The oasis., 1899-10-21


 who have filed will be protect ed in their filings. But. sad he, it is he range for cattle upon the mesa and | hill lands which makes of any value whatever the lands along the river upon which the settlers have filed. If the grant claimants can get those lands and fence them up it will shut our cattle from feed, and in little time they will freeze us out and com pei us to move away. Our bottom lands are valueless without the range.
 Mir. Atkinson contended that the plain intention of the lOcatOrs of the Baca grant was 10 locate it upon other lands, which they did; and that now those owning the grant want to swing 1t around to cover lands they first tried to get under color of title in the Calabasas grant-that the petitioDed correction Cf the initial point is an afterthought and should not for a moment be permitted. Refusal by the surveyor general togrant the peti- tioned change of the initial point and resurvey, is the course to pursue to win the fight, was the contention of the chairman.
 MT. Morgan R. Wise presented the following preamble and resolutions which were adopted by unanimous vote:
 WHEREAS: After litigation ex- tending over more than twenty years we, the sett 'ers along the Santa Cruz, | defeated fraudulent claimants to more than ninety thousand acres of land. claimed under an alledged grant ! known as ne TumacacOri, CalaDasas ana Huebabi grant, aud
 | WHEREAS: During all that time af contest Jne claimaUts tO the Baca | Float Grant No. 3, never directly or i indirectly came into court, or any other department of the government, and gave notice of said claim; but now | by surprise, apon all settlers, clam l said land under contest, in violation of the congressit nal stipulation that | they shalI not take nOn-vacaDt and mineral land. And
 | WHEREAS: The plain intention of the original claimants of the Baca | Float Grant No. 5, was to locate the said grant upon other lands, and that | their petition for 8 correction of ini- tial point and survey is conceived in ! fraud and niquity and should not be | allowed by the surveyor general, | therefore, be it
 REsoLvED: That, we settlers along the santa Cruz river, in the County of Santa Cruz, Territory of Arizona, more than one hundred strong, pledge ourselves and to each other to give our TIME AND MONEY to employ the best legal talent tu represent us in proceedings of revisicn, etc, before ] the United States surveyor general in | Tucson, and in any and all ot6er courts tn the supreme court of the l United States of America. And like { the Beers in Africa. who are defend l ing themselves against unjust aggres- ] sim and spOliation, we will defend our homes and tiresideS hy the use of effective weapons against those who tn despnl us have conjured up this spectre of floating land grant which has for thirty-~ix years been lowering about the Santa Rita mountains, masked and unknown And we ask all lovers nf law and justice to aid us by their influence that we may secure
 justice, for we have defeated many claimants to these lands, and for the further reason that at he solicitation of the general land office we have
 vaid our monev and pprfpctpd i'm
 movements, for our homes, as worthy clrizens of the Territory of Arizona and the United States of America
 The sense of the meeting was that an executive committee, to handle
 the case, be appointed. And a motion
 was presented that such acommttet
 be named with the chairman of thu committee. The motion prevailed
 o.l Ho,are Han A4ir,nccr T1d tr,f |.