Arizona citizen., 1874-03-21
THE CITIZEN.
SATURDAY, - Ma7ch 21, 1874.
Burro Mining Affairs Again.

George D. Roberts and Asbury Harpend- ing were indicted early in this month by a San Francisco grand jury for fraud, in connection with their transactions in the noted Burro mines just east of the Arizona line in New Mexico. Most of our readers are familiar with the fact that these and other men created quite an excitement over the BuIro mines in 1870, and it was believed by close observers that what is called "job" was put up by the chief manipulators, as they subsequently, did in the notorious diamond swindle. The old adage that it is a long lane that has no turn, IS verified again in this case. The San Francisco papers dish up the matter anew at more or less length, from which the annexed extracts are taken:
 The indictments are three in number. One is against Roberts, and accuses him of having defrauded Leonard II. Treadwen of this city out of S50,O00 by means of false representations. The other is against Har- pending in precisely the same strain, and the third charges them jointly with having cOnspired together to commit the fraud. What were the false representations? IS very natural question in this connection, and to answer it we have only such state mentS as are made in the complaint of Mir. Treadwell or are set forth by the wit nesseS upon whose testimony the indict- mentS were found. MT. Roberts, of course, will have to answer, and may throw a different light upon things in general, proving that TreadWell lost no S50,000 by his representations. It is stated that in the early part of 1870, w. D. Brown and a gentleman named Philip Arnold, not un- known to fame, were agents for somebody or other at the BurrO mines in New Mex ico. They received, so say the accuserS, an order from Roberts and Harpending to send up some ore to San traciScO, and they sent some. It was rich ore; the silver was thick in it; it was, in fact, almost Sil- yer itself, but it did not come from the Bur mine. It came from some mines which Roberts and Harpending did not own, and 1t came to San Francisco. When 1t arrived here it was aSSayed, and than that assay nothing could have been more Satisfac- tory. Of course a good many people be- came acquainted with the fact that the ore was remarkably rich, and at the same time got 1t into their heads that 1t came from the BurrO, instead of from Leid- esdOrff Wells, fifteen or twenty miles from the BurrO. Roberts and Harpending or ganiZed company here, and number or prominent citizens, who had mistaken the LeidesdOrff ore for a Burro production, joined their forces with those of Roberts and Harpe nding; among them was Treadwell, who joined forces to the eX- tent of $50000. The company was called the New Mexican mining company and it's promoters succeeded in floating of their hands a considerable amount of it's stock. So far all went well; miners were sent down. w. D. Brown was made the first superintendent; and subsequently, M. l.. Power occupied that distinguished posi- ton, while c. J. Myer, who was lately sO- journing in this city, but who is not sO- iourning here now, went down as assayer. Fly SiedentOpf also went down and recent ly went up--before the grand jury to tell what he remembered about his visit. The capitalists of san Francisco, however, did not wax so enthusiastic over BurrO Burro as the gentlemen who had the wei fare Of that excellent mineral deposit at heart would have liked; and so a truSty representative was sent to New York. The truSty representative was Harpending. It was not a good day for BurrO BurrOs when he was in New York, and so he took ship and went to that home of capitalists-Lon- don, where he sang the praises Ot BurrO to the local CrpSuSeS until they thought there might be something in it after all. With considerable perversity, however, they would take no stock in the mine un- til they had examined the concern for themselves. So they sent out an expert, who knew not Harpending, and to whom the face of Roberts was as the face Of stranger, and he came, and saw and re- ported, and his report was such that the capitalists immediately tied up the neckS of their money bags, and The Times came out and said some pretty rough things about the Burro Burro mine, which was known in London, pursuant to some little re-chriStening arrangement, as the Pyra- mid Range Mining Company. Then the whole scheme collapsed; and Arnold, Slack and Cooper not long afterward dag zled an amused but incredulOuS cOmmu- nifty with " diamonds from ArlZOna," and the curtain rang up in new act Ill the drama-a drama which, although never lacking for enthusiastic. patrons on the Pacific coast. has palled somewhat upon foreign speculatOrS, who while they might spectators, do not desire, in addition to paying their entrance fee, to bear all the expenses of the entertainment.
 FOLLOWING is dispatch to the Califor-