The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-01-17

been useless, and not having found the said data, l feel bound to give the present report.
 Signed by T. l.. NALLARTA,
 Citizen Minister of Mexico.
 Guadalajara, July 2, 1874"
 Now, you see that the United States Gov ernment has had thorough and careful ex- . animation made of the archives of Mexico relative 10 grants of land in ArZona, and nothing can be found of record there con- , corning any of the so-called grants, and hold, sir, that the Government of the United States can never confirm and issue patent for single grant of land included within the Gadsden purchase without directly vio- : lating the plainest provisions of the before entioned Treaty. But what, sir, is the effect of this attempt that is being made to gain title to land which the claimants have no earthly right to. Sir, it IS paralyzlng to industry and Improvements, and is causin
 great deal of ill feeling and dissatisfaction among our people. We have men, sir, on their little homes along the Santa Cruz who have stood off the hostile Apache for more than twenty years, and now when a line of miners encircles the Apaches on the North and West and he rides on his raids no more; now that it is safe for the model land thief to come with his roll of docu- ments, sworn to with list of outlandish names attached, and most of them signed with an x; he comes to drive off the poor settler, talks big about his possessions, and asks the poor settler what right he has to live on the land he has defended with his rifle Tor twenty years. It Is pity, sir, that the earth would not open and swallow up all such abominable frauds. A man. sir that will go to work and bolster up fraud, and get mea drunk and have them swear to a document they know nothing about, can conceive of nothing too mean for him to do. 1 might compare him to the thiev- ing Apache, but I would certainly De con- pelled to apologize to the Apache for the comparison.
 Why, sir, they are trying to make people believe that their title IS perfect, guaranteed by the United States, and ali such bosh :; they know sir, when they make such as- sertlons, that they are telling that which is not so. Look at pamphlets published by the Calabassas Land and Mining Association, they claim sir, to own 10000 acres of land. What sir, is their title; not worth the paper it is written on. A grant given by the Gov eruor of Sonora, when he was acting kind of independent of Mexico, never recorded in the archives of Mexico, and it is said by the best authorities of Sonora, to be absolutely worthless. Yet sir, this same company say that their title Is perfect, being guaranteed by the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, and ' the Gadsden treaty, when the truth Is that 1 the Treaties guarantee no such thing. They | guarantee that the claim is a fraud. as plain as language can make it, and yet sir, we see 1 the names of men of wealth, and one United States Senator, man sir that have Ie- spected more than any maa that l know of 1 from this coast, but when 1 see the names of such men attached to such infamous schemes to plunaer the people and rob the Government of its rights, can only say as did Washington when he heard of the treason of Arnold, "In the name of God, who can We trust now" Why sir, they arc even laying claim to the mines that are in 1 the vicinity of what they claim to be their grants. Why sir, in giving away grants of land, neither Span or Mexico, ever gave away the title to a mine. Now sir, let US admit for the sake of the argument that they have valid grant; what right gives it to theml they answer 1t is Mexican land grant; but in Mexico that don't hold mine, how can it uo it herel Oh. they ex- pect tO get d patent one of these days, and ! then they will be all right Well, sir, they have not got a patent yet, and I don't ] Il be good sense, if it is not good law it ought | to be, that the sovereign power over the metals belonged to Mexico at the time she ceeded part of her Territory to the United States, she certainly ceeded all her title 10 | the United States, so the title to all the mines whether on or of the so called grants belongs t0 the United States, and can only be obtained by complying with the requirements of the National Mining | Law, Why our Government can't give away | the mines in violation of her own law, but, sir when look back over California and see the hundreds of land steals that ha ve been effected there, through the infamous doctrine of admitting Of oral testimony to establish the yaladiIy of Spanish or Mexi can land grant, when l know, sir, that you can take few bottles of mescal and get | all Ihe names you want to QCien Sabe, doc ument, most of them will be signed with an ! X. When l look at this, my heart sinks within me, 70 think that the same scenes of robbery aud plunder are to be inauguarated here, that have made California a stench in the nostrils of the people of the 18th Century. But let me tell you sir, in one sense, it will | be different here, the men who have fought the Apache. and kept him back for almost | quarter of century, will not be driven | from their possessions and their discoyeries without trouble. It is a burning shame, and disgrace 10 our country that this thing has not been settled long ago, it would have | been far better for all if 1t had been done and now m conclusion we must all appeal ' to our Government to settle these troubles | ere they become more serious, and appeal 10 you gentlemen of the Council, to write to all the Senators and | Congressmen that you are acquainted with, to do all they can in this matter to urge the immediate action of Congress, and appeal so our Delegate in Congress, in the name of the heroic men who have beeu the explorers and prospectors, and who have led the van of civilization for thir.y years, men that | can look back with sorrow to the graves of their comrades, that marx the line of mach | from British Columbis to the line of Sonora, these men ask you not in mercy, but in justice 10 them, to sec that they are not robbed and driven from the discoveries they have made, and brought to light through their ! labar and skill, intelligence aad perseverance, the treasures 0f the earth; see to it that they are not driven away from that which is justly theirs.
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