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Show ENCUSH mining experience The London Mining World, in noticing Mr. Harris's new work .iKlUd' " "Titles to Mines in the UmihI States, with tbe statutes and reference lo the decisions of the CQiirte relating thereto," indulges in the 1. .lowing r. (lections: ' LVrpite a somewhat sad experience, Enh.-h investors in American mines have but an itnpertect knowledge of the laws wnich govern mining operations opera-tions in the United States. A knowledge knowl-edge of this kind would have-saved them from many a loss, but it must he confessed that it is not without reason, that ou this side tlie suspicion prevuiis tbt such as are in existence are not put properly into force. Peo pie here bave uu idea, that the executives execu-tives have an insufficient loroe at their disposal to make those laws respected, and this feeling will bave been strengthened by a perusal of the cir- ' cu instances in counection with tbe recent. railway riots, when for days together the lines remaiuttd in possession posses-sion ot the mob. Ii is alto a singular fact, and one winch has created a deep impression upon the Eunhoh miud, lhat when-' 1 i-.ver an Euglish mining company has heen compelled to go to law to defend the right it has, or to secure the r ghte which have been taken from Li.em the decision of the courts the lower courts especially lias been iigaiust them. It is quite possible i bat this all but invariable result may have been due to that want of knowledge knowl-edge ol the mining laws of the United States to which we have referred, but the shareholders, of the compauiee, who have been jnu feted in thin way, would naturally point to the feet that in each case they have employed counsel to defend them of the highest standing, and surely tbey ought to know how to conduct their case.' The fees paid to these gentlemen have been simply enormous, eo that il tbey have not done their duty it not be- cause the reward of labor has been withheld Irom them. Under these circumstances, some persons have been sufficiently ungenerous to believe be-lieve that the jueiiwe of the Utah courts is not blind, and that its hand does- not poiso the scale with the lair-, nets which litigauts ought to expect. Mercy, 'in fact, seasons justice in the opinion of these people, only the seasoning sea-soning is - all' on - tlie " Yankee - side. Now, although we are far from saying lhat justice iu Utah is Ices blind thau she its elsewhere, we caivnot but be struck with the singular fact that her decisions, with hardly au exception in fact with not an exception that we can remember have been adverse to Englishmen, and to English companies, com-panies, so that to-dy it would be im puerile on the London market to obtiin the capital to woili a new iniuing property in Ihnt territory. This fueling may wfr oil" wo bopo it wi.t but untd it does it is uaeless to-.ty aud get English capital tor Afiieri. an mines. Tne recent decia ion iti the Uichmond case will act as further caution, and the dreadful expenses ol these law-uits are alone Biilhcieut to make - intelligent -inves tors hesitate ere they trust any of their money in a country where their pro perly may be "jumped" at any tuo meut, and whnre every species of blackmail may bo levied upon them, . apparently without let or hindrance, sn lar as the l.iws of the United States are concernrd . . . . |