The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-09

pers there (the one paper to which l re-
fer not being represented among the
three gentlemen to send at their eX-
pense to Salt Lake City news of the
completion of our plans in Boston,"
Queried as to the report that offices
occupied by his company in Salt Lake
City had been closed because there was
no money forwarded by him from BOs-
ton to meet expenses or to pay sala-
ries, Hope said:
Il have had 10 financial difficulties
of any kind whatever in Salt Lake
City with clerks or with the owners Of
office buildings. The company in
which l was interested had hardly
more than deskroOm i'm the office of a
gentleman who was a party to some
of our plans That office may have
been closed, and there may be money
owing TO some of the persons employed
there, but they were not employees of
the capitalists l represented"
Denies Any Forgery.
1T is said in a dispatch from Salt
Lake City," Hope was told. that you
are trying TO sell stocks in Boston in
the Great Western Coal and Mining
company, to which the name of a Utah
mlillonalre, John Hill has been forged"
DCAACNC Iildt tie NAME Oh a gentle
man from whom / and a few associates
obtained options on about 10000 acres
OF coal land is HILL" commented Mr..
Hope, but he is very far from being a
millionaire, as his dealing with the pur-
chasers of the option showed plainly.
1T is absolutely false that the name Of
JOnn Hill or OF anybody else, has been
Forged to any paper of any kind in
which | am interested. The mining
plans are not part of the venture of
the English capital may undertake, but
an independent undertaking. Nobody's
reputation, l believe, suffered in the
least on account of the work l have
been doing in the west"
1t is said also in a dispatch from
the west. he was told. that you have
mentioned the name of Halsted in con-
nectiOn with your general plans. and
that some of the persons who have
been persuaded to put trust in your as.
sertions now believe there is no such
man."
Mr.. Halsted is an English gentleman
interested III the western development
plans. He is very far from mythical.
as you might discover if you ever
talked with him. Mr.. Halsted has had
some business dealings with a Boston
financial house concerning bonds. I
| have received letters from him manv
times. and have talked with him. He
is what he says he is"
Says Draft Was Delayed"
1T is said. also, that a draft of yours
has been d 'shOnored," Mr.. Hope was
told.
None of my drafts have been dis
| hOnOred." he replied. though there
may have been some expected delayed
which were made necessary for bust
ness reasons. In one case had a mat
ter held over thirty days in order to
make sure of a certain noint. That Is
about as much as / know of any dis
hOnOring Of drafts
LAS a matter of fact, money is owed
to me in that country. In some cases
[ Id not believe that persons from
whom services were done were able
conveniently, to make payments, and
L did not press them"
Are you making any effort to raise
money in Boston for the companies you
representa-" he was asked
mot a cent" replied Mr.. Hope. 81
am here trying to make arrangements
for Boston house to be an agent Of
the companies and I hope to save one
commission by the plan. | have met
very few persons mere in Boston. Z be-
leve that the plans I am now working
on VIII be put into effect finally"
Surgeon in British Navy"
Mr.. Hope stayed 1T Young's hotel
for a few days June q he had dinner
at the Atlantic house, Nantucket
Beach, and inquired if it would be pos
sible to obtain quarters there for four
or five friends of the British navy. who
were to arrive at Newport to De pres
ent at the naval maneuvers. The man
agement of the hotel said Saturday
night that he understood Mr. Hope 10
say that he was a surgeon in the Brit
ish navy
When Mr.. Hope was asked in regard
to that today, he said that the hotel
manager must have misunderstood him
His plans include a short stay at the
Atlantic house, later on, he said, and
he added that if much of e stir was
made about his presence I'm Boston his
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