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Show 6, PRAY SMITH GETS NEW OPTION Boss and Buck Mines Tacked on to tho Horseshoo Plant and Properties. With a brand new option on the properties of the Horseshoe Mining company at Fay, Nov., G. Pray Smith came In from that gold-bearing camp yesterday morning and leaves for the East today, where he will arrange for moans with which to oxerclso 't. Already Al-ready has he th assurance of Eastern East-ern capital that It Is ready and eager to co-operato with him and about October Oc-tober 1 active operations will be resumed re-sumed at mines and mill. In the- ultimate ulti-mate Droductlveness of the Horseshoe mines he has every confidence-. Indeed, In-deed, he Is satlsUod that with efficient equipment and capable management they can be made to afford dividends. In addition to the domain embraced In the IIorsGshop, he has acquired options op-tions on the Ross and Buck mines, owned by the Mountain View company, in the same camp, and that are now being developed with most gratifying results. Replying lo reports sent out of ramp concerning his administration at the head of tho Shawmut-Ncvada company, com-pany, Mx. Smith says they arc maliciously malic-iously false. Dminc tho past year he has expended In the operation of the mines and mills, in the purchase of supplies and the employment of labor, over $100,000 and he challenges any person per-son to allow that his course has been other than an honorabto one. Not only has he expended tho moneys provided pro-vided by the company, but he has reached Into his own uurso and protected pro-tected those who were without recourse. re-course. In vindication of his course. Mr. Smith submits the following above the signature- of 13. J. McCune. awn I of the Horseshoe Gold Mining romc-any: Whcrean, The newspapers of thto cilj havo stated on tho 21at and 22nd Inst, that G Pray Smith had b?en arrested on charge of grand laromy of amalgam and other goods, and that ho had been arrested ar-rested at the- lnstanro of E. J. McCune. the agent of ths Horseshoo Gold Mining company, will you kindly suite that the story Is false In every particular nnd that there Is no foundation for it whatever. what-ever. It Is true that George Perkins and William Wil-liam Lamb were arrested under charge - grand larceny and tho case was dlsmlpsed against them when It became known thai the goods they were accused of stealing had been sold to thorn bv G Prav Smith and delivered to them at tho hand of George E. Cose, and that no crime had boon committed by either man. ' Mr. G. Pray Smith now has an option for the purchase of the Horseshoo property prop-erty and the relations between him and the Horseshoe Gold Mining compuny are friendly, so far as I know |
