The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-02-28
FARMERS HAVE
BEEN HOLD-UPS
Confessions Coming Out
n Regard TO Utah
SmeIteF Opposition

SALT LAKE. Feb 27.-ln the dis
cussioH Of the smelter situation in
the southern part Of Salt Lake egun=
ty some interesting facts have been
brought ont These Indicate that
there are some chapters Of the war
unon the shelters which have not
been written. Residents OF Bingham
Junction. Sandy and Murray and
other towns are open in their declara-
tions that many Of the opponents Of
the smelters have been without Just
grievances and we're active in the
fight against smoke merely for The
purpose of graft.
Some persons Who have forced the
shelters 10 pay them money and now
regret their hostility 10 the large in
duatrias owing 10 the business stag
nation i'm the southern part OF the
county following the closing of The
shelters. have been deferred for ob-
vious reasons from admitting the M
business Of their demands, but this
Is not the case with Mrs. Marteen
Pearson, keeper ef a restaurant In
Sandy. She is perfectly frank IN adj
hitting that She received $15 from
the United States Smelling company.
although not entitled TO g., and is
ready TO return that sum- She could
have shared to gfeater extent in
The alleged pinndering Of the smelt-
ing company, but her conscience vas
troubled after she had received The
SIS and she made no other demands.
Mrs Pearson declares that many OF
the land owners who have received
large sums from the smeltefs were
not entitled 10 the money. There IS
a farmer near Sandy Mrs. Pearson
says. Who received from the United
States smelter So 1000 one year and
$1,000 another year, who has always
harvested and sold good crops from
his land
eThe United States emelter would
never have been compelled to close
had it not been for The eompany's
eagerness TO deal fairly with the
farmers said Mrs. Pearson. THE
smelter has paid out large sums of
money to land owners without inves-
tigating the business of their claims.
In this way. widespread cupidity was
aroused IL was So easy TO get
money from the company that many
persons who We're not in the least In
jured by fumes from the smelter
na3a German 1H Cor money!
THE reason that the Murray
ait running #da he Amer
lean Smelling a. Refining company
hes paid the farmers $4,000 and has
agreed to pay $4,000 more for per-
mission TO smelt ores containing 20
per cent sulphur" said W. w VIII
son of Sandy. The $4,000 has al
ready been paid to the farmers COM
mittee The $4,000 is to be paid as
soon as the farmers sign easements
releasing the smelling company from
future claims for damages.
There has been a great deal of
talk of unjust claims that have been
made against the smelters. Below
Sandy there is a farmer who re-
ceived substantial sum for alleged
injuries to his hay and other crops.
Recently he tried to sell some of his
hay to a smelling company, stating
that 1t was first class and had not
been injured. AS this was the hay
which he had previously alleged was
damaged, 1t is understood that he
will be prosecuted. +"
Il have lived in the southern part
of Salt Lake county for years." said
James Duggan of Bingham Junction.
THE farmers here are as prosperous
as any in the world. Look at them.
They have good clothes-velvet col
lars, kid gloves, broadcloth, finger
rings and gold watches, and all that
sort of thing. Trey drive fast horses
and ride in fine vehicles. In other
places you find the farmers clad in
overals and bent with toll. Our
farmers are straight limbed and
many of them have hands as white
as those of bank clerk. If the
smelters ruin crops, where does all
of this farm prosperity come from?
That's what the idle men around
Bingham Junction and other places