The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-09-14
The Philadelphia and Idaho Go.

The great Smelter owned by the Stand
ard Oil Company, stands idle-with the
characteristic seishness of that great
monopoly, understood to be paid for its
idleness by the other smelters of the
country. Boise Statesman, Sept. 5.
This extract from the rather sour
rilous article on Ketchum by the
carpetbag editor of the paper named
who recently visited this regional
gentleman who comes to Idaho with
aspirations, assuming that the TIM
Der statesmen are made of might
be scarce-is about in keeping with
his whole effort. It is baseless
SANDER, a falsehood out of whole
cloth, and great injustice to, and
libel on, the Philadelphia & Idaho
Company, which is an organization
composed of Philadelphia gentle
lnen of the highest social and fnan-
cial standing, having no connection
whatever with the monopoly men,
toned gentlemen prominent in
great banking and railway interests
and who have disbursed lavishly
in efforts to make a success of min
ing and smelling in this region.
only to meet with constant discour-
agement, defeat and loss, this style
of reflection being their only APP
parent reward. A million and
half Of dollars will not cover their
outlay. Their efforts have been
earnest and persistent. Harding
critics, local and visiting, could of
course have done, and still do bet
ter. But this company has spent
it's own means. 1t owes no man a
dollar. 1t has never failed to meet
an obligation, nor has it ever asked
subsidy or favor Of any kind. II
is responsible for most of the tax
able public improvements within
the limits of the present county of
Alturas, having advanced the entire
acknowledgements of one hundred
thousand dollars-to construct the
railroad from HALEY to Ketchum.
1t has been making efforts in the
face of all Encouragement to bring
out Its various properties. But to
paralyze these the county authori-
ties, in the face of diminishing aud
depreclating values, increases their
taxes for the current year so per
cent over last year, Notwithstanding
all reasoning circumstances. The
results Geographic directions to the
local manager to suspend all opera
tons, and Colonel Hardess is now
at Smoky shutting down the Silver
Star mine and abandoning the camp.
The North Star mill having been in
process of reconstruction for the
past month, a considerable run of
ore has accumulated. When this
Is put through, operations there
will also close. This is serious
blow to this region, and we all
keenly feel the certain results, and
such unjust reflections as the above.
The management of this company
has ever been generous and willing
to cooperate with the community
IN anything tending to the common
good. In our late efforts to secure
mail service with the Salmon river
region, at a mere suggestion, the
president of the company, Sydney
l.. Wright, cheerfully dropped all
business and went to Washington
and urged the matter with his Phil
adelphia influence, and succeeded,
and the most prosperous and ben
ehcial mail and stage route to and
from our town, is due mainly to his
generous action. Acknowledgment
of this kind, and refutation of such
libeious reflections is due this en-
terprise which We cheerfully con-
tribute, while we deplore the action
OF our county authorities.
IT has been formally anno,,rooI