servant indebtedness, and degenerating morality. (A. Tukey, July 1988)

Sagarraga explains to viceroy that high prices for corn feed, due to several years of drought, have forced reduction in heads of livestock at Ibarra. To remedy this, Sagarraga proposes installation of irrigation system to produce corn at Ibarra, along with expansion of livestock herds. Major portion of documents administrative correspondence concerning financing of this project through Fondo Piadoso. (A. Tukey, July 1988)

Anza finds rebels in Nopalera but can do no more than run off their horseherd because of lack of water. (11/10/1769). Rumors of Spaniards visiting Indians beyond Cocomaricopas. Notes various small encounters with rebels. (T. Sheridan) (1980)

A detailed report on the difficulties of founding this Lower California mission- water problems, epidemics, cattle, church construction, baptisms, marriages, burials, Indian customs are all included. (D. Deeds) (1976)