The state herald., 1908-11-27

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Fred w. Bonfls, one of the proprie-
tors of the Post, however has. Other
concerns have started sampling works
at Georgetown, Central City and Boul-
! der, but have not ben able to continue
on account Of lack of ore production.
The field is certainly an open one for
anybody desiring to engage in that
line of business.
THE statement has been made by
the undersigned that the American
Smelling & Refining Company is not
and has not been in politics. This is
absolutely true. In one county in the
state where the company has been bit
terly assailed and most unjustly dis
criminated against in the matter OF
tax assessments, 1t has felt constrained
to put few facts before the public,
but 1t has never at any of its places of
operation proposed any person as a
candidate for any political office, nor
has 1t been politically active in any
way in the aid of any candidates for OF.
flee.
Senator Guggenheim has repeatedly
declared his connection with the Amer.
lean Smelling & Refining Company, ex-
ecutive and financial, has been severed.
As far as the undersigned knows, this
is also absolutely true.
THE Guggenheim Exploration Com
pany has also nothing to do with the
American Smelling & Refining Com
pany affairs, excepting in so far as any
ore produced by the former is smelted
at the latter's plants. The Guggenheim
Exploration company has spent many
hundreds of thousans- of dollars in
Colorado in the prosecution of mining
enterprises. Gen. Hall suggests that
because of an unfavorable financial
outcome of these ventures in Colorado
the American Smelling & Refining
Company has inposed additional
charges on the other mine operators
of the state. He wishes to know
whether 1t is unfair to make such a
suggestion. 1t Is not only grossly un.
fair, II is outrageous and indecent. Can
Gen Hall cite a single instance in war.
rant of his suggestion?
Had Gen. Hall desired to do so, he
could have had all of the facts bearing
on smelling charges and ore conditions
before the publication of the Post ar.
ticle5 which seem to have been actu.
ated by political malice and sinister
motives rather than by desire TO pub.
lish the truth.
Had he so desired he could have
made the fullest investigation and all
Of the facts would have been gladly
presented to him. for the American
Smelling a. Refining Company has
nothing TO conceal and nothing to mis-.
represent.
THE recent villificatlon In the Post
has not and cannot harm the smelling
company In ihe least. for II had already
suffered severe blow In its Colorado
interests by the decadence OF Colorado
mining camps. It has. however great.
Is injured the state by directing forci.
Bile attention 10 the fact that the Amer.
lean Smelling & Refining Company has
been obliged to close a number OF It's
plants, and many inquiries which are
being now made as the result OF those
untrue charges will reveal the fact that
the curtailmsnt OF the ore production
In Colorado Is not and has not been
due to the lcyying OF unjust and bur.
densumu treatment charges. but to the
exhaustion Of many mines which once
ranking MS prolific producers OF good
grade ore nnw are entirely depleted or
contain only mineral too low In value
10 be- mined and smelted under govern.
Ing metal prices. Finally. thcre is the
failure to discover new mining camps.
In drawing the publlc's attention to
this dcplurable condition, the Post
must assume the fun responsibility OF
the result uf Its misguided course.
which eau only reflect Itself in driving
away from Colorado capital for mining
Investments which otherwise might
have come here.
"Af Tor the rmrltlng company II will
continue IN the future the course which
has characterized IT, policy IN the past.
namely 10 so net as 10 aid aud stimu,
late the mining Industry OF Colorado 10
ils utmost and 10 retain that respect
nui confidence ot ltH patrons which It
has secured ly fair and just dealings.
With THIS declaration the undersigned
must beg 10 b. relieved from further
newspaper controversy for which he
has mother time nor inclination Ilo
~ mos. ready Of ali times. however aa
he always Lsg been. to discuss In his
office with auy ore shippers. business
NJ mutual interest.
FRANKLIN GutTERMAN.
General Mrnngar Colorado Depart
mont"