Bisbee Daily Review

In the council considerable time was consumed in the discussion of a memorial to congress asking that the letting of an exclusive franchise for use of power generated by the reclamation service at the Tonto dam to a Phoenix corporation be investigated. In the course of his remarks on the matter Mr. Weedin declared that he had some years ago warned the ranchers of the Salt river valley against the reclamation service officials and that he had not, as yet, changed his mind that they were the chief grafters of a grafting national administration. The memorial was adopted.

The attention of the council was called to the Globe strike by a telegram addressed to President Hunt announcing the resignation of Organizer Wills and the resumption of work by the men. It was also stated that the Rangers had left the camp. New bills in the council were brought in by Hampton to promote the development of water, by granting prior rights to lands to locators; by Morgan creating supervisoral districts and a second bill providing for the making of road tax a lien on personal property and to be collected as other taxes are and a bill by Norton the intent of which is to allow the Randolph lines of Mexico to maintain general offices at Tucson, Arizona, and be purchased or leased by any Arizona corporation in this particular instance the purchasing and leasing line being the Southern Pacific company.