[6]: 41 Paddock's Old Ferry had been long abandoned and the adobe house there was in ruins and the Gonzales' Ferry boat was destroyed by November 21, 1861, on orders of Lt. Col. West commander of Fort Yuma, to prevent any crossings by a Confederate force attempting to cross the Colorado River.
[7] Due to the hostilities with the Hualapai and Paiute that began in 1865, many mines the vicinity of the northern Colorado River shut down for several years until they ended.
By the 1872 Smith's Ferry had been established, and was mentioned in the Saturday, December 7, 1872, The Arizona Sentinel of Yuma, Arizona: By August 19, 1873, the Sentinel reports Smith's ferry was alerted to watch for two men wanted for the murder of the station keeper of Kenyon Station.
[8] The river landings on the Colorado below Yuma, were ended in 1878, after the Southern Pacific railroad reached that town in 1877.
There is no trace of the old settlement, which is now under farmland and farm buildings in the ejido Grullita, along a former course of the Colorado River.