Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-11-20
Santa Cruz Valley.


 perfect title. Travel over this fertile
 strip of country, feast your ey s or it's natural beauty. compute, not th' dollars and cents, but the years of prI
 vatiOn, the Loneliness, the labor, aye anC
 the blood th t has been expended II making these little farms and garden: end fields what tney are. SmGll return you may say for the hard hips, the prI- vations, the agOnIes endured. Small indeed, but far better than nothing ai all. When wild beasts hOwlsd m the night time, and lurking Indians made every hour a menace, when, for miles and miles and miles. no village, town oI settlement Was to be reAcbrd, then beaten, discouraged, ,disbesrsened, power ty stricken, from the esse and idlsness oi eastern life the man of energy and am bit!on turned his eyes to the promised land of the west, the then far, wild wlde west.
 IL was hard enough to l,bor day after day for bread, and sleep On guard al night, depr.ved of home comforts, de priged of that cOmpa.lOnshIp SO valued and indeed so necessary to She happ - ness of ''tbe meanest of m4nkInt,' all this was hard enough, but with perse- verance. stolId and st"Ic he kept stead lily on resIsting al entrestIes tO return and mingle wish his kind. coming m I,imr to feel certain measure of con tent to have. for the rude hut and prImi- tive ImT TrOvements. a kind of atfscti D, and m all and for all, measure of prIde that naturally accompanies owner ship, content with the small re- turn, hoping for something better in the future, and what IS now the re- ward! 4 company of men, hitherto un- heard of, people perhaps already possess ed of a competence, people perchance from some citN. who, all their lves have had to express wish and 1t was Sratified, utter a command and It was Obeyed; company springs suddenly into activity and says: ''Get thee hence This land was ours long before you ever saw 1t. Y II have kin ily improved II, you have cleared and cultivated II, you have planted It and sown It, for us to reap and garner; move oG! This pct gre, thi- Dineteenth century, n these fr. t United States, the uoiettere1 iron uer, seemR, ov, drawn. It IS not. Would that It were. You can see, speak with, and here thee men for yourself. The story ls n0t a fiction, nor the woe that thre7te them imaginary. Years are passing. and with them has passed the strength 10 do, the wIll To persevere. The men who will suffer most are now grown gray and alm st helpless. Their children su round them, and they shud- der at the thought of removal. Many Ofthem have buried dear ones in some corner of the garden, many of them have oeet wounded ID battle with the IndIans; i; wrecked. in the man lei remains of a IT mIsIng son, a gifted daughter, or d .oying wife. It was in thls same valley. scarce fifteen miles from this very town, that the massacre of Mrs. Peck and her bahy girl occurred. Who could tsS of childless man Co surreI der that which has been the wines of his happy nome; that spot round which so many ieOder memories clusier2 Yet he is ouIy Ine of many-many quite as deserving, and perhaps Tn much greater need of the ,m tll claim they hold.
 In the face of such danger and dis many ambitious and indus ,rIous men from the east have bridged he country lying between 1t aud the security of the western coast, nor tarried Tor even a glance at it's attractions. Many to-day are deterred from invest ng capital by he thought that they may prove dead loss. NDgales, with d --pidly increasing population, at present at more than POO. mines and grazing lands adiace' [, monopoly of ihe international trade, every prnspecr Tor bright future, IS under the disad- vantage Of having been built on the roll ng hills Of s section covered by Ian grant The government of the United States, when AriZODs wa, coded to it. made treaty with Mexico that declared ill land claims not on record at that lme frau ulent and not tr be reeogniz- sd. And every claim that was not on record at the very moment that treat y was made. is invalid. and therefore Why, when cur glorious gov ,rnment cln make such a treaty, can as tO what grants shall be re- pected, why eau it not also, through its gents, our cong e. smen, say now, who ! entitled under that treaty, 70 the land 1 n ArlZ1n Some of these have said. | 'ut will not say again. that the poor till r or the s1Il must go to the courts for | edress. That was the last straw reeG- | a to break 'he burdened settlers back. | to to the courts Indeed-the mad idea. ] he courts have DO power to give a man l title. They may give hIm possession. 'ut htie never. Settler, fl man | 1nps your clam. and yOu 90 to the ourts ID Tues n, you may regain DOS ession. but you get no title and have mo uarauty that such outrage may not ccur again, and give you the same an oyance and expense. O no, you get O ntle. 1cu must wait, and gIye these md grant leeshes plenty of time. year.
 necessary to arrange things to shit and when they are ready ley VIII spring the trap upon a telp- 'ss lot or sleeping congressman. and ave their unlawful, un- mericsp claim 'nnrmed, and afterwsrd those con. ressmen will come forward for rs- ection aud say: "i dId all | could' III not our delegates rou @ themselves ld interest their cOllt sgueS Tn this leshony They vIll-they must: fo, le people and the press q usnd lt. and III not allow the matter Co rest mil .,
 setiled-this evil. twin of the Irish n uon FyStem-is set led forever Nr
 -- 'N" AAlF v uOIC lie WalI ! axe hls mark, It h. don't toe inc a E, you mark our word for it. ve ill draw such a black mark apainst m' and send him such a D a:nly mark
 c'py, tba' he will wIsh bis name vfs 't MArE. He gave us hi promise in all Tn hls power t1 h4ys this Ian lille T. stlon settled; he people of Arizona we pui faiih ID LIm, ss was evidenced
 tbe 2ud of Nov 1886. Delepgte nth, don't bother with the water lesilon now, but give us the land fret
 we have no land. We heed DO wats-
 ttstsuhIect 'ie lon the table where tb. md Grant protess have lain Sd Iong d thke up the latter fr prompt al s'ment Then will You earn what von ve already gained. the confidence and pp3rt oI 6 long neSlected and abused