The Arizona champion., 1886-06-26
Letter of Sc!igman, of New York, to C. l., Gutterson, of Apache County.
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GuttersOu, Of Apache county.
 NEW YORK, March z5, 1886 C. l. GUrrERSON, ESQ.
 Attorney and Counsellor,
 ST IoHNs. APAcHE O., ARIz, DEAR SIR:
 We have been notified that several >heep. herders are now trespaS,ing on the lands of the Aztec Ltnd and Cat tie Co.,, Ltd, and that others are ,h:ea,ening to follow them, and as MT. Henry Warren, V. President ani Genl. Manager of that Company, has informed Us that you were looking af- ter the Company's interests in Apache County, we request and instruct you 0 see to it that all proper and nee eSsary measures are taken to protect the C1mpanys property and rigHts, and SCI d you, at Mir, Warren's re- qu., {, the following notes, in order ,nat you nay understand the Com pany's position with regard to it's land, nv what title it claims and what its policy Is.
 By act of Congress entitled "An Act granting Lands to aid in the con >lruction of Railroad aud Telegraph Line from the States of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific Coast" ap ,roved July 27ih, 1866, sc. 3 There were granted 10 the Atlantic and Pa
 fife Railroad Co. all the odd num- leIed sections to the amount of twen ' alternate sections per mlle on each
 de of its hne, whenever said llne ,hOuid pass through any of the Terri tories of | United States, whenever the United States should have full title thereto, not reserved, sold, grant cd or otherwise appropriated and free frc:n pre-emption and other claims or rights, at the time oi the designation Jf the line oi said road. by plat thereof filed in the office oi tie Com. missioner of the General Llnd O'hce; and when, prior to such tune, such lands shall have been sold, granted, {, pre-, empted or otherwise disposed ot the Company has right to select odd numbered alternate sections, not ln- ciudlng reserved numbers, not more than 10 miles beyond the limits Of the reguIdr grant.
 A plat ol the line of road was duly fled iH the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office on MVtA I2, I87a, and the right of the Com pany to all the land within the forty mile limit, i. e. the regular grant, at aches from this dlte. AX the land granted by the Act of rS6o above re- ierred 10, within the forty mile regu- ar limit and the 10 mic indemnity limit was withdrawn from public sale pr entry or pre-emption by acIi0A of the DcPaIlmeAt Q Me Iteyl0y 0R June I6, 1872 In accordance with section G ul said Act which provides for the yarQty of tie lands by the President ut lhe Unlted otates and that these oM nAMbsye2 SethoRS ShaX n0t be ka- @Ie I0 sale or eHtry or ore "W5tlcn eItt' Fr bcf0re or after SHr0cy. A careful .earln In the records of the Depart nent of the Interior at Washington ,howed that no liens of any kind at ached to these odd-numbcred sec lions before June 18th, 1872.
 Some time dwing I38r and ISSa that portion 0. tkc Western Division of the Atlantic ard Pacific to which the land cIa ned by the Aztec Com pany attached, was buili. II, C. Mutt i'resiGent of jh. \. & P R. R. Co.,, sen, a letter dated October re, 1872, to the Pres.dInl of the United States requesting the appointment Of Com ml,slUucTs to eXa,nlne 10 sections of 25 inies each ot the said Railroad, being SO miles of She Central Division and 2co miles ofthe Western Division ui the Railroad, the latter portion beginning at a polnt POO mles west Of Isl-ta, N. M., and running thence 200 mics in a westerly direction.
 In response to this letter, the Pres ident on Oetobev 25M, 1872, appointed Wahas Cory s,alta. Edward w..