Show RANAUER HUNG UP His Statements Shown Up in Their True Light FIGURES FROM HIS OWN OFFICE Hoses batcher Produces Documents That Fully Sustain the Statements Made by Himself and Bawllns j SALT LAKE CITY Utah Oct 20 18Q2 To the Editor of THE HERALD My attention having been called to a communication from Mr A Hanaucr as published in the Times of the 15th inst the latters comments thoreon and to tho Trllt tine strictures of this date on Tnn HERALDS HER-ALDS comments on the letter referred to respecting remarks made by mo at the Democratic conventioc recently held at Provo T am compelled In selfdefense to reply Newspaper discussions Involving personal per-sonal references are exceedingly distasteful distaste-ful to me and thev become positively painful pain-ful when an appeal to the records and a persons own statements written over his own signature placn him before all the world in the extremely awkward position charged by him against others of making most inexcusable rnisilatoaienis of fact and of wilful misrepresentation But Such is the position in wb 02 Mr Hanauer has placed himself by what seems to mo un uncalled for and unjustifiable attempt to impugn my honor by publicly casting reflections re-flections upon my voracitv That attempt and the tenor of his entire open letter removes re-moves much of tile regret I would naturally otherwise feel in replying to his strictures upon utterances in which there was no al usion to himself or tb any smelting Interest inter-est in Utah I shall not attempt on tor into lengthy argument or discussion with Mr Hanauer with whom havo had in tbo past pleasant business relations and who has been regarded re-garded heretofore by myself as courteous dignified and refined gentleman too just and considerate to wish to injure the repu ation of others 1 will at once go to the heart of this matter Mr Hanauor nays II wish to state most positively and unequivocally that the treatment chart s on dry ores are toduy 5 to 8S per ton lower than before the passage pass-age of toe McKialey bill Again Thero is not a ton of lean ore sold in this marked that has not had its treatment charges lowered from 13 to 5 per ton during this period Now it will be remembered that the McKinley Mc-Kinley bill went into effect Oct G 1890 and upon the basis of that dato my reply to the above statements is smelted out of the following copies of documents signed by Mr Hanauer himself THE OuAUA AND GRANT SMELTING AND 1 RKFINING I Co A HANAUEK AGKM v SALT LAKE CITY U T March 3 1890 Memorandum of contract for output of Bal lion Beck Cos mines and Carolina mine for alanco of current year made by and botween A E Hyde manager of said company and representing the owners of the Caroline mine party of the first part and A Hauouer party of the second part towit Said party of the second part agrees to take said output paying therefor as follows For 0C per cent of lead contents two cents per pound less than Now York quotations far Sj per cent of silver contents three cents per ouuco less than New York quotations and for gold at the rate of 316 per ounce deducting on board cars at Eureka for treiRht and working charges as follows On oro assaying 15 per cent lead and under 81925 per ton On ore assaying over 15 per cent lead toper 40 to-per cent inclusive J1S25 per ton On ore assaying over 20 per cent lead to 25 per cent inclusive U16 per ton On ore assaying over 25 per cent lead to 35 per cent inclusive 3150 per ton And on ore assaying over 35 percent lead 1490 per ton And said party of the flrst part agrees to sell and deliver said output for the period above named to said party of the second part upon said basis and schedule of prices WitnessA HANAtfEK JR A E HYDE Manager A HANAUEK It will be observed that this contract was executed prior to tho operation of the McKinley act which placed a duty of 30 per ton on foreign lead ores according to sample and assay at the port of enryt Now please carefully note what followed within three mrnths after that protective law went into effect THE OMAHA AND GRANT SMELTING AND RUFININO COMPANY A HANAUBH AGENT SALT LAKE CITY U T Dec 29 8DO A E Hyde Esq Manaeer BullionBeck and California Mining Company DeAR SIRI make you the following bid for 1000 tons per month of your output for tho year lull paying you therefor on board cars atE at-E relut follows Far 90 per cent of the lead Sc per pound less than New York quotations for 95 per cent of the silver So per ounce less than Now York quotations and for gold at the rate of fIG per ounce deducting as follows On ore assaying under 10 per cent lead 5 450 per ton On ore assaying 10 per cent lead to 15 percent per-cent lend inclusive 52350 per ton On ore assaying over 15 per cent lead to 20 per cent lead inclusive 3300 per ton On ore assaying over 2j per cent to 23 per cent leau muiuivo ccThJ ji1 uu On ore assaying over 25 per oent lead to 33 per cent lead inclusive ID50 per ton On ore assayingover 3J per cent lead to 33 per cent lead inciutive 1950 per ton On ore assaying I over So per cent lend to 40 per cent lead inclusive 1850 per ton On ore assaying over JO per cent lead 1750 per ton Nothing to be paid for lead when under 5 percent per-cent Yours truly A HANAUKK Contrasting the price paid by Mr Han auer under contract when free lead was being shipped in from Mexico with his bid for our ore after wt were protected by a I duty of t130 per ton on foreign lead T find the freight being the same in 1S91 as Ib90 that an attempt was thus made to increase tho smelting charges under protection pro-tection ns follows On dry ore advance n 525 per ton On ore carrying la to 20 per cent lead advance JOTo por ton On ore carrying 20 to 25 per cent lead atnaaco 5550 per ton On ore carrying 25 to 33 per cent lead advance 150 por ton On ore carrying over 25 por cent lead advance 5350 per ton On the assurance of Mr Hanauer that this was the beat offer ho would make and being unable to secure a better bid hero our manager was sent to Denver to represent repre-sent to tho Omaha and Grant people that unless better prices could be obtained ego would at once close down Upon the showing show-ing made we finally succeeded in contracting contract-ing with that firm Mr Hanauer signing the contract for a portion of our oro at an advance m treatment charges over the prices paid in 1890 as follows Ad vane 5 per ton On dry oro 81 75 On ore carrying 15 to 20 per cent lead 3 DOn IOn I-On ore carrying 2i to 23 per cent lead 2 50 On ore carrying over So per cent lead about 2 00 Our present contract with Mr Hanauer for a part of our output shows an advance in smelting charges above the prices paid In 1890 as follows Aduanc per ton On dry ore u W 00 On ore carrying 15 to 20 per cent leadi 3 40 On ore carrying to 25 percent lead is CoOn Co-On oro carrying 25 to 35 per cent led 735 On ore carrying over 35 per cent lead 1 15 As to the manner in which Mr Hanauer may endeavor to reconcile these facts wit statements as published in the Times I leave entirely with himself as an au thorlty who entirely distances one whom I he says should abstain from foisting his baseless theories upon the public And I leave the public to judge as to whether my utterances at Provo wero theories or somewhat stubborn facts I desire to add as throwing further light on the subject that official reports show that the lead contents of the entire output of the BullionBeck Champion MinIng Co for last year averaged only a fraction over 15 per cant or to bo exact SOT pound to the ton I note this fact as showIng that wa are now paying tho average in i lead being about the same as last year 340 per ton moro redaction charges than was paid previous to the operation of the McKinley bill Thus Mr Rawlins and myself stand upon tho safo basis of our former utterances But there are other and more important historical facts bearing upon the great but now languishing and partially paralyzed mining industry of ourterrltory The al 4 most constant decline of silver during the past two years as brought about by the demonetazition act of 1373 and tho serious effect of i combines under the protective protec-tive features of the McKinley law had became so grievous that the railway companies were forced to come to the relief of Utah mines Manager A E Hyde and myself as officers of the BullionBeck company com-pany labored persistently for months to bring that relief to bear upon the mining interests of this territory Meeting General Gen-eral Superintendent S H H Clark and other prominent Union Pacific officials at Omaha and subsequently meeting Mr Clark and Mr Gould at Hailey Idaho on the same business Messrs Clark and Gould shortly thereafter vIsited Eureka Later on Mr Hyde Mr Beck and myself went to New York and consulted again with Superintendent Clark and with Trade Manager Mellln and finally in February Feb-ruary last us I remember the Union Pacific and Denver RIo Grande railroad companies gonerousiJas our corn pany feels came to the relief by reducing freight charges from 31115 to 750 per ton between Utah common points and Denver and correspondingly to Omaha and other eastern points But notwithstanding the generous concessions of tho railway companies com-panies every mino at Eureka except the BullionBeck Is today practically closed Personally 1 should be pleased if Mr Eanauer or some other authority would explain to the public why this is so I think J havQ in a somewhat disjointed manner thrown some light upon this subject sub-ject so very vital to Utah but the subject Is by no means yet exhausted If Mr Uanauor will add his claimed reductions in treatment charges to tho advances proven by documents signed by himself ho will readily perceive how wide we are apart and so will tho public Yours very re pectfully MOSES rttTcmm |