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


Boston, Mass, July 8. - BerestOrd
Hope of London, England, reported TO
be sought by many MormOns OF salt
Lake City, Utah, in connection with
schemes of which the financing in
yolved many millions, and who has
been entertained by some of the best
known persons of Boston. and put up
at the University club, denied categori-
cally to a reporter today that there was
ANYTHING at all off color in his western
schemes, and asserted that excessive
rivalry between Gentle and Mormon
newspapers in Salt Lake City was rr-
sponsible for much stir that has been
made about him.
Mr.. Hope has been ''milOrded' by
Bcstonians and given the title of sir
by others, and he was said III dis
matches from the west to have repre-
scented himself as an English nobleman.
Mr.. Hope says that there is no truth
in that report; that the only halts in
his business plans are those necessary
before a large amount of money should
be staked on an investment scheme,
and that his career in this country in
the last eight months has been open
and honest in every way.
With Mr.. Hope in Boston is former
Attorney General John A. Bagley of
Idaho. a personal friend of President
Roosevelt and guest of his short
time ago. Mr.. Bagley asserts emphat-
iCally that Mr.. Hopes dealings have
been entirely honest; that his creden-
tails were scanned in Salt Lake City
by some of the beSt-knOWn Glen OF the
state, ard that he has never even sug-
gested anything that borders on fren-
zied finance.
Mr.. Bagley declares he is interested
in Mr.. Hopes western companies only
as an attorney. Since coming to the
United States about eight months ago,
Mr.. Hone has spent most of his time
in the west. much of it in Salt Lake
City. says Mr. Bagley, as representa-
tive of English capitalists who are said
to have already invested more than
So. 900 900 in various enterprises in the
west. They are said by Mr.. Bagley to
be considering now the advisability OF
a general exploiting plan embracing
Transportation lighting and other
things. One of the companies which it
is supposed to take over, should Mr..
Hope recommend it, is the ShOshone
Power company, which obtains electric
power from the famous ShoshOne falls
on the Snake river, and propose to de-
velop enough electricity here to pro-
vide power and light for various enter
prises in Salt Lake City and the ada
cent country.
Interview With Hope.
Speaking of his career in this coun-
try, Mr.. Hope said yesterday:
Some paper or other printed a para
graph about my family, and several
tpersons have seen fit to apply a title
to it. 1 have none, and / have never
made any claim to one. | have kept
my personality in the background as
much as possible since coming to this
country, and have devoted myself
strictly to business, to legitimate bust
ness. in accordance to the instructions
/ received in England. I suppose that
/ am in the nature of a hired man.
There is English capital ready to in
vest in enterprises in the west, if re-
ports as to the financial possibilities
of the section are obtained. l say
frankly that careful management is
necessary to carry the present plans
through successfully, and l know also
that the country where we may invest
money will be as much the gamer as
the gentlemen who will finance the
project 1t is a country of splendid
possibilities in the region of Salt Lake
City-a country where there is room
for a splendid empire. If any western
newspapers wish to scare away capital
from that section, l suppose that 1t is
possible for them to do SO, but that
it is nothing in the methods we are
using or in the ends we seek to wnlcr
any reputable man of good judgment
should take exception.
SCOOP That Was Refused.
Nov, as in the various reports from
Salt Lake City in regard to the plight
in which Mormons are supposed to
have been put. There are two factions
in Salt Lake City-the Gentle and the
Mormons. 1t so happened that ] came
in contact with Mormon capitalists,
rather than Gentiles. A Gentle news
paper was ''scooped" on the news of
our plans, and that newspaper has been
hostile ever since that time. When ]
was leaving Salt Lake City, l was re-
quested by the editors of three newspa-