Los Angeles daily herald., 1884-10-09
PAGES FROM DIR. CONGAR'S
NOTE BOOK.
ZEE Enters into Details Regarding
Mark HAMS employment of
Cbins,men nt the Orc Grnnde
Mines.

ZEE Enters into Details Regarding
Markbam,s employment of
cbins,men at the Orc Grande
Mines.
EDfToR DAILY HERALD: Although great
deal has already been said about who hired
the Cinnamon for the ORC Grande Mining
Company, and since Mr.. II. II. Markham has
attempted to settle the whole Chinaman
question In dispute through the HERALD Of
the 9TH instant, trust you viii again oblige
me by giving little more space in the inter
est Of good government and for the benefit.
also, Of an honest constituency, to introduce
heretofore unearthed facts, taken from my
record kept during the occurrences referred
to. In october and November, 1880, the first
Chinaman went over TO work on the canal
or mill ditch. on November 30th, 1880 !
paid the boss Chinaman, Sui Sing, Tor
cinnamon labor three hundred and fifty dol.
lars. $50. at the rate OF $50 per month each.
Could this have been for one days
labor, even for the number OF Cinnamon he
(MArkham) mentions, 20 or 30, the time go
9Th paid Il. Turner twenty dollars; 9Th, Frank
LONE eighteen dollars and 9Th W. o. Swan,
Jr., twenty dollars, for hauling Cinnamon
over 20 work for the Company. Notwith,,
to refer TO, Johnson, Spencer, X. WI
liams, John Goldswortby, and II. Lukins
come to the front and assert that Marx
ham was at the East aud had nothing
whatever to do In procuring these China
men, everything to do In discharglng
them, however. But, Mr.. A. o. Bris-
toll, upon OATH, and Mr. Il. Turner show
that Markham personally arranged with
In selfdefence, am therefore forced before
the public to state the facts from my record.
Eleven of the second crew of Cinnamon
that went over, portion being hauled by
Mr. WIN. Harry, Markham's foreman on his
home place, remained all summer. never
coming back until the fight with Chapman,
the foreman ut the mines. late In the fall,
and then by their own volition as
they were not discharged o, On Marx I
also taken over when they went into
the mines. Contrary to what Markham
states in his article, was unable 10 employ
one half OF the white labor offered. Instead
OF Markham being at the East he personally
superintendent the construction Of the dam
months after the chinamen went 70
work. After the ditch and dam were
completed the Cinnamon were EN-.
ployed In grading roads to the va
rious mines, and when possible they were
put to work In the mine called the ORC
Grande, replacing the white men, some OF
whom went over to the Orc Elmo, another
mine Of the company. In the meantime
Markham and myself had been to San Fran
cisco, purchased q ten-stamp mill, and to-
gether, more or less, looked after Its con
struction to completion. Mr. Markham had
not gone East yet. This was during the
months OF December, 1880, January, Febru-
airy, March aud April, 1881, the Cinnamon
being all the time at work. Now. the small
hole II. H.. Markham. attempts, to crawl
through, intimating and shing II believed
that he was at the East aft n hiring and dis
patching to the upper port on of the ditch by
Mr.. Il. Turner the first invoice of Cinnamon
will attempt to more firmly plug by what
follows: Mr. John Taylor was foreman of
the mines but could or would not work the
Cinnamon In the mines and resigned. There.
upon Capt. Il. r. johnson and myself hunted
up Mr.. Chapman, said TO be an expert In
In possession. About the Doth of July, 1881,
ii. ii. Markham started for Milwaukee II
think the date Is not far from correct) to sell
the whole property, or certain amount OF
the individual stock. The 18th of October
following went to San Bernardinoand took
to the mines.a DR.. g. b. Miner, who and as
sociates In Milwaukee had bought stock In
the company, and sent him (Miner) out with
Markham on his return to examine the prop
erty they had already bought into Upon
reaching the mines the Cinnamon were still
at work there under Foreman Chapman, and
Dr. Miner was very anxious they should
continue, which they did. DR. Miner soon
returned to Milwaukee and, February It'll,
1882, writes the following. with other things;
II am somewhat disappointed. Had the
plan you and marked out with Mr.. Chap
man been carried out we should have known
before this time whether we had q mine.
After all that had thus far occurred,
the Milwaukee parties were unable to obtain
from IL. Ii. Markham even the month the
mill started up, according to the subjoined
excerpts from Milwaukee. to-wit: ar,
A letter dated September 3. 1882, from Mil
waukee makes the following inquiry;
please tell me when the contractors turned
the mill over to you. was told they were
testing 1t in June to get 1t satisfactorily ad-
justed, and the fore part OF July you took 1t
and commenced running 1t to its full capac-
ity. Now, Markham says you must have
taken IL in May" In another letter OF Sep
TENDER oath, following the above inquiry on
given you wrong impression in my letter
as to the mill. What wished to know was
what month you commenced running the
mill. Markham told me sometime in July,
now he says in May. ] cannot quite recon
cile his last statement"
Now, is it not little singular, to say the
least that IL. IL. Markham Is so positively
certain about the time and circumstances OF
not hiring the Cinnamon, whom he took no
interest in. and now so utterly despises, al
though employing them all the time in Pas
adena, and has no certain knowledge about
so important an event as starting up the
company's mill? The mill did not start up
In either OF the months he talks about to lis
Milwaukee friends, and very much doubt
whether he can now state the day and
the month when II did start. The
point is this: Mr.. Markham is now running
for Congress, and to catch the miners vote,
under decidedly false representations, istry-
ing to worm out of the responsibility of hir-
ing Cinnamon at the mines, but knows all
about discharging them. In this he has
most signally failed, and in other respects
puts himself in questionable light bearing
upon other matters of record, which are
ready when forced before the public. TAX
ing this in connection with the frauds prac-
ticed In purchasing votes at the primaries in
and his interest in not voting during 1--we
years residence In this District, is altogether
too much for my Republicanism.
have other records upon the Chinese
question, but will not offer them.
Respectfully, o. ii. CoNGAR.