Show some genius has come forward with the statement that tile the european nations will demonetize gold at tile the close of the war it is not such a wildly impossible idea as would appear at first glance and would assuredly leave our uncle samuel holding the sack 0 coal and politics have nothing in common but some of tile the utah producers are placing a coat of whitewash on coal shipped in open cars to outside states this is to determine whether or not it is being stolen shippers know that the drying out process the sifting of fine coal through cracks etc make a very appreciable difference in the weight of a load between its starting place and destination but it seems difficult to make the recipients understand it 0 the superintendent of ia park city mine has brought suit against a certain ascertain individual who he alleges spread tile the report that the former was receiving money from the men in ill his employ as payment for their jobs we know nothing of the merits of the case but if the man is guilty we hope that heavy damages will be assessed there is entirely too much idle talk of the kind backed iby by nothing more than an active imagination the meanest gossip in the world is the male gossip 0 the mining alining review wishes its readers and other friends a happy and prosperous new year it joins with the great mass of the human family in the hope that the first few months of the coming year will witness the end of the great struggle among our sister nations and we are human enough to hope that the crowned head or heads responsible for the senseless slaughter will be fittingly punished if such a thing be possible and with the coming of peace we can hope that the entire world will embark upon a period of reconstruction arid and prosperity such as was never before known the mining industry is great enough and stable enough to continue its forward movement without the profits which come to it through the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of human lives in this holiday season the hope is uppermost in the minds of all that the world has seen its last great war |