Show the man who attempts to fight a buzz saw and succeeds anything on the salt lake thieves who recently cut into a heavily charged lighting circuit and got away with pounds of copper wire with copper selling around 34 cents and the prediction being made that it will go to 40 the statement is often heard that this is tile the highest price ever paid for the red metal however that is a mistake as the price ranged from 39 to 55 cents in 1864 and from 27 to 44 cents in 1872 the lowest average since before the civil war was in 1894 when the range was from 9 to 1014 10 cents in the middle ages the al chemists worked on the problem of the transmutation of the baser metals into gold they were the prototypes of tile the modern chemist who searches for a substitute for gasoline the latest to claim success in this are albert hayes and herbert burton both of new york city it is said that their substitute costs less than 4 cents a gallon and is capable of driving a machine two and a halt half times as far as the same amount of gasoline a consummation devoutly to be wished we once knew a mine blacksmith who invariably told his helpers that when they had worked a piece of steel to the point desired they should always hit it a few more licks for luck the same principle applies to mining also judging from the number of old properties where work was discontinued just before ore would have been broken into recent examples in utah include the old emma where it is reported that the workings were within thirty feet of the extension of the faulted ore body and the victoria in the tintic gintic district where the recent resumption of work broke into an important within a few feet of where work was discontinued years ago there it goes again we had hoped that the recent decisive defeat of the mine tax amendment in utah would serve to keep such legislation under for at least a few years however certain interests are already preparing to introduce before the coming legislature a bill placing a graduated tax on every pound or ton of mineral taken from the mines of tile the state they declare that such a law would yield enough revenue to build the roads necessary to give the farming communities outlets to transportation por tation lines reasonable it with the present high prices of foodstuffs striking at the very vitals of tile the nation the mines are to be taxed to enable the farmers to make even greater profits on their produce |