Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-06
The Sullivan Consolidated.

The following communication from
DR.. A. S. Amerman to the Deadwood
Times, submitted by that gentleman in
reply to certain statements appearing in
that paper rejecting upon the Sullivan
Consolidated Mining company. will be
read with no small degree of interest by
our local readers, who are all more or
less interested in the matter at issue:
ROCKFORD, March 9th, 1899.
To THE EDITOR OF THE TINES:
In the issue Of the daily papers Of
Deadwood of March 23rd. is an article
purported to have It's origin in letter
received from one of the best informed
miners Of the Central Hills" 1t is very
seldom, Mr.. Editor, that take excep-
tions to anything that may appear in
print, but when so broad assertions are
made as those purporting to have been
taken from the above named letter and
commented on by some of you, / cannot
help trying to put it before you in the
right light, and in the opinion of one
that is entirely disinterested in the
property referred to, but who wishes to
see all enterprises ofnot only the central
but the whole Hills pushed to success,
and l would respectfully ask that you
give this version Of the above mention
ed article space in your columns.
In the first place this miner has sim
ply written the letter above mentioned
out of pure spite, and not from any great
love Of honesty or hatred of swindles
and frauds. To prove this, this same
expose was promised sometime ago and
was withheld. Why? Because this
selfsame miner was interested in a deal
then on the tapis and in this part of the
country. His greed had the better part
of his honesty-this, the Times is cog
infant of. This "swindle and fraud" j.
e. Sullivan Consolidated is likened to
the notorious Big Bend" Why, my
dear sir there is no comparison what
ever. Have they hired any men they
did not pay? Have they ever assessed
some to pay dividends to others? Have
they kept their ground guarded to keep
people from prospecting it? | say no
and it cannot be refuted. Have they
ever asked or paid any of the papers of
the Hills or elsewhere for writing them
up? To this | also say no. Mr.. Nc
Manus, of the Republican, was up some
Jlilic slilSC diI, lOOhcu dJ tnlS do Well ds
other properties, and wrote them up. 1
admit the article was somewhat oyer
done, but it was unasked and done on
Mr.. McManus' own account. ssThey have
organized a company, and have put So,
600 out of 100000 shares in the treasury
for working capital and for the avow-
ed purpose of developing the property.
This is the stock that is being sold and
every dollar goes into the treasury, and
thence to pay for development work.
There are none of the officers drawing
large salaries, and only two that draw
any, i. e., treasurer and superintendent.
The latter know has not drawn dol
lar, and / do not think the former has.
There has none of the other stock been
sold or offered for sale, and is in such
shape that it cannot be. Summed up,
they are simply selling stock for devel-
opment fund.
have not written this for the pur-
pose Of getting into newspaper contro-
versy, but for the purpose of trying to
get Justice done. and would respectfully
ask you to come and investigate for
yourself, or send man that is not
biased by locality or prejudiced by per-
soIlal spite, and Will guarantee that you
will be we'll treated, and that Mr.. Ayre
the superintendent, will answer ..any
questions and allow any amount of pros
pecting you may wish to do; and if you
come, | am satisfied that you will return
wiser if not better"
A. 6. AMERMAN.