Show Charles About Mines and South I Charles Butters of the firm of Charles Butters Co limited of Lon London London don is visiting Salt Lake for the first time in nearly three years Mrs But Butters Buttens tens accompanies him They have par parlors bra lors at the Knutsford The firm head headed headed ed by Mr Butters is the largest con concern concern cern operating mining properties in South Africa today Recently the company has taken up the development of great interests in Mexico and Central America and the claim Salt Loke has to relationship with the big combination is the establishment of a metallurgical laboratory here by b Mr Butters a year ago the works eing in the basement of the Dooly block As he explained last evening Mr But Butters Buttars tars considers Salt Lake the mining center of America geographically speaking and he has great faith in the state of Utah and its future He therefore concluded to put his labora laboratory laboratory tory here and whenever he can spare time he lie visits Salt Lake to watch the progress of innumerable experiments that are being made It has been more than two and a half years since Mr Butters wits was here and he expressed himself as pleased to return again With his wife he came caine from London to Boston three weeks ago stayed a short while in New York and came from there directly through to Salt Lake LakeI I 1 am a little anxious to get into the laboratory said Mr Butters in fact I would perhaps not have made the trip Just now but bitt for some new metallurgical processes I want to try They will I hope be applicable to Utah ores Mr Butters talked quite freely on the war ft has to some extent he said affected the mining in industry industry of South Africa While I was born in Massachusetts said he the war is a question I must discuss from an English standpoint I Iam Iam am disappointed that England has not been able to close the war but it is hard to blame her as those people are in their own country and thoroughly seasoned to hard fighting and the pe peculiar peculiar culiar topography of the land When they meet a body of f British soldiers they all fall into after the fashion of prairie dogs and begin fir firing firIng ing Things are different now to what they were when the war began They have skillful men like Dewet leading j an army of hard and determined fight fighters I ers and if they can hold out another 1 year or possibly six months it would j not bo be surprising if aJl nH the Dutch in Cape Colony joined them Should France Frane turn against England there is J no telling what would happen With j these prospects it is no wonder that the are worried j Mr and Mrs Butt expect td re remain 1 main in Salt Lake r o weeks when they will return to |