Arizona silver belt., 1883-04-28
satursisy, April. ss. Issa.
ssatus sf the Deer Creek csai riei4s

Wset01 0A SAo Uocf Cr0ok C0al Elc10a,
 The Interior Department hal acted with it's usual inconsistency aaA dis-i regard for the rights ofthe ps1 KA5, this Territory in the mattss J& tks above named coal. .Galax Ehs s i1' found, ina basin at thsAsad cf p1s creek. The principal deposit ie brs miles long by one mile wide, but its actual extept is very much greater. N JsA semi.bitpmineus coal and cotes vol. The seams run from six ~ twNaty feet, with dip south of twsn. ty-&vs degrees. The eopper men of Globe are paying. .$6s's sn flor cokei if the men who arsssaocassa at Ueer creek were permitted topat up ovens, they could sell it in Globe for, @0Q. This would save to. the companiat, huHdreds of thousands of dollars arr hually. The, finders of the coal hssip requested permission to work it, by1 tho Interior Department, acting NlQC kle dog in the mapger, refuse to al
 sthsm, though Col. Tiffany, w1e& ' aeent recommended it. The DsFaI
 ment claim that the San Carlos Ressit vation includes the coal, but they n not and cannot know it without 2 our. ,vey. Several years ago a-susxsy kaJ made which threw outside the reASf vation, fifteen miles, measuring bon the south bank of the Gila rivcE x u ! this line were direct one, runni
 from one prominent point to- anoth it would be simple thing for Ithe k cators to determine wAsfheft tlSeywsss outside of this limit ;.bnt # follows sp the sinuosities of carve and outline N the river, and'a survey wRich wstla reproduce all these lines an the cosl field side of ,ths disputed grounN would cost thousands of dollars. It il impossible for men 50 puer as thess locators are to pay for wryey; it i. asimple and fair thing for the gov ernment to do. The Secretary of th. Interior ordered a survey lately, at { time when the friends of a certain Republican senator were "talkinl business" to one of the locators, ant revoked it when the "business" did not result satisfactorily to thos' friends. If there was not collusior between the Secretary of the Interiol and this Republican Senator, it was a least a remarkable coincidence. B, permission of the Interior Departmen road was constructed from San Car los to the coal fields, which cost tn, builders over $10,000, nearly all o which was paid to the Lidianl laborers oyex this roaa Nw iEox brinsv cea to the Agency for his own use; bu will not allow pound to be hauled t Globe for sale, nor will he permit par ties who want to examine the coal tt travel over the road to it. While Mir Wilcox, the Agent of the Interior De partment, refuses to the locators O the coal fields any rights by whicl they can pro6tably use them, he buy from them himself, pays United State coin for it, and does it without pro test. If it is the governments coa why should it be paid for? And fifth, government is buyer why should no the Buffalo or the Old Dominion ol the Takoma or any other company ol any individual buyp We commend { fair discussion of this question to oul contemporaries, and we ask them .tt assist us in bringing such pressur, upon this man, Teller, that he will q, the people of this Territory at leas one act of justice.