Show here is another man who intends to experiment peri ment with overhead costs J M nelson has recently arrived at spokane with the announced intention of contracting for an aircraft for conveying ore and supplies he figures on a flexible dirigible flyer of the gasbag type the property is located fifty miles from mccarty alaska and in a practically inaccessible region our statement of a few months ago that the european nations may demonetize gold in self protection was received with a polite smile however a bill has been introduced trod in the chamber of deputies at paris having for its object the of existing french gold coinage it is hoped to thus bring out the hoarded supply estimated at four billion francs french gold held abroad is to be protected it is a far cry from this act to the of the yellow metal but for every movement there must be an entering wedge and the idea is not entirely impossible the mining review in common with other publications has received a news item from the mile wide dopper copper company of arizona in which is the statement the big strike made late in february on the property of the company places the mile wide in the class of the magna copper and verde extension in fact the strike at the wile wide surpasses magna and verde extension we would call that fairly good for a new organization it reads like a circus bill however it would seem that there is room for a censorship of mining news coming from certain parts of arizona with a league of cache county farmers going out of their way to attack the mining industry of utah we wonder if it is not about time for the high cost of living invest investigators to go to the bottom of affairs for instance it is estimated that four fifths of the present supply of potatoes in this country is in the hands not of speculators or middlemen but of the farmers barme rs they simply say that they are going to get 4 a bushel for their table supply and more for seed potatoes and what are you going to do about it confiscation might answer that question satisfactorily to all of our population except the |