Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1911-06-21
Editorial Comment
An Honest Governor.
Qrrom Thursdays Daily.)

From
If public official put supreme prove his
honesty purpose. his fidelity his sacred and his duty
the public when Governor Sloan the head of the Terri
ora Board Of Equalization exercised his influence towards
curing railroads of nearly five million dol
Had the specious and lachymose OF the railroad
attorneys prevailed the territory large and every individual
payer would have been sufferer
The Phoenix railroad, whose twenty
years immunity from taxation expires this put valuation
of $500 per mile upon property This statement instantly
shown be ridiculous by the report made by the itself
To the Interstate Commerce which the board had
possession made to the Commits
the value per mile of the road given at %Sooooo H.
arbitrarily fixing the value 100000 mile the Board OF
Equalization showed they disposed to treat the railroad fair
y and certainly did that corporation no injustice And the
while by is nevertheless almost
three times great that submitted by the railroad.
OF the railroad officials howlcd poor times, "parsc
settled territory heavy operating but the board
is composed OF who appointed to do their duan
who did it. They knew they the right and they knew that
Governor Sloan strongly favor OF the valuation
that would be well oppose him. Moreover they
mcmbed that 1908 Territorial Auditor H. Page had
fully disposed of the Southern Pacf plea that its taxes ought
be raised that because the road Arizona
connecting the continent the profits
insignificant and vueless from the standpoint OF
Investigation by Mr. Page who appreciated the dignity OF his oil
flee showed that by the compays statements its earnings in Arr
proporonaey than those in California Texas
and New Mexico-ahd the S p. paid the increase
At the present public hearty supports
dors the Board Of Equalization and the public unanimously
ognzes and appreciates the authority
determined TO do their duty.
This courageousy policy likewise characterized the
previous administration
In March 1906 Joseph Kibbey appointed Governor
S Clark OF Prescott Attorney General The total mining
Of the territory $44ooooooo 1t notorious
fact that this valuation fraudulen insult the
teligence Of the public.
Governor Kbbcy ordered the Board OF Equalization make
of four hundred per the value OF all
patented mining claims bringing the assessment ooooooo
The Copper Queen of Bsbee the offender is
If
made by the board
Then the recall, OF which hears much today
tempedhow BY the people No indeed but by the Copper
Queen corporation.
But Roosevelt, the who the only power in the
country who could exercise the recall applies Kbby and
obduae To the mighty pressure Of the great copper
interests repedhat would recall for doing his
duty
States Copper Queen Mining Company of Bis
bee The Board OF Equalization the Territory OF Arizona
fought to the last dc,-and the Territory WON
"the pepuno the corporation peope-the other kind
who always tell how your business,
what will do Washington, did they stand back OF the
They followed the lead Of the subsidized
press howled Arizona ruined Kibbey Clark and
driving capital of the country In fact it
above mentioned gentlemen adj
vised go Coche county he would be walking into
danger.
This clearly illustrates the danger of the recall being exercised
by the people time Of crisisinsead OF waiting until their
heated feelings have been cooled by mature dcbcration