Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30
Attorney BurkS Says Thirty-five Cents An Acre is Highest Assessment
 Santa Fe Will Entertain
(From Sundays Daily.)

(FIom Sundays Dally-)
 The Baca land grant, amounting to S9,445 acres, or a section twelve and a quarter miles square, was the bone of contention between the owners of the grant and County Assessor Camp bell in the office of the supervisors yesterday.
 History of the Grant
 In 1928 the state of Sonora, Mexico, granted to one Luis Maria Baea the right to locate 5OO,OOO acres in that part of Mexico which is now the state of New Mexico. At the close of the Me-iean war all territory owned by Mexico north of the Rio Grande was deeded to the United States with the provision that Mex jean land grants in this territory be respected by the government.
 Accordingly, when, in 1867, the United States desired to appropriate this tract of land, known as the Baca land grant, in order to estab- fish a military reservation at Fort Stanton New Mexico, it gave in ex change to the heirs of Baea the right to establish five different floats of 100000 acres each on any unappro priated and unsurveyed lands owned by the United States.
 Wardwell located the five plots for the heirs of Baca. One in New Mexico, one in Colorado, one suppos- edly in Wyoming, one on the Santa Rita, south of Tucson near Nogales, and one in the northwestern part of Yavapai country This latter grant is the one over which the contest was held in the supervisors7s office yesterday
 Yavapai Baca Grant In 1865 Charles D. Poston bought two-thirds of this grant from the heirs of Maria Baea for s20,900. In 1885 the Merchants Exchange Bank conveyed to George F. Thornton with out a warrant the entire grant for the sum of $27,5O0. In 1890 Rose Lewis of Davidson, Tennessee, con veyed her interest for 5000 to E. B. Perrin. Aften this Lord Thurlow, an English nobleman, bought the en- tire grant for s1,OO0,OOo but was Hn- able to meet his payments and the mortgage was foreelosed and the land bought in by Lela NJ Perrin who has since held an interest as well as has Dr. F.. B. Perrin, his brother, Robert Perrin. and CnllOISh Dl Dl
 Babaeomari Grant
 The rPerrins are also the owners ef 3:. 900 acres of land in the sO-eslled Babacomari grant, which is along the railroad running between Tucson and Guavnas. near NOgales. The prln- riple feature of yesterdays contest was the fact that the land owners held that the assessor of YavaPai county was charging more for land in Yavapai than they were forced to nav in the southern part of the terri tory. although this latter land they claim is superior to the land in the north.
 For the past twenty years the Nav- apai land has been assessed at sums ranging from 70 cents to 75 cents an acre, and in every year except 1902, when tbe assessment of 75 cents an acre was paid there has been a com promise between the land owners and the boards of supervisors which ha; resulted in every instance in putting the land back to the Accent valua ton. The owners of the grant claim that they paid 2 cents per acre fol the land originally and voluntarily paid matter of $lOO,OOO taxes or the land before they were issued 2 patent for their holdings.
 Many years ago the entire gram was fenced but it has been found impraeticable to keep up this fene and today aLyone's stock, as well a the stock of the owners and lessee