The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-27
BROCK NOT MUCH DISTURBED

(From our own Representative
Tonopah, July 26.-John w. Brock,
president of the Tonopah Mining COM
pany, is again in town after a few days
absence in Wonder, where he has the
Nevada Wonder, the Hidden Treasure
and the Wonder Extension. Mr.. Brock
is not much worried over the attack
upon him by the Philadelphia broker
age firm, which is demanding his with
drawal from the presidency of the big
While he was willing to talk
on other matters, he declined to be
drawn into answering the attack, or
anything contained in the publication.
The fact tina Mr.. Brock was reelected
to the presidency only in last May sheds
a little light on the motives of the
rhetorical assault upon him. 1t looks
like a grand advertising scheme upon
the part of the brokers who saw a good
opportunity to get into print and some
papers did use their names. 1t was a
bit of irony, to say the least. in the
claim that was made to the effect that
the people who had only recently elected
him, now wanted his resignation.
Il will not say anything at all in
regard to that matter" said Mr.. Brock;
If anything is said, it will come from
the East. and 1 do no propose to enter
into any controversy at this distance
from home"
"Are you not in control of the stock
of the Tonopah Mining company, or at
least, are not the Brock interests" was
asked.
There is no such thing as the Brock
interests" Mar Brock answered. There
is no interest or faction that controls
the company. We are all working in
harmony"
Regarding his visit at this time. the
president said that there was nothing
unusual in his being here.
II am here about half my time" he
said. "A mans place is where his in
terests lie. Anything that a man wants
he must work for; 1T will not come to
him without working. He can do the
work himself better than anyone else
can do it for him. We are working
here for production. We are hosting,
shipping and milling. I know nothing
regarding the price Of the stock; with
that 1 rave nothing to do. We are
running a business here, not manipulate
ing stocks. There are people who make
a business of hat. Jul business is
mining.
WILLING TO HE'LL ALL
This is a most harmonious camp;
everything Is running smoothly, and
will. 1 think, continue to do so. We
ave long since passed the experimental
stage and the development stage. There
are some properties here which nave
not been worked; if there is anything
that we can do to help those properties
We are willing to do our share. There
are things coming up all the time in
the way Of improvements and changes,
which I can attend to on the ground
better than I can from the East. W.
aim to keep going all the time. and we
manage to do so; at least we have up to
the present.
Just now the fuel question is occupy
ing some Of our attention, and as yet
we see no solution to the problem. Last
year. and the early part of this, we
got coal from where We could. We
brought it around the Horn from Mary
land; we brought 1t from Illinois and
we shipped 1t from Australia. We had
to have power or shu down, and it
came near to the point of having to
shut down. We brought into use our
little gasoline hoists which had long
before been discarded: and those big
hoists that you see at the mine, with
their costly machinery were lying idle
for months We furnish power of our
own from Millers. but to generate that
power we have to use steam. and there
fore are dependent upon fuel. We are
adding to the power plant all the time.
as we are adding to everything else.
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