Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-12-29
Tucsox. Dec. s.b, Isss.
N. A. MoRFoRD, Esq, Editor Phs1iT
 Hersld.

N. A. MoRFoRD, Esq, Editor Phs1iT
 Hersld.
 SIE notice ID your issue or Che
 the sixth instant, an article thst reflects
 very seriously upon my character, and
 which l. without the slIghtes. fOuuda-
 tiO. J trIth, therefore IS lbslous. F"
 aim0st three years of my ineumteucy Ci
 ths surveyor generals offiep, endured
 at the hsnds If the Herald a systeI re
 villifying of my character, coming VI. h. out any provocatiou whatever on ray
 part, tud the articles were u1;ru ,u
 every iOs snce. 1 malntllred s-l acc
 through this long series of abuse heap ed upon me, thinking shat time 6n- la- VI vts;IgatiOn of the records Ot ths ser-
 veyor generals office and be q part
 ment of the interior VI uld rigb. the
 wrong impre sion conveyed tO tEe pee pie on the Perslta grant, so called, through the medium of your rBpe-. tle advent of the democratic edninis ration and the appointment of a democratic surveyor Renersl severed my connection with the surveyor generals office.
 Inssmuch as you do not know me per sonslly. I csDnPt conceive that you gould wilfnill am paslisio-aly ke>7 =E this incessRnt l-.Olous tirade RZ inst me, and I an liberal enough G. tl-lh that you have pos sibly been mIslUf T--- ed, and have proceeded on such sf-~U-- ous representations. rather than Co tbInk you desire to 1T jurs me from s3y D-liel- ous q, sire on your own part. have held my peace through much pEOvCC4- l tIOn ID She past, and have never here tofore expOstuIsted with you io tle . pre- mises. and ss present ] shall Cuig '. undertake to say that tLe Pers.iR grant ! claim vas before me for nearly three l years, sny day of which l could b. ve re- l ported 1t, bad it seemed to me that the | evidsncs on file justified such 8 cOGrs1 ?. ! did not report II and took no steps 10 |
 investigate it. further than tO write | through the Secretary of the IlteriO-, | hence through the Secretary of State to I our minister in Madrid, ass ing our min | ister if the records theTe-ROyal Ar | any record of the Pc | ralts grant, and to learn whether there | was any record of it in Seville. He | answ red through the State Depart meat to the Interior Depar tment that | be had been unable to find any record Il of such a claim CT grant. When the I 4nswer to my inquiry reached the ln- terior Department, Mir. Sparks, who had | but Q short ti preyIous been appoint ed commissioner of the land office, got Il hold of the letter and wrote the letter , to me claiming the information as got | ten by tho interior department. I re- i collect that letter of NIT. Sparks gave tts . Herald much pleasure, though they . never gave me the credit of having | secured that information. but turned it . upon me as information secn-ed by th | democratic commissioner, The regE1D | that sought this information st the . fountain head of Spanish information. | was because of its being vicer0y grant. | and kings act. and If the eleim vas . correct, twice a kings act. as 1t Is claim- | ed King Ferdinand 9th first notified .le . viceroy of New SDain to make The grant . and that afterwards when P-raits fCuad . minerals he asked King Csri0s 3Fd 60 . confirm the grant. sod they claim that be did 30. consequently l inferred tba; the proper place to look for records vas among the recorded records of the . kings of Spain. End our minister bu war- ad that be could find 70 such re-o-'. See the rscor of the surveyor gen , erals office and the interior depIr,n.ent |
 The only letters besides ths aboTs r- ferrsd letters were to ascertain If a cef- | tsiD notary who took an acknOg!e ige- | mert of s mining deed was stil In eN- istence. 1 fouud that be was and be- . osme informed as 10 where I could find . him should be he vented. P0ilOving | this Information VAS s change of bEs Cn . the rsrt of the claimant. who abandon . cd the chain of tlile he zas claimiag ul- ! der, when I was ic office and the se.t,ug ! up afterwards ot R claim 'hrou b lis wife, Of which the present surveyor g D. | eral could tell you better than I could !. ss 1 have had no occasion tO keep my elf informed in the matter since iea-iug | the public service. You may feuenber | that at the time l assumed the office of surveyor general, ] wrote sD open letter stating that l would give due notice be- fore any formal investigation O; ttIs matter was had. and giving parties iu- terested ample time to prepare. but Gs l remember did not intimate that l COB | templated any investigation of the case in the immediate future, Ss the flee was full of back work and the Csss would have been wholly eI-parte. ir-s- much as the government hsd done n0.h- ing towards making the xtsBai7e a rl- iu AtiOn that would have brra su
 absolute necessity, before going Into sny public examination of the merits of the Perslts Grant. Neither had s-e
 parties who5e titles were involved done any work of practical kink that sm
 aware of Months of patient research
 would have been required to have pro
 gressed the case to point where the Surveyor General investigating the case
 could have conducted the investigation
 ir the least intelligent manner. aud
 had great deal of work on my hands a.
 the time that prohibited my devoting
 any time outside of the letters referred
 to. to the Perslts Grant. I was as ked 10
 suspend the land claimed from entry &C.,
 oordIng to precedent. and refused on the
 ground ths. this case was of a vastly di,-