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Show CAPTAIN MU AW oTEAIiS Salt Lake City, August lUth, 1S72. Editors ITt-raid: In to day's issue of your paper appears a letter copied from the London Lon-don Mining Jownal of July 20th, and signed by Mr. Warren fclussey of this city. It is known by this community Kenerally that I am tho "party, other than Mr. tiewell," referred to in the opening sentence of this extraordinary epistolary escapade of Mr. Hussey; iuu us we icuti, as iar us it relates to my agency in the purchase and sale of tho mines at present owned by the Camp Floyd Silver Mining company (limited) of London, is a tissue of false statements which must havo been woven by Mr. Hussey at a time when a causeless pique against myself smothered smoth-ered his discretion aod sense of propriety pro-priety and when egotism, spite, and a desire to servo his iriend, bad made turn reckless of the utterance of untruths, un-truths, I am, unwillingly, under the oecosbity of replying to it, aod in doing so will only so f&r show Mr. Hussey to be wrong in his statements, as is absolutely abso-lutely necessary to vindicate the truth iis to tho transactions which are the suljects of his letter. 'I ho objects of Mr. Hussey's letter are apparent to everybudy in this Territory who is acquainted with min-ng affairs. Nearly all of the money invested iu mining in Utah has come from E upland, and as our mines have been principally "p'aced" in the London market, Mr. Hussey endeavored endea-vored to win the reputation here and in London for himself and his Iriend, Mr. tic well, of being excellent judges of mines, and of placing only first class properties iu the market. This would nave been a legitimate and laudable ambition, if the means taken to accomplish accom-plish it had been honest and truthful. It is both honorable and profitable to have the reputation m London of being an honest, competent, and successful operator in mines ; and I have no fault to find with Mr. Hussey and Mr. Scwell, one of whom has a reputation ito make, and the other a reputation to Iredeem, for being emulous of such a Idistinction. I only object to their eu- peavoring to appropriate to themselves the credit of an honest and successful mining enterprise inaugurated and D completed by myself. I regret to be under the necessity of contradicting contradict-ing and proving to bo false many of the statements contained in Mr. Uussey's letter, but as he has provoked an exposure of his mendacity, to win the prestige of conducting a successful negotiation, by maliciously and wantonly wanton-ly attaching me, be must submit to the penalties of his indiscretion. In the outset of his letter he says, speaking of tho "Camp Floyd mining company scheme," that ho "had full knowledge of this transaction frum its origin," when the fact, is that bo was noi one of the original parties to the transaction, and only became a party and cognizant cogni-zant of the progress of the negotiation after one of the original parties had drawn out, and never positively became a party uutil the very day that the documents were executed. As to the conversation that took place between himself and Mr. Sewell when on their way to East canon in June of last year, I know nothing. According to bis re port of it, it is very like the cry, "1 told you so" of that class of people who remember having made a prophecy prophe-cy after its fulfilment. Following thiB private conversation; he says that the mines were bonded to me at the suggestion sugges-tion of Mr. Sewell and because heojuld not go to Europe himself, to avoid the the necessity of giving me a power of attorney, a statement positively proven to be false, by a certificate of the bonders of the mines hereto appended, ap-pended, I first noticed the Sparrow Hawk mine, from the fact that I was part owner iu several mines iu Camp Floyd district, aud iu visiting my owu mines bad often examined it and noted us development, I told captain .Nan-, carrow that I thought it would prove to bo a valuable property such as I would like to get hold of to place upon tho London market. I asked Mr. Miller, the superintendent, aud ono of the owners of the mine, if the owners would consent to bond it to me. He replied that some of tho owners spoke of erecting a mill on the property; but, after telegraphing to Sun Francisco, they all consented to join in a bond, and it was bonded to me for the reasons rea-sons set forth in the accompanying certificate. Mr. Hussey says that I was only employed is an agent in the matter. The truth is, that I was the priucipal from tho beginning of the negotiation, and that Mr. Sewell was admitted to an interest in it under the mistaken impression on my part that his indorsement of the scheme would be an influential recommendation in London, and Mr. Ilussiy was admitted admit-ted because ho furnished some money that another party was tn havo furnished, but did not. Nearly ail of the Etatemoots in the second paragraph of Mr. Hussev's lot-tr lot-tr are false, and the design of them crops out iu bold relief. The samo is truo of tho third paragraph, aod tho concluding sentence of the fourth. Tho letter is made up of falsehoods invented invent-ed for the purpose of bolstering up tho reputation of Mr. Sewell as a mining export at my oxpensa. Mr. Hussey seems in it to bo ambitious of acquiring acquir-ing such a character for business acumen acu-men as may bo obtained by readily acquiescing ac-quiescing in tho suggestious of Mr. Sewell. Neither of them can itijure mo iu tho opiuiou of tho pooplo who aro cognumt of my operations in mines either licro ur U England, . and I only condescend to reply to the falsehoods of Mr. Hussey' a letter iu order that people abroad may not bo betrayed into placing confidence in the statements state-ments of theso men, because one being a banker and the other a professor, they would ordinarily be expetcd to b gentlemen. Respectfully, E- H. Suaw. l'-S. Helow wii) bo found tho cer-t cer-t flea to ot Hearst & Chambers, winch, it will bo wen. BuUumiates what 1 fc;vc ju torcpoiEK I leller- E. H. S ohT Lake City, Aug. lg, 1st-' To C-tpt. l. II. Sh'tw. Pear 5ir The undcraiocd, hav-J ing noticed a letter signed by Warren Hussey of this city, published in tha "London Mining Journal" qi July the 20th nU., and republished in tbe Salt Lake Herald on tho 10th insr., in which it is stated with reference to the bonding of the Sparrow Hawk and List Chance mines, to yourself and tl e negotiation of the sale of them by you to the Camp Floyd Silver Mining Co. (limited) in London, that in tho bonding bond-ing and negotiation of said mines you were only the agent of Mr. Hussey, and that Mr. Henry Scwell was the originator and sole investigator and promoter of the enterprise which resulted re-sulted in placing the Camp Floyd mining min-ing company (limited ) on the London' market with such fluttering results, deem it simply a matter of justice to you to state that we who were the patt owners and bonders of the mines in question, and managed tho whole negotiation ne-gotiation in behalf of ouv copartners, knew only yourself in tho transaction, and never knew th-tt either Mr. Hussey Hus-sey or Sewell were at all intero.-ted therein. We furthermore certify that wo bad declined io bond the ' property to other partus, aud would havi: refused re-fused to do so to any Other parly than yourself, and that me origination, negotiation, ne-gotiation, and suecc-s of tl.o enterprise, is in our judgment solely due to your enterprise and manage meat. Respectfully, GfcOHUE Hkarst, H. C. CllAMUEtlS |