Arizona republican., 1905-09-23

it on those mines to a low figure so that in applying the raise of 1,50O per cent ordered by the territorial board, the ultimate valuation of unproductive mines should be comparatively low. This action of the board of super visOrs of Cochise county would seem to
 have relieved the big companies of any further necessity of complaint of un- fairness to the small holder.
 Yesterday. however. strange enough
 to say, the Copper Queen company fil
 ed with the clerk of the supreme court
 it's application for a writ of certiorari compelling the territorial board of equalization to certify to that court its
 valuations. It appears therefore, that the grief of the Copper Queen was not altogether vlcarious. as has been claim cd by its newspaper organs in COchise county.
 The writ was issued by Judge Camp bell of the Fourth judicial district, at Tucson, and as a matter of due course. in compliance with the application of Walter Douglas, general manager of the Copper Queen company, and at the instance of Herring & Sorin of Tue son, attorneys for the company. The write was served by United States Marshal Daniels upon Wesley Hill. territorial auditor and chairman of the board of equalization and is made re- turnable Sept. 27.
 The petition is likely to become a classic in the legal history of Arizona. The document alleges that the Copper Queen is a New York corporation: that it owns. among other property, certain patented mines, work horses and sad dle horses. It is related that on the Ap .s equalization added to the value of all the patented mines in Cochise county which had been fixed by the county as sessor at $223,01S.47, the sum of $3,- 345, 5,27705; that the board added to the value of work horses in that county which had been fixed by the assessor at s50,211, an increase of S99S0; and that to the value of all the saddle horses in the county. originally fixed at $20,3 ,390. 1t added the sum of S6,350, and that these changes mad been certified to the local board of supervisors.
 The petition also says that the terri torial board made an increase of the aggregate value of the patented mines in the whole territory of S9,554.06O.29. It is claimed that all this was done in excess of the powers of the territorial board, and therefore unlawful.
 The petition deserves to be classed as unique, on account of what it does not say. It does not say how many patented mines the Copper Queen owns; it does not state their real val ue it does not state their assessed value; it does not state what their value is as raised by the territorial board; it does not say that the valua- ton fixed by the territorial board is too high, nor does it state that the To- cal board of supervisors has ever made or attempted to make the raise effec- tive on any property of the petitioner. The petition in short states no fact whatever. directly or by implication. that even suggests that any wrong has been done the Copper Queen.
 Perhaps it is safe to assume how ever that the world famous copper company of Cochise county makes it. self a litigant purely as a matter of public spirit, and out of the intense in terest it has in the welfare of Arizona. It would never do for a watchful New York corporation to permit territorial officials to make mistake .