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that such vigorous measures slowly but surely improved the border
situation. With this improvement came a better understanding
between the two countries concerned. On April 9, 1878, the United
States had recognized Diaz,62 regardless of his stand with reference
to the passing of the boundary; and in the course of the next two
years he showed such ability to deal with the situation that Gen-
eral Ord himself advised that the orders issued on June 1, 1877,
were no longer necessary. They were accordingly revoked in Feb-
ruary, 1880.63 Diaz now began to evince a disposition to come to
an agreement in regard to future difficulties of the kind. At the
same time, the center of the border disturbances shifted from the
Rio Grande to the frontiers of New Mexico and Arizona, where
the Apaches were committing fearful depredations.
Certain readjustments which the United States government at-
tempted to make in the location of these Indians led to a series of
the most formidable uprisings the southwestern frontier had wit-
nessed in years. Led by such chieftains as Victorio, Nana, Natchez,
Juh, and Ger6nimo, the various Apache bands kept New Mexico,
Arizona, Chihuahua, and Sonora in almost constant terror from
1880 to 1886, and hundreds of lives and thousands of dollars worth
of property were destroyed. In order to cope with the situation
the United States government again appealed to Mexico for per-
mission to cross the border in pursuit of the marauders,64 and this
time with more success than upon former occasions. In the fall
of 1880, President Diaz prevailed upon the Mexican Senate to
permit an agreement for reciprocal crossing of the boundary for
three months,65 but the United States government seems not to
have taken any immediate steps to render the favor it asked of
Mexico mutual.60 On July 29, 1882, however, such a reciprocal
agreement was made, and this was renewed from time to time so
fessor Herbert E. Bolton of the University of California, and found in
the library of that university.
"'John W. Foster, Diplomatic Memoires, 1, 95.
"Secretary of War Ramsey to the General of the Army, February 24,
1880, House Exec. Doec. No. 1, 46th Cong., 3 Sess. (Ser. 1951), pp. 735-736.
"Hunter to Morgan, September 15, 1880, and Morgan to Evarts, Sep-
tember 21, 1880, House Exec. Doc. No. 1, 46th Cong., 3 Sess. (Ser. 1951),
Part I, pp. 768, 775.
"Fernandez to Morgan, October 15, 1880, House Exec. Doc. No. 1, 47
Cong., 1 Sess. (Ser. 2009), pp. 745-746.
"'Mariseal to Morgan, May 4, 1882, House Exeo. Doe. No. 1, 47 Cong.,
2 Sess. (Ser. 2090), Part I, p. 389.314
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, July 1920 - April, 1921, periodical, 1921; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101078/m1/320/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.