Show WAS NOT CORRECTLY QUOTED gold butte march ath 1906 editor salt lake mining review there appeared in the last issue of your excellent magazine a clipping from the las vegas nevada times a highly colored article regarding the gentry copper strike recently made in this vicinity in connection with the article I 1 am compelled without my consent to endorse the times description of the property the endorsement was as follows J F P gibbs the noted expert and rock kocl scientist pronounces the discovery as splendid and encouraging a showing as he ever saw mr editor I 1 am not 6 a nor the noted expert and rock scientist which was doubtless credited to me as adding dignity to the misrepresentations indulged in by the times correspondent I 1 am not in the habit of going into hysterics over any kind of a showing and do not care to have my friends guessing as to what kind of an effect this southern nevada climate has on a utah tenderfoot nor as to the brand of we are consuming fact is at no time nor to any person have I 1 been guilty of using the language credited to me in the 1 I times clipping and I 1 seriously object to being forced into print as endorsing any kind of a mining proposition yours very truly J F GIBBS |