612.119/2929: Telegram
The Governor of Lower California (Cantu) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 29—5:07 a.m.]
On June 11th last I filed application with your Department for license to export the goods therein specified if favorable to that application. Is now very urgent for the protection of this territory where peace and order have prevailed uninterruptedly since 1914, an unwarranted invasion is now imminent by troops of Yaqui Indians led by unscrupulous chiefs and bent on pillage, loot, murder and all kinds of violence, thousands of peaceable law abiding persons and millons of dollars here invested are under my direct protection and inhabitants expect me to organize defense which cannot be effective without your granting said license; have also to protect irrigation system on which depend crops of American Imperial Valley. Present situation is culmination of months of conspiracy by turbulent so-called militaries to lay hands on property of this district. So far $15,000,000 of American money has been invested in crops which will be worth about forty millions, foreign property in this district amounts to over $100,000,000 mostly American. Expecting your favorable decision am sending respectful regards.72