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Show UltAXCIl SllMNU ItUKKAV. From an article iu the Sacramento Record, of the loth inst., on "Mines and tho Mining Bureau in Utah." The time has passed, we hopo and' believe, when any serious wild-cat project pro-ject can bo engineered in this State. The reputation and standing of the mining bureau render that impossiblo. This institution exisls as a gauge and meter by which the commercial inte grity of all mining projects may be tested at once, and which, as it depends de-pends upon the thorough honesty of its reports, can be relied upon to tell tho whole truth, and nothing but the truth, in regard to all that it is re- , iuircd to pass upon. But the indiea- ( lions are that Utah will, in tho ensuing , time, be the battle grouud of the ruin- , ing sharpers. The unprecedented rich- ness of tho mines of that Territory have attracted thither an army of wildcat wild-cat operators, who havo already been endeavoring to feel the financial pulse of isew York and London, and who have unquestionably been preparing to open, with spring, a campaign against the pockets of the world at large. The directors of the mining bureau, seeing and comprehending the aspect of affairs af-fairs in that quarter, determined to do for Utah what had already been done for California, namely, to interpose a protective agency between the people and the swindlers. With this purpose , colonel. Berton, president of the bureau, has recently visited Salt Lake city, and in another column of this issue will be found the detailed report of the organization of tho Utah branch of tho bureau. As was to havo been anticipated, the project pro-ject foend many tierce opponents in the Territory. There arc now congregated there some of the worst and most lawless adventurers from the frontiers of the i western States; men who claim a special j privilege on the grouud of their being i "Gentiles," but who arc, in character, ' maimers, and all other respects, simply , a disgrace to civilization, and a savage satire upon the theory that Mormoni.-m ; will yield to the advance of the ! settler. Such settlers as these arc a credit to no community, and their utter , disregard lor ci'i but their own scitish ends renders them dangerous members I of society. No doubt dozens of these : outl.'.ws had calculated upon reaping a rich harvest from Utah mines, ly the I simple process of cheating ail who came in ;careh of that kind of property. As a matter of course, they were furious i when the mining bureau w.i-projected, ' ar.d d d their best to defeat it. The business, however, was in the hands of i men who don't know how to be atra:d , wh'-T :!uy happen to be in the right, sr.d r-s a result, the schemers weie ki!en and the braseh bureiu was es-tabii-hed. We have no srt of doubt that the minic; bureau of Utah wiM meet with a ;ucce--s similar to that which hi attended its Ua.::or:i predecessor. pre-decessor. In-: principle is ry simple, and a;l can comprehend it. The bureau , w-.il register ail such rumcs as it may be de-ired to pass upon, an 1 which, op I examination, prove to be i-.nui.n : :e ; property. The character of the gentie-, gentie-, men who have eoD.sa.nud to unelert-ke the work of supervision (governor Woods and cob-nel Novell) are beyond su-t.iricn, and thin all foreign investor j will havu an ample suaranu-c in tho reports re-ports of the bureau. ! Fulluwhig is the report alluded to; The board uf directors of the mining hun-au of the 1'aaEio eoas-t, met on Friday la-t, Feb. 'jili, at the othce of lh-i bur. au, at Sacramoiito, Col. Berton, Ber-ton, pn-idout, in the chair. A quorum quo-rum U-ing pri-.-ni, the fulluwing bmii-n'-.-a was tiLin-aeti -d . The report of the jr- .-idt ut uf the ctabli-hment of a bran-h bureau at Salt Lake city was ihid L-.l're the board, and upon motion , wis rcieivi-.J and approved. The rc-. rc-. M,rl si;itr.-i that his i-xccUeliey guveruor Mir.i. L. Woud, nl' Utah, colonel Jos. II. Novell, of Salt Lake, and E. P. ' Hutel'in.J, present secretary of the I bureau, w. ie apiinted as managers .,1'tl.e Utah branch, and that t! ey had !acctpti:d the appointment. On mo-iiioti mo-iiioti of cul,,!n;l Ilarry Jiinden, tLc hon-jorablc hon-jorablc W. .Vrly John-on, one of thf1 ! directors, was s leeted to inform governor gov-ernor (ieo. L. Woods and Colonel Jos. 11. Nevett of the action of the bureau ! in ratifying their appointment as man-lai'ers man-lai'ers of the Utah branch at Salt Lake I city and to transmit to them the thanks : ' of the board of directors for their active 1 co-operalion in tho carrying out of the o!ij:et.s ol the bureau. Hon. W, Nccly Johnson was also selected to return the thanks of the bureau to the Salt Lake I daily Ukuai.d, Triiunc and Eiaiing I h'tvuw, for their support in behalf of I the establishment of the Utah branch at Salt Lake cily. After seme other J important business was transacted the I board adjourned, subject to the call of the president. |