Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-06-28
THE COAL FIELDS.
The Narrow Gauge Railroad to
 Globe.
An Able Letter from Judge John Haynes
 to secretary Teller.

this week and asked Judge Haynes for some information concerning the Deer Creek coal fields, knowning the Judge had interested himself in the matter. His reply was: "I have just forwarded a letter upon the subject Of segregation to Secretary Teller, which think covers the ground"
 Reporter-Would you have any objec- ton to give the CITIZEN a copy of the letter for publication!
 Judge-I see no objection to its pub Ecation and you can have a copy fl you so desire.
 Thus We are enabled to give our read CTS full, comprehensive paper upon this important question.
 TUcsoN, 4. T., June If, 1884 | To the Honorable II. II. Teller. Secre- tary oi the Interior.
 | Sm:-In vIew of the failure of con gress to take final action upon the bill ! introduced at the present session to l sesregate the coal nelds from the White Mountain Indian Reservation, and tO change the west llne of the same north ct the Glla rIver, the undersigned would respectfully call the matter to your at l teut:on, and request immediate action | by the department over which you pre- | side. and the Executive.
 The change proposed by the bill re- | ferred to and the report of the com mittee thereon, Is entirely satisfactory to us. MT. Ri-cl CTS survey recently made of ' the south boundary of the reservation, wlilfully explain the situation south or ! the Gila river. and We send you here | with a plat drawn by Mr. Riecker show ing approximately the proposed change north Of the GIla, as well as the line of ! inc GiIa from the mouth of tue San 1 Pedro to the ten mile monument estab- ! lished by him at or near the mouth Of ! appointment Creek. The line of the | Gila river is correctly shown upon this plat, as it Is taken from the notes Of Mir. | Rieckers survey, and Es you well see by | comparing 1t with the map 10 common use. the cOurs of the river between ! those points IS not correctly laid down | on the maps.
 Referring to said plat, tho lire from | Chromo Butte tp the mouth of the San | Pedro river tand which Is now the west | line of the reseryaiiOnl, Is correct, If 1t | ue assumed that Chromo Butte Is cor | rectly located upon the map. That point h,weyer has not been connected ' with tie government surveys. or other | wise accurately located.
 | From tliS sketch it will toe seen that the part proposed to be segregated north | Of the Gala, IS a very narrow strip, and | that portion of IL below the month Of
 Disappointment Creek is simply point running down the northwest side of tue | Gila to the mouth of tine San Pedro, | from winch last named point the west | line of the reservation formerly rEn south up the valley of the San Pedro. ] In order to segregate the valley of the | San Pedro from the reservation, from which II was already completely separ- | ated by the intervening mountains, and ! in which valley numerous white men | had settled ani made valuable improve meuts. an executive order Was made | March 3lst. lSI1, by which the reseTva- tiOn line was made Go nun up the GIla ten miles, and thence south to tue south en boundary. Tins partial change of | the west line left It ID its present un- | slightly and unnatural coalition. IL is perfectly safe tU say that if the reservation were now for the first time being established. DO one wCLld suggest l the present hue to the mouth of the San Pedro; but when the liBe ran south
 from the mouth of the San Pedro, there
 was a reason for making that point on the line, because 1t was prominent and well known. There never was any other reason, however, as the San Pedro val ley was completely isolated from the | body of the reservation.
 There are many reasons now for the | proposed change which were not then | known to exist. Some of these we will | briefly call your attention to.
 First-Tke only feasible route for the | Narrow Gauge railroad from Tucson to | Globe, i- through the Canon of the Giia from the mouth of Ash Creek to the month of Disappointment Creek, and through this portion of the canon 1t can only be built on the northwest | bank of the rlver, and therefore upon | the reservation. This portion Cf the road will be very difficult of construc- ton, aud very expensive, and the right | of way is not secured under the statute. Second-On the same side of the river. and below the mouth ot Disappointment | Creek, and also extending several miles | back from the river. are large number of very valuable copper mines, contain | ing an almost inexhaustible amount Of ore of fair workable grade.
 Some Of these mines are inside the reservation, and some of them outside: but If they were all outside, the fact still remains that there IS no possibility of reaching them otherwise than through | the GilR Canon, as the mines are mac cessible from any other direction, nor could the ores be reduced except at or near the Gila river upon the reservation. Besides, the abundant waters of the Gila would furnish water power that could be most advantageously used m ! the reduction of these ores.
 These mines are situated nearly op- posite the mouth of Deer Greek, a trib- utary of the Gila, which peBetrates to the coal fields, and the only practicable outlet to the west and southwest. is down the Deer Greek and Gila caiions. The distance from the coal mines to tLe Gil8, Is about twenty to twenty-five miles, and the route Is practicable for a narrow gauge railroad.
 These mines of copper and coal would alone make business more than sufficient tO maintain the railroad, if ifcapital can feel safe in working them, and employment would be given to hundreds if not thou sands, of white men with dependent families, whose claims upon the consi- iteration of the government are quite as strong as the most philanthropic would assert for the Apache. These enterprises require the expenditure of very large amounts of money, and money requir1 $ the security of good titles, and freedom from all interference.
 The importance of these enterprisesI;o all our people cannot be overestimated' No language that We could use could exsggerste their importance, or over state the benefits they would confer.
 Besides, these enterprises are hinged each uprn the other. The success ofthe copper and coal mining depends largely upon the construction of the railroad, and the construction of the railroad de- bends wholly upon the working of these mines. It need scarcely be added that the working of these mines, as we'll as those of Saddle Mountain District, de- bends upon the exclusion of these prop critics from the reservation.