Show THE engineering and mining journal is a curse to the interests of this western country this is the sentiment and language of a leading salt lake mining man who looks with disgust upon the course the journal has taken in various articles reflecting upon the merits of several utah mining enterprises and it I 1 Is is putting it mild to say that this publication has lost many friends here of late because of its uncalled for and senile abuse of propositions in this state concerning the value of which the journal is certainly but very poorly informed A short time ao ago o it was a bingham property that came under the journals displeasure the latest attack from this source beino being on the huntsman mine in the lasalle mountains Yount mountains ains the merits and demerits of which this new york publication is as ignorant no as it is of the of the south pole and yet it presumes to blackmail one I 1 oi of the most promising 11 properties in this intermountain inter mountain region and this without making an investigation into the worth and value of the property thus assailed it is fortunate indeed that the journal is not an oracle and that thinking I 1 people are becoming used to its abuse and that they are able to read between the lines when it undertakes to belittle any mining proposition and one thing is is seemingly absolutely certain as far as the paper is 1 I concerned and that is that heavy patrons of the sheet are rarely so villainously assailed as are those who refuse to be held up by bv t it |