Year: 1878

 certain statement made by me shor ! time since in letter to THE CITIZE., f that there was missing pages of record I from the first book of Globe District

 1 reiterate the statement notwithstand

 ing Mir. S.'s restatement to the con trary. And I can prove m fact whel

 ever the proper time comes and bl miners like myself, who do not peddll

 peanuts, but 1 know nothing about MT S.s books (one or forty; ; he may hav, replaced the book by new one fO

 aught I know. But I did not make the statement to cast any reflections or any particular person or persons, only 10 show how uncertain it was to record in the District and not the county which NIT. s. says is not required or necessary, and also says that we must there is no choice about it-record in the district. And for why, because the immaculate Judge Swasey says SO Now, here I will give the Territorial law verbatum, without clipping, and let the public be governed by their own judment in the matter:

 Sec. 1, of the act approved Novem- Der ,, 1866, relating to mines, by the . Territory of Arizona, which is as fol- lows: The mining districts heretofore created ;n the several counties of this Territory, are hereby authorized and empowered to make all necessary rules and regulations for the location, regis tery and working of mines thereIn :; Provided, that all locations and regis trations of mines and mineral deposits hereafter made in any of the said dis tricts shall be transmitted to the COun- unty Recorder for record, within sixty days after the same shall have been located.

 Section ? of same Act says The County Recorders of the several coun- ties are authorized and required to pro- cure suitable books in which the rec ords of all mines and mineral deposits shall be kept, which said books shall be paid for out of the County Treasury, and they shall receive for their services herein, the following fees: For re cording and indeXing each claim, not exceeding one fo.iO, one dollar, and for each additional folio, twenty cents. Now, tho spirit of the law as above written I think is clear and explicit enough for any reasonable man. It shows cOnclusively that all locations made must be transmitted to the Coun- ty Recorder within sixty days from date of location, and County Record CTS are required 10 keep books for all records of mines and mineral deposits made after November ,, 1866, and there can be no mistake about the con- struction of this law. In the |. :. Mining Act, approved May 10, 1S12, the law says the miners may make rules and regulations in regard to the location and working of mines SD long as they do not conflict with the nation al State or Territorial law, and also states the amount of work necessary to hold a claim, and fixes the number of feet and in fact provides for every thing to protect our rights, which l think should be satisfactory to all concerned. Furthermore the miners of every district in the Territory would save trouble and litigation by abolish ing district and adopting the United States and Territorial laws as they are {; follow the precedent established in the King or Pioneer Districts, which is certainly by far the best and wisest way of doing, record where we have some security.

 Now, by the way, Mr. :. says he did not propose his opinion should figure in this matter He stated the law, not his opinion. I ask the gen tleman to read his first letter to TIE CITIZEN and see if he did not say something that amounts to the same thing, where he referred 10 the laws of the district being the permanent laws of the land. And he also pretends to say that we cannot get patent to a mine without recording in the district, which is only done to define the root of title. If there was no district or county the Territory would do as we'll According to his theory we could not get patent without organizing dis trict, which is ridiculous. And he ac- cuses me of offering an issue and then lodging it, which the immaculate Judge has raised no doubt for his own benefit, and thinks he has a soft case 10 deal with and perhaps has But when it comes iO lodging, he don't only dodge but flies clear away My, what tempest in tea pot. He scars aloft, talks about wind-mills, and as cends among the stars and dwells in the moon. and shows that he has but little regard for creatures of less vapory minded than himself, and from the general tone of his last letter to TIE CITIZEN, it has every indication of being from a person of rather windy nature.

 And now in conclusion 1 will state that I will not continue this argument any further and did not intend one from the start: furthermore I detesi newspaper controversies. for they taX not only the patience of the newspaper man, but are generally disgusting to the public and degrading 10 the par ticipants. But I will say 10 the