Arizona republican., 1911-03-02

tempt in many years Co develop the lodges of the Dome range.
 Scott, the pioneer merchant and foremost citizen of Quartzsite, is the present owner and operator of the ledge. So excellent was the result of his first run that he will soon move his mill to the Colorado near La Paz. thus saving the long haul to QuartZsite.
 Hauling Ore
 Lon Mcbride Robert Herrell and Joe McAlister are fitting up ore wa gons and teams to begin hauling ore from the Clear Lake mine, according to the Wickenburg Miner They will have four wagons and will deliver the ore to the railroad at Sheldon. The ore is gold and silver and there is already enough ore on the top to keep the ore wagons going for several months. and too. there are many men working at the camp now and more men are expected to be put on in the near future; the management has been to Clifton and other places to secure additional men. James Tong is fitting up the ore wagons for the teamsters The price paid for this hauling is SC per ton and the haul is about twelve miles.
 Pettifogging.
 It is sad but true that there are still people in this world who think it their sole and only duty to attempt to stop every step progress makes. Not that it results in any direct profit to themselves. but from purely a want of nothing better to do. editorially re marks the Copper Curb and Mining Outlook. one hears much. and sees much in the news. about opposition to this or that merger It would al most seem as though there were a well-defined group of merger-oppos- CTS. a sort of coterie of pettifogging melodies. who are simply "agin" all sorts of consultations, whether they be right or wrong. IL is history that there has never yet been a consOlida- ton of mining properties in this coun- try but that there has been some opposition faction. And usually Op- position is based on grounds that. when analysed in the full, are amaZ- ingly ridiculous.
 There is always d feeling among a certain class of stockholders during the consolidation of mining properties, which involves an exchange of stock. that somebody-they do not know whO-is getting more than they are. Tt is being done" to use their own insane arguments, in order that some one may reap a nice piece of graft" The promoters of mergers-they have our sympathv-must. after a deal of this pettifogging. have nerves so raw that they feel like turning themselves into a walking arsenal for the "oppo- sitiOn"
 There are other reasons for merger opposition" Often a shyster lawyer will get a shareholder or an inter est" into his hands, and begin to wind legal tape around the best of intentions. so that the merger pro- moters are often glad to cut the Cor dian knot with a check, and submit to the hOld-up rather than allow mat ters to come into the cOurts-although they know full well that they are in the right.
 Of course there are times when a good healthy kick in a merger is just flied. There have been mergers that have been sandbagged through. and If the right kind of a kick is not forth coming in such a case. and at the psychological moment. somebody may get badly hurt. But it is almost safe to say that this sort of "blackjacking in the dark" is a thing of the past. The present limelight of publicity Is all too potent. and the public far too enlightened to stand for any of this sort of rough work these days.
 The whole natural tendency of the copper world today is toward a gi- gantic merger And already the ad- vance guards are seen in the smaller mergers that are being attempted at the present time Big, honest. and capable men are working to save the copper industry from ruinous compe- tition and eventually chaos, by band ing the industry together under one head. But there is "oppositions" on alNsides Not real honest opposition. based on heavy prospective losses, but backwoOds, hayseed opposition of the sort that 'I dunno what it is, SD I'm agin it." And the strangest part of it is that the "opposers" will not view it from their own narrow point of view. and horses cannot drag them to look at it any other way-simply be- cause of their own bullheadedness.
 It's pitiful. To see one of the great est steps in commercial history about to be taken. and a pestiferous. petit logging opposition" doing its worst to block it-and you simply can not