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Show MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTA- IN INTER-MOUNTA- IN MINING REVIEW. Devoted to the Mining and Smelting Interests of the Inter-Mounta- in West. Published Weekly by C. T. H ARTE, Iloosx 223 Atlas Block. for cattle and sheep, and will also give to placer miners a longer season; but every rainstorm in the Valleys has been a snowstorm in the mountains, and general mining operations have been retarded fully one month. Many of the producing mines have been unable to ship their product, hundreds of claim-owne- rs have found it impossible to reach properties they are anxious to TEKMS : (Payable in Advance.) develop, and an army of prospectors $2.00 are Year One waiting for settled weather. The 1.00 Six Months 50 extent to which general trade in this Three Months To England, Mexico and Canada, $3 per year, region depends upon the mining inpostage prepaid. dustry is shown by the depression ocEntered at the Salt Lake City Postoffice as casioned by this delay of mining operar second-clas- s matter. tions. But while the season may be San Fbancisoo Office : 61 and 65 Merchants1 somewhat shorter than usual, on acExchange, where this paper is kept on file. AdC. be E. made with vertising contracts can count of the extraordinary weather, it Dake, Agent. will be extremely lively while it lasts. Salt Lake City, May 14, 1896. Silver Standard and Labor. This Electrical Age. Fresh evidence of Mexicos increasing prosperity, on a silver basis, is afforded almost daily. Secretary Rognon of the incompany of this forms the Mining Review thatcity the 8 per cent export duty upon gold and silver bullion will be reduced about lf on July 1st. This action is entirely voluntary on the part of the Government, no demand having been made by the producers, and is taken because the needs of the National treasury no longer demand such a tax. The reduction will materially increase the reve- Electrical power enterprises are just now attention demanding great throughout Utah. Water power for the generation of electricity is abundant, and a wide and profitable field for the application of this cheap power is presented by the mines and mills in the mountains and the manufacturing plants in the valleys. Chained lightning promises to greatly stimulate the mining industry and promote the development of great manufacturing resources. A region so rich in raw ma- nues of the terials, and supplied with the most eco- which has been paying to thecompany, Governnomical power known to mankind, with ment 8 per cent of the of its a belt extending from the British pos- cyanide plant in Sonora. output Mr. Rognon sessions to the Mexican boundary as also informs the Review that an erroits market, has limitless possibilities neous impression prevails concerning before it. the condition of Mexican labor under The electrical power plant now under the silver regime. The construction by the Pioneer company company is now almost double at Ogden will be second only to the the wages it paidpaying when it commenced The Palls. works at great Niagara operating a few years ago. Skilled Big Cottonwood company is now gen- American laborers now command erating three thousand horse-powhigher wages in Mexico than in the within a few miles of this city, and is United States, the scale being from $6 to furnish for all Pan-Americ- an one-ha- Pan-Americ- an Pan-Americ- an er purpower prepared poses. The Utah Power company will soon be operating the street cars of Salt Lake City with power transmitted from the same canyon. Other companies are preparing to utilize the mighty forces of the mountain streams and supply electrical currents to the mines and mills of Park City, Eureka, Bingham, Mercur and other camps. This electrical wave extends away down into San Pete county, a company having been formed to establish a plant in Pleasant Creek canyon and furnish electricity to Mount Pleasant, Moroni, Fairview and other cities. A great industrial revolution is about to take place, the full significance of which this people does not realize. The greatest forces of nature are about to be brought under control, and when they are applied to the manifold uses revealed by practical experience and scientific research, they will send the material interests of the new State bounding forward at such a tremendous pace as will leave to the people little time to wrangle over church manifestos and peanut politics. to $7 per day, Mexican money, equivalent to $3 and $3.50, United States coin. The foreman of the mill receives $400 per month, Mexican money, worth $200 in United States money. But most of the articles of Mexican production are just as cheap now as they have ever been, and there has been no decrease in the purchasing power of the Mexican dollar, except as applied to those products that are imported from countries. In addition to the benefit of higher wages, the Mexican laborers now find employment every day in the year if they desire it. So swift has been the growth and expansion of the industries that the demand for labor is frequently greater than the supply. The condition of Mexican labor, under the silver standard, has improved 100 per cent. During the same period the condition of the American laborer, under the gold standard, has grown worse. And Carlisle still has the nerve to deliver sound money harangues to American workingmen. Pan-Americ- an gold-standa- Mr. rd J. B. Graham, editor of the Bing- The copious rains of the past month ham Bulletin, backed by the citizens will no doubt produce abundant grass of that great camp, last week published 3 a most admirably prepared description of the resources of the West Mountain district. It was accompanied by a map, showing the location of producing mines in every gulch, and affording a striking illustration of the wonderful mineralization of the district. The absence of the brass band and clap-tra- p so frequently indulged in by mining camp boomers is a commendable feature of the paper. Not a single mine was mentioned that is not now or has not been a shipper of ore, and there are two hundred of this class. A special edition of 50,000 copies was issued, and the Bulletins enterprise will result in much benefit to the camp. sky-rock- et New Processes. The present season promises a huge crop of new processes of ore treatment. Some of these alleged processes bear upon their faces such evidence of im- practicability that they are hardly worth investigation. A smattering of chemistry and the ability to distinguish galena from quartzite persuade some men that they are capable of solving every metallurgical problem. Many experimental plants are now being erected, and it Is not unlikely that of the multitude of new methods proposed, some may be able to demonstrate their value. however, should Mine-owner- s, exercise great caution In expending money upon plants for untried processes. They not only stand a first-rat- e chance for losing their money, but may work permanent damage to their property, as an abandoned plant is evidence that they have made an unsuccessful attempt to work their ores. The knowledge that this process or that process has been tried upon a certain mine, and proved to be a failure, injures the mine itself to a certain des, gree, in the minds of investors. therefore, if they are wise, will wait until the proposed method has been given a most thorough and complete test, not only upon other ores, but also upon their own, and under all conditions that are likely to occur, before erecting a plant. All this may be said without disparaging the efforts and achievements of those who have contributed so largely to the prosperity of the mining industry, by providing more economical and more effective methods of ore treatment. The students of chemistry and metallurgy are still exploring the mysteries of those unfathomed sciences and it is not improbable that more important discoveries may yet be made. Mine-owner- Gold is a mighty power, yet all the gold of the universe cannot stay the hand of death. Col. North, the Nitrate King, is dead. The man who last week had a hundred millions at his command, who dazzled Kings and Princes with the magnificence and splendor which he drew about him, is now of no more consequence than the half-craz- y poor old prospector who suicided up in Idaho the other day. Col. North was one of the money kings of the world. He commenced his career an uneducated adventurer, and ended It an uneducated half-starve- d, |