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Show MR. PICK AND SHOVEL TALKS OUT . Halt Lake City, Jan. 2(,71, IClitors Stilt Lake Jlr.ndd: In the little unpleasantness that seems to be going on between Mr. Mackintosh and Mr. Scott, which you have presented to the public in your former issues, it seems the honest miner mi-ner has been utterly ignored in th spoils? The'lmsiy rush of the oro buyers to sustain Mr. Mackintosh, to say tho least, looks as if Mr. Scott had some kind of a basis to stand upon, or the galled jade winced for fear the miners should get their eyes opened to this new feutureof sampling. They knew the subject of "moisture" "moist-ure" covered a multitude of sins, but there they supposed it ended. The points that strike me, in the manifestoes mani-festoes of these gentlemen, are: "Ut. Whv did Mr. Wallace, the foreman of these Sampling Works retain bis information regarding Mr. Scott's attempt to bribe him from August, 1S73, to January, 1874? 2nd, Why, when the fraud was made public, was the $50 currency and the $250 check not returned to Mr. Scott? 3rd. The old codcof honor required the re-payment of money before any attack could be miule, yet Mr. Mackintosh Mack-intosh says Mr. Scott is "a emmon cheat and swindler," though it seems Mr. Mackintosh has failed so the street rumor has it to refund. 4th. The great "confidence of Mr. Wallace in destroying one of Mr. Scott's letters containing venal propositions pro-positions seems partial evidence that, at one time, such propositions, by some of the parties to this so-called attempted fraud, were entertained. 5th. Why is it.that it is notoriously observed, both by the miners and the public, that the utmost cordiality has ever existed between Mr. Mackintosh and the ore buyers, while at the same time the ore producers and sellers ' have never been able to establish such , intimate relations with him ? Such, siis, are tho main features of this high-toned controversy, and it atrikes me that the "nigger in the fence" has certainly two faces for the miner to look at. The papers once had a good deal to say about "bloated bond holders and the poor tax-paying public;" but the honest miner asks in a serio-comic style, now, if these things are going on, hat he is to make ? and where his "divide" comes in? This is a wank tub, sirs, I, for one, don't like to see my ore go into; and I Buggest, a good point comes fitly in, that the only remedy for the miner is a Government assay office, to rid us of a claa that is following our noble industry to our serious detriment. detri-ment. Pick and Shovel. |