Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-03-11


 ormer ten years tragedy. II the S eeeut resolutions in Congress really S' epresent public opinion, President U Cleveland cannot postpone acton v ', indefinitely. The whole body Of the ~ people in France IS with ' he insurgents. The gallant hght '. made by the Cubans endears them {! .o all lovers of freedom. Everything n France that now counts Tor any thing is on their side, One thing seems certain. The loss ot Cuba and the expense of the war will bring about a revolution in Spar. The dynasty has been tottering Tor some time. An unsuccessful strug- gle against the United States would { certainly result in the overthrow oi the Spanish monarchy"
 R. G. Dunn & Co.'S monthly re- view of trade m Southern California says: Business conditions through out the country still remains gener- ally unsatisfactory. The price move ment for leading staples IS little
 more favorable, but want of sufficient demand for manufactured products
 still retards actual improvement.
 The money market is growing easier | and the rise in the price of bonds 1 strengthens public confidence. The volume of domestic trade, as rehect- ed in the clearing house returns
 WAS larger than that of last year,
 but fell 20 per cent below the same
 month in 1898. In Southern Cali
 forniA. on the whole, the business
 outlook is brighter. The improved
 condition of the orange market and
 the coming of the long retarded
 rains, have been conducive oi
 better feeling throughout the dis
 trict. Interest Iu mining continues
 to increase and seems to be climbing
 up steadily to height that prom
 ises 8 veritable mining boom for th's
 district in the near future.
 "What the public would like to
 know is why Murphy included the
 university timber lands in his lease
 bill, when they are only leasable Tor the timber on them" Our coutem-
 porary asks the above question and
 is apparently honest in its inquiry If it's assertion, that the lands are leasable only for the timber IS cor rect then, it is equally correct that they are not leasable at all. Thu may be correct, bu; it may be pos
 sible tha. some of them can b' ' leased for the grazing they afford
 In fact it is more thau probable tha a very many of these sections woult n be leased to stock men for this pur n pose, and that is one of the secret e of the opposition to the bill around t Flagstaff. The leasing of thes l. lands for grazing would carry wItl D it the privilege of fencing them I 8 and stockmen of Coconino, as weI ie as ranchers in MaricoPa county hay ir become so accustomed 10 the Ire ,e use of the lands for so long ihs Q, they very naturally protest againi d any law that will compel them n. pay for them. When the bOttoI T facts are reached the opposite lies in self interest, and comes froI ., parties who are pro6ting from tf - lands, and through them from the 7. friends as we'll. The territoI n would be a gaiuer by it. The scho lu fund would be increased by it.
 few individuals woul1 be called
 to pay for the use of lands belon H ing now to the government. T n served for the future state.
 he Never has there been such an u ng just and uncalled for opposition 'n- a good measure as has been q
 veloped in regard to the bill : ,h leasing lands for educational | 5s poses in Arizona. The bill, If 1t | ,., comes a law, will add several tho nt sand dollars 10 the school fund ow the territory and will help to redu ,d. taxation. Only good and no poi ,.o ble evil can come from it to the | ,lo ritory at large and yet, despite | or fact, parties who are interested aw occupying these lands without p' ,so ing for them have succeeded in ra ,I;o ing such a hue and cry that C - would think the territory would rIo ruined financially instead of be in fitted by the passage of the act. ,na regard to the timber cutting teat' 10 opposition to it, the bill now p
 hibits the cutting of timber un'
 any lease which may be given, 'na even if it did not no valid le 'd: could be given that would peri zen of it, any more than the filing oi be homestead permits the homestesC 're' to cut timber. Until the gove Of ment parts with title to these Ian m which It would not under this b $ q the lands are public lands and h one has any right to cut timber 'r;- them. The United States court will already decided that question, md there can be no fear whatever of
 IS lands being denuded Ot their | | at Der, even if officials were found W ant were corrupt enough to attempt nds perpetrate 8 steal of this kind.
 be talking on this subject United Sta An- Attorney E F. Ellinwood stated t its morning that there need be no fe