Savage heading: 'Informe sobre proyecto de abrir camino entre California y N. México, y establecim.to de un Presidio en Rio Colorado - Razones q.e militan en contra de ambas ideas' [= report against both opening a road between California and New Mexico and founding a presidio on the Colorado River]. Verbatim opening: 'Exmo. Sr. = El Sr. Regente D. Baltazar Ladron de Guevara, como Delegado de V.E. me remitió con oficio de 23 Mzo. últ.o 6 cópias de informes del Coronel D. Diego de Borica, Ten.te Coron.l D. José Joaq.n Arrillaga y R.l Tribunal de Cuentas, sobre el proyecto de abrir comunic.n entre la Prov.a de Calif.a y N. México'. Nava stands by his oficio of 22 June 1797 to Branciforte; a presidio at the mouth of the Colorado 26 leagues from Mision de S.ta Catarina, peopled with the men Col. Fernando Chacón said were idle in New Mexico, is no means to the communication; he has instead ordered the abandoned pueblos of Sen[e]cú, Socorro, Alamillo and Sevilleta on the camino real reoccupied; the only real utility would be relieving California by land if enemies invaded near San Diego, but that can be done by the Mar de Cortés; commerce is illusory since New Mexico produces no surplus; cites 'el art.o 115 de la instruccion q.e el S. Virrey de Galvez dió el 26 de Ag.to de 1786, á mi inmediato predecesor D. Jacobo Ugarte y Loyola, se prohibe abrir comunicaciones p.r tierra de Sonora á Calif.s'; such journeys harden the barbarous nations against the frontier; concludes 'No considero conveniente la estension de ntra. línea de Presidios, pues ademas del aumento de gastos redificultaria la defensa, abrasando inutilmente inmensos territorios q.e en mucho tpo. de nada nos pueden servir.' Spans n34-n37.
| Date | 1801-07-20 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Pedro de Nava [comandante general de las Provincias Internas] |
| To | el Virrey [Marquina] |
| Place | Chihuahua |
| Series | Provincial State Papers |
| Tomo | XVIII |
| Original tomo page | pp. 101-3 (Cop.) |
| Savage copy page | 35 [stamp] / 34 [hand] |
| Scan leaf | n34–n37 |
| Document type | informe / dictamen (full verbatim copy transcribed by Savage, marked 'o' and '(Cop.)') |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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Pedro de Nava [comandante general de las Provincias Internas] to el Virrey [Marquina], Chihuahua, 1801-07-20, Provincial State Papers, XVIII, pp. 101-3 (Cop.), Archives of California, C-A 11, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca11/ca11-d24.html