The copper era., 1911-03-10

mate One Thousand Dollars; that Hills Addition is a residence section of the town of Clifton and is in general free from noises and dis turbances of any kind and that the site selected by said Board of Super visors is in my opinion the best adapted for such pursoses within the town of Clifton, Arizona
 That the site offered for a court house by the Arizona Copper Com pany, Ltd, to the Board of Super visor of Greenlee county is situate along side the San Francisco River in what is known as East Clifton at a distance of THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY (36O) FEET east of the Ari- zona S New Mexico Railway Com pany's railway yards for the town of Clifton, in which yards there is at least one switch engine, and part of the time two, constantly running to and fro switching cars and trains, engines and trains can be easily heard from the courthouse site offered by the said Arizona Copper Company, Ltd, and would necessarily interrupt the proceeding of Court in building situate upon said site; that the site aforesaid is situate at a distance of Seven Hundred and Fifty (75O) Feet from the Power House of the Arizona Copper Company Ltd, in which power house is located eleven (11) large gas engines the eXhausts of which can be distinctly heard from the site offered by the aforesaid Com pany, and necessarily would inter- rupt the proceedings of Court if held upon said site; that the said Arizona Copper Company's smelters and re- duction works are situate in and around the aforementioned power house and there is more or less noise incident to said works which would tend to disturb and annoy Court if held in building upon said site; that the sulphur smoke from said smelters is often blown over the site offered by said Company and is very nauseatng to the occupants of build ings on said East Clifton including the site offered by said Company; that the aforesaid site is situate a distance of One Hundred (l0O) feet from the San Francisco River, which river often overf1ows and floods the said East Clifton and washes out buildings situate on said East Clifton and damages to great extent those which are not entirely; that during high waters in said river there has been houses washed away around and off of the identical courthouse site offered by said Company and said high waters have been as much IS four feet deep upon said site; that the ground offered by the said Ari- zOna Copper COmpiny, Ltd, for courthouse site is mostly made ground, that is, it is mostly a mere ill of sand and tailings between the river bank and the mountain side, and it would be very difficult, if pos sible, to erect a substantial founda- ton for said courthouse and jail build ings and would be an expense of several times the amount it would take to erect a suita ble foundation on the site selected by the Board of Supervisors; that said site is against the bluff of the mountain and the blasting of said bluff ofrOcks would be an addition expense of approximately One Thousand Dollars; that said site is situate within a distance of Two Hundred feet of at least four saloons. one of which saloons is adjoining said courthouse site; that the Arizona Copper Company, Ltd, owns all the one small lot belonging to J. SS A. smith. and that said Company de- rives large revenue each month as ground rent for buildings situate up on said ground; that the Frisco can yon at the site of the courthouse offer ed by said Company is approximately Six Hundred feet in width and that the bluffs of the mountains on either side cause an echo from the noises of engines, trains and reduction works of the Arizona S5 New Mexico Rail way Company and the Arizona Cop per Company. Ltd, and that the courthouse site offered by said Ari- zona Copper Company, Ltd, is not at all suita bIe or fit for such purposes. and it would be great detriment to the citizens and taxpayers of GreenIee county to locate a county building of any kind upon said site.
 Thos. Simpson,
 G. w. Williams
 w. NJ. Whipple
 The Board of Supervisors met in regular session on Monday and on motion decided that no further steps would be taken regarding the cOn- structiou of the courthouse until the county has acquired title to the site on Hills Addition selected by the Board. report from the committee appointed by the Probate Judge to uppraise the lots was received and a. the valuation placed by the commit