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Show a o v i: k -v o it , ji a au e b a .v d i. i w- VKIl. Under tho above caption, tho New York Engineering and Mining Journal reviews editorially the connection of tho governor and secretary of this Territory Ter-ritory with tho mining bureau of Col. Berton of San Francisco. Tho reviewer, whoever ho may bo, discards gloves in tho discussion of his subject. While we do not intend that the Herald shall be, in any degrco, mado tho ve. hiclo of wrongful attack against the rights of either or any of tho parties to a dispute as to the ownership of mines, we are under obligation to our readers and conceive it to bo our duty, to publish pub-lish any and all matter, decently written, writ-ten, that may assist to disentangle the muddle in whioh the titles of some of our moat prominent mines are involved. involv-ed. The text of the review is tho famous letter written by governor Woods to the London Times, and which we published some time since, from which the discourse runs as follows: Governor Woods of Utah has been writing to the Loudon limes a letter, tho purpose of whioh is to bolster up the reputation of that branoh mining bureau, to which we referred some months ago, when it was first established establish-ed in Utah. It would under any circumstances cir-cumstances be unfortunate that a man who cud sign himself, governor of any Territory of the Uoited States should go into public correspondeDoe on the ticklish subject of mines. But this letter is peculiarly offensive and if the , President does not intimate to Mr. Woods that the day of his usefulness has passed, we fear both the civil service ser-vice of the government and the important import-ant business of mines will reoeivesome damage. Toe letter is dated, "Executive Department, De-partment, Salt Lake City, Utah." Its substance is first a flaming puff of the Utah braDch of the mining bureau, and then announcing that attempts will probably be made ''to place spurious schemcson foreign as well as domestic markets" it goes on to say: "In order, therefore, to check any movement of that kind, and with a view to protect foreign as well as American investors, I contider it to be my duty as governor of Utah, to accept the management man-agement of the mining bureau lately established es-tablished in this city." llA$ governor of Utah!" VV'o tell this governor that his high office was not given him to be dragged through tho mud of a London exchange and the mire of the San Francisco Etmet market. The seal of Utah was not meant to be affixed to the assertions of an association of mining adventurers. A governor of Utah, who will write to a daily paper, published in the largest money market in the world, that he has thrown the mantle of his official respectability over the operations of a scheming mining bureau, ought to get his dismissal by telegraph. It is not a great thing to be governor of a Territory, Terri-tory, but there ought to be decency in the office at least. But that is not all. Thelettercloses by saying that when an examination of a piece of property has taken place, a record of titles will be made; and "such record shall be certified bv the secretary of this Territory, the Hon. Geo. A. Black, who has been appointed appoint-ed secretary of the branch mining bureau." bu-reau." By what right does this man imprint the seal of the Uhited States upon mining schemes, for which none but those immediately interested would i dare to vouch. The law of congress has determined under what circum- 1 stances the seal of the United States shall bo affixed to papers relating to mines, and by whom it shall be done; ! and it never made the Utah mining 1 bureau the judge of the circumstances, nar appointed George A. Black for i the work. We beg the President, for the honor of the service ot which he is the head, and the credit of the mining profession, profes-sion, to let Mr. Woods and Mr. Black know that their places must be filled by men who will not use their office for the ends of speculation. I here is a deeper depth even in this precious effrontery. Geo, L. Woods, governor of Utah, and manager of the bureau, is also lawyer by profession, and has accepted a retainer from certain cer-tain San Francisco men who in the expressive ex-pressive language of the west are "butting "but-ting against" the Flagstaff mine. That mine has a United States patent, regularly regu-larly issued, but to the misfortune of its owners it is a paying concern, and, thcrelore, is the natural object of attention at-tention from that numerous class of men in the west, whoso boldest mining ventures consist in investments in other peoples mines. When a mine pays they trump up a claim to it. Litigation Litiga-tion is always costly, and their Btrenth lies in the fact that, when a man has an expensivo law suit on his hands, it is often not hard to persuade him that he may as well givo up as much as the suit would cost him, and a i least be sure of the rest of his property. There is no one thing in the past, present and luture of our minine history in the west that is so hurtlul to honest mining min-ing and honest selling as the existence of these mine sharks. Wo do not know who are the men engaged in this movement against the Flagstaff, and have no knowledge of' their character, i except from a letter of colonel Berton ' of San Francisco, who being president : of" tho bureau, in a branch of which Mr. Woods acts in a managing capacity, capa-city, writes as follows; "You may rely upon tho fact that verv strong parties in bun .Francisco are at the head ot" the present movement. They are a ring ol notorious mining operators, having an unlimited amount ol capital at their command. It will bo a war of lone duration, as they intend to continue tie lighting of this and other similar cases for many years to ceme, until they have succeeded with the magnetic mag-netic power, which, unfortunately , money has in this part of ihe world in carrying their object which is, in my opinion, tho control of tho mining interests inter-ests of the young Territory of Utah." Thu, observe, is tho description by the head of the concern, of the business busi-ness in which one of his managers is engaged! We would like to know how the branch bureau in Salt Lake city proposes to establish a reputation for th.it "correct and reliable information concerning Utah mining property" of which its manager speaks, when that very managor is engaged in an effort to oust honest miners from their posses-1 posses-1 fions. Mr. berton says of governor I Woods, that "it should not be inlorred I that he intends to extend to the plain-l plain-l titld the authority of his official position posi-tion or tho influence of his connection with tho mining bureau." Of course 1 d s1I.r-.Voo3 knows very well that f8 United States courts he has no I iuwnty u governor or indue noc u manager. He would meet with nothing but rebuff and ridicule, if he assumed any pretensions in the presence of judge Strickland. , , That fact, however, does not make this tbrco-leggod gentleman any more acceptable. We look to the President to amputate the official limb, and reduce re-duce him to the importance of other mortals. The foreipn papers have commented upon his letter with proper indignation, and we cannot object to the slurs they cast upon American honesty and American justice, when an American governor lends.himself to such doubtful affairs. |