Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-11
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 Ganaral Land Office

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 WASHINGTON, D. C., April Is, 1889. H0H. JOHN w. NOBLE
 Secretary of the Interior.
 SIR In reference to the provisions contained in the sundry civil appro- priation act, approved March ?, 1889, making an appropriation of $2O00 to enable the Secretary of the Interior to repair and protect the ruins of Casa Grande, situated in Pinal county, near Florence, Arizona, and providing for a reservation from settlement and sale of the land on which said ruin is situ- ated, and so much of the land adjacent thereto as, in his judgment, may be necessary for the protection of said ruin and of the ancient city of which it is a part-forming the subject of a | letter addressed to the Secretary by Rev. Isaac T. Whittemore, dated at Florence, Arizona, the 9th instant, and accompanying papers, which 1 have considered and which are here with returned, I have the honor tc state that the appropriation referred to will not become available until the 1st of July next, the beginning of the fiscal year ending June. 30, 1890, and therefore that no expenses payable from that appropriation can properly be incurred on this account, priol thereto.
 The field notes and plats of survey in this office show said ruins to be sit uate in section Is, township 5, S. range E., which is embraced in ar existing reservation for school purpos es. It is not, therefore subject to set tlement or sale under existing laws and there would seem to be no neces sity for haste i'll the matter of the spe cial reservation by the president con templated in the late act of March 1889, so far as the land immediatel embracing the ruin itself is concerned The records of this office, as posted III to August last, show the greater par , Of the immediately adjacent land to b already embraced in entries or filings Should the Secretary see proper s f to direct, l will instruct specia agent now in that part of the country
 to proceed to the vicinity of the ruin to make an examination and repol
 thereon as to what lands in the vicinit i should be embraced in the president : order of reservation, and what metho y should be adopted for the proper r, }, pair of the ruins and the protectio !, thereof as contemplated in the act, d ', terring further action till the report y received. Respectfully
 s s. M. SToCKsLAGER, c Approved Commissione n John w. Noble,
 It Secretary.
 ORDERS TO THE SPECIAL AGENT. q DEPARTMENT OF THE NITRIC f General Land Office. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 27, 1SS
 MR. ALEX l.. MORRISON.
 Special Agent G. L. O.
 g Santa Fe, New Mexico.
 Sir:-I am in receipt of letter a
 dressed to the Honorable Secretary
 the Interior from Rev. Isaac T. Whi d temore, dated at Florence, Arizon tt the 9th instant referred to this off IS for reply relative to the protection al IS repair of the ruins known as "Ca r. Grande," situated in Pinal count l. Arizona, upon Sec. 16, T. SIR. s I n Tucson land district. 't On the 18th instant this office I P piled to said letter through the Ho l- orable Secretary and recommend g that special agent of this office st directed to proceed to the vicinity t. said ruins and make an examinatit le and report thereon. On the 17th |
 Secretary returned my said letter