Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-10-04

published at the time in the Journal Miner. Reese Ling represented Cam eron and against him were pitted three crack attorneys, one of them be- ing T. J. Norton, the chief counsel of the Santa Fe railway system. Ling and his witnesses proved more than a match. for the trio, as indicated by the deei- sion of the land office, which specific ally states that not single allegation in the protest had been proven. Those who heard the entire testimony say that the company's case was extremely weak, and cannot account for the pro- test ever having been filed except upon the thory that it was done in pursu- ance of an alleged fixed policy to harass Cameron.
 As every mining man who has locat- ed a claim will be interested to know the nature of the allegations that were urged against the granting of the pat ents, synopsis of the protest is here with presented.
 The Grand Canyon Railroad Go. al- leges that the said claims do not con- tain any roek-bearing valuable mineral of any kind; that Cameron did not, within ninety days from the posting of the notice of location or any other time, sink a shaft within the bound aries of the alleged mining claim un- til mineral in place was disclosed, nor did he make an open cut, adit or tun- nel disclosing such mineral.
 It is charged that he has not, during the year in which he made the location, done $1OO worth of work or placed s100 worth of improvements on the claim; that he has not posted upon the claim the notice of his application for pa- tent as required by law; that he has not done upon said claim $500 worth of work or improvements.
 It is further eontended that Cameron is seeking by fraud and deceit to ac- quire a patent, and that he did not make the location for the purpose of working it for any minerals contained therein, but for the purpose of con- trolling, so far as possible, the use of portion of the Bright angel trail lead ing from the terminus of the line of the railroad down the walls of the Grand Canyon to the Colorado river, and thereby prevert the public using said portion of this trail except upon such sums of mor'v being paid as Cameron might scc ft to exact; that the boundaries of tho claim were so fixed upon the face of Ire earth as to include portion of the trail known as the Devils Corkse-~v which is loeat- ed upon the only practical and feasible route for a trail fro-l the terminus of protestant s line of railroad to the Col orado river
 Similar allegations were made con corning the location of the mill site.
 In conclusion, protestant states that the protest is made in good faith for the purpose of presenting the eonsum- nation of what protestant verify be- lieves to be fraudulent scheme on the part of said applicant to procure pa- tents to lands within a forest reserve, regardless of their value for mining purposes, as well as to secure control of the waters flowing in what are known as Indian Gardens and Pipe creek.
 It is also claimed that the protest is also made for the purpose of securing to the travelling public the privilege of seeing the Grand Canyon freely and unrestrietedly, to travel upon and over said trail down into the canyon.
 The decision of the land office is re- gaded as practically final, as it is said that the Commissioner of the Land Of flee at Washington almost uniformly sustains the decisions rendered by the district officers. It is believed, however, that the railway company will take an appeal to the commissioner.
 Cameron, who is a supervisor of Co., eonino county, and runs hotel on the Canyon rim, taried in town until the decision was given yesterday, when he left on the afternoon freight, the hap piest man in the territory.
 TROOP "L" DECLARED WINNER