Mine Taxation Study Urged I Btatlvtlral reporta laaued rareatty by the bureau of the ceneue conceraing the mining Induatry eotitaln what purport to ba auihantfe rim aa to tha taiaa paid by the mining' entrprtae of the VhHmI Htaiaa, tha orurmry of the Information Infor-mation blng Indicated by the fact that U waa aupplled lo the government by ha operator ihemee-ivee. Thte report a ave Wen ent broadcast to arhoola, col-Ivgt-a, unlvet HltiM. Ilhriirlea and Individuals. Individ-uals. The fiaurre gtvn have be e,ml-ei e,ml-ei In nawepaiwra, ro11rala and public addren"e on tho eeumption that they are auletantllly correct. Th at mi tai lc publish! In theae report re-port a were romplUtl for each etala for the purjroae of how trig th "ahaoluie and reuti, niagnltuda of the different hranrhea of the mining tnduat ry and their growth or decline. Tha a mount a of Imi. tiH'ludiug f-leral capital atork. rorioratlon Income and eacaae profit a taira and etMtn, county, and lccal taaea. paid ny mining entorprleaa for the yaara lu and 1HI. are ehown. together with the par cent of lncraa during the ten-yanr ten-yanr period. Kroin the canaua reporta 4 table waa eomptld and piihllHei in the Marrh la-au la-au of the allntng (ongraa Journal, and aa a raanlt arai rprmtattve of the anH-tal tat rotnmlttca of the A mar Iran mining congra and lhra have railJ attrnilon to the fact that th retieuk ftgurea do not r fleet irua condition a. Th fnllowlng U quitrd from a lt(er received from the Montana rirentntlv: "HI of the upvratura out of the !.' In Montana whUh our raport purtoria to covr. paid In ltlH. a total of Sl."44.-11. Sl."44.-11. Iff In the atata of Montana alone. Thla ef murae, dns not Include any federal taa paid by any of thaee all operator; oper-ator; nelthor dra it Include any of tha laica paid bv 2(1 other enteryrtaee, aa covarrd by your riort. 'Your rcitort glvee Montana eredlt In 111 for operatore of $.till.vt&, for both aiata and fvdaral taaea, tahtcli la la than t !) a I x opera t urn pn Ut to M'mtana alone. Thee i operntora ara metal mining; rotnpanlaa, and Monta:ie American nt'nlng conaresa apactal taa romnilltee Mining; i Mr"U Journal. I haa eery eatenaiee coal mining opera-Uone opera-Uone bee Idea ita metal mining Indue try. "I aiao find that the Anaconda com- rnv alone, with tta auhaidlarlea. paid Montana, la iffeff, 4o.uo.Sl, wheraaa veur total, foe 171 operatore for that year, for both atata and federal taaea, la liea,-. liea,-. . "The unfortunate part ef pu Miration ef data of thla bind, without knowing tta aoeuraoy. la that It puta In tha hande of the politician and the demagogue fig- i urafi whtrh he can uae on the authority I of a publication by the Amertren mln-1 mln-1 Ing eongreaa to the detriment of the mining min-ing hit areata of . thla atata in taa eon. trover lea. which are very live leauee at thla lima. The publication of thla data In the Mining longreaa Journal waa Intend to arm.ae Intereaf In the general taa all-uatkin all-uatkin and If It haa reaulted In awakening awaken-ing the mining Indue try to the fact that Inaccurate Information concerning taaee paid by mining entarprlaea la going aut to the general nubile. It haa e-rvd a good purpoee. Tha apeclal tax commlt-if commlt-if hopea teaacura and publlah complete com-plete Information. The raining indue try of Montana already al-ready haa taken atepe to cointera;t the adveraa Influence of erroneoue atate-menta atate-menta concerning the taaee paid by mining min-ing enterprteoa of that atate by publishing publish-ing correct data compiled from tha official of-ficial atate re-orde. Hiatlatical reporta laaued by the vart-oua vart-oua drpartmenta of the federal government govern-ment have a wide circulation and are uacd aatenalvely throughout the country coun-try for reference purpoeee. It le therefore there-fore eaceedlngly Important that they do not contain misinformation which may be uead to the detriment of tha Induatry to which they relate. The reporta of the bureau of the cenaua contain much valuable val-uable Information and tha cenaua ad-mtnlatratlon ad-mtnlatratlon la not to be aeverely crit-trieed crit-trieed for Hie publication of erroneoua data which la baaed upon Information obtained ob-tained from the operatore. Thla altuatlon empnaaiaea the need of a broad ettntv of the aubjeet of mine taxation, eepecialiv aurh aa ta now being condurtedby Oie