Weekly Phoenix herald., 1884-04-03
The PeraIta Grnnt and the Ju-
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PHOENIX, March 31, 1884.
 ED. HERALD:-It has now been over one mouth since the Rcd Bar on's evidence was published in the HERALD, given in the case of Churchill ys- Reavis, to quiet title, in which the title to the Peralta Grant was involved. The Baron was forced reluctantly, under oath, to divulge many things that make it conclusive that Mr. Reavis Ghe Red Baron) is only a cat's-paw in the hands of Crocker & Co.,, assisted by Jim Barney and, beyond much doubt, the Surveyor>General of the Terii~ tory, and a ring of confederates in Tucson are also in Crocker's employ. The sooner the people of the coue- ties interested are brought to com prehend the fact that it is Crocker, not Reavis they have got to contend against the better.
 It has been long enough now for Crocker and Barney to-have denied Mr. ReavIs' statements under oath, if they were false; but I have heard tell or no denial on their part, hence the conclusion is that his statements wero true; and this being true, the case is clear that it is MT. Crocker that is pulling the job.
 MT. Crocker told one of our citi- zens, so 1 have been informed, that he had never had any conversation with Reavis on the subject; MT. Reavis testifes that he sold the right of way of the s. P. R. R. to that company and made the contract with Chas. Crocker, the amount he re- ceived was over $SO,0OO, l believe was his evidence.
 MT. Reavis was also forced to di- yulge the fact that his principal ad> wiser and agent for transmitting money to Mrs. Willing, of St. Louis, in payment for her dowry in the grant, was Chas. Crocker & Co.'s principal legal advisor, and that said lawyer always used one of the R. R. company's financial agents through which to transmit the pay> ments. The most important portions of Mir. Reavis' business Transactions, as revealed by his evide nee given in the said case in completing his chain of title 10 the said grant has been in connection with the c. P. R. R, office and the employees of said office. Taking into consideration the char acter of the men at the helm of this office, as revealed at the Colton trial, the foating of Spanish grant so as to gobble up the Salt and Gila val leys, which would be worth more than either of their railroads, would be entirely ID their line of business, and the quicker the settlers living on said grant commence to take means to expose the fraud the better But how IS it to be done?
 Very fortunately, as the writer of this thinks, Senator Bayard and some others in the U $. Senate have got through the Senate , bill which is now pending ih the House, and has been favorabiY reported Cn by the House com mittee to which it was re- ferred, and it will undoubtedly be- come law, sending all the Mexican grants to the States and Territories Tn which they are situated to be set~ tied in the courts. I differ from many in the opinion that this is trick of the grantees; 1 should rather conclude that it will become a law in spite of the influence of Crocker & Co. This sends the case to be set, tied among the parties that are in terested; this gives us a chance to expose the fraud in our own courts provided we So wish it, and can get a legislature sufficiently unpurchas- able to pass bill creating a Terri- torial judiciary, the judges of which will bc elective by the yo,ers Of the respective counties.
 This is too i'm, ,ortant to be left to a court that may be appointed through the influence of our enc, mics. We have sufficient legal lal- ent in the Territory, assisted by one pr two good lawyers in old Mexico, to work up the case there, to expose the fraud. REILLoc.