Year: 1871

is that the Surveyor Generals office is not at Prescott, where the only land office in the Territory is located? Don'tall answer at once. When the surveyor General was here, last summer, he stated that he could 1 not be hired to reside at Tucson, during the hot weather, and would surely be back at Prescott this summer. Is he coming?

 The above is from The Miner of May 13. Having some knowledge on this subject, and not wishing the public to be mislpd in the premises, and because of the absolute falsehood contained in the foregoing extract, we give it some attention.

 The first impression sought to be made is that there is some damage done the public in consequence of the location of the Surveyor Generals of flee in Tucson-or as distance from the Land office. If 1t were so, the matter could be remedied by removing the Land office to Tucson, but there Is no damage resultant-as Stoneman would say. There is rery little business be- tween the two offices, and none at all that is not transacted with ample promptness by correspondence. In the state of Nevada there are four or five Land offices, and the Surveyor Generals office is not in the same town with either; in California there are eight, and but one Surveyor Generals office at San Francisco; the same state of facts exists in Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon and other States and Terri tories. The Land offices are located for convenience of the people who have in all cases of final proof of settlement to appear in person at the Land office. Except in the case of Spanish titles, there is no necessity for personal ap- pearance of any one at the Surveyor Generals office, and as such cases are liable to come up at any time ln the Arizona Surveyors office, 1t could not be more aptly situated than at Tucson and this reason may have induced the President of the United States, in pur- suance of his duty under the law, to designate Tucson for it. There is not book, document or paper in the Sur veyor General S office in Tucson, which in any manner concerns the Land ot- flee at Prescott, that Is not either fur nished that office in originals or certl- fled duplicates. Except in the matter of Spanish grants, the Surveyors of fee has nothing whatever to do with the procurement or adjustment of titles, and with these the Land office of Arizonashas no control over. There is not as much necessary business con- nection between the Surveyors office in Tucson and the Land office at Pres colt, as between the Post-ofices of the two places, and there is no good reason for closer situation ill the one case than the other. This explana- tion is, under the circumstances, due to the public, but not to the malevolent liar who penned the item quotsd-

 The Surveyor General never made so silly a declaration as '' that he could not be hired to reside at Tucson during the hot weather" The man or men

 who declares he did say so, is one and all either malicious or miSinformed slanderers. What he stated was that

 he greatly preferred Prescott as a place to reside, and that if it were possible, and he thought 1t was, ht should go there, &c.-not because the f Land office was there, but only because of personal preference. He says now

 that so far as his knowledge goes there is not more delightful place ' for home west of the Rocky Noun } tains than Prescott and vicinity. H( says from an experience there O. l several weeks in the months of July ) and August, that no place can have many more natural beauties adyan