The Arizona sentinel., 1892-11-05

ence" might enable him to have tht
 item re-instated in the bill by th'
 Conference Committee. He made
 no efforts whatever in that direc tion, and had it not been for the
 endeavor of one ofour own citizens
 each succeeding flood of the Colo
 rado River would menace our lives and property.
 Away back in the sixties, before
 the Pacific Railroads were accom- plished facts, before the lodges oi
 the Comstock had yielded up theil
 riches, when the millionaires of to-
 day were frying their bacon over
 the camp fire, three men were asso'
 ciated together in the perils and
 hardship, the ups and downs oi
 pioneer life, comrades in the battle for gold. Two of those men today answer to their names, in the roll call of the United States Senate, as Senators Dolph and Mitchell, oi Oregon, and although the third has not attained the honors which have fallen to the lot of his asso- ciates, the old friendship which grew up between these men in those days when men souls were tried as by fire, wheI they were all equally poor, yet survives and is still po- tent to roll back the intervening years and secure the granting of a favor to Yuma which Mark Smiths personal influence" could not ob- tain for us.
 The man who has done so much for us, without ostentation and without reward, has lived among us twenty years; has expended a fortune in developing the mineral resources of the County, and through misfortune, and his own generous liberality of which many a wandering prospector has been the recipient, is today poor man. This is the man from whom Mark Smith would steal the credit which is his due, and had it not been for the false assertions of Mark Smith, we might never have known that it is to Abe Frank that we owe our gratitude for this appropriation.
 Replying to a telegram sent by Mir. Frank, when the press dis patches brought the news of the acc tion of the Senate, Senator Mitchell says;
 "I beg respectfully to acknow- ledge receipt of your dispatch, in which you inquire if I can help you and your people to get the ten thousand dollar appropriation, passed by the House, through the Senate, for Improvement of the Colorado and Gila Rivers. The Senate Committee on River I'm provements as you have been in- formed, has stricken out the appro- priation. Twill do all in my power, in connection with your other friends in the Senate, to have it re- instated, if not in the Senate, in the Committee of Conference"
 Senator Dolph was chairman of the Conference Committee. and as every one knows, the report of that body, accepted by both houses of Congress, included an item of ten thousand dollars for the Yuma levee.
 Mark Smith also claims that he has been instrumental in securing better postal facilities for the Territory.
 What has he done for the miners and merchants of Yuma County in this matter2
 The Postmaster General writes Governor Murphy that "the postal route from Aztec to Harqua Hala was discontinued at the request of of Delegate Mark Smith," and the route was changed to Phoenix on the representation that it was the wish of the miners in the Harqua Hala District.
 Aztec is the nearest railroad point to Harqua Hala and is only fifty five miles distant, while Phoe- nix is one hundred and ten. By the Aztec route, nail reached the miners from Gila River points in two days; now it requires five days, and much of the business of the mines which would naturally come to Yuma and the stores along the Gila River, with good mail facilities, now goes to Phoenix. Why has Mark Smith done this?
 Because Yuma County is hope lessly Republican, while Maricopa has been, in the past, a Democratic stronghold and to curry favor with Democratic friends and thus insure his own re-nomination, Mark Smith, who was elected to serve impartially the interest of all the people of the Territory, irrespective of their politics, uses his position to sacrifice the interests of the many miners of the largest gold produc- ing District in the Territory to his own unsuitable lust of personal am bition and in the interest of few Democratic friends. A petition is now on its way to Washington from the Harqua Hala miners asking that the Aztec route be re-estab- bliahed, but it is questionable