Show SALTING MINES the state of washington too has a law against the salting of mines which the spokesman review believes should be rigidly enforced the act reads as follows any person who shall with intent to cheat wrong or defraud place in in or upon any mine or mineral claim any ores or specimens of ores not extracted or exhibit any ore or certificate of assay of brenot ore not extracted for the purpose of selling any mining claim or interest therein or who shall obtain any money or property by any such false pretenses or artifices shall be deemed guilty of a felony I 1 I 1 any persons who shall interfere with or in any manner change samples of ore or bullion produced for sampling or change or alter samples or packages of ores or bullion which have been purchased for assaying or who shall change chang e or alter any certificate of sampling or assaying with intent to cheat wrong or defraud shall be deemed guilty of felony any person who shall with intent to defraud make or publish a false sample of ore or bullion or who shall make or publish or cause to be published a false assay of ore or bullion shall be deemed guilty of a felony any person violating any of the provisions of othe last three prece proceeding eding sections shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than 50 or more than 1000 or by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one year or more than five years or by both such fine e and imprisonment another important strike in the tesora in tintic gintic district was reported last week and recent advices advises from the mine are to the effect that considerable high grade stuff is being raised to the surface for shipment |