The copper era., 1911-03-10
INJUNCTION SUIT FAILS
 JUDGE DENIES APPLICATION
Court Holds That There is No Ground for the IS- Suance of a Temporary Injunction to Re- strain the Board From Locating the
 Court House on Hills Addition

An affidavit of Jim Harvey was also introduced in the hearing of the case at Globe in which Mir. Harvey stated that he has been resident of Clifton for nine years and is well acquainted with East Clifton; that on the 3rd day of December. 1906, building located on the proposed courthouse site in East Clifton was washed away by the flood and that at the time the water was approximately four feet deep in the street and all over the courthouse site offered by the Arizona Copper Company, Ltd. The affidavit further states that the bed of the San Francisco river is approxmately three feet higher at the present tune than it was on the 3rd of December, 1906.
 Affidavits were also introduced by c. E, Bunch and O. Halverson, who are teachers in the public school building in Hilps Addition, to the effect that the school house is free from noise from trains and switch engines and that the court house site selected on Hill' Addition is approxi- mately the same distance from the railroad tracks.
 The concluding affidavit was one signed by Tom Simpson, George w. Williams, w. M. Whippe and A. M. Turner and is as follows:
 Territory of Arizon4l ss
 County Of Greenlee|
 Tom Simpson, Geo. w. Williams, w. M. Whipple and A. NJ. Turner, being duly sworn, elch for himself and not one for the other, says Tom Simpson says that he has been a resi- dent citizen of the Town of Clifton, Arizona for the past twenty years Geo. w. Williams says that he has been a resident citizen of Clifton, Arizona, for the past seventeen years, w. M. Whipple says he has been a resident citizen of Clifton, Arizona. for the past sixteen years, and A NJ Turner says that he has been resi- dent citizen Of Clifton, Arizona, for the past nine years; that he is well acquainted with the Courthouse site, in East Clifton. offered by the Arizona Copper Company, Id, free of charge, to the Board of Supervisors of Green lee county, and that he is also equally IS familiar with the courthouse and jail site selected in Hill's Addition to the Town of Clifton by said Board of Supervis DTS; that he has been on, and around the two respective courthouse sites number of times during his resi- deoce in Clifton, Arizona, and has observed and knows the conditions surrounding each of them; that he has property within the boundaries ofGreenleen county subject to county and territorial tax and that his name appears on the assessment rolls oi Graham county, which county includ ed Greenlee county, for the year l9le; that the permanent courthouse site selected in Hills Addition by the Board of Supervisors of Greenlee county on the 9th day of February. 1911. is situated approximately FIVE HUNDRED feet east of the Arizona & New Mexico Railway COmpany's main line, with two side tracks, and that the same is not the switch yards of said Railway Company, but that said side-tracks are used principally
 or setting empty cars and that the switching on said side tracks consists of making up freight train once per day, usually early in the morning; that the noise incident to said witch ing would not in the least interfere or interrupt the proceedings of Court held in a building situate on the courthouse site selected in Hills A d. dition by said Board of Supervisors; that the passenger trains of the Ari- zona & New Mexico Railway Com- pany make regular stops in Hills Addition to receive and let of passengers; t h a t the permanent courthouse site selected by said Board of Supervisors is situate distance Of four thousand and fifty (4O5O) feet from the Postoffice Building, which building is situate approximately one hundred feet north of the Arizona x New Mexico Railway Company's depot in Clifton and is also situate in the business center of said town of Clifton; that a large majcrity of the population of said town of Clifton is included in South Clifton, Riverside Addition, Shannon Hill and Hill's Addition to the town of Clifton all within a radius Approximately one half mile of said permanent court house site in HiA's Addiliun; that said courthouse site is not situate at the mouth of a canyon and that no large volumes of water ever flow in or around said site; that there are one or two washes northeast of said site but that the water from the same does not run towards or over said courthouse site and that there is very little water drained from said washes and then only during hard rains; that the expense of 8 foundation and pre- pairing the grounds of said site for s