Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-11-10
PREyArn LAND CLAKaEs.

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 PRIVATE LAND C1A1ars
 An Extract Erroin the Annual Report of
 Governor LuI3ck.
 Surveyor General Hise Of Arizona in | his recent report to the land depart | ment, states: "There are Spanish and | Mexican private land claims pending in this office, covering 5,l95, ,349 acres" The early settlement of these grants l is in every way desirable in order tha. such claims, if any there be as are just, may be confirmed, and such as are spurious and fraudulent may bere- l Jec3ed. and the honest settler, who in good faith located upon and paid the government for his land, may peaceful 1 Iy enjoy the same. The proposition before congress to transfer these claims to a special court created for this pur- pose, if passed or any transfer Of a settlement of these claims from the inferior departmenG and congress to the judicial arm of the government, cannot fail to work incalcula5le hard ship and consequent damage to the Territory.
 The people of Arizona most vitally interest cd, are content to trust their rights where the law at present lodges them :; 1t is only the land grabbers and their attorneys here who demand this legislation. The interior department daily passes upon all the intricate questions affecting the rights of set tiers and corporations upon the public lands. Why should claimants under alleged Spanish and sAlaxican grants, be especially faTozea 5he creation of jadicial tribunaff y.kese exclusive jurisdiction exteafIs anasto the con firmation or rcjeetse lsf their claims?
 The creation of s9stza n court would have the effect of l5laeine the settler. upon thedoiensive ;ellld hss eass 2 stensedz vitias years iS;i sIzsss lssz s..s sss.z : s'7 E1sEi ssl isiz 9le sowing ssl blood holiey
 atEsc fssl fdf . i3fsst claim iAed.
 The history of as siaasiEar commia-
 sion created fee California, xaasly- 1or- ty years ago, g not ora 111Sraeter to in abire confdShce in this mode of ad- jasJlng r1iA class of claims, nor is there
 reason to Nieve the people of Arizo-
 na would ia fe any better under the op- eration of such a tribunal than did
 the early sejt jttlers in the Golden State '2his coqr3 created and the door is epeT6d to the unprincipled schemel o/rob the people, which he would no 1 pe slow to enter. This character o- claims would multiply until the en
 tire Territory would be plastered oVel
 with them
 Congress, in justice to the settler: ] of Arzona, who by honest toll have
 made her arid lands to bloom in pro i duclive fields, should force an early 1 settlement Of all these claims.
 The once famous Arkansas vaIlel
 range which was held to be one of th,
 choicest grazing spots in the west, i , to-day fit only for the habitaiion 0 coyotes, so far as the range cattle rais CT is concerned. It's once nutriloa grasses have disappeared and barrenes
 covers al-nost the entire country there The herd owners have been seekin; , other pasturage, and the removal 0 cattle from that locality goes on a fast as possible; and to such condition , have many of the herds come, tha } even the full grown hardy steer scarcely able to walk to more invitin } pasturage. It is known that if an. } stock should perchance be left on th s range there this winter, they will al l be numbered with the things tlla : were, when the spring time comes s To such desperation have many of tn 9 cattle already come, that, paying n . attention to wire fences or other il
 closures, they have broken into corr - fields in their hunger and are doing F great deal Of damage to the farmer . crops It is anything but an interes Fl ing narrative to relate how i0eTOrahl ; are the conditions which, in man parts of the range country, are no7 : surrounding a great industry, an Q driving 1t into other channels for safC : ty against almost complete extinction J 1 Ninth Volume ofAlde4i's Manifold Cyc1t 5. pedia.
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