Weekly journal-miner., 1918-12-04
ANGLO-SAXONCO. MAYSOONSTART
 SHELTER HERE
BRITISH FIRM, ONCE REP ESEN NTED BY MIR. LEMONS, SHOWS SIGNS OF COMING TO LIFE SINCE CLOSE OF WAR.
(From Tuesdays Daily.)

That the Dlg SmeltlnS pIdnt or thS Anglo-Saxon Smelling & Refining Company, the plant that since 1915 has been the pet idea of Col George Lemons, "Klondike king" inventor and mining man, will really be built in this city within the next year, was the announcement made here yester day by one of the Prescott residents who is in close touch with the Eng fish promoters of the big project. It was also stated that Lemons, follow | ing his recent escapade in Chicago with a diminutive chorus lady, has been dropped by the syndicate which once employed him as its Arizona representative.
 According to the story that was current yesterday, George w. Kier- stead, a Kansas City contractor, and who is well-known in Colorado and 1 Arizona by reason of his mining in terests, is now in London completing the final arrangements for the financ- ing of the organization which pro 1 poses to erect in Prescott one of the largest custom sneIters to be found | in the State. While 1t is a fact that Lemons was once the accredited rep resentative of the British syndicate. it seems that he has been supplanted by Kierstead, the London organiza- ton having a few months ago sent Ior Kierstead to come to the British metropolis for the purpose of com pleting the final details.
 It is understood that ]. E. Russell of Prescott has been engaged to take care of the company's business in this State, and several days ago MT. | Russell received a cablegram from Kierstead stating that important mail was already on the way here, the let ters containing instructions under which Russell was to proceed. Upon receipt of the mail mentioned. it IS qune likely that some of the details of the deal can be made public. The proposition, it is said, would have gone through in 1915 as origin | ally planned had not the war eondi- tions in England at that time made it imperative that British capital be kept at home instead of being tied up in foreign development work. The city of Prescott gave the Anglo | Saxon organization a oo-year lease free of charge on desirable smelter site located on the Santa Fe railroad about halfway between the city | 1..:. a.,J C-,,;to Dat1s tho only condition being that the company start work on the improvement with in a specified time Nothing was done ! by the representatives of the firm to hold the grant, and 1t later expired 1 by limitation. Whether or not the grant will be renewed by the city upon application is not known, al though it is believed that the municipality would again be quite willing to repeat its generosity Tn event it could be shown by the rep resentatives of the company that a new effort would be made to start work on the project.
 And in the meantime, the Chicago Tribune of last Thursday has the fol- lowing to say regarding Col Lem ons:
 George c. Lemons, self-styled Klondike king, will not be prosecuted on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of Allison King, Y year old girl who was in the Great North ! ern hotel room in which Lemons was robbed. The girl, in her story to ] Assistant States Attorney Hogan, pictured Lemons as the easy victim of Orvil1e Stevens, bell hop, and I'iske Alvarez.
 Meanwhile the mystery surround ing the identity of Mir. Lemons-a mystery aroused by his thrilling tales of wealth and adventure-dissolves before the following, received by the Tribune from the Mining Manual company. publishers of numerous mining journals at 5Ol Belmont ave nue
 George c. Lemons is (was) director of the Anglo-Saxon Smelt- ing and Refining company, having desk room in the Bank of Arizona building at Prescott and at 36 Victoria street. London. It was incorporated in l0l6 10 build custom shelter at Prescott. No work has been done and the joke is locally referred to as the Lemon smelter'
 " Lemon, to our knowledge. is not a mine operator of any consequence in Alaska or elsewhere
 There must have been something stronger than mercury drops and ether in that bottle of booze. Good bye, George. and good luck"
 ENDS BIG CONTRACTS