Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-22


 mankind has also made it the mini
 mum equivalent of the material
 rights very many good and honest
 people in the humble walks of life.
 Men who toll hard and long to build
 up comfortable homes and surround
 themselves and families with some O! the blessings kind nature has pro- vided for the common enjoy ment ol | mankind, cannot be expected to pas siyely submit to the piratical schemes of the land sharks and suffer the fruits of their patient industry to pa ss out of their possession without proper recompense therefor. Arizona has long been rich field of opera tions for these scheming manipulat- orj of vague and uncertain private land grants, and its prosperity IS even now overshadowed by formidable combinations that seek through legal technicalities, mercenary consider ations and political influence to se- cure possession of the fairest portions of our beautiful Territory. The in- famous Pera!ta grant is laid to rest for all time unless the proposed land court bill has the power to resurrect 1t, but other portions of the Territory are still at the mercy of this modern curse. Among them stands pre-emi- nent the grant of the San Raiae do la Zanja, covering the most pictur- esque, charming and valuable portion of southern Pima and Cochise coun- ties, and owned by the Camerons. The original grant, though some what vague in description, embraced four square leagues of land, but the claim is set up for four leagues square, or sixteen square leagues--a dukedom that in natural resources of land water and scenery cannot be duplicat cd on the continent. Settlers have taken up and improved portions o the land outside of the limits of tho original grant, but by a strange fatality nearly every one has met with som' . .nysterious disaster so discouragini .ak in many instances they hay, sS ab&Rdone6 their claims and sough 5tce and safety elsewhere. Thei j. housea have been burned or blown uI xifh. 5Hafnite, crops destroyed an sI4ck mkdo way with in the mos 1n6ct01nIsble manner, and even thei Hsef Endangered until it becam hppafkiIl that system of persecutio R1s seti6Ily waged against then q Yho8 nay be found good peopl laniohk tii8se sufferers who do no s ll9eilale 10 express their belief th9 mi fftif Troubles were inspired by tn claimants oi this grant, and there hs Vtry hStufaily arisen decided antal Qniau between the settlers and tt etaht claimants. Several years az tte lemerons commenced the erectio ci . oubslantial wire fence around 2 portion the of exterior boundary oi u Nzlten 14asre leagues claimed | 8rI hem, and the result was that su k4s brought in the District Court 2 the Firat Jndicial District, at Tucso in the nafne of the United State e3si1st Colin Cameron, for the T N in0rai 0f tbis fence from the publ lands The defendant claimed lad the right to erect the fence b cnuss i1Wks within the limits of h < Mexican grant. The court, in ve 2 ahIs and Exhaustive opinion, held tn i. tslc delcndant had no title until it W 4 conhrmed by congress, and that il had. his grant was four square leagu and no more, cornering at the poi called San Rafael de la Zanja, or tn
 tsp4f void for uncertainty; and as t Hence was outside of these 10 leagues that it was on public Ian and must be removed. The C fendant insisted that the grant W for four leagues square and as the fo leagues were not measured, but es
 mated from and to certain landmar
 that they owned all the land witt
 these boundaries, making in all sol
 thirty square leagues. On appeal
 the Supreme Court of the Territc
 the judgment of the District Col
 was affirmed in an opinion by Asso
 ate Justice Barnes, and defendant th
 appealed to the Supreme Court of
 United States, where the case now
 H. R. Jefiords, who was Camero
 attorney, is now United Sta
 Attorney for Arizona and, of coul
 cannot appear except for Cameron.
 IA Dc duty of the Attorney General
 I1Dk after this case for the gove "I #@||ItI Dut hs HUG hb ldsJ OSCelIueI
 X Lnown that he was not aware t XE Jeffords was the attorney of rec
 foF 1he defendant in the case, he
 04 Dad never seen the record. It set , tbef no one is attending to the govt
 E11t side of this matter and it is lil
 &p by default. Should this deci'
 1< fbversed these grants can be fen
 ID exterior boundaries claimed
 /f| will fence up all the upper Sa
 2Nf the Sonoita, the Babocor "a. ..,; RE. liAthe San Pedro from Sonora t,
 E,Duth, thus including all the valu
 Mhds in Pima and Cochise coun
 4nd it will drive hundreds of set
 |pm the homes they have made
 hsrd toll. This is certainly just e i1F alarm, for there will be little & that part of the Territory "
 Asving when they get through wit
 <be importance of this matter anC
 fihl danger encompassing it sugl ~ iAe inquiry fl Don Cameron has