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Show A CAUD TO TI1E PIBLIC. In reply to the card that appeared in tbe Salt Lako Tribune, of Saturday morn, May 3, 1873, I respectfully make the following BtatomenU All that portion of general I. F. Harrison Har-rison card to the seventh paragraph, inclusivo, that connect mo with that transaction, is as falso as words can make an untruth; for I had no connection connec-tion wi h the mattor until the arrival or ironeral Harry T. Hayes, ;udg A. B-Leviaoe, B-Leviaoe, and 1'iockney Smi h, .Esq. Soon aftor the arrival of those gentlemen, gentle-men, general Hayos presented me a letter of introduction and contidonce from an old and intimate friond in Now Orleans, which led to my being engaged by general gen-eral Hayes and party, to accompany thom to Camp Floyd mining diBtrict,io examine tho Stafford mine and sample tbe samo. "When It became known to Mr. A. C. Tichonor and W. J. Jones that this duty was entrusted to mo, thoy objected to my going, because, as Mr. Tichenor alleged, I was no friond of bis, to which general Hayes replied that the condition of the contract the company bad with Mr. W. J. Jones gave tho committee tho right te make such selection selec-tion of an examiner (or oxport if you please) as they might elect, and only on condition tbe examination should be mado by me, could the trade proceed. This being Bottled, wo proceeded to Oamp Floyd, and 1 carofully sampled tne mine, maue nay own selections oi tho ore.striving to the boet of my ability to take an average of tbe ore from such points as wero exposed, which sampling I kept charge of from the mine until I loft it with tho Salt Lake City sampling works, to be regularly sampled, from which I recpivod six boltlos of the Bam- Eled ore, duly scalod; from one of those otties an assay was made by me at Mr. J. B. Aleadcr's office ; a duplicate Bamplo bottlo was left with Mr. J. McVicker for assay; the result of thoso samples was tbo same. Tbe committee on their return to New Orleans took j ono or two of the duplicate sample bottles bot-tles with thorn. The others remaining aro still in my charge. To show my oflorts to do my duty for tho committee who bad entrusted the examination and campling of the mine to me, I respectfully refer to the lotter of the committee, to mBior J. D. "Wool- ley, endorsing aad approving the result of my duty. This endorsement is their satisfaction, as it ie mine. In examining tbe mine, Mr.Pinckney Smith followed the undersigned in his work, and took samples as he saw fit, and to suit himself, which he had assayod by Mr. Leopold Balbach; the average result of which was more than 160 per cent, more than the result of my sampling, sam-pling, and when general Harrison says "the committee wero invited by Mr. Gardner to Belect specimens," ho very much misrepresents the committeo, for in the examination and sampling of the : mine,tho undersigned was in no manner interfered with; neither did major "Wool-ley "Wool-ley visit the mine on this occasion, he remaining in Lewistown during the visit to the mine. Of the negotiations that led to tho Eurchase or Bale of the Stafford mine, I ad nothing to do. A full examination of the 'papers cannot show I had any interest therein. 1 was compensated by the committee as per agreement. In connection with this matter, one Dr. Law and his associates have been extremely officious, why or wherefore iB best known to themselves; but from information, in-formation, that they are anxious to place a mine on the New Orleans market, mar-ket, their disinterestedness may be in-for'd; in-for'd; Dr. Law took three separate samples sam-ples of ore to threo different assayers; in tho ono left for assay where 1 am domiciled, I found mixed with it some as lino ore as I over saw; tho consequence was, the result of tho assay was different differ-ent from the other two; and from the officious manner in which Dr. Law and his associates in this matter have acted,! am convinced it was an UDjust and unfair un-fair attempt to implicate me in what general Harrison is pleased to call a swindle- "Why general Harrison should so suddenly sud-denly have changed his opinion is inexplicable, inex-plicable, for on Monday of last week he requested a dispatch to be sent to gon-oral gon-oral Hood of New Orleans, viz : "Camp; Floyd, April 24, 1873. "To general J. B. Hood, "New Orleans. "My report explains all. Property so far good. I. F. Harrison." . And equally mysterious is the further fact, that upon information general Harrison assented to Dr. Law and Mr. Barstow's examination of the mine; and that those gentlemen proceeded to examine ex-amine said mine in. the night time, by eandle light, and under such circumstances, circum-stances, selected their samples. I have stated fully and fairly all the connection 1 have had with tho matter from beginning to end, oxcept some letters written to Mr. Converse, who now has them, and is at liberty to show them to any ene curious enough to read them. To tho threat contained in the cord roferred to, I pay no attention, but will be proparod to delend myself against attack from whatevor source it may come, as well as to attest tbe legality of the right ofa public journal to surron-dor surron-dor its columns for libollous purposes. Feeling confident' of my own integrity in this transaction, I am perfectly willing will-ing to rest my case with tho public, and purpose having it tested before a competent com-petent tribunal. Tho Bamo publicity given to general Harrison's oard, X solicit from Exchanges. Ex-changes. Wra. Gardner. -Salt Lake City, May 8rdp 1878, |