Show park city is furnishing the needed impetus to the salt lake stock exchange the discovery of bonanza ore on the lower leves levels of the silver king coalition has made this stock a logical leader of the uplift there seems to be an epidemic of mine disasters first came the bad calein at the miami in arizona followed by the dropping of a cage at butte in which five men were killed to be topped off by the monongahela onga hela explosion in which there was a large loss of life three entirely distinct types of accidents which would indicate that much remains to be done in the question of mine safety we would respectfully suggest to the administration of the utah state fair that for once a competent r mining man be selected as supervisor of mineral and mining exhibits it is to organizations like this that we should look for some consistently good representation of mining industry yet we find the officer in charge also in charge of the division of education mining is isan an education but should be in the hands of competent men in order to educate e du rightly it is interesting to note the large number of prospects put up for sale compared with the few that receive any extended consideration for instance during the last year properties were presented for the confide consideration ration of one company of these examination and were div given en an office twenty one were rejected one hundred and field examination and preliminary given a worthy of complete deemed only thirty six were examination and sampling of these were bought and a controlling two coal properties interest taken in two others one reason for the skepticism of investors as to the desirability of mining stocks has been clearly illustrated in the last few weeks A very active market was created for a certain tintic gintic stock and large blocks changed hands then at the physiological moment the dividend was passed these happenings unfortunately have the appearance pe arance of insiders taking advantage of their the r knowledge to unload on the innocent the next step in the game will be to buy back at low prices the stock sold at high prices improve the mine declare a dividend again sell out and repeat the process as long as investors will stand for it |