Arizona citizen., 1877-12-07
l.. H. RedaeId. Special Agent.

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 that all the fuel used by the Longfel-
 low Copper Mining Company at Cliff
 ton, was taken from the public lands.
 We thought at the time that such a discovery by this special agent justi-
 fled the action of the general govern
 ment in sending him al public expense
 to Arizona for information that could
 have been obtained from any man,
 woman or child in the Territory, and
 which the miners themselves would
 have given freely. The telegraph,
 however, furnished but little of the
 remarkable discoveries made, as will
 be apparent from the following para
 graph clipped from the Washington correspondence of the San Francisco
 Post:
 ARIZONA APACHEs-TDIBER INTERESTS.
 The special agent of the General
 Land Office in Arizona writes 10 the
 Commissioner that, on his arrival at
 Tucson, Sth of October, he found all
 connection with the nOrthward and eastward cut off About a month ago
 the Warm Springs Apaches broke out
 and left their reservation. Shortly aE
 ter they took forty head of mules from
 Lesinsky & O., at Clifton, and but one
 mail has since come through from Sil-
 yer City, and number of drivers and
 citizens have been killed. The agent
 had intended to proceed to Silver City
 and Clifton, but 1t was unsafe to travel and mail communication had ceased
 No surveys can now be made, as the Surveyor Generals appropriations are exhausted and no escort can be had at present He would remain at Tucson .tIll the 24th, and then return to San
 Francisco. The timber depredations are committed to supply charcoal for Smelung Tn the copper mines, and have
 been going on since 1870 by the miners and largely by Lesinsky ,S O., copper miners. The mine works $50 employ ees, and smelts about 5000 pounds of copper daily. The firm is abundantly responsible for all timber taken, and will be proceeded against at convent ence. The miners, it is stated, are willing to pay for all the timber they use, but there is no law to sell it to them, and they must have it, or their immense industries would be paralyZ- ed. It would seem, therefore, that, SO far as Arizona IS concerned. legislation would be Tn order by Congress, such as would give the Commissioner au- thority to sell timber for its fair value in money 10 those who are willing to purchase.
 The various Territorial papers have often taken correspondents to task for gross misrepresentation of affairs in Arizona, and as the report of which the above is a synopsis, is an official communication from a trusted agent, and one upon which government ac- tion may be based, we deem It worthy of special consideration. We do not intend at present to refer to the policy of the government which, by prevent ing miners, farmers and all others from using timber absolutely necessary for existence and development, seeks to depopulate the country; or even to re- fer to the great and evidently deliber- ate misrepresentations of the report, as we believe it will be sufficient to ore. sent to our readers and to the public generally, a statement of the character of the agent who made it. In doing this, we will say that the evidence in support of our statements can be had from any resident of Tucson, all of whom could not but help become fa- miliar with the facts.
 Mr. L. II. ReIfield, the special agent, arrived Tn Tucson, as he says, on the Sth of October, and gave out that he was en route to Clifton, and that his instructions were such that, if needed he could secure military transportation and an escort. Tucson is 225 miles from Clifton, and though he could have reached the latter place without he meyer got any nearer to It than Tucson, and hence could not have known anything about the matter he was sent to investigate. The mescal of the saloons seemed tol have much greater allurements for him than did any timber investigations, forI during his entire stay, he was so close ly welded to it, that during the wholeI time he was under its influence. It is currently believed that he drew scarce ly sober breath in Tucson.
 Such was his condition that he could have known nothing about af- fairs accurately and was unfit 10 trans act business. Instead of being unable to go to Clifton or Silver City, as hel reports, he compelled the Messrs. Les insky, at personal risk of course tol themselves, to meet him in Tucson, and then not only would not hear what they had to say about using timber, but would not allow them to either ac- cept or reject his own proposition A more outrageous case of disregard of the rights of citizens was never shown anywhere than this. The Mcssrs. Les insky, as every one is aware, are pre- law-abiding and honest men; still they are compelled to leave their business and families and travel from Las Cruces to Tucson, over 300 miles, | to meet man who should have gone to them, and then found him insOlent, and in no condition fol