Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-02
IMPORTANT LITIGATION.
Tho calabasas L. and M Co n. P. R. Tuny
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 l The above entitled cause came on regu. larly for trial yesterday at one o'clock in the District Court, Judge Stillwen presiding.
 The suit is, as our readers will doubt. less remember, for libel, brought by the Calabasas company against P. R. Tully, and others. The history of the case i. briefly as follows: In the prospectus of the Company appeared card speaking in glowing terms of the fertility and general productiveness of the Calabasas Valley, addressed to Col. C.P. Sykes and signed by many of the prominent busi- ness men of Tucson, among which sigma lures was that of Tully, Ochoa & O., which card reads as follows:
 To Col. c. P. SYKES, San Francisco, Cal:
 We, the undersigned ditizens of Tucson are well acquainted and familiar with ;he valley of the lands of the valley are quite as good If not more than equal in richness with that of any other lands n thls Territory, and with proper the uses of all the arable lands in the valley.
 The lands are susceptible of the highest state of cultivation. and will produce al kinds 0f grain. vegetables and fruits produced in any oth- CT portion of the Territory, in the State of California. There are now Tn the valley some of the best cultivated farms m the county. There Is plenty of wood for practical purpo.es
 The Mesa Is covered with nutritious grasses and numerous veins of gold and silyer have been discovered in the mountains and foothills bor dering on the valley.
 We consider this section well adntted for A colony of people that wish to follow either or combine the pursuits of agriculture, ytock-rais- ing or mining,
 r. R. Tuliy. Lionel NJ. Jacobs. $. K. DeIong. E. M. Jacobs, ksteyen Ochoa. C. II. Meyer, J. Samuel Hughes, W. W. Williams, Jas. IT. IOOle, John '. Allen F. II. Goodwin. C. II. Lord, U 5. DepOs- J. II. Archibald. itory.
 Tucson, April l6. ls77.
 During a visit of Col. Sykev east in 1879, for the purpose of disposing of a portion of the stock of the Calabasas company, incorporated on Aug. 28, 1878, a card appeared in ths Sacramento Record Union, charging the Company with having forged their names to the card printed in their prospectus, claim ing that they never so signed the same. Following is the card:
 TuosoS, A. T., May 1st, 1s79 O EDITORS RECORD UNION: Our atfeI ton has been called to a pamphlet purpOrtinp to have been issued by a company styling itself The Calabasas Land and Mining Company, ." which company say they have offices" Room 32 Mer- chants Exchange, California street, San Fran cisco.
 or the pretensiOns of this company ta offer to the people very valuable property for very small consideration. We do not feel called upon to ex- press an opiniOn; people must judge for them selves whether all IS serene when tO give greater force to the statements in the pamphlet, ToRGERT Is committed. On page p appears card" dated Tucson. A. l T.. April 10th, ls11, claiming to have come from l the most prominent merchants and citizens of l Tucson" to which our names are appended. We | never signed that "card." or knew that such a | card had been gotten up until We saw l. in this | pa nphlet. 4 word to the wise etc.