The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-09-27
Yuma County and Other Matters

We have the Ysma Sentinel of the 18th inst, from which we condense as follows;
 Members of the California Enterprise Com pany who left Pfttsburg twenty-five years ago for the Golden State, are requested to address Mir. Jas. Connor, Pittsburgh, Pa, wbo, with others of the company, wish to learn thu whereabouts and fate of their old companions; also to hold quarter of cen tury celebration.
 move has been insugurated to oust Mir. I. Q. Dickson from the U. S. Marsbalship and install Mir. Geo. Tyng, of Ehrenberg, in the place. Tyng is good man, and would make an efficient Marshal. It is charged against Dickason that he has neglected his duties and failed to pay jurors the fees they are entitled to. At all events we do not now know his whereabouts.
 The paper publishes letter from the Con- missioner of the General Land Office to Sur veyor General Wasson of this Territory, the text of which IS as follows:
 "Sir Tn answer to your letter of the 18th of May transmitting communication from Mayor Finlay of Yuma City, Arizona | Territory, have to say, that after careful l review of the question and examination of the act admitting the State of California, and that organizing the Territory of New Mexi- co. both approved September Q, 1850 [U. S.. Statutes at Large, vol. Q page 4i6,l and the l Constitution of California (Wood's Digest, l lS60), am satisfied that all that portion of | land lying south of tho Colorado river, west l of the Gila river and north of the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, as established pursuant to treaty of Febru- ary 2, ls4s, is within the jurisdiction of the Territory of Arizona, and you will hereafter so consider and treat it.
 Since my last letter of July 8, 1872, to the Hon. K. c. Mccormick, have had further correspondence with the War Department, relative to the Fort Yuma Military Reserva- ton. The Adjutant General under date of Aug. ?, 1872, states that the post of Fort Yuma, was originally established by Brevet Major s. P. Heintzelman, November 2, 1850, and that the reservation was originally estsb- lished in October 1850, under paragraph II special order No. 8, dated July 4, 1850, from headquarters of the Tenth Military Department, [copy herewith together with Major Heintzelmans report, dated October II, 1853.
 No authority seems to have been given by the President or Secretary of War for the lO- cation of the original reservation, or any notifications thereof. Nor does any compe- tent authority seem to have been invoked until the Presidential order dated January 9, 1867. This order embraced two small tracts on the south side of the Colorado river, the description of which has been heretofore transmitted to you.
 These tracts must be respected as reserva- tions, but the lands adjoining are public lands, and must be treated as such.
 Some sixty teams were reported on tue way from New Mexico for the purpose oi hauling Government freight, which move va, not relished by the freighters of the Gils who said they could make nothing at offered rates.
 MT. Bernt, an old La Paz trader, had ar- rived and started business.
 The river steamers were making regular trips. Hooper & Co. had shipped immense quantities of freight; by wagon, to interior towns and military posts.
 The new courthouse building was almos, completed.
 Mir. John c. Bacon, who, in the absence oi Mir. Minor, is making live paper of the Sentinel, notices our recent "departure in q way that is pleasing and satisfactory to us