Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-06-24
\ would-be Dictator squeIched.


 E Mining Exposition,
 *-* Denver, Colorado.
 A WouId-be Dictator SqueIched. 2 The would-be dictator of Pinal county, that personiiied bundle of intelligence, nal Drill is sick, not in body but ill mind. He is hurt in his feelings; he groans, he writhes, he gnashes his teeth and is red in the face; but not without cause; he has been grievously wronged. It came about in this way: A call was issued from Pinal June 7th requesting all owners of mines and all persons interested in the development of the mining interests of Pinal county to meet at Suter's Hall, Pi nal, on the evening of June, 10th, to ! effect arrangements for the representa- | ton of the mining interests of Pinal 1 county at the Denver Exposition. This call was signed by all the leading mer chants and business men of Pinal, and by | number of mine owners. A duplicate l of this notice was mailed to the editor of 1 | the ENTERPRISE on the evening of the l 7th, and copy of the said notice was left in the office of the Final Dr:H by o, 1 B. Adams on the evening of the Eth. 1 1 There was a request i'll said notice that i the editors of the Pinal Drill and Flor ence ENTERPRISE publish the same and ] call the attention of the public thereto 1 ,f4 ial
 with the request and did publish 1t. but that bundle of wisdom, that guardian of the mining interests of Pinal county, who drives the Pinal Drill single handed with
 a tack hammer, said no; this notice shall
 not be published in the Drill. This IS
 presumptueus upon the part of the peo-
 pie to call meeting without having first
 consulted me, so I will consign 1t to the
 waste basket and issue call of my own for a meecing to be held on the 16th
 instead of the 10th So he issued his
 call for the l6th of June i'll the Drill, but the people had the presumption to meet on the evening of the 10th, in defiance of
 the cdict of the great am, and without
 consulting his wishes in the matter se-
 lected man by the uncommon name of
 Brown to represent the mining interests
 of Pinal county at the said Denver Ex- 4k kposition This was too much for human
 nature tc bear, for of all the names to be
 found in Final county Brown is the most
 distasteful to him. Moreover, this guard sl ian of the mining interests of Pinal county had already selected man to rep 1 resent our mining interests at the Denver
 Exposition-;s man after his own style,
 one upon whom he could lean and trust,
 one who would serve the best interests of
 the wonid-be dictator. True. this man
 whom he had selected does not own
 dollars worth of mining or any other
 property in Pinal county is not identified
 with the interests of the people of the county in any way, does not pretend to have any knowledge of mining or of ores
 But what of that2 This guardian of the
 interests of the people of Pinal county
 could have secured his appointment with out calling OH the people, and conld have instructed him what would best promote the interests of the proprietor of the Drill. But this little game of his was
 nipped in the bud. So, finding his plans 0verthrown by the peoble of Pinal and adjoining camps, whom he had grossly insulted by refusing to publish their call for a meeting, he sets himself to work to trv to prejudice those in remote parts of the county, and, if possible, defeat and prevent the mining interests from being represented at the exposition, by an edi- torial in the Drill He starts out with a
 falsehuod, and continues to falsify all the way through. He asserts that only ten hours notice was given of the meeting that convened at Suter's Hall and elected Brown to represent the mining interests of Final county, whereas he knows that notice of said meeting was left at the of flee of the Drill three days before the | meeting came off. He knows further that notice of said meeting was posted at the Postofice in Pinal three days before the meeting came off,
 FRogers camp, Coles camp, Mineral Hill and Mineral Greek should all have been notified of this meeting"
 They were notified and were at the ], meeting, viz, five in number from the i Rogers camp, four from Coles camp and over twenty from Mineral Hill and Box ,, canyon.
 d ;''The meeting was attended but by a t few persons, and was a claptrap affair." D '- How does he know anything about the e meeting! He did not attend it, for the }. tsvery good reason that he knew he could T have no Influence there. The people oi : this part of the county have had quite , enongh of his bulldozing, and will not j. tolerate any more of it. He thinks T Browns credentials will be looked into by IS the Commissioner at the exposition, and Il thinks it doubtful about his being admit > ted. W-hat pity. If had his face or ' me I should be in doubt about being ad y mitted, notwithstanding my commission l, from the Governor of Arizona; but a' d the matter stands haven't anything tt n fear All I ask is that the owners O e mines send me samples of their ore, ant } 1i we will place Pinal county at the head o |; the mineral showing in spite of all thi e , clustering blowhard can do or sa. |, through the Pinal Drill.
 10 P. A. BROWN.