| Show A FOR SALT LAKE the mining review of deadwood south dakota says that the U S mint and assay office at that place has proven of the greatest convenience to mine and mill owners now the bullion producers of that section take their gold dust and retorts to the assay office and receive therefore in coin gold the exact value of the fine gold they deposit formerly it was necessary to ship the gold to some other mint by express or to sell it to the smelters shelters sm elters or to local buyers at a discount the establishment of the assy office at deadwood is is therefore a saving of time and expense for sometime past some talk has been indulged in here regarding I 1 the establishment of a U S mint and assay office at salt lake the location here of a branch mint is rapidly becoming a necessity ten years ago such a proposition would have been ridiculed now however conditions would warrant such a movement on the part of the government and our senators and representatives should make the accomplishment of this demand and request one of their main endeavors during the next session of the national congress it is only during the last few years that utah has made any pretensions to being a gold producing state now however every utahn can point with pride to the fact that the state is rapidly gaining notoriety noto rity as a 11 gold producing section of note the increase in the yellow metal for the year 1900 over that of 1899 being more than half a milli million the output out put for 19 1900 00 being over four million dollars from almost every every portion of the state comes gold in the shape of ret retorts ortland and bullion the con mercur is ship shipping bul lion regularly and so is the sacramento Sacrament of PI the same camp the annie laurie of kimberly gold mountain is making regular con col sign ments of the royal metal and so is the century mine in park valley the gold bars from the delamar mill in lincoln county nevada pass through salt lake to the refinery and the horse shoe mine in the same county is sending its gold product east through salt lake middlemen and an occasional shipment of gold bullion is being made by the johnnie of Stat stateline eline many smaller concerns throughout the state and from adjoining states are constantly in the market with small lots of gold bullion ingots ingols and gold dust the aggregate of value taking in large and small producers running up into the millions annually so that it will be seen that it would not be asking too much of uncle sam to look after the interests of mining men here as well as elsewhere in the west we need deed an establishment of this character the mining industry of this intermountain region all of which is directly tributary to salt lake has assumed such magnificent proportions that we feel that it is not asking too much to urge the government to establish a branch mint and assay office in this city |
