Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-02-06
THE VERDE BOOMERS! ]!
Very Animated Scenes To-day
 in the Land Office.
Life on the Verde Attending the Opening of Land
 to Settlers.

day, mentioning the hnal act in throwing open the much talked of abandoneI Verde military reseFYa- ton, received its finishing touches to-day in official life as far as the Prescott land office goes An army of men who follow rauching for q living, a strong contingent of thos e who intend to work the hoe for all it is worth, aud last of all, some who never believe in letting a snap escape their vigilant eyes, filed into the land office to-day one by one and likewise filed on the heretofore barren plat that has been an eye sore for a generation to the produe- tive area of this section. The oc. casion was not an Oklahoma boom for the reason that there was not enough free land around to make the scene really a magnificent one in the number of locators, but la sentiment, it equAled the above nevertheless.
 The land effected by a recent deci- sion of the Interior Department [. consist of about 10000 acres of land known as the Verde military reser- vation, on which no cultivation whatever has been had. and since the establishment of Camp Verde, in the 60s up the present time, 1t has never known what it was to have even water turned on it. It is rich land, and only lacking the assist ance of human aid to make it blossom. etc.
 Availing themselves of the opp portunity to locate on the above tract, the following persons appear ed at the door of the land office st nine o'clock this morning for that purpose. There were some of these, however, who eamped all night iu the corridor with their blankets, while others were on hand long be- fore the official opening hour. One enthusiastic resident of Prescott, it is said, even adopted the skylight route SO as to not be outdone by his rural brethern of the country:
 Frank M. Hunt.
 Ed. Mahurin.
 Thos. Kyle.
 J. l.. Wingheld.
 Fred. Stevens.
 C. b. Wingfeld.
 Chas. Ryali.
 Fred. PlatteD.
 W. F. Hutchinson.
 W. 4. Jones.
 C. D. Jones.
 C. B. Coulson. J. D. Loper
 F. W. Mason.
 W. NJ. Munds. l.. Bristow.
 l.G. Hannah.
 B. Maxwell.
 B. Fl. Smith.
 Ben. M. BelcheF.-
 Arthur Cordiner.
 Joseph Dougherty.
 R. J. Hartmann.
 The above gentlemen filed on l6C acres each. All through the day others were coming in also, but from the books of the plat, they could only be accommodated by locating the atmosphere above this choice area, aud wait for the chances of something giving way under thom
 On the Verde last Saturday horse. men could be seen franticly gal loping there in all directions, and sd suddenly was the news heral0ed that a stampede to this ar a oc. cured in consequence. At nigh; every locator had his signal fire buring high and bright, warning any squatter that here be must mol enter. The scene is said to have been a truly magnificent one for this day, and as lurid forms could be seen moving around in the gloaming, the event had that old time picture cireled around 1t known only to Apache days.
 The land office here has been a dry and unpro6table institution of late, but to-day's transactions have been such that gives to it truly a verfcation of the old time saying, 1doing land office business" This is the first instance of a genuine rush in the land office here and and though somewhat sudden, ReceYier Marks and Register R ,ss welcomed it and handled the affairs of each locator in au admirable | fnaunar