Show thousands of f ish fish w were re lepor reported ted during the fall as dying in the rice fields of california owing to the lack of screens at the head of irrigation ditches the authorities have not hesitated to make trouble for placer miners accused of failing to install screens but the action of the farmers caused no comment it seems to make a difference who breaks the laws 0 the united verde copper company is planning the installation of steam shovels around the site of its old jerome smelter with the ultimate purpose in view of removing and treating the low grade ore until the fire in the hampton is reached and extinguished from above the fire has been burning for fourteen years and is one of the most famous in the history of mining 0 A newspaper in a neighboring state recently reported a strike in nearby mountains stating that the ore assayed a ton and adding the values are equally divided in gold and silver it was surprising to see the large newspapers and even two of the technical journals copy the items as news without comment of course that is fairly good ore even for a boom camp but when an assayer reports worth of silver in a ton of ore it is time to change assayers by the way what is the value of a ton of pure silver 0 mine operators of sonora Al mexico exico already face terms of thousands of years in jail and fines of millions of pesos apesos for failure to comply with the new labor decree of governor de le ie huerta the law became effective october alth and under its provisions every day of noncompliance compliance non constitutes utes a separate offense in the case of each employed emp loye every offense is punishable by a fine of five hundred pesos apesos and imprisonment for one month that part is clear but the terms of the law are so ambiguous that the operators have no idea what is expected of them such a government can scarcely be called comic opera because of the bloodshed and pillage upon which it i is s founded but where is it all going to end |