The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-01-11
A Petition, To the Secretary of
 War.

PREscorr, A. T., January 2, 1873. 70 ihe Hon. ". ". R.Naop, Secyc'a,y of War:
 The undersigned business houses doing bu-i"c,s in Northcro Arizona, would most respectfully represent;
 That it often occurs that for two,ithrec, and even four months, the Chief Quarter. master of this Military Department is wholly or in part without funds with which to pay off Government liabilities, such as are con tinually arising on contracts for wood, coal, grain, hay, freiehts, &c.;
 That the undersigned, either as contractors themselves or by reason of customary and even necessary allowances to such contractors are often compelled to await payments until such delay and disappointment becomes bur densome in the extreme-paralyzin business at home and at the same time injuring their credit in cities where their wholesale pur chases are made that as high as the amount of near $iOOOOO of Government indebted ness has at one time been borne by the busi- ness men of Northern Arizona-at a time. too, when claims for merchandise &c.. were pressing from abroad and local trade, by reason ol the extreme scarcity of money. at complete stand still
 That the business men of Arizona have comparatively small capital, and that burdens which might readily be borne by the more wealthy and heavier operators in our large commercial cities are utterly ruinous to them
 The undersigned would rurthermore most respectfully represent that of late all monies to the credit of the Chief Quartermaster' of this Department have been deposited at the town of Tucson q town neaf three hundred miles south of this place, near the Sonora linei that we have little and practically no business with that remote part of the Terri tory; that the roads are notoriously unsafe ny reason of repeated Indian deprcdations. and that the mails are both slow and in.e- cure; that Q. NJ. checks payable only at Tucson can only be used in payment of our
 indebtedness in San Francisco and New York by submitting to an enormous dis count-wholesale dealers in those cities not wishing to take the risk of forwarding said checks by mail through so unsafe country for collection.
 Wherefore we would most respectfully re- quest that you would cause monies to be placed to the credit of this Department at such regular intervals that business men and contractors may with reasonable certainty anticipate the payment of the Governments liabilities, and that said monies be placed at Prescott, or in case that is not regular and practicable, at San Francisco, as formerly. where the same may be available for business purposes without ruinous discount.
 The undersigned take the liberty of ad- 1 iressIng you the above communication moving that it is not in accordanee with the wishes of the Government ither directly or indirectly, through its own 'egiect, to bring distress upon any of it's itizens, and fully and confidently trustino hat we have but to make known our griev. nces to secure a speedy and permanent emedy for them.
 Rodenburg Co.,, Melvin S Foster. Ed yard Kerr, Henry W. FIcury, J. II. McCand- PISS, I. Otto, Jackson & Tompkins,. Hewitt Bartlett, Ed. w. Wells, Miller Bros. c. c. Scan, Levi Bashford, c. F. Head & Co. Her II ert Bowers, Jacob Goldstein, M Wolf, Geo. ,. Kendall, Campbell S Buifum, Lewis A. teVens, Allen x White, J. H. Marion tS Co. ienry A. Bigelow, Int Rev Assr, John 'aioie, Barnett X Block, W. B. Hellings X O., "ormser & Wertheimer, R. Mcachaun, !. Cornell, C. A. Luke, D. Henderson S Bro, :. J. Cook.