Arizona republican., 1916-01-01
MANAGERS AND
 SHERIFF DIFFER
 IN STATEMENT

That the statement of Manager M H. Mclean of the Detroit Copper Min ing company of Morenci, and of the sheriffs office of Greenlee county. re- garding the performance of assess ment work on the company's claims within the strike district are widely at variance was conclusively indicated yesterday. when Governor Hunt gave to the press a copy of a wire which he received from Manager Mclean on December 2. and commented upon it in no uncertain terms. Manager Me Leans telegram 70 the governor read as follows
 FL PASO. Tex Dec. 27, 1915. Hon. Geo. w. p. Hunt.
 "Govclnor of Arizona
 Phoenix;
 The Detroit Mining company owns about one hundred and forty unpat- ented mining claims in Morenci dis trict upon which assessment work must he done this year. We tried to hire men in the district to do the
 
 do the work or permit others to do it; We then applied to federal court for injunction. not to enable us to re- sume operations. as we have right to do. but to permit us to protect our property from loss by doing assess mcrt work; after getting injunction and in order to avoid bringing in men from Duncan, we offered five dollars per day to men in the district, in cluding men on strike: only fourteen accepted offer; as several hundred men arc required we are forced to Jring them in from Duncan; these meE arc entitled to protection; this telegram is sent you so that you may be fully advised and with the hope that you wiIl take such steps as may he necessary.
 M. H. M'LEAN."
 It appears that the governor trans mitted to Sheriff Cash of Greenlee county the telegram received from Manager Mclean and yesterdav was advised, through letter from Sheriff Cash that. from the latter's knowledge of the situation, the statements in McLean's telegram were almost wholly untrue. In commenting upon this con- troversy between Manager Mclean and Sheriff Cash Governor Hunt said:
 Sheriff Cash's letter as written on December 29th. advised me that. from all the information which he has been able to gather by diligent effort. he feels reasonably sure that every statement in Mir. McLeans wire is untrue and that the latter has never offered to the workingmen of Mcrenci. Clifton or Metcalf $5 a day for the performance of the 1915 assessment work on mining claims. Sheriff Cash advises me further that the strikers and C. A. Franz, a prominent mer- chant of Clifton, offered to do the De- troit Copper Mining companys assess ment work under contract and to see that the amount of work legally re- 1. 1916. This offer as understand it. was made prior 70 the granting of the injunction by the fed- cral court at Tucson. Between four and five hundred men have recently been imported from the company's camp at Duncan to do assessment work in a district where thousands of unemployed working men and their families have been sui fering serious privatioEs. owing to the lack of employment for the past four months. Ire sheriff. hy way of veri- fication, states that. by careful inquiry. he has been unable to find any man in the entire Clifton Morenci district who have recently been offered B a day to do assessment work, unless it be true that such lucrative offer has been made tu the men who have been brought by the company from Duncan
 Another Illuminating fact contained in Sheriff Cash's letter of the 29th $ that the Detroit Copper company's imported workmen from Duncan were searched bv two of his deputies after their arrival in Morenci for the al- legged peaceful purpose of performing assessment work. and from them were taken forty-siN siN-shoOters. one Win chester rifle and twelve dirks It would appear that all this gun-totinS and knife-bearinS by the company's imported workmer is a sad commen- tary upon the cOmpany's attitude in seeking the performance of the assess ment work and in requesting protec- ton for it's present employees, who. if reports be true. evidently came pre- pared to protect themselves. I am much surprised to learn that M. H. McLean's brother, who is directing the operation of the Duncan colony. i and the performance of the assess 1 nent work. did not exercise the req 5onable precautiOn of having all deadly | weapons removed from the persons of 1 his imported employees before he |