Show THE OLD JURY SYSTEM the near approach of the time set for the hearing in both cases of trespass namely the grand central versus the mammoth and the pour four aces versus the south swansea mining t companies suggests the advisability of changing the method of arriving at an intelligent and acceptable verdict it has bas been the custom and doubtless it will be observed in similar cases until the end of all litigation to scour the country in search of brilliant and competent expert professional fess ional talent and to employ them to give testimony before a jury ordinarily composed of a lot of alfalfa and pumpkin rolling farmers to whom all the high sounding technical terms and geological expressions is abstruse unfathomable greek think of procuring the services of a lot of wonderfully bright competent men versed both theoretically and practically in all possible knowledge concerning geology chemistry and metallurgy and having them talk eloquently and forcibly for hours and days to a jury made up of men who are all the time fic figuring on the market price of beef wheat or wool what are such men who have spent their lives in agricultural pursuits supposed to know relative to discussions on areas of quartzite porphyry dykes limed lime faults carboniferous rocks fissures in rhyolite volcanic agencies the upper and lower silurian and azurite how much more sensible and satisfactory is to all parties interested would it be to place the whole trust in the hands of a generally recognized honest and qualified arbitrator or referee who having heard and comprehended all the facts presented should reasonably be competent to render an accept acceptable verdict the con census of opinion touching on trials wherein such a voluminous amount of technical is involved is that one capable man familiar with mining complications had bad better weigh t the matter than twelve incompetent ones THERE is no branch of industry which will be more favorably affected by the building of the salt lake and los angeles railroad than will the lumber business and firms in this city using the product of the forests of oregon will then be strictly in it the freight rate over the roads coming in from the west has been a serious obstacle in the way of local dealers but with the new road in operation oregon lumber could be freighted by water to los Anc angeles reles and then come the rest of the way by rail at a much cheaper rate than is now paid in innumerable other ways the new road will prove a blessing to the industrial interests of salt lake city and this intermountain country IT is learned that a representative represent active of the prom promoters oters of the salt lake and los angeles road who has just finished an inspection of the iron and coal resources of iron county estimates that in this section there is all of two hundreds millions of tons of iron ore available and practically in sight 11 this sounds bi big and looks large in ordinary cases we would regard the statement as an exaggeration r ge ration but knowing by personal observation the immensity of these mountains of iron we are ready to believe that the figures given are practically correct the iron and coal of iron county regardless of the other and varied resources of the state of utah are in thein themselves selves a sufficient inducement for the building of this proposed line to the coast JOHN Q PACKARD did a barid handsome some thing when he donated to salt lake city for the purpose of perpetuating our public library mr packard has always been a ae generous nerous man but in his own way his charities not being paraded before the public in order to gain notoriety and fame as lie he has extended the helping helpin Lr hand to the needy and suffering in many instances that the public has had no knowledge of still we are lad olad o that he has made this magnificent gift as it will doubtless inspire others to follow his example in this respect mr packard is well known in mining circles in utah and elsewhere as he has long been connected with some of the best paying mines of the west including the eureka hill the gemini kev stone and the godiva at eureka THE gold cyanide sampling works in this city have been closed at the order of the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining I 1 company and now unless an independent sampler of this character is established here all the ev evanildes cyanides cy anides from the mills of this western country will of necessity have to be sent east for sampling 11 before the producer can expect any returns whatever this sampler which was the most st extensive and complete of any similar works to be found in the united states has always been a great convenience to the mining men of the west employing the cyanide process of ore reduction and its removal will be sincerely regretted by them it is understood that local enterprise is figuring I 1 on the advisability of establishing an independent sampler to succeed the old one and it is to be hoped that the project will be successfully carried out AN exchange says that beds of natural coke are not uncommon and that deposits are known to exist in europe and the united states while a recent discovery of this character has been made in mexico several years ago a large bed of natural coke was discovered in emery county this state at the time the find caused considerable excitement in mining circles and in the ranks of furnace men but if the natural coke was put to any any usef useful ua purpose the fact is not generally known from all accounts the deposit is a large one and now that there is such an active demand for coal and coke its merits should be investigated one authority states that the causes which have led to the transformation of coal into coke are the intrusion of lava into the stratas of mineral fuel or its overflow upon them should anyone desire further information upon the subject of deposit of natural coke this paper will gladly go into the matter more fully as to detail and value THERE is a great areat field here for an independent custom smelter providing I 1 a ready market can be found for the output of such a plant an i independent smelter should make money for its shareholders even if e existing ais t 1 n smelling smelting sm elting 11 charges were greatly reduced or even cut into halves every producer believes that pres present e i it charges are exorbitant although smelt ermen claim to the contrary ar v and yet we append hereto a statement con cern corning inc the globe smelter at denver which would indicate that a sharp reduction can be made and a handsome profit still be rec recorded corded and as conditions are equally as favorable for smelling smelting sm elting ores in utah as they are in colorado our readers will see that there is big money in the smelling smelting sm elting I 1 business at present charges t the statement alluded to reads as follows according to dr lies iles who for a number of years was metallurgist at the globe smelter denver the average cost of smelting smelling sm elting precious metal ores in blast furnaces which was per ton in 1887 has been reduced in 1898 by various economics to during the same period the expense of roasting has fallen from per ton for hand work to for mechanical ch anical |