Mohave County miner., 1897-10-02
The Mineral Wealth taking it for

W1IGCO 10 GuC CO1u lIOLCll u uOIls SONO
 into mysteries over the funding of
 the old P. & A. C. railroad bonds.
 It gives the amount of the funded
 bonds at 1,2O0,O0O$, The real
 amount, principal and interest. is
 26O,O00$. Before the road was
 built the citizens of Prescott were
 wildly in favor of it and willingly
 offered Thomas Bullock subsidy
 of 4OO0$ per mile. Bullock built
 the road and then cinched the ship
 pers of Prescott so tightly on freight
 rates that the merchants serio ously
 considered a proposition to put on
 mule teams to do their hauling be-
 tween Ash Fork and Prescott.
 Bullock wanted to extend his road to Phenix and the men who are now bowling so loudly against the payment of Yavapai county bonds engineered a tax examption bill through the legislature to further the Bullock interest. Frank M. Murphy was then a rising star in the Prescott constellation and he engineered a scheme to build a rival road. First an offer was made to buy the Bullock road, but that magnate, never dreaming that an- other road would be built, refused to sell. The other road was built and its traffic agreement with the Santa Fe ruined the business of the P. & A. c. road and it soon ceased to operate. The bonds is sued by Yavapai county were sold by Bullock to build the road and they were issued by Yavapai coun- ty in lots of 4O,O0O$ as each ten miles of the road was completed and accepted by Yavapai county supervisors. When Coconino coun- ty was formed the indebtedness of Yavapai county was segregated. The railroad bonds were then ac- knowledged as part of the bonded indebtedness and Cononlno county accepted her proportion of the whole. Yavapai is now trying to repudiate the bonds and cling to the big sum of money received from Coconino on account of this self same indebtedness. Four years ago John c. Herndon was district attorney of Yavapai county and in a ngthy opinion to the board of supervisors held the bonds valid and that Yavapai county would have to pay them. And yet no man has ever challenged the integ- rlty of John c. Herndon. The rails and rolling stock of the old road | has gone to build a road eastward l into the foothills from Stockton, California. No part of it ever went into tho new road.
 Anent the malicious fling at Mar GUS A. Smith and Oakes Murphy, l we would say that Arizona has had | no abler champion in the halls of 1 congress than Delegate Smith and no one can point to one dishone st act of his. Mr. Smith never did | for the MINER editor one kind act, nor can it be said that party fealty induces us to repel an attack, be- cause we owe no allegiance to the party that placed him in congress. N. o. Murphy has done and is do- ing great work for central Arizona and all his acts are honest and above board. Bucky O'Neill's claptrap is all right for those not cognizant of the facts but it is like the story of the deluge in Arkansas. As the story goes cloud burst in the mountains and a great flood of water came down a ravine drown ing many people and live stock and running farms. When the reporters got to the scene of the re- ported disaster they found an old man seated in the doorway of cabin and inquired of him if the report was true. Wall, stranger" he said, "I ruther guess it's true; only thar wasn't no water Rem down." This is the status of the Mineral Wealth and BucKy O'Neill yarns.