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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- N MINING REVIEW. platform will consist simply of a silver plank. It is the part of wisdom and expedience for the bimetalists to enter into a truce upon the tariff until honest bimetalism is restored; to select Devoted to the Mining and Smelting Interests of such candidates as will be acceptable West. the to Democrats, Republicans and PopuH C. T. Room Weekly by ARTE, Published 223 lists, and thus unite their forces Atlas Block. against a divided opposition. While TERMS: the election of the silver candidates (Payable in Advance.) could hardly be expected this year by ..$2.00 One Year 1.00 the most sanguine bimetalist, the silSix Months 50 :... Three Months...... ver votes would be counted for silver, and $3 Mexico Canada, To England, per year, and in such numbers as would compostage prepaid. mand concessions from lawmakers, and Entered at the Salt Lake City Postoffice as if such concessions were not extended, matter. second-clafour years more of educational work San Francisco Office : 64 and 65 Merchants Exchange, where this paper is kept on file. Ad- among the voters might bring victory vertising contracts can be made with E. C. in the year 1900. Bake, Agent. While the status outlined above may not be brought about, recent develop1896. Lake 9, Salt City, April ments indicate its possibility, and such a condition is more desirable than that The Silver Issue. which has prevailed in the past. The voters should line up for and against The friends of silver who hope to silver, or the silver question should be rehabilitate the white metal through eliminated from American politics. the instrumentality of the ballot could No Mining BUI. not reasonably ask for a more favorable political status than is likely to be The Utah Legislature has at length cambrought about during the coming adjourned. With the exception of the of seem enemies The bimetalism paign. coal mine inspection bill, it enacted no to from determined the national legislation calculated to benefit the wring conventions of both the old parties mining industry, and it is hoped that plain and direct declarations in favor it has done no serious harm. It imof the single gold standard. With ear- posed a tax of 25 cents per $1000 on the nestness and zeal they pronounce capital stock of new incorporations, applat- plied an eight-hou- r against any more double-dealin- g law to mines and Janus-faced forms and candidates, and smelters and provided for the taxation the friends of silver should respond to of the property and profits of mine this pronouncement with a hearty owners. Perhaps it is fortunate for amen. the chief industry of the State that the The propagandists are session expired by limitation before expending great effort and much money more mischief was accomplished. in the endeavor to secure the nominaWhatever the effect of the eight-hou- r tion by the Republican and Democratic law' may be, the Legislature is entitled candidates up- to censure more on account of what it parties of on platforms, and as did not do than by reason of any possithings are now shaping it requires no bly pernicous legislation. The failure gift of prophecy to foresee their suc- to pass a mining bill satisfactory to cess. Such a consummation will give prospectors and mine owners is espegreater strength to the silver cause cially regretable. The Raddatz bill was than the vague and meaningless decla- hung up in the committee rooms for rations in favor of an impossible in- something like eighty days, and in the ternational bimetalism and an en- last hours of the session the Senate larged use of silver by which silver reached the conclusion that it had no voters have been so successfully baited time for the proper consideration of in the past. The plan of the goldites such a measure. There was much opto obscure the silver question with the position to the Raddatz bill, the chief smoke of a furious protective tariff objection being that it was too cumberan effort should have been conflict has been a failure, and this some, but in satisfactory shape failure shows unmistakably that the made to place it or to adopt a substitute. This failure people view the financial question as to enact any legislation whatever the overshadowing issue. This being matters to be the temper of the voters, an outspoken leaves many important settled by district regulations, as herepolicy of gold monometalism will drive a condition most unsatisfactory every honest friend of bimetalism, tofore, to the mining interests. There is natwhether for high tariff, low tariff or a lack of uniformity in these free trade, from the ranks of the old urally regulations, as different requirements No parties. longer will it be possible are imposed by the different districts. for them to be deceived or to deceive In some districts assessment work is themselves. required within sixty days from date Thus the old parties will consist, the of location and in others no assessment one of protective tariff goldites, the work whatever, xcept that imposed by other of revenue tariff goldites, and the Federal statutes, thus making it the bimetalists will be inclined to say for a few locators to hold vast possible A plague to both their houses. With tracts of land for two years without their enemies thus divided, manifest- the expenditure of a dollar. No provisly the only course open to the silver ion has been made for the better care ters is an agreement upon some plaji of district records, an omission that of unity. The Independent Silver party may cost the mine owners dearly in the ill place in nomination candidates for future. resident and As matters have been left, district and their INTER-MOUNTA- IN MINING REVIEW. Inter-Mounta- in ss gold-standa- rd gold-standa- rd gold-standa- rd ' Vice-Preside- nt, 3 recorders may meet with some embarrassment in securing compensation. Heretofore this has been derived from fees, but under Statehood all fees have been abolished, with some few exception, which do not include mining recorders. The old Territorial statues, reenacted, require the recorders to file bonds in the sum of $1000, and it is claimed that this requirement gives them an official status and renders them subject to the fee prohibition. Should the district organizations fix the salaries of the recorders, it would be necessary to draw these salaries from the State, but no provision has been made for their payment. All these complications might have been avoided had the Legislature done its full duty. Conditions at Hercur. The Camp Floyd district has passed from the discovery to the development stage. While it is making less commotion and less noise than a month ago, it is doing more mining. The owners of claims are expending little and red fire, but money on they are all sawing wood. Those people sky-rocke- ts who look upon this absence of pyrotechnics as an indication of approach- ing collapse are unacquainted with existing conditions. There are few mining districts in the world in which development is being so extensively prosecuted, and a great portion of the work is of a substantial and permanent nature. Double compartment shafts, well timbered and designed to meet the requirements of large hoisting plants are the rule. Claims are being developed all over the entire district and in many instances the owners are driving straight for large ore bodies that are known to underlie their ground, at a depth that can be closely approximated. There is little question that during the next six months a dozen more developed mines will be placed to the credit of the district. These include the Seal, East Golden Gate, Hecla, Gold Dust, Wonder, Brickyard, Hillside, Cannon, Rover, Eagle, June Bug, and South Geyser all located within a short distance of the town of Mercur, and a score of promising properties are being develand the Sunoped in the west foot-hil- ls shine section. It must be borne in mind that it was but about a year ago that the public began to realize the possibilities of the district, and what has been accomplished in this short time is truly marvelous. The temporary delay in the erection of the big mills, pending experiments on the arsenical ores, need occasion no anxiety, although some exhibitions of Impatience are to be expected. As a matter of fact, these arsenical sulphides can be handled by any one of a n processes, and a proposition of such magnitude involves a careful Investigation of each of these processes, with a view to the selection of that which promises the greatest economy. But aside from the arsenical question, there are hundreds of thousands of tons of oxidized ores that yield readily to the cyanide treatment, and the production and treatment of which will furnish the foundation for a permanent camp. Ore bodies of such extent and magnitude are not found elsewhere on the globe, and it is not rea- half-doze- |