Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-29
WHO THE REAL wKEokEEs WERE.

WHO THE REAL wRECKERs WE'RE.
 The JOURNAL MINER is taken to task this morning by its contem- porary for not publishing in full a paragraph quoted from it on Satur- day. The political gist of said paragraph was quoted verbatim, the remainder of it being only an explanatory assertion, irrelevant, immatarial and not admissible as evidence.
 Replying to the JOURNAL MINERS reference to the United Verde & Pacific railroad being exempt from the ''taxless" inuendoes hurled agaist another road our contem- porary says:
 Neither the Hon. W. A. Clark nor his agents had anything to do with the passage of the tax exemp- tion act"
 The inference is here thrown out, the same as directly charged by that paper few days since that parties connected with the s. F., F. & P. railroad were responsible for the tax exemption act, and for the sup- sequent failure of the F. < A. C.. railroad, all of which is incorrect. A little history connected with this may be interesting 10 new corners as we'll as to some older residents. The tax exemption bill which was enacted into a law and which be- came the basis of all taxless roads in the territory was gotten up in behalf of T. s. Bullock's F. & A. C.. railroad. Messrs. l.. H. Wilson, W. O. ONeill and others spent con- siderable time in Phenix during the session of the legislature lobbying for the bill which became a law, while w. c. Bashford and Sam Hill two of Prescotts most prominent citizens, was there working against the passage of said bill, as we'll as trying to secure legislation on other subjects for the regulation of said road. MT. Bullock and his hench- men, however, carried their point. This was the first nail driven into the coffin of the road, for which Yavapai county paid for its build ing. That particular bill was also opposed by friends of Mir. Murphy.
 As Mir. Bullock had no monopoly over the provisions of the act, the S. F., P. & P. Railroad Company was organized to take advantage of the inducements held out by it, and In due course of time the work of constructing the railroad was com menced. After considerable pro- gress had been made in grading the railroad, if our memory serves us right, three or four miles having been graded, work was stopped for several days, in order to negotiate for the purchase of MT. Bullock's road. An offer was made for it whereby Mir. Bullock would have received a cash consideration for his road, the mortgage bond holders of the railroad company would have been protected in their bond hold ings, and the road would have remained as tax paying institution of the county. The bonus offered Mir. Bullock was not as much as he could realize during the year and a half which it took to build the rival line, hence the offer was declined by him, and the new road was built, and on its completion the old road was compelled 10 cease operations, and the holders of the mortgage bonds witnessed the complete de- struction of their securities. These remember, though, were the P. & A, c. mortgage bonds, and not the county bonds. It was these self same bonds which sold for ten cents on the dollar, and which have so often been confounded with the Ysvapai county bonds.
 From the above it will be seen that the charge, so oft repeated, that the managers of the S. F., P. & F. road succeeded in wrecking the old road, falls to the ground, and that they were willing to purchase the road and protect the bond hold CTS of the company, as we'll as the county, and had their offer been entertained, there would not today