Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-27
trron Tuesdays Daily)


 islaturc, Attorney Leroy Anderson yes ,crady made the following defense of that measure:
 "Thc mine tax situation now before the Legislature is not understood hy the people of this part of the Terrl tory." he said, |" by reason of mis and an erroneous opin ion of the Doran tax bill The new papers as we'll as the political speaker, have for some time past agitatcd the mine tax question, and the opinion hc came prevalent throughout the Terri tory that a bullion tax was the proper way to solve the question.
 "Thc governor. in his message, was understood by all to recommend some such law. He was interview by parties interested and he informed them that hc had been working some six months| trying to prepare a bullion taN law. Major Dornn. as will bc remembered, said from the platform in the last cam. paign. that hc was in favor of a bul. lion tax law. acting upon that srnii' mrnt that was prcvalcu, throughout the Territory. Major Doran. after con. sultation with one of the most prac- tical mining men in the Territory, had prepared the original Doran bill. There was never any intention. so l am in. formed. to repeal the Andrews ac, by said bill. IL was provided therein, that all procedure should be the same as now. This bill, briefly stated. provides a 2O per cent arbitrary net proceeds as the assessed valuation on producing mines IL also provides in the original bill, That the hois'ing machinery and the other machinery actually used in mining shall be exempt and that all other machinery shall he taxed as other property. T. provides, also, that non. producing mines shall bc taxed as other property; that non producing un-pat- cntcd mines shall be exempt; that the machinery on non producing mines shall bc taxed as other property.
 "rhiS bill has been rcmodolcd. SO as to specifically provide, that it shall come within the provisions of the An. drcws act, and also to make number of other changes in the vcrbagc to make the intent of the bill clear.
 "lt also provides, that, no machinery shall bc exempt. In other words, tha, all machinery shall he assessed as property; that nonProducing mines to.wit, those producing less than s3,7jC per year, shall hc assessed as other property. and all producers shall be | assessed upon 20 per cent of their gross product nj the regular county and Ter ritorial rate.
 "While it is true that represent tn, United Verde, l also represent n mum Der of smaller mining companies, som, of which are producers and others ar, in the development stage, and, a, such, have taken part in the discus sion of the bullion tax law and th, | Doran bill. These bills are not our idle, of bullion tax, as l believe that it il a higher taxation on mines than an, mining state in the Union. However l this plan and outline is the best I hav
 seen; my only objection is that 1t i
 too radical, We were led to believe tha Governor Kibbey would favor tn
 Doran bill and to have the matter set
 tied, we agreed to accept the same
 and to do what we could to further il
 passage. However, since its introduc
 ton, the governor has seen fiji to g
 back on the position as taken by hin
 m his message, and is now prOposin
 another scheme. l feel that his oppo
 sition to the Doran bill, is not so mnc
 to this particular bin as 1t is to an
 measure other man that proposed h.
 himself. We understand that, in hi
 desire to place the assessment of mine
 in the hands of the Territorial boar
 of equalization and to authorize sai
 board to ascertain the gross output q
 every producing mine and fix it's a,
 sessed value at such gross output vahu
 and to assess all machinery the sam
 as now, at its actual cash value. I
 other words, he would assess all m,
 chinery at it's cash value; he woul take the gross output of every mine q the assessed value of the mine, an would allow nothing for cost of deve
 opment, nothing for the mining of th