Show MINING for the grat arat time in the history of our na nal bior the government we aie are told is and for bame game time has bag been employing its troops in mining operations for gold an and silver and that too in a region so poor in those metals so far as known as is utah and another sini sin gular feature la lathis this connection is that these operations are conducted tinder under tir the garb of the development of our resources for our BENEFIT jf if co correctly T speaking there he be buch such a principle aa as purely disinterested benevolence we might be tempted to class this movement under that head provided the allegation that it ia is for our benefit be true but having been driven from state to state by the christianity and civilization of the nineteenth cen tury auty ard finally driven by said christianity aud and civilization from christianity and civilization into the then wilds of mexico we think we have a right at least to mistrust the white heap and to club question guestion stion the garb of 0 a benevolence so unlocked for we also think important facts in the condition of 0 our national af f aira alra give us a right to be a little auspicious suspicious if it gur pur our dispatches would bring us news that our government had now in the field forces I 1 sufficient to at once crush out the rebellion rebellions or that our currency was at par with gold then we might less question the alleged motive but still should deem it very t impolitic for I 1 government to employ enlisted troops in prospecting i pecking g for gold and silver it the government i really wishes and feels able to engage ia in a hunt for the precious metals would it nc not t be far in more ore economic economical al to employ the light right kind and requisite number of men expressly rr essly for that purpose perhaps as the world goes we are not the on bonss a that should object to such lavish expenditures ditar tsat esat at a time and in a manner so questionable for it greatly increases the thet amount cf oar our circulating medium and enhances the prices for tor our products and labor this reminds us ug that some may imagine the enhancement oe of prices for our baneat benefit to be the design of the government in their novel mining operations in SQ an poor a region aware that those operations will not pay but wishing to do us a kindness without letting their right hand know what their left do ethor fearing lest our pride or dignity would refuse such great benevolence if proffered in a more open manner if this be the case we hope the government Govert ment will calv waise waive its modesty place all its troops where shere they can be of most use against the rebellions a hope in which all loyal will j iid ild use its means for keeping our currency at par and leave utah 0 ao o shift for herself until the good time coming bat after hunting and inquiring 0 for a long time liot riot uphill and down dale but through kenyons kan over mountains and in streams and val ays eys at a great ex expense pene have not the troops discovered any gold diggings and allver mines not any so far aa as we are correctly informed they have worked and andor for alight aught we know are still at work upon some poor veins of lead ore badly mixed with what miners term blackjack and with a percentage of bliver silver which is found larger or smaller in connection with nearly all lead ort this has always been well understood aad and those veins situated on the aas and west elipa slips slops of the range of mountains on the west side of abis this valley were years ago known to the people herp herr and by them wisely let alone on account ot of their presumed comparatively littleox litt little leor or BO no value bat but how hov about the silver mine reported ted near meadow valley in the southern part cf the territory that too was long ago known to settlers in that region who doubtless thought they could d better by letting getting it alone as they madeno attempts at working it Ps Is richness and probable value we have not yet learned but it needed none of tha thil peat great expense to fiod what whai wa waa lon ion 9 since found toung had we been informed that the gov 1 stahl eminent at wished to employ the troops in utah at m mining in nf much trouble and expense might have ave b been saved for we presume any one would have cheerfully given information of the lead veins in the west mountain i A thousand miles from the nearest certain bread market arald armid a dreary waste to be rendered I 1 fertile having to depend entirely upon our labors here for the supplies necessary for our daily existence and aware of the comparative value of the results of farming and mining especially in making settlements eo so isolated as were ours utah has bas t deemed it and still deems it wisest and best for her to leave mining to others at least until some period still future and since even in mining countries the comfort and profit in the long run fall largely to the share of the producing classes we trust that merely in a moneymaking point of view reliable citizens will see the wisdom of continuing r to buld abuid bouses houses improve farms raise stock grain and fruit and produce every desirable article for food raiment and shei shel sheltie tir r rather than risk their tle time tl e and means on holes bolea in the ibe ground and ad piles pil e of rock and earth BO so often costing much with and should the war long iong continue with the great treat ol 01 lue uhe lue the past pasta sweeping hundreds of thousands of the able abie bodied male maie population to death or bebless ness even cven the now well provided states may see the folly of spending so much time in quest of the precious metals and learn ag as we already have that a man with wheat is loo nde inde andett of the man with only gold |