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Show MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTA- IN 3 from the Supreme Court of the State of Utah, the latter having affirmed the constitutionality of the act of the legislature. It is AND WESTERN MINING RECORD. scarcely probable that the highest tribunal in the nation will consider the question on any bearings save that of whether the legisWest. Devoted to the Mining and Smelting Interests of the lature exceeded the power granted it by the Constitution of the State. Ornthis point the Supreme Court of the State has ruled Published Weekly by Alex Hyslop, 212 Atlas Block. that the particular clause of the Constitution was in the form of a mandate, and that the legislature obeyed the mandate. As the TERMS: Payable in advance. $2.00 matter is understood locally, Mr. Holden is not assailing the act, One Year nor is he contesting it. He simply wishes to have its validity tested Six Souths 50 Xbrep Months by the highest courts, to settle the matter for all time, and his action To foreign countries except Mexico and Canada, $3 per year, postage prepaid. is to be commended. matter. Entered at the Salt Lake Postoifice as second-clas- s MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTA- IN - Inter-Mounta- in 1-0- 0 The announcement that Captain J. R. DeLamar San Francisco Office; 64 and 65 Merchants' Exchange, where this paper is kept on file. Advertising contracts can by made with E. C. Dake. Agent. Chicago Office: 761 is arranging in London for a consolidation of his Golden Gate interests at Monadnock Building. Mercur, with those of the Mercur mine, is entirely reasonable. Under one management such as Captain DeLamar would furnish) the two properties could be converted into one of the most important gold producing properties on the American continent. Moreover, the acme of an extraction process for the arsenical ores of the district that DeLamar is exhausting the knowledge of two continents to attain, will be of just as much value to the Mercur mine as to the Golden Gate, as the arsenical sulphide has occured in many places in the Mercur. Unless DeLamar controlled the Mercur it would be scarcely reasonable to expect him to give that company a share in the benefits accruing from his search after a suitable process, a search that, while not yet complete, has SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Nov. 20, 1896. Claim owners should remember that after to.day there are but thirty. five days left in which to comply with the law requiring ioo. in labor to hold mining locations. An idea of the value and importance of the recently discovered ore body in the Humbug in Tintic, can be obtained from the fact that, including the first ore shipment which was made on October ioth last, 5S2 tons have been marketed, on which was realized 362,500, an average value of 107.39 Per ton cost him many thousands of dollars. The filling of the orders of France and Russia for American silver is stiffening the market slightly, and the price is the best that The American manufacturer says that while there is a slightly tone in the manufacturing centers since the election, reports The orders are heavy ones, and better the resumption of great industrial activity have out over a considerable period of regarding has been quoted in thirty days. the delivery will be spread been circulated whicn are greatly exaggerated. The inwith of chance stands metal firm, the remaining higher time, every ference from these reports of better times is intended prices probable. to be that McKinleys election did it. Yet when the matter is viewed impassionately it is easily seen that there has been no remonths nine in the mints The silver coinage of the United States of industrial activity proportionate to that which would sumption was November to 1st, of the present year, from February 1st, follow the inauguration of a great and beneficient industrial or finbullion the from coined purchased standard silver dollars, ancial policy. Every change in the lethargy of the past four years The of act 1890. Sherman of the clause under the purchase July that has occurred since November 5th has been entirely local been has amount which seigniorage on this coinage was 55Ii43 with the exception of what is controlled by the trusts, and leavNo. on in the still treasury turned into the treasury, There was ing aside the claim of the silver men that the election of Bryan the under silver fine ounces purchased vember 1st., 125,061,263 would, really, have inaugurated prosperity, and there is still no value its and was of coinage which 12,865,625, same act, the cost the assertion that his election would have been reason to is 161, 693, 000. The coinage of this reserve would further enrich followed dispute as much of a resumption of activity as is now apby just of the treasury by a seigniorage 48,827,375 parent and credited to the fact that it is McKinley. The real cause of the resumption if there has been any is that the election is to Idaho from was ore shipped Recently a car of high grade passed, and the periodical disturbing features attending it are the on in and commenting over 50,000, Denver, which was worth disposed of. excellen that mentioned including it, incident every paper that authority, the Engineering and Mining Journal , gave credq MORALITY OF MINERS. DeLamar the While mine. for the performance to the DeLamar A man who claims to have visited British Columbia during the this credit. The car in is a great producer, it was not entitled to mine on Florida past year writes to the Liverpool Post to warn English girls against Dollar Trade the from was question shipped is producing and is now emigrating to the mining districts of that province, and says : mountain, near Silver City, and the mine The inhabitants are chiefly men of the lowest possible type, who same grade of ore. Supei the of another just shipment preparing and vary their occupation by folintcndent Hutchinson of the Trade Dollar recently remarked, that gain a livelihood by gold mining, of gamblers. The astounding number of while the DeLamar got the credit for the ore the Trade Dollar lowing the profession drinking saloons in proportion to the population, which one invarigot the money. ably finds in these towns, is a sufficient proof even to a casual in visitor of their bad character, but the real depth of their vileness The constitutionality of the law limiting the period of labor to eight hours, ill can only be fathomed after a considerable stay. They are then and mills smelters, in and mines underground found to be veritable dens of iniquity foul blots on their mag- Mr. United the of States, Court be passed upon by the Supreme and certainly not the places where we would carried his case up to that august tribunal nificient surroundings, Albert F. Holden as 17,-262,9- 22 1 1 -- having |