The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-08-07
SIDNEY NORMAN REPLIES TO MALICIOUS
PERSONAL ATTACK Of PRESS TIMES
MINING PAPER VENTURES ExPLANED-DAYs TRUST BUSTING
RECORD REcALLE0-GREEN HILL CLEVELAND ORE
SELLING coNTRAcT-PERsoNAL LIABILITY

by the club. a loving cup and watch
subscribed for by practically every
member and the well wishes of the
largest and best aggregation of sin
had the good fortune to accumulate
in few short years. Mr. Day is vel
aware of these facts.
Assumes Share Of Responsibility.
was connected with the Spokane
Diggings" of last November-as Sc
cretary of the Spokane section of the
American Mining Congress-and
cheerfully assume my share of the
responsibility, including any that may
attach to the splendid excursion which
visited the Coeur dAlenes at the CON
clusion of the convention. l sincere
ly regret that Mr. Days shrinking
modesty and acute sense of prophet Y
seem to have been shocked. | am 4
life member of the American Mining
Congress. such honor having been
conferred upon me by the directors
in recognition of my services in con :
nection with the Bureau of Mines bill
at Washington, D. c., in 1910, and my
efforts on behalf of the Goldfleld, Los
Angeles and Spokane conventions of
1909. 1910 and 1919.
Those Who Are in the Fight.
| am but one other unimportant in.
cident in the Federal fight. The re-
corded plaintiffs in the action number
close to 80. and many other stockhold
ers have subscribed to the expenses
of the suit upon the understanding 6
that their names will not be publicly
used. My associates include the larges
individual owners of common stock
excepting, Of course, the American
Smelters Securities Company one Of
the richest corporations of Great
Britain and several Of the heavies
financial interests of New York. Be.
fore action was commenced l had two
interviews with Edgar L. Newhouse
vice. president of the American Smelt
ing and Refining company and direct
or Federal Mining and Smelling com
pany. and John N. Steele, chief coun
sci American Smelling and Refinins
company. | asked them to revise tn,
Federal contract to an honest leve
in justice to stockholders, who face {
tremendous loss, but my request wa!
denied and stories circulated to thu
effect that l was the originator of ;
strike" suit with the ultimate objec
of securing personal profit at the ex
pense Of Federal stockholders. NJ,
answer was that no compromise viii
ever be made which does not include
Ia just revision of this iniquitous con
tract and that promise l now repea
to the people of the Occur d'Alenes
And we shall win, because our caus'
is honest and our demands only just
Why Not Do His Plain Duty?
I take this opportunity of publicl,
asking Mr.. Day if it is not fact tina
he has many times, even recently, ex
pressed strong opinions concerning
the iniquity of the present Fedora
contract? If this Is fact why doe
he refuse to join in the effort to righ
great wrong and still continue II
draw salary of $4,000 a year an
expenses from those whom 1t shout
be his first duty to protect? The in
ference Is, of course, that he is com
PEELED by the terms of his trust bond
age to serve his real masters. tn
Guggenheims, and sacrifice the in
terests Of those whom he Is legall
and morally bound to protect as al
executive officer of an enterprise Il
which millions of public dollars hav
been sunk submit to the people o
the Occur dAlenes that this is a.
unenviable and regrettable positio
for one who has been 50 favored o
fortune and who should be willing t
go to any lengths to protect the fai
name of the district which has brougll
him from obscurity to uncertai
prominence. l understand that in de
clining to take part in this fight fo
justice Mr.. Day hides behind the ex
cuse that the alleged fraudulent con
tract was in existence before he be
came connected with the company
Granting that, l now ask him VIII
the Greenhill- Cleveland company wa
organized In Nevada; why he last Sep
tember. assisted by Mr.. f. II. Brownel
: (who draws a salary Of $4,000 yea
and expenses from the FederaD force
the Greenhill Cleveland (of whic
Federal owns but so per cent? into a
agreement to ship ore under the orie
spite of the fact that its. terms pr
vided that only companies of whic
Federal owns Is per cent of the ouI
standing stock shall come under II
provisions, and in spite of the furth'
fact that Greenhill- Cleveland thereh
,sustains loss Of approximately $12o
900 year?
There Is Personal Liability.
Twenty-Five hundred stockholder
of whom seven hundred are wome
anxiously await elucidation of thes
and many other things that now al
pear obscure and which have practi'
ally wiped their investment off tt
map. Mr.. Day (although he owns bl
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