Bisbee daily review., 1916-06-16
Friday Morning, June 16, 1916.
ARIZONA MINERS AND MR. sueAsoo ssrrs

ARIZONA MINERS AND MIR. BuGABOO BETS
 Afflicted with the assumption that mine labor CTS. of Arizona as he them below the in intelligence an oiceseeker named A. A. Betts has addressed letter them purporting to reveal threat ened assault in the mines of this State Betts doesn't say in words, but he would really like to be known as watchdog the welfare of the tally-defcient miner
 If the mine laborers" of Arizona of the calibre under which Betts classes them. his votecatchng cru sade might have landed him some followers. But il happens Betss bid for ballots will fail utterly mainly be cause the miners of Arizona are class surpassed r intelligence and sagacity by no aggregation worker in the world MT. Bets made the serious mistake of re fusing believe that who dons digging clothes could possess an abundance of brains.
 1t may well be asked: Who is A. A. Betts? whose senseless palaver would insult to the miners O. Arizona if the miners good-natured. A. is clerk in the office of the Arizona Corporation Commission. All others failing to recognize him as 6 clerk of unusual ability he sought solace taking unto himself the title of Rate Expert"
 Someone-and there's the "cute" in the cards-put him up strive this fall corporation commissioner ship So Betts got busy. About four months ago. the newspapers throughout the began receive items bristlng with the of Betts It seemed i Betts concerned in everything which the Corpora tion Commission undertook. You, newspaper reader, may perused these Bettss breezy babblings We editors could any without missing much and use them as filters" Betts uouotess would have passed into unmourned obscurty had he made himself the aughingstock of the miners in Arizona He secured the addresses of of them all the State. Thus equipped he requisitioned official writing paper and envelopes from the Corpora tion for which the taxpayers foot the bill by the wayand sent forth the following screed addressing his would-be dupes My Dear MT Soand So":
 "The Fl Paso & Southwestern System and the Ari zona New Mexico Railroad Company have published tariff to become effective July 18th advancing rates copper bullion and copper matte and copper blist CT from Douglas. Morenc and Clifton to Atlantic Sea board points approximately twenty per
 For example, the present on ore from Dougla: Branford Conn., ss7S per ton; the will be s1s5 On bullion matte and blister the present rate ss7S. the s1215. From Clifton to Hartford, the present rate is s1175; the proposed s1s.sO On bullion matte and blister the present is s1173 tho proposed s1375.
 In consideration of this case. have mind that the mine aborers the points of origin involved paid sliding scale based the price of copper and that advance approximately $2OO per in freight which would necessarily result in reduction of the net returns to the mine in the amount. would be immediately reflected in diminished wage the laborers
 If this should be the case the aborers parties in and entitled in other interested parties.
 shall be glad if you will review the situation and give the benefit of your opinion the earliest possible 
 If deemed advisable I shall be pleased to place the before the Commerce Commission witt request that the advanced be suspended pending an investigation.
 Yours truly.
 A. A. BETTS. Rate Expert Now again, it happens, the miner knows that the sprice of copper which sliding based is fixed in Arizona Records of sales of copper are kept by Engineering Mining World the off ca organ of the copper industry and the price of the red is thus ascertaned Arizona any other state, if powerless jugge with this copper price Everything