Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-08-17
Boston'S Dream Of Hacienda Life Fades From the Map of
 Arizona.
Trial oE a Noted Laud Grant-Nins Capital Lavished on a Lonesome Hotei-The Santa Rita Conn
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SANTA EE, NEW MEXICt

Special Correspondent st. Louis Globe Demo
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 SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO.
 An old Mex.can land grant
 with & strange history, is t@t
 Calabssas. It has just been wiped
 of tbe map of ATl&ona by deci
 sion of the court Of Private Land claims
 When the news officially reaches Bcston
 counting rooms there will be 375,0G0 and
 upward to credit 10 profit and loss. This
 old grant is called Caiabasas because that is the easiest pronounced Dame of
 the three which belong to it. In reaii- 1 ty, ths i5 ths Tumacacori, Calabasas
 and Huebsbi grant. One of tbe larg- est and best appointed hotels in Arg oua, handsome brick structure, stan ds on the Ca.abasas grant q mile from any other house. Why It was put there is one or the mysteries To be charged to the mental vngerIes of the boomer. This hotel has electric bells and gll of the modern conVeuiences. The Santa Cruz river fioys through the grant. It Is very respectable stream in the eyes of the irrigator. but ia the mind of the navigator 1t would inspire only con- temt Yet, when the grant wac unload ed on Boston moneyed men, the deal was accompanied by pictures, showing steam boats puffiug along upon the bosom of the Santa Cruz. There vas once an Arkansas commodore who vowed his eternwheeler was so light of draft that she could run on heavy dew. That was more probable than the pie tuIes Of water Transportation in the Cal2oasas grant, The lonesome hotel l and somo other improvements made by the company are accounted for by n story. It Is said tu have been the pur- pose or tbese rich men of Boston 10 make profitable plsythDg of the Gala basas grant. The cattle investment wgs expected to furnish the profits. Tie aotei was to be part uf great hacienda on the Mexican plan. where the capita lists and their families could go, to en- joy inc finest climate iu the world and where by irrigation they would feast CD fruits and products of two zones.
 The walls Of the old mission church 0i CGiGbasas still stand, but the roof is gone. h the cement floor eXca1 atiOns have been maGe to some depth, and a .aiily vel! authenticated legend belongs to them. Knowing thelr danger from | Apaches, the priests of the early peried of mission work among the Pimas, buried the gold and silver which the Indians OTough them as offerings. The 4idi3g places were bsEeath inc floor of the church. When a deposit was made ! this primitive bank, a diagram WAS drawn and tbe secret place was shown | 0Q this diagram by measurements from i the altar. 4 cepy of the diagram WAS | for wET5ted to Rome. SC that, # the mis- l sen was wiped out by the Apachee Rt ! any time, he church authorities would | have guide to tho location of the treas i are. Th:z fCroLhoLght resulted just a. l intended. Forty years after the ApGciles ! c4m5 down like a wolf on the fold, and destroyed the mission, 0 Roman Catholic bishop with an escort travc.ed from Santa Fe 10 CaiabGsas. lie caTri- d papers sent to him from Rome. The cG:Ds of the old church were found. The measurements from the altar shown Dy the map were taken. The cement iilor was cut and ;hs buried treasure was found exactly IS described m the re ports sent in by tte mission fatherE As much gold GEd silver as would lead two J9 tce CHC-UheeieQ carts common to that period was taken from beneath tho floor f the O.d nIissl T, and the holes are there today as evidence of the search l thR: was made.
 In 15G7, Ge the story goes, the Indians f the mission of TumacaCOfi appeared oy daputation before the governor Of Sanora. These Indians were Pimas, ] peace loving, grain growing people, !! wha Were gathered into the Catholic church by the a!l-cOnquering and all- i converting Spainards. Then they were called Papag0s, which means simply l baptized Indians. This deputation oi Indians from TumacEcoIi told the gov srnor they had lost the tities 10 their mission lands, and asked for new titles. | They said said they wanted R town site It the mission and certain other tracts ' Q stock farm. The governor granted the prayer Of the Indians. He sent eL order tO the cOmm6rdGnG at Iubac 10 make a survey. But before the survey was taken these Indians presented them selves before the cOmmandant with an additional request. They told him that the mission Of Huebabi and CalabGsas had been abandoned. They asked that the lands of those two missions be iu- cluded in the survey of the lands grant d them by the governor of Sonora. The IGGians presented wItne ssas to show where the original monuments of the lsnds 0: the two missions were IocateG. As the missions of CalaObsas and Hue baoi had beea dependencies of the mis- sion Oi pumGcacori the supplemental petition Of the Indians seemed alt0geth- CT proper. The comman6ant of the gar rIaon at pUbBc went ahead with the survey. His report was forwarded Uo toe governor of Arjspe. The governor approved the proceedings and title Yas given 10 the 4EUi4ns- This title was in the form of permit 1t author iZeG them to use the lana surveyed, and ,tated that the amount thus conveyed to them was six square leagues. That was 2S. .040 acrss. The matter Of ecre- age is interesting. II affords gn iilIstra
 tiOn of how many of these Spanish and Mexican grants ''spraad" as tune pass as. In the permit DC area wac given, beyond the estimate cf about six square laagues." No consideration was men, tiooed. The outlines Of the lands were designated, hs was usual in that day, by natural landmarks. 4 starting point was given, and from there the lines raH to these landmarks.
 h the survey for Tumac8Cori, to be used for the tO~n site. tine commando ants report said that he started from q point in the olE cemetery. He ran liue north to "Lookout Hili." Then he came back and ran east to ''a mesquite grove" The west iina went 10 "a fla
 mesa,7 and the south line to 8 point
 ''near the boundary line Of the old al abasas tract" Tie survey mentioned
 the distance to these landm marks, but