Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-23
MINING, BUSINESS and STOCKS.
OFFICIAL
REPLIES TO CHARGES.
Cashier Voorhees, of the Pittsburg Sill Sill
yer Peak Mining Company Points
Ont Some Odd Features of Case.

More or less has been said by nearly
ali OF tho officials Of the Pittsburgi
Silver Peak Mining company since they
We're indicted In Nevada on the charge
of making false reports for the bullion
tax. Frank Knox, president of the
National Bank OF the Republic, who
was one of the officials of the COM
.pany and was indicted with the others,
ydisclaiined any connection with the af-
fair, and Tie others have done The
same. DE-
IN statement made by l.. T.. A.eor-
bees, cashier of the company, and Wiio
is also one Of those indicted. some new
light is shed on the situation. In the
Tonopah Bonanza, Mr.. voorhees, says
."rhe whole affair is one beyond my
conception of the law and ! under
stand the law Is based upon common
.sense The papers OF the state have
been threshing out the disagreement
between the company iind the state Of
ficials for some time past, and While /
have the greatest regard for the news
papers l feel that some of them have
been actuated by prejudice. or else. per
haps, theii. statements have been col
ored by INSTRUMENTATION.
Let me call to your attention tho
OF Mr.. Jusson: Mr. JUS
son assumed the general manaEership
of the company on the first day of May,
1909. Up to that time he was consult
ing engineer for the company and i'm
that capacity certainly had nothing to
do with that part of the companSs af-8
fairs which concerned the bullion tax;
in fact, he knew nothing of tho law
until some time after his appointment
as general manager. The indictment
alleges his conspiracy to have occurred
on and before the 31st day of March.
Now, 1t is clear toany one that such
could not be the case.
BRADLEY NOT INDICTED
II have been indicted but Mr.
George @. Bradley, general manager
Mr.. Jusson. and the man
who signed the statements, is not
one of those who must face the law.
Surely there is something wrong some
where
Another thing l wish to sail to
not a single director of tho Silver
Peak Gold Mining company or the
MohaWk-Alpine Mining company has
been called upon to explain his con-
Eection with the bullion tax or has
any or either Of them been indicted.
tIfe4 indictments are against the SdireC-5t
tors of the milling company, who are
in no way responsible for any dere-
fiction OF duty as regards the bullion
tax, for all must know that the pro-
Queer Is the one who must pay the
tax and not him who reduces it to
bullion.
HAS SPENT THOUSANDS
II regret that the matter has re-
sceived such wide publicity and that
the status of the case has been mis-
quoted. The Pittsburg silver Peak
company has spent thousands upon
thousands of dollars In Nevada and
up to this time has not reaped one
cent Of reward. A railroad has been
built which has never paid for itself
and other Improvements undertaken
and financed to open UP the re-
sources of the state which have been
met without u whinper The company
realizes that it has q. great property,
butgu to this time it has paid nothing
on the investment.
LIDO not fear the law, nor do any OF
the other gentlemen Indicted We have
not transgressed the limits and feel that
all williend we'll and that those who are
at the bottom Of this affair will be the
ones to stand the brunt of pubic dis
approval 5
73 BOSTON COPPER RANGE.
James a. Pollock & Co., bankers and
broke & weSt Eacond Soiit}, cfraet5