Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-08-14
SHERIFF .o'NEILL,s PROTEST.

| SHEklFF ONElLLS PKOIESI
 oNsi Sheriff and soeio As.ss.r of .h. county has sent the following bo, the Tucson and Phenis territorial boards qaa l OFFICE OF THE ASSESSOR OF YAvArAl CouNryl l PREscorr ARIZONA, Aucusr 9, ISs9- To rssxro rvesos. P~A protest your Honorable Bard the reduction made by the Board f YAsapa county tsng grant. lands ypa The of sah lands 7ia sos which originally assessed and which as"sn' subsequently, lowered by the County a of Equalization to thirty cents per the two assessments the being as follows
 s"s' s"' s & s s - | ;, s % a % % s, @ s S s @ sis noa aosavn II sssnas It protest and invoke Honorable a sAs"Ae tho power vested a 70" .' r''''~ '' ~ " ~ y ~ Equalization by placing valuation on hese grant lands m'e !" proportion to their value.
 In proes. which permitted l of Yap county 5a during mated the each sioo worth of would respectfully call the flowing facts
 gran, exception portion Pacific Railroad by of Con- approved July being miles aide of the track of said railroad in Arizona between the boundary granted Atlantic Pacific has, and .l does decline evs the of merely eou,en,ng fancy of policy avoiding Carried realized from the fact that the oo $40 of its l4is7 while of the 42so576
 Yavapi but GA 4529 While the has refused enter the of it's has, nehe
 assumed all the rights of ownership the land has declined to en and has sold the land by title purchasers when should secure for which has and for which For example,; Atlantic Pacific with by which the sell him when ie oo
 
 ansnrveye pays the purchase price agreed upon and enters into possession of exercising all the ownership Pacific money, has received the land. neither for the simple that has applied for received title to iromth government A
 anything natous keep perfected the railroad attempted title it's lands and why hold all the priv o ownership bur1easf
 of Company applied tho against m y,var, county ye.
 
 Equalization thirty of the valuable land Territory ,be that thousands and thousands of to while of probably to-day purchased for the s which originally assessed In fact the millions included within the Atlantic Pacific Railroad this selected they pemnny the valuable by of apbty agriculture the control of valuable privileges that their possession ensured And the vu s placed them by the based much belief making valuation low that would only be allowed remain but would be enforced by the proper authorities
 They land Yavap by the action of the County Equalization they thirty per while the average per against all parties county being sL 5e That when the and the foreign holding land under do they pay only thirty per land ssed in Yavap4 county arep paying of sl52 Another Equalization individual by of per they thereon the value of e3 45 while the railroad
  roll of tho countyd single Improvements your l3 !i and lying side side with the land be- railroad the following s7.acs on ~ ~ w ssissSn the eassesme against lands 8 follows: a - w . w - asses Trusting Yavap l39 I land by 7s sos
 
 
 Territory alike injured through the dmuon of their esentai reduction
 Very respectfully W. O. DWELL, aasniExa amIoA