The Parker post., 1912-05-04
HOUSE MEMORIAL
MAY HELP MINERS
r. M. brennan of Parker introduces
Memorial to Congress in Legisla-
ture, Asking That Mineral Lands
Be Segregated From Reservation.

Memorial No. 4, calling upon congress
to enact such laws as may be neces-
sary to furnish relief to owners of
mines and mining claims located in
the southern portion of the Colorado
River Indian reservation. which were
worked and located prior to the re-
cent survey.
The recent survey of the reServa-
ton included considerable area c.
mineral ground south of old La Paz
necessitating the cessation of opera
tions by the La Paz Gold Mining com
pany, which was preparing to develop
its placer holdings in that section
on an extensive scale.
The memorial introduced by Mr.
brennan is as follows:
House Memorial No. 4.
To the Senate and House of Repres-
entatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled.
Your Memorialists, the First Legi1,
lature of the State of Arizona, in seC-
sion convened, respectfully represent:
WHEREAS, by an Act Of the Con-
gress of the United States, passed
March 3rd, 1865, certain, lands lying
along the East side of the Colorado
River in Yuma County, Arizona, now
known as the Colorado River Indian
Reservation were set apart for Indian
purposes; and
WHEREAS, by Executive orders
dated November %, 1878, November
16, 1874, and May 15, 1876, the boun-
daries of said reservation were des-
cribed as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at a point where La
Paz Arroyo enters the COOrlado riv-
er about four miles above Ehrenburg,
Arizona, thence Easterly following
the course of said arroyo, to a point
South of the crest of La Paz Noun.
tain, thence following the crest OF
said mountain, in a NOrtherly direc'
ton, to the top OF Black Mountain.
thence in North-Easterly direction
over the Colorado river, to the top of
Monument Peak in the State of Cal
ifornia, thence South -Easterly in
straight line to the top of Riverside
Mountain in California, thence dir
ect line towards the place of begin
ming to the West bank of the Col
orado river thence down said West
of beginning, thence to place of be-
ginning; and
WHEREAS, the description as Civ
en- in said Executive orders is ambig-
uolls and uncertain, in that, there is
much dispute as to which Mountain
peak is meant by La Paz Mountain
as we'll as the crest of that mountain
to be followed in a Northerly direc
ton; and
WHEREAS. the Commissioner CT
the General Land Office at Washing
ton, d. c., has recently had surveyed
the lands embraced within said In
dian reservation as per Executive or
ders as above set forth, and the
SOUTHEAST corner of said reservation
has been established on a certain
Mountain peak, purporting to be the
particular mountain described in said
Executive orders, as La PaZ Noun,
tain and run line from said point
IN ptoif tai oh
Mountain, and
WHEREAS, the lines so run has
established the South and East lines
of said reservation, and
WHEREAS, the said survey, as
now established, will include within
the said reservation, large amoun;
of mineral land, including mines an0
mining claims that have been owned
by citizens of Arizona since 1861, and
WHEREAS, owing to the uncertain
ty of the exact location of the boun-
Diary lines of said reservation during
the past thirty five years, many pros
pectOrs have located, worked or sold
their mining claims to innocent pur-
chasers, who have in turn expended
large amounts of money in develop
ment work, erecting costly hoisting
works, building roads, and otherwise
building up this section of the coun-
try; and
WHEREAS, the citizens of that
community firmly believe that it was
the intention of the Congress of the
United States, in setting apart the
lands embraced within the Colorado
River Indian reservation, to include
within its boundaries, only such land
as could be used for agricultural pur-