The Arizona champion., 1886-07-03
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THE AZTEC" COMPANY's RIGHTS.

TIE "ALhEC' COMFaNh'S hiGuAS, Letter of seiigman. of New York, to c. l..
 Gutterson, of Apache County.
 NEW YORK, March a5, 1886. C. L. GUTTERsoN, ESQ.
 Attorney and Counsellor,
 ST. JOHNS, APACHE Co.,, ARIz. DEAR SIR:
 We have been notified that several sheep-herders are now trespaSsing on the lands of the Aztec Land and Cat tie Co.,, Ltd, and that others are threatening to follow them, and as Mir. Henry Warren, V. President and 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 to see to it that all proper and nee essary measures are taken to protec, the Company's property and rights, and send you, at MT. Warren's re- quest, the following notes, in order that you may understand the Com pany's position with regard to it's land, by what title it claims and what its policy is.
 By act of Congress entitled "An Act granting Lands to aid in the con struction of Railroad and Telegraph Line from the States of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific Coast" ap proved July s7th, 1866, Sec. 5. There were granted to the Atlantic and Pa Cihc Railroad Co. all the odd num- beied sections to the amount of twen " alternate sections per mile on each side of its line, whenever said line should pass through any of the Terri tories of tie United States, whenever the United States should have tull title thereto, not reserved, sold, grant ed or otherwise appropriated and free from pre-emption and other claims or rights, at the time of the designation of the line ot said road, by plat thereof filed in the office of the Com. missioner of the General Land Office; and when, prior to such time, such lands shall have been sold, granted, pre-. empted or otherwise disposed oI the Company has right to select odd numbered alternate sections, not in- cluding reserved numbers, not more than Q miles beyond the limits of the regular grant.
 A plat oi the line of road was duly filed n the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office on Mayrh I7, 1872, and the right of the Com pany 10 all the land within the forty mile limit, l. e. the regular grant, at taches from thls date. 1AH the land granted by the Act of 1860 above re. ferred to, within the forty mile regu. lar limit and the 10 mile indemnity limit was withdrawn from public sale or entry or presumption by aekiOA of the DIbartmenf gf Me Interior or /une I6, 1872 in accordance with section 6 of said Act which provides for the 5nrvty of the lands by the President of the United States and that these ed anm6fysd seefionS ShaX nor be Ha- Ae fo SaAe or eni,y or ore ~mphiea eiM er6st0re 0r aher SHyVey. A careful search in the records of the Depart ment of the Interior at Washington showed that no liens of any kind at tached to these odd.numbered sec tions before June 18th, 1872.
 Some time during 1881 and 1882 that portion of the Western Division of the Atlantic and Pacific to which the land claimed by the Aztec Con- pany attached, was built. H. C. Mutt, President of the A. x P. R. R. Co.,, sent letter dated October Ia, 1872, to the President of the United States requesting the appointment ot Com missioners to examine 10 sections of a5 miles each of the said Railroad, being 50 miles of the Genital Division and 200 miles of the Western Division of ,he Railroad, the latter portion beginning at point POO miles west ot isisra, N. M., and running thence 200 n.l,s in westerly direction.
 In response to this letter, the Pres iden on Oefo6ey z5tA, IS72, appointed Wll.AAa Cory S~ith Edw1j W.