Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-23
FORT LOWELL RESERVATION.
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tullers Ranch and other lands nov being occupied and cultivated are with in the boundaries of the Fort Lowel reservation and the occupants have beei liable to be dispossessed at any momen by order of the military authorities Man! efforts have been made to secure a re | duction in the size of the reservation SC ! as to place these lands which were oc cupied prior to the establishment of the reservation outside of its boundaries, but without success. A petition signed by | these occupants for permission to re- n-aIn III possession of these lands until the proper auth0ritIes should de ermiue l. e question of reducing the nuts oi the reservation which was forwarded by Surveyor General Nasson with the fol lowing letter of endorsement has at last received the favorable consideration of the War Department:
 GEN. wAssoN's LETTER OF ENDoRsEMEST. |. ;. SURVEYOR GENERALS OFFICE, {
 TUCsoN, ARIZONA, Feb. l6, 1881. HoN. ALEXANDER RAMSEY. Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.--Sir: l have carefully read the petition of James r. Fuller and others, of date 9th instant, addressed to yourself, and know 1t ought to have favorable consideration at your hands. l am sure the state ment that the settlers have occupied their present homes prior 10 the establishment of the present boundaries of Fort Lowell, is true; aud owing to the great scarcity of land in this section of Arizona, upon which poor people can make homes, 1t would be very great hardship to them to compel them to leave the lands they now occupy and have so much improved.
 Camp or Fort Lowell was originally established and thereafter modified by Executive orders, and am quite certain 1t may be SO reformed by an Executive order as to preserve all rights of the settlers who petition you for relief, and at the same time work no detrinent to Fort Lowell. If this be true, aud 1 have no doubt of it, a proper Executive order would allay all apprehension of settlers and preserve all necessary rights of the Fort.
 To my own knowledge, previous Post Commanders repeatedly stated that the lands of the settlers could be excluded from the reservation without deDriVing the post Of needed land or water and stated they would endorse a statement to that effect; and l have been informed that at times the present commanding officer has expressed similar views.
 Very respectfully, yoar obt. sevt.,
 JOHN WAss0S,
 |. $. Surveyor-Gereral. Gen. Wasson has just received the following satisfactory response from Secretary Lincoln:
 SECRETARY LISCoLE's ORDER.
 WAR DkP'T, WASHINGTON CIrY,
 July 13, 1882. SIR; Referring to your letter of Feb ruary l6, 1881, inclosing and commend ing to favorable consideration, a petition of James P. Fuller and other settlers upon the Fort Lowell Military Reserva- tion in Arizona, for permislon to remaln upon the lands winch they now occupy until action eau be secured reducing the limits of the reservation so as to exclude therefrom the lands SD occupied, l beg to inform you that I have concurred in a recommendation of the General ofthe Army that the settlers now in possession upon the Fort Lowell reservation be not disturbed, but that no new eneroach- mentS thereon be allowed
 Very respectfully,
 ROBEHT T. LISco-g,
 Secretary ol War. JOHN WAssoS. Esq,
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 Tucson, Arizona
 This action of the War Department NiI be received with satisfaction by the occupants of those lands and will give chem the assurance that they will be 1e secure in the possession of their im- pTovements and when the lands are opened to occupancy, as they do1btless soon will be, they can secure a clear