Richard an uncommon litigator

Prior to Peter's arrival, Richard went to the ranches of the Gila River on January 2, 1874, taking with him a pair of mules, a pair of horses, three teams, and other things necessary for agriculture and planting.
He worked on what he considered to be his own ranch.
Although he does not personally own land in the area, he was referring to Jose Arviso's ranch, originally known as White Ranch. (Photo above: The White Ranch now become the White Stallion Ranch, one of the most famous tourist stages ...)
By promoting his marital rights, he had included some of the fields of the Robledo, Moreno, and Duran ranches that I owned, and had begun to sow wheat and barley on two hundred acres. What I found with my nephew on January 19th.
The next day I showed my nephew all my possessions, an opportunity for him to familiarize himself with my lands.

Adamsville (pictured above and opposite) was one of the first two cities created in Pinal County, Arizona.
She was named for her original settler in 1866, Charles S. Adams. When a post office was established in 1871, it was named Sanford, (in reference to Captain George B. Sanford of the First US Cavalry), by a political enemy of Mr. Adams, Richard McCormick. There was a flour mill and water tanks.
On July 4, 1871, for the first time, flour was produced. The life of this mill was short, on September 2, 1871, the mill was burnt. There was a suspicion of arson and the loss was estimated at $ 10,000 ($ 158,105).
William Bichard continued to sell flour produced at the Adamsville Mill in a small store in Phoenix, until September 7, 1868, when the Gila River whipped out during a great flood.

Woffenden left the Gila River for Tucson in early May. His intention, he said later, was to return to the ranches in September with bags for grain harvest after pounding.
At the beginning of July Peter sent word to Woffenden that he would have to supply ten men to harvest his half harvest.
The harvest began on 12 July and lasted until 10 August.
Above culture landscapes around Tucson circa 1870
Sixty thousand pounds of wheat and barley (27 tons) and 200,000 pounds (90 tons) were cut and stacked in the fields.
On August 21 Woffenden filed a complaint against Pierre, alleging that Pierre had entered and detained by force the three ranches he considered his property, and that he sought to recover them. He forgets, however, that I had sold these ranches to my nephew.
He also demanded that Pierre could not take the entire crop, accusing him of taking 1,200 pounds (540 Kg) and threatening to take the equivalent of half the crop without his consent. To do so, he asked for a fine of $ 24 (€ 380) to cover the loss until the final resolution of this action.

Nearly a year will pass before the trial.
The threshing took place between 7 and 10 September 1874. Although he was informed that the threshing machine was available, Woffenden did not respond, did not arrive until the 10th.
Pierre, meanwhile, had separated the beaten grain in "an equal number of quintals."
Upon his arrival at the Robledo Ranch, Woffenden ordered Peter to take the grain from Adamsville and Florence, where he might be sold; sharing the benefit.
Pierre replied that he intended to keep his harvest half at the Robledo Ranch. Woffenden, was thus free to do as he pleased for his part. He would find in the field what he wished to collect. Richard will not reap anything by stating that he was gone because Peter said he had stolen it four times and would "treat" him if he stayed there.
He never collected his share of the grain, abandoning his harvest leaving it to the inclement weather. When Rafael Tapia announced in October that he was ready to burn the fields to prepare them for the next seeding campaign, I instructed Pierre to take what was left of the crop placed in the Robledo Ranch.