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Show Jjuk a & INTERJVIOUNTAIN MINING REVIEW. The Prospector. INTER-MOUNTA- IN MINING REVIEW. Devoted to the Mining and Smelting Interests of West. in the Inter-Mounta- Published Weeklv bt C. T. HARTE, Room 223 Atlas Block. TERMS : (Payable in Advance.) One Year Six Months Three Months To England, Mexico and Canada, postage prepaid. $2.00 1.00 50 $3 per year, Entered at the Salt Ijake City Postoffice as matter. eecond-clss- s Sin Francisco Office: 64 and 65 Merchants Exchange, where this paper is kept on, file. Advertising contracts can be made with E. C. Dake, Agent. Ernest and Cranmer Denver Office: 711-7Building. 14 Salt Lake City, July 2, 1896. Volume II. This issue of the Mining Review is the first number of Vol. II., and the publisher desires at this time to thank those who have so generously extended their support and patronage and made its publication a success. It was felt, at the time this journal was started, that the mining industry of this region had reached such a stage of importance as to warrant the publication of a journal devoted exclusively to its interest, and the result justifies that conviction. Predictions of failure were freely made and the publisher was regarded as an object of sympathy, but these were false prophets, and the Mining Review commences its second volume with every assurance of a long career before it. Its aim is to be honest and conservative in its statements concerning the mines and to supply to mining operators as great an amount of useful information as is possible. It believes that it has contributed somewhat to the promotion of outside interest in the mines of this region, as it has a large and increasing number of Eastern readers. Its local circulation is steadily growing and it is the hope and ambition of the publisher to make it an institution worthy of the great industry it represents. millionaires found it desirable to visit St. Louis in their private cars when the Republican convention was in session, presumably in order to make sure that the interests of the masses were protected by the adoption of a platform. One of them, a Wall street banker, told a correspondent that the banks of New York had spent a h 1 of a lot of money on Democratic conventions in the South without accomplishing anyIt is important to know just thing. how much money it takes to make a h 1 of a lot, for the gold standard campaign corruption fund is reduced just that amount. Twenty-seve- n gold-standa- rd i9 3 that protection to the great wool industry is a matter of greater conse- Heres to the prospector, who blazes quence than the free coinage of silver. the trail to fortune! He treads no roy- This is an exhibition of ingratitude and al road to fame, yet he leads the march treachery, viewed from the purely selof civilization into the wilderness. It fish standpoint of local interest as the is he who finds new fields for capital sheepmen view it and is not warranted and labor, lays bare the hidden treas- by the facts. The value of the Utah wool ures of the hills, builds the foundations clip last year was less than a million for sovereign States and supplies the dollars. Under a protective tariff, were worlds expanding demand for precious that tariff high enough, the value of the clip might possibly have been increased A great factor in human achieveof a million dollars. The ments is the sturdy, dauntless prospec- value of the silver output last year was tor. He supplies the sinews of war to in round numbers $5,000,000. Under free the nations of this earth, and the fruits coinage, the value would have been of his labor build the palaces of kings, more than $5,000,000 more, and, moreyet the treasures that gush forth when over, the value of wool would have he smites the rock do not always go to greatly increased, in common with all his own enrichment, but fill the coffers other products. And yet there are of those who take advantage of his ne- sheep owners so narrow and so blinded To how many plungers on by selfishness as to profess the belief cessities. the mining stock exchanges ever comes that the free coinage of silver is a matthe thought that the prospector has ter of miner importance. They have made it possible for them to make and arrogantly taken possession of the lose fortunes in a day? How many of Western ranges, to the exclusion of the employees of the great mining ma- ranchmen and cattle growers, defiled chinery plants ever uttered an apos- the streams and defied the settlers, paid trophe to the man who created the de- dividends when wool was at its lowest mand for mining machinery? How point and silver mines were operated at many of that vast multitude who sub- a loss, and now, with cheek of brass, sist upon the busines of the mines ever advance the proposition that protecgave a passing thought to the pioneer tion to wool should be the chief aim of the mining industry? Some of the American Government. The writer has mingled with the proschickens come home to roost metals. three-quarte- rs pectors of the Rocky mountains for fifteen years, and he has found the most perfect type of honest, rugged, manhood. His is an ennobling pursuit, and the thought sometimes comes that, no matter what manner of scrub a man may be by birth and instinct, after a score of years spent among the grandeur of the hills, he takes upon himself some of the attributes of the majestic peaks. Moreover, the man who can brave the hardships and privations of the wilderness, who can face without flinching the snow-bougorges of untrod mountains and the burning sands of trackless deserts, to whom no obstacle or failure brings discouragement or dismay, and in whose breast hope ever springs eternal-such a man must be made of sterner stuff than the carpet knight of the nineteenth century. What can be more pathetic or more tragic that the final surrender to a merciless fate of one who has worn his life out in unsuccessful search for the treasures of the hills? Enfeebled by age and the hardships he has endured, broken in body and spirit, he sinks beneath the icy hand of death and finds a rude grave in the lonely solitude of the mountains, unwept, unhonored and unsung. Then let us do reverence to the brave spirits who give to us the mines. nd Wool and Silver. The sheepmen and the miners have also reached the parting of the ways. Through all the tariff conilict that has been so fiercely waged the mining camps have stood like a rock in support of protection for wool, and "free silver and protection has been the profession The New York Financial Record ad- of the wool grower. Now, however, vises speculators to load up on when it appears that selfish ends may stocks Just before the Democrawc con- possibly be served by throwing overvention meets, and get aboard for' board the cause of silver, the flock masters are heard to express the opinion good times. The Mining Review feels that possibly it owes an apology to Eli Perkins, a somewhat notorious Eastern liar who made a lecture tour of Idaho last winter. Perkins wrote a letter from Boise to the Eastern press, representing that he had discovered a strong anti-silvsentiment at that city, and the Mining Review pronounced it a Perkins lie. In view of the support now given by the most influential newspaper of Boise to a goldbug Presidential ticket and platform, and the ratification of such ticket by a largely attended meeting of er citizens, it is just possible that Eli in- advertently wrote the truth. The Supreme court of the United States recently decided that a wife had no dower interest in an unpatented mining claim. This decision was rendered in a case arising under the statutes of the State of Montana, and has given rise to some misapprehension, as the statutes of other States, including Utah, do confer such dower right, in the opinion of good attorneys. The Mining Review publishes this week a description of the Florence mining district, in Idaho county, Idaho, which promises to become the scene of as lively a boom as it experienced in the early days, when millions of dollars worth of dust was taken from its placers. Every jobberwocks of an Eastern editor views with alarm the proposition to coin 50 cents worth of silver Not one of these goldbug into $1. seems capable of understanding that enlarged use as a standard of value and a medium of exchange affects the bullion value of a metal. Perhaps none of them know, or care to panic-shrieke- rs know, that the closing of the Indian |