Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-06-21
ORDERED OPP

include valuable ranches and minin 2 property, NIT. Blair and others among the number, and that Mr. Blalr had been officially notified to vacate the premises. The following is the warrant for the order of dispo secession. It is peremptory, and requires that all upon the reservation, without authority of law, must be notified to leave:
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 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 1883. P. P. WILCOX, U. $. Indi3n Agent, San
 Carlos. A. T:
 SIR:-I am credibly informed that cer- tain parties are mining coal on the San Carlos Agency. You should without de- lay notify such parties that they are at once to quit work and remove from the reservation. If they neglect or refuse to do SO, you will at once report to the Department You will also see to it that all intruders are notified tD remove from the reservation, and that no one be allowed to remain on the reservation except those authorized by law.
 Very respectfully,
 Signed. II. NJ. HELLER. Sec'y.
 A true copy of the copy furnished by Agent Wilcox.
 PARKER W. WEST,
 Lieut. 3d Cavalry.
 The above Is from the Silver Belt, published on Saturday last
 The Florence Enterprise, of the same date, contains a long, fiery article, headed Another Outrsgel-Czar Craw- ford, with Two Companies of Soldiers, Drives the Workmen from the San Car los Copper Group-After Having Made Special Survey to Bring the Mines on the Reservation"
 Both papers are of the same date, and We are inclined to think that the Enterprise must be mistaken So far fs the Copper Group is concernei. A gen. tleman left the vicinity of the Copper Group on Sunday morning, and he had heard nothing of :he report. The mlli- tary department has surveyed a portion, if not the whole, of the western line of the reservation, but whether the Copper Group property IS on the reservation We have not learned, but the supposltion is that it is. The question is whether the War Department has a prior right over the Interior Department to make surveys. If the Copper Group is On the reseryati )n they will have to take their chances along side of the Deer Greek coal field boys, and depend upon future action of congress, or executive action, to segregate the land from the reserva- tion. IhIs Is the proposition before congress and there seems to be good prospects for accomplishing the desired object. We certainly hope this will be done. It would be a shame and dis grace If the men who have spent their money, believing at the tune that the land was off the reservation to be en- urely dispossessed, for as NIT. Paul Riecker says, that owing to the char acter of the ground 1t is and was i'm possible to tell where the line was and that it was as easy to suppose the coal fields and the Copper Group f mines were off the reservation as on the same. The men who made tine locations be- heved, We think, that the lands were off the reservation. If tine Copper Group has got into the same boat With the coal fields, it will bring the matter to an issue speedier than otherwise. The Enterprise is too warm, too ardent, tGo incorporate. The government does not want to crush Arizona, though there so unjustly, so unfairly and so unwisely, that 1t gives color to such statements; but We are of the opinion that if Arl- zona matters, requiring the attention of the government, were presented by q committee of responsible citizens, out side of officials under tue military DOW CT, the government would be better en- frightened. We know to our certain knowledge that it is all one sided af lair in Washington and in many in- stances the government has no other data or standpoint from which to act. These coal fields and copper properties should be segregated. The secretary of he interior favors it, but so long as the l are declared on the reserva- | ion the secretary must protect the in- crest of the Indians. no matter how un- ust to the locators it seem. and is, and Intil there l. action on the part of con- ,ress, so long must the secretary act as Ie does. That there are schemes on the art of outside parties to get possession I the properties We have no doubt and D that respect our people should be 7lde awake. More interest should be aken in these matters. It will do no ood to stand off and call others hard ames and apply impure motives to the ction Of the government It IS action la. will do the work The other fel- 'ws work. They get on the inside and lisrepresent the true state of affairs ld succeed and then We howl ourselves Oarse