The border vidette., 1926-10-23
TO RALPH CAMERON: SOME
FAIR QUESTIONS

OraQA fClV0r. by general agree
ment, and your own admission,
that stream is the most import.
ant natural resource left to this
State. To see that the State is
deprived of none of it's Colorado
rights is, therefore, the most i'm.
portant duty that can devolve
upon any representative whom
Arizona may send to Washington.
But will you. when the crucial
moment comes, protect first the
interests Of Arizona, or the in
terests of your wife, your son,
your secretary and your business
associates in their string Of min
ing claims staked for Is miles
along the lower reaches of the
Grand Canyon and covering the
Boulder Canyon, Black Canyon
aud Bulls Head dam sites?
Simply because your own
name does not appear on the list
OF locators, will you now tell the
voters of Arizona, as you once
stated on the floor of the Senate,
that you have no personal inter
est in the Colorado River?
Will you use all your boasted
influence with the national ad
ministration and with the gov
erment departments to set aside
those locations, conflicting as
they are with the claim of Ari
soma to the bed of the river?
The Government has brought
suits to eject your friend, G.
Henry Stetson. your wife, your
son and various other person q
closely associated with you and
Stetson, from the canyon. Those
suits are still pending on the
Federal Court dockets at Pres
colt and at Carson City, Nevada.
Have you done everything in
your power, Senator, to bring
those actions to speedy trial and
eliminate one Of the clouds hang,
ing over Arizona's title to the
Colorado's bed?
On the contrary, have you not
used your boasted in fuence to
delay the hearings?
The Government cases against
your wife, your son, your part
ner in many Grand Canyon ven.
lures, and various others who
appear to be merely dummy"
locators, we're prepared by Har
old Baxter, appointed by Attor
ney General Stone as special
prosecutor in matters involving
land titles in Arizona. He alleg
ed that there was not sufficient
mineral to justify the placer
claims that stretch along the
Colorado for 25 miles. nor any at
all to warrant the lode claims
superimposed over the placer
locations and covering the Bould
er Canyon dam site.
It is not a fact that you exert
ed your boasted influence and
brought about Baxter's removal
when be was fully prepared to
go to trial?
The people who elected you to
Office may think it their privilege
to question you with regard to
what you know of the intentions
and motives of these litigants
whose claims are so directly at
variance with those of Arizona.
even though members of your
own family be numbered among
those who have plastered mining
locations over three of the five
best sites in the Grand Canyon.
In the event the Government
finally succeeds in having those
cases brought to trial, and wins
them, will the defendants not ap
peal and delay a final settle ment
for years, even as you dragged
out for q quarter of a century
the dispute over title to your
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the Bright Angel Trail?
In the event that your wife,
your son and your partner win,
that their locations are pro-
nounced legally valid, what then?
Can you guarantee that they will
step aside and reliquish their
rights to the State of Arizona,
which claims the bed of the
stream and must ever remain a
poor state unless it can have
some voice in the development
of the Colorado?
Will you even use your in,
fuence with your relatives and
your partner to persuade them
to give up their legal rights to
the State whose interests you
are elected To reDresent?