Williams news., 1904-02-06
SATURDAY,
AN INTERESTING LETTER Descriptive of Some Things Going
 On in Washington

A few days since J. B. Jones re- ceived a letter from w. w. Bass, now in Washington on business, which contains things of interest to citizens of this section. Excerpts from the letter follow:
 Washington, Jan. 26, 1904. Dear Friend Jones.
 I arrived here from New York three weeks ago today, and since that time have been about as busy a s cranberry merchant. A last I have things in pretty good shape and unless I get sidetracked in the senate I will get my bill through this month.
 have met lot of Arizona peo- pie here; saw J. H. Page, Ed Bab- bitt, and Oaks Murphy today. Mir. Perrin, Cornish, Tim Riordan, FL linwood and others have been in evidence also. Things are getting pretty lively here over statehood for Oklahoma, from what can see. I don't think Arizona will get state hood this time. It will pass the house, no doubt, but will be hung up in the senate. The impression here is, generally, that it must be joint statehood with New Mexico or nothing, and Rodey and Wilson will fight that. I m e t Senator Kearns, of Utah, today. He want ed me to find out how the people in northern Arizona felt over giving the north side of the Grand Canyon to Utah. I told him that thought they did not want it but if the Can yon was to be the line Utah would lose quite as much as she gained, as we would get the San Juan coun- try. He did not seem to like that idea very much.
 I think the bill to take forest reserves out of the interior depart ment will go through all right. and if it does it will help us like every thing. We can get fair deal on grazing and also on agricultural lands if the agricultural depart ment takes it. The bill to stop issuing script on forest reserves is before the senate committee today That will meet with a big fight from the railroads.
 Mark Hanna is quite sick to- night and they are afraid he will have pneumonia. guess Teddy wishes he would.
 At present do not know when I will be home, but not before the last of next month. I have week in New York and another in Chica- go.
 While in New York I had an in- terview with MT. Beemer (of the United Gold and Platinum Mines Go. and he may come west about the time do. They seem to think they will go on with the work on the railroad from Supai.
 Very truly yours,
 w. w. BASS.
 The bill to which MT. Bass above refers is as follows:
 A BILL
 Granting right of way for trailway
 to w. w. Bass, of Coconino coun-
 ty, Arizona, for travel across the
 Grand Canyon of Arizona, and
 ferry privileges, and so forth,
 across the Colorado river therein.
 Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in con gress assembled, that a right of way one hundred feet wide be, and the same is hereby, granted to w. w. Bass, of Coconino county, Ari- zona, across the Grand Canyon of Arizona, known as the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, for trail way travel across said canyon as follows, towit: Beginning on the south rim of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, in Coconino county, in the Territory of Arizona, at the head of what is known as Mystic Spring Trail, a map of said trail now be- ing of record in the recorders office of said county of Coconino, under date of August twenty-sixth, eight cen hundred and ninety-one; thence extending over the said trail and down into said canyon in a north easterly direction to the south bank of the said Colorado river at the bottom of said Grand Canyon gorge, a distance of six and one half miles, to the place where a ferry and aerial tramway are to be constructed; thence across said river at right angles with it's course to the opposite side; thence in a northerly direction over said Bass trail to Shimumo Creek and along said creek to a point where the creek takes an easterly course; thence over a divide into Muav