The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-30
ANOTHER ECHO FROM
SILVER PEAK CAMP
Citizens Believe Civil Courts
Not Criminal Courts, the
Proper Collector.

The following self.explanatory ad.
dress is being published in Nevada pa.
pers, the address being headed ''To the
Officials. Press and General Community
of the County of Esmeralda;H
| We the residents and taxpayers of
| the towns OF Blair and Silver Peak. pc
tition you to Investigate moro thoroughly
the conditions In connection with the
present difficulties existing between Es-
meralda county and the Pittsburg Silver
Peak Gold Mining company and its rep
resentatives.
We. as body, feel that the officials
burg Silver Peak Gold Mining company
In regard to the bullion tax. may be in
fiuenced by the intrigue OF a designing
TO delva into the matter more closely
before handling II in such a high handed
manner,
BY reading the press OF the state, in
fluenced by the local press, and by the
seemingly malicious handling of the case
by our county officials. IT would impress
one with tho idea that 1t Is the object
OF the company to rob the county and
that object In view employ perjurers.
thugs, gun men and scientific money
grabbers. but, If that same person were
on the ground floor and could see for
himself the fairness and just dealings
that are characteristic OF the company.
nc would begin TO doubt. and If he We're
personally with the local representatives
OF the company, he would find them
straight and above board. gentlemen in
every sense OF the word. and honest al
most TO a fault.
Now is this the kind of company
and these the officials that we should
cook up a bunch OF trouble for?
The record OF the company is what!
toI fhnIr In
less talk than any mining operator In
the state; that they are directly and in.
directly the support Of over thousand
lives In this county; that during the fall
of 1907. when bank failures We're the
regular stunt and mining companies all
throughout the state were closing down
their workings or experiencing the great
est difficulty In paying off their men sat
,stGctorily. the Pittsburg Silver Peak Gold
-i.n .n.ns company was sailing. along IN
smooth waters, And last. but not least
burg Silver Peak Gold Mining company,
there has not been one day In which
they old not operate, no financial trou-
bles, and above all no labor troubles
would Try 10 rawhide?
We do not ask that there be any ia
vors shown 20 the company, , but 5,e do do
ask fairplay shown them. We u, not
ecuting the company and its reprel enta-
tives are doing so inaliciously, but that
they are a little hasty. We believe that
II there was any case to be had against
the Pittsburg Silver Peak Gold Mining
company or officials, the civil courts and
not the criminal courts should have
handled it.
Why kill the goose that lays the gold
en- egg? Let us, as a county and state,
continue along these lines, and what is
the result? Outside capital would run
in fear whenever Nevada was mentioned,
and as a consequence our ablest prospec-
tors could not find Nevada on the map
with a magnifying glass.
Call a halt to these high handed pro-
ceedngs. encourage visiting capital, and
give people with money n run for 1t
when it shows. In this way we might
get hold on dollar OF it. and at the
Same time have the country developed.