Arizona republican., 1897-11-28
state of Arizona, it cannot remain in active.'
 GOVERNMENT PROSPECTING. Gathering Evidence Against the Ccp-
 per Queen.

 can office yesterday that surveying party in charge of MT. Waldemar Lindgren had just returned after a month spent in investigating the min ieral resources of the Chiricahua mountains. The simplicity of this item is misleading. It might be sup posed that the survey is premon.tory of a gigantic mining enterprise, while it is really nothing of the sort No enterprise is contemplated, though great wealth and influence were back of the survey. MT. Lindgren is not common every day prospector and strange as it may seem, if the gentle men who sent MT. Lindgren on this expedition had thought it likely that he would find any mineral resources at all he would never have been dis patched on the errand
 The result of the expedition has not been given out, but if MT. Lindgren has succeeded in finding large quan- titles of mineral he has doale so at a loss of many thousand dollars to his packers. The fact is Mr L'ndgren is connected with the United States geo. logical survey and his invest,ga ion, another move in the suit of the gov iarnment against the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining company, was be- gun on an assumption that there was no mineral where the prospecting has been done. Suit was begun several years ago by the government against the Copper Queen and man who had set up saw mill on the eastern slope of the Chiricahuas in the vicinity of Ash Creek and Turkey Greek canyons to recover the value of the timber cut on public land. The value estimated on the Stumpage was placed by the government at nearly $180,000. The case has been tried twice, the last time at Tucson two years ago. Two juries have disagreed and it was be- lieved at the close of the last trial that the government seeing the futil- itV of pursuing the matter any fur ther would order the suit dismissed But the government seldom abandons law suit until it has been fought tc a finish. It took no steps toward re newing action until the middle Of las summer when United States Abtorney ElllnwOod was suddenly notified thai an expert from the United States geo logical survey would be sent out te determine whether the land iron which the timber had been cut was mineral or non-mineral, for thougl the case had apparently many compli cations, the issue of the contest hat all along depended on the establish ment Of one of these two facts.
 At the trials both sides produced many expert prospectors and minin, men, some of whom swore it wa! mineral land. Others swore with a much positiven;ss that it was not
 MT. Lindgren arrived at Phoeni, early in October. His mission wa yelled with the greatest secrecy, S, that outside of the offices of tn United States attorney and The Re publican his presence or even the con templated survey was not known. H spent three days here gathering dat and then Left for Willcox where tn expedition was fitted out, the popula impression there being that it was prospecting party gotten up on al elaborate scale.
 What MT. Lindgren has discovere or what he has failed to discover vii be given to the world only throug his department, to which he will mak a report.