Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
THE HOLLAND MIYlSG COMPANY
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Communicated

The history of this company is proba
 bly without a parallel in any m:nii 2
 country. Having a good mine, SO de.
 ciled by all experts who have visited 1t
 the company erected @ furnace at La 1 Noria in the summer of 1880 At that | time the mine showed large per cent
 age of galena ore; but 1t suddenly turned
 into ''mu iic' easily millable by aerast- ' ring. Tn 'ss.c,r,be 1880. T. M. NorwOod, the vice president ot the Holland Com
 pauy, shut the furnace down, promising
 the employees that he would return
 within ten days from Tucson, with money | tO pay them off He has never returned | and the men are still anxiOusly looking for their money. Mr. Luttrell. the former superintendent ,resisned March 18th, 1881 The men had been left ar the mine and furnace without any money, waiting NorWoOd's return. They were in a suf-
 fering condition having neither prUvi-
 sions nor money. Lu;trell received S2,-
 5J0 of his own money from California;
 and, although being sick and under the
 belief that he would never recover, di- vided nearly S2OOO of his own mO-ey,
 among rhe Holland employees. It was
 q Gud-send to them for their families
 were suffering for the Decessaries of life.
 Luttrell afterwards. in New York, had
 the satis action of having one of the
 promoters of the company tell him that
 he Was a fool for paying any of his money
 to the men. The Holland company now
 owes a labor account of about S6,OOO to
 poor men and miners and an agent has lately been in thls Territory trying to buy up these accounts for 20cents on the dollar.
 Norvood left Tucson and went East in May 1881, but before leaving gave an order to the Superintendent of the Yankee Smelling Company to use the blower If the furnace; but it has since been currently reported, that he actually sold it for about SlO1 thus allowing the furnace 10 be dismantled of portion of its value.
 In June, 1881, the company placed a mortgage for Sj0,0O0 on the furnace and mine, proposing the issue of bonds among the stockholders and raise money to pay it's debts and develop the mine, but not one dollar have any of the stock holders put up.
 The principal promoters and stock holders of the company are Gen. H. F. Walker, President 5S Broadway, New York; Judge Wm. Schlcy, office with R. r. Flower 6 Co. bankers, Broadway, New York; (Schley is reported worth S3,0O0000); David Dows, Gen. Deas, Thomas Young, Col Murphy, all Of New 70 ' ~:.... 'r v ~-T and evil s. Senator from Georgia; Dr. E. B. Perm, of San Francisco. All these men are worth from S1Co,CO0up into the millions, but they are so mefIably mean that they will not raise among themselves few thousand dollars to pay rhe poor men who worked for them. We have beeL informed that the company now has an agent in this Territory trying to buy up the accounts of these poor men attwenty cents on the dollar. We feel pity fl not shame for him and any assisting him in this matter. We are publishing this article m defence of poor men. Men who brought their families to this Territory. They are good and honored citizens. Not one of them is less than a peer, in honesty and integrity of char acter, of the ex-United States Senator from Georgia. the Vice President of the Holland Company, who sneaked away from the furnace under a promise that he would return in ten days and pay the men; ignoring honest 'lams against Il e company: m some instances bo q ' de- clarins that he wOuld advise the non payment of demands for labor per formed and services rendered by his own order. Poor Peter Smith, injured and made cripple for life ill the employ of the Holland Company, kept on duty at the furnace as watchmaD, in charge Of the property, by order of J. K. Luttrell, Superintendent; staid until he was almost starved out and was obliged to leave. Norwood, then Superintendent, would neither send him provisions nor money; and afterward declared that he would sec that the Holland Company | did not maintain a refuge for indigent aud crippled miners.
 In conclusion, We feel inclined to say 1 from information obtained. and from the | acts and business of the Holland Com 1 pauy as they have been exposed to the public in litigation and newspaper pub lications, and current rumor, during the l time that it has been doing business in ! this Territory, that its history is the l most shameful, disgraceful and mex 1 cusable of any mining corp ration that ! ever entered Arizona. H.