What was the role of taxation, in the sharply escalating discontent that surrounds mining?
I was afraid you were going to ask me that. Well, obviously you know the corporations have tremendous political clout. George W. P. Hunt said that for seven thousand dollars you could buy any governor off to do whatever they wanted him to do. The greatest concern that the copper companies had in Arizona, and the greatest concern that any business has today, was profits. You want to make as much money as you possibly can and have the lowest expenses you possibly can. During the territorial days some of the people in the legislature and some of the appointed governors felt that the copper companies were not paying their share. And so you can check the territorial legislative records and see that efforts were made to try and increase taxation of, of the corporations. And sometimes this was successful and sometimes it was not. There were efforts to raise corporate taxes and to a certain degree that was true. It wasn’t just taxation, it was workman’s compensation too fell into that category
