Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-28
TRES ALAM0S GRANT.
A Reply to the Railroad AtlOls
 npy'S Apo O2y.
Senator stamford shown Up in an Un
 cIviablc Lighr.

! I2th inst, appears letter from the pen o
 Creed Raymond, we'll known railroat
 attorney of California, purportlng to be ; candid and truthful explanation of how
 the Southern Pacific became interested
 in the Tres Alamos land grant in Ar
 zona, and how Senator Stanford came tt
 introduce a bill for the confirmation 0
 said grant Mir. Hdymond's letteris q
 cunning attempt to create sentiment in
 favor uf the validity of the grant, as we!
 as to excuse the honorable Senators aC.
 tion on the threadbare plea of ignorance
 It will test the reputed ability of the
 faCile at,o.ney to excuse his own mis-
 statements on the same plea. It is be.
 yond the province of a respectable at-
 torney's professional duty to distort facts to the verge of fasehood, even in the m. teres, of client.
 In this letter shall not discuss the question of the validity of the grant. 1 shall confne myself to exposing Mir.
 Haymond's insincerity and attempted deception. He has endeavored to con vey the impression that the grant was ex amined by Mir. Hopkins and recom- mended for confirmation by the Surveyor General of Arizona, prior to the purchase of an interest therein by the Pacific I'm. provement Company. The facts are these:
 On the 26th day of June, 1885, George Hill Howard deeded an undivided one. quarter interest in the Tres Alamos grant to the Pacific Improvement Company for the recited consideration of ten dollars, the townste of Benson for ten dollars more, and the right-of-way across said grant to the Southern Pacific Company for like sum. Said deeds were recorded at Tombstone on June 30, 1883. About two months later the evidence was ob. tained upon upon which the Surveyor General predicated his recommendation; and said recommendation was not signed by J. w, Robbins, said Surveyor General, until September I2, 1883. Mir. Hay mond tells us that on Jxne 10th, 1883, George Hill Howard was in need of money and that Mir. Crocker offered to furnish and did furnish him with some. To us Arizonans that statement is in part the most credible one in MT. Haymond's letter; for said Howard is widely known in our Territory as cheeky, scheming, impecunious beat. It is therefore, as plain as the nose on a mans face that the Pacific Improvement Company, of which Senator Stanford is member, furnished the money to procure the recommenda- ton of said grant and likewise to procure the evidence for that purpose, At the time said grant was recommended, the Surveyor General was on his death bed, and too Ill to examine the papers with any degree of care. The chief clerk of the Surveyor. Generals office, Mir. Royal A. Johnson, was sick abed in New York city, and was known to have no faith in the validity of the grant. George Hill Howard was in Tucson, assisting" the immaculate and learned Mir. Hopkins in the work of "transla:ing papers" and preparing the report. The work was so burriedly done that some of the papers had to be sent back from Washington for correction. It is a plain inference that the claimants thought it necessary to complete the work of recommendation before the feeble Robbins should recover or the honest Johnson recover and re- turn.
 Mir. Raymond further tells us, that If the grant IS valid, Howard was the owner of three miles of road constructed by the Southern Pacific Company, and owner, also, of the townsite of Benson; that, according to Harvey s. Brown, it is doubtless valid; that the main considera. ton which moved Mir. Crocker to pro- pose loan of S6,ooo 70 Howard was desire to remove the cloud this claim cast upon the right.of'way over those three miles of road and upon the town- site of Benson (hen mostly sold to third parties without covenant of title); and yet Mir. Crocker did this without the knowledge of his associates, and the transaction was not of sufficient import. ance to have been communicated to Sem ator Stanford.
 Now will state, for the information of Messrs. Raymond, Crocker and Stan ford, that the grant as recommended, though nominally containing but ten square leagues, or about seventy square miles, is, owing to the scarcity of water away from the river and to the general conformation of the country, a virtual concession of mere than fifty square miles of good farming land and more than five | \ l. r