Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-08-30
DECISION AGAINST GRAND
 CANYON ROAD.
(From Saturdays Daily. )

Prescott yesterday morning when
 Judge Sloan decided his injunction
 case against the Grand Canyon Rail
 way against that company. While
 this feature of his legal battle with
 the railway. company was in no manner
 directly connected with the chief point
 in issue, his complete victory has left
 unbroken his success in this fight upon
 almost every point that thus far has
 been brought to decision.
 While the hearing was simply one
 as to an injunction to prevent the rail- way company keeping Cameron from
 driving and delivering passengers over
 the road leading to the depot at the
 mouth of the Grand Canyon, it is so
 closely in touch with the real fight as
 to the possessive right to the property
 in question, that the vietors take it as
 straw that shows in what direction
 the wind is blowing from legal view.
 The property in the contest is a
 stretch of land upon which MT. Cam
 eron has a hotel, and which he claims to own under a mining location. The
 Grand Canyon Railway company made
 application for land for its depot and hotel, yards and other purposes that
 Overlaps the property claimed by Su- pervisor Cameron, and the result has
 been a fight in the courts that has al ready occupied more than year.
 Judge Sloan's decision on the in- junction proceedings allows Cameron everything he contended for in bring ing the suit in this form. He had been forced from using a highway leading to the depot and had been kept from coming within fifty feet of this depot to pick up or deliver passen- gers coming or going from the canyon. He had secured a temporary restrain ing order to prevent the company in- terfering with his business along this line, and it was this matter that was decided in his favor yesterday. The road put up a stiff fight on the in junction, it being plain that if they could win this step in the contest, the real issue as to the ownership of the property would have a much stronger legal standing.
 The decision now allows of Cameron going to the depot with his vehicle for carrying passengers the same as any one else. It gives him the right to use the wagon road, which the company insisted upon debarring him from, and in brief allows all patrons of the plaintiff the same privileges as those who may become guests of the com pany hotel. Attorney Reese Ling, who with Attorney Doe of Flagstaff, is making the fight for Cameron, yes tefday declared he was more than pleased with the outcome of the injune tion proceedings.
 "We now have our case in the | shape we hoped for," said Attorney Ling last evening, "We have won out | in our fight to give all the visitors to the Grand Canyon the same rights, of where they may see fit l to make their headquarters. Inci- dentally my client is the beneficiary by | this decision, but the point in issue was whether anyone (you or I, for in- stance) could be denied the privilege | of the use of a public highway, or could be compelled to tramp through | mud to the depot platform, just because he happened to be stopping at the Cam eron hotel instead of at the eompany's That is the whole story in few words"
 At the September term of the dis trict court to be held in Coeonino eoun- ty, the fight as to the ownership of the station grounds is to come up for hearing. Both sides have prepared for the contest, and in the event of Cameron winning, he will be free to and add to his hotel accom- modations on the ridge of the canyon, and to perfect his plans as to the Bright Angel trail leading to the Colorado river.
 His attorneys declare there is no doubt of his ultimate success against the railway company, because his claim to the property was filed many months prior to the time the railway people undertook to force him out of the way. Victory in this suit means that Cameron will come into undisputed pos session of the property, upon which he can build fine establishment; can place pumping plant at the only cold water spring along the trail, for sup plying his hotel with water that re-