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Show "HUL.LION BY THE TOM." Under this caption tho Mining Review, Re-view, of Goorgotowa, Colorado, fjets off the following cuttingly sarcastic articlo on the absurd habit of calling pig lead bullion, which has been in voguo in Utih: Our neighboring Territory of Utah is a great and mighty country, and for its ago produces about as many things, in as largo quantities apparently, as any other portion of tho crust of the oarth: Jiosides adding heavily every year to tho world's population, she has gained a oommendablo reputation for such staples as fruit, cereals and salt, and has made a fino spurt during tho past year, in tho diamond and ruby business. Pre-eminently, however, how-ever, her for to is bullion, as we hope tojhe able to show. Naturally taking much interest in Utah as she is our nearest sister, wc have always dono our best to encourage her growth and wealth; at the same time takiDg good caro to keep the lead if possible in all that pertains to the yield of silver and gold. Our chagrin and mortification can therefore be imagined, im-agined, as week after week, on comparing com-paring her bullion shipments with those of Colorado we find ourselves 1 nowhere, while Utah apparently is not ouly surpassing every other mineral district io tho United States but is becoming be-coming such a paradise of the precious me'.als, that tho liko thereof has never been heard of since tho days ot Solomon. Solo-mon. To bo plain, she is shipping away weekly hundreds of tons of bullion, bul-lion, and not only does not appear to be tho worse for the effort, but modestly mod-estly refrains from saying much on tho subject. We have unfortunately only a few figures on hand at the prcseut moment but they will serve every purpose. It seems that spdio new works (smelting) named tho Saturn havo lately been doing remarkably well, as tho S. L. Tribune thus shows: "For tho week ending Sunday morn I ing (Dec. 1st ) tho Saturn works pro- days prior to that rua, 142 tons were , tho result." These figures are simp'y enormous and are worthy of close study According Ac-cording to Webster bullion is "the I precious metals when smelted and either entirely or noa-ly refined." In this country we call 7iH a pre:ty good average of fineness. We can of course ; therefore estimate upon that figure for : I'tah, and the Saturn works, and not be very far from correct. The result is staggering. Those works produce weekly J,4, 5So ounces of silver which at $1,30 represents $2, 957. Supposing Sup-posing they treat about of all the silver sil-ver ore raised by our wealthy neigh- j bor. her total weekly yield can not be I far from $1 1, oot. '.'-, and for the vtar $59' 714.056. In other words Utah could pay off the public debt io five years and do it easily. It U pleasant to know that ire have such a rich and powerful Territory in our mid?t. It gives a sense of security in our glorious country, and a certain feeling of awe for this youn giant as we reriect what sha could do if she tried but hold dees the type deceive j us t, Are we reading correctly, or has the multiplicity of figures, all of them j in the minions, biinded our eves and , contused our perceptive faculties? J A'as tor our fond dreams for Utah '. j Dirtcdy following the paragraph we havs quoted above is another which is as di?ptriting as it is unkind. "Ihe averane value of the buliioz being about leO ounces t3 the ton." Shades of Webster! Is that in lion ? Is that the foundation of ail the wealth we have pictured.' Only the iSid partis silver, or .5-4 of one per cer.:. Instead of teicg 7 ' fice it is only ' 5 4 dro. Our ni-'csidceat aurs faii from half biin per annual :o a ; tie over i.iV.U-vO, and our neihbr . across the mo-nta: a wi' i ro- 1. j dare our " eitocs! c ss-i;-.'' he sart about the wc-rii lmi-Iiat :iy, in certainly less than ) years. The m:s:aie arises rx-a-;e she calls !eai containing .54 per cms. ot stiver, , "iu.lioa-" |