Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-08-17
never WAS ANY
DANGER OF SCANDAL
r. A. McCARRAN STATEMENT
ANENT ToNOPAH COM
PANY'S TAXES.

WANT W Sldle pOSlllNely ina
there never was any danger of a
scandal in Tonopah over the taxes
of the Tonopah Mining Company. 1t
was simply a matter of auditing the
company's accounts" said District
Attorney P. A. McCarran of Nye
county this morning.
Now let me tell you just how it
all came about" he continued. You
see for the last two years the quar-
terly bullion tax has amounted to an
average of about $4,000. This COM
pany is the largest shipper in the
State, and averages 5000 tons per
week. This ore is shipped to the
%company's desert mill at Miller's Sid
ing and to various smelling works
about the country.
Nov for the quarter which ended
with March of this year, the Tono-
pah Mining Company turned in less
than eve before in the last two
years for bullion taxes. At the end
of June, nj money whatever was
turned over. The March tax amount
ed to but $4,000.
THE county commissioners raised
the question as to the cause of this,
and called me. | Immediately start
ed out to investigate. l communi-
Gated with Bullion Tax Collector
James Nevins, and he came down to
Tonopah at once,
Mr.. Nevins, Auditor Grimes and
myself went to the offices of the
company Saturday, and made a
thorough investigation of the books.
| then sen for State Auditor Nate
Rolf and when he arrived on Mon
day, Nevins, Rolf and myself again
visited the company's offices and
carefully audited the books.
I'VE found that there had been
no fuel during the quarter ending
with the last of March, with which
to conduct operations at the desert
mill, and that the scarcity of fuel
to operate the hoists at the mine had
made it necessary to reduce the force
of men employed, and that the out
put had col 1uently been less.
AS for the June tax, we learned
that $4,000 was due, but that it had
not been paid. 1t was there waiting
and was paid on our demand without
further ado.
They gave no reason for having
withheld the June money. 1t was
paid over to the sheriff of Nye
county.
81 might state that this is prob
ably the largest concern operating
in the State. Beside the Tonopah
Mining Company's mine, it controls
the Tonopah Mizpah, the Jim Butler,
the Belmont, the Valley View, and
81 per cent of the capital stock in
each of the following: The Tono-
pah-Goldfield railroad, the Tonopah
Water Company, and the Nevada Alb
stracting Company, which latter con-
trolls the sale of about four blocks
of business property in Tonopah. In
the last four years the company has
turned into Nye county and the State
of Nevada, $4,000 in bullion tax
alone. The Tonopah Mining Com
pany is capitalized for 100000
and each of the companies in whicn
it is interested is capitalized for a
like amount. The company is on d
good footing and has paid handsome
dividends. w. w. Charles is the
manager in Tonopah.
Our investigation was thorough.
ly satisfactory to the State and the
county in every sense.
And l cannot speak too highly
of the treatment accorded us by the
officials of the company during ou1
investigation. They always left
everything open to u.s., and we found
all of the books and accounts fully
at u disposal. We were treated as
gentlemen, and were extended in
Vulnerable c%ourtesies.
$50 l reiterate and wish to be on
record as saying that there was
never a chance for a scandal to
arise"