Show the canadian government has about decided in addition to registration tees fees and the usual annual license of 0 aloo for locating and holding claims claim in the mining districts of 0 british north america to put on an besides a 10 per cent loyally on all the gold that may inlay tie be mined that would bo be a very heavy tax ax and if 1 it Is going to be enforced it mill be necessary to have the boundary lines established up there inert without a u ino ments unnecessary delay the assessment ses Is 13 not quite as aa heavy as holto hoko smith proposed on the asphaltum beds but like wound I 1 it is 1 enough tho the miners at park paik city showed forbearance b and g good business siness sense bensa la in quietly yielding to the wage cut made by the management of 0 tile the ontario and imly daly under tile the present condition of the silver market concessions are necessary ces sary and new adjustments that will mill permit ot of work going on in the mines wherever possible are arc the part of 0 wisdom but at the tamo battle time there Is strong drone force orca in the objection made by tome some ot of the miners at the park that it look well to be cutting wages wid and at the sanie same time paying dividends W we take it that this anomaly will not be a su subject abject of 0 complaint henceforth salt lake county count yB s tax levy has been fixed at 3 mills and the tax levy in eluding ludl ni all the school taxes and the city and state taxes amounts to 27 7 nills mills it Is an increase of 0 2 mills over last year which shows the fallacy of 0 the notion that a reduction in assessed valuation means an escape from tax burdens it necessarily mean that at all but alien ft hen a reduced valuation prevails pre vAlls in any district the burden lifted front from that Is 19 mercy shifted to other districts and in general a reduction of 0 the assessment roll simply means an increase in the tax rate inside property stain main street in the central business distich und and street for or instance IN will III feel eel the tax burdens this year much heavier than tham last the situation Is not at all satisfactory at liono honolulu lulu trouble Is liable to bo be precipitated there at any time I 1 and it if it comes we predict it will be through an uprising ot of the japanese and tile hie people will be astonished to find that tho the men whom they supposed were apra coolie laborers are really trained soldiers and that they have been poured in there with the deliberate purpose of 0 seizing the tha islands ot of course it that Is attempted then great corear britain will interfere and claim that aishe needs those islands lit in her busl bus nas and then there will be a clashing sure enough it Is a lasting pity that the islands were not annexed by tho the administration it Is s a great pity that the recent treaty aw with it h the islands was not ratified promptly by the senate the philadelphia record has this item it liaa has been mett lel that the united atell battleship In dhima Is to lo bo be in tile the british irv dock at halifax this will be a spectacle to make tile god ot of war to laugh lau fili and to cause the of 0 the american eagle calo to d droop rog the approaches to tile port royal y S C dry took dock have been adjudged too to risky anil and tho the new york dry dock will not be IT in proper condition for a whole year to come this state of affairs la is in war lime it might eastly proto hal tile alio medemi no net t persis tonly turned it a daf cur car to nil ail Us lis akal experts in the past paal there would I 1 be n no 0 1 need eed now of such mich a humiliation for far t the hc new daiy this i lather cither painful contretemps should lead leaa secretary long 10 puah matteis mattei fl lonard making league I 1 inland land the render rendezvous which it Is id fitted and destined to become it is ill a 9 treat great shame sure enough but TOM is to blame secretary her b elt ordered the dock at port royal because it was mas a southern port but why could lie ho not have lecter a site on the chesapeake there Is room for a dozen such locks docks in the neighborhood of Net newport port news aws we a believe I 1 it t was under sir mr whitney that the plans for come borne ot of the big ships were first accepted cefi ted that was ten en years ago did he because the plans were english think an english dock would be necessary in which to scrape them we had better keep at peace with all the world it Is evident that our I 1 nation Is in no DO condition to snub anub say nicaragua the plants ot of carnegie phipps co for or making armor plate are r stupendous it u affairs the tip of 0 the T tongue angue man of 0 the now mew york press describes them as follows recently I 1 went want through tho the works work and m waa amazah at their kastne the larg CAL 1 l hammer lit in tho tha horld Is there its li being ione t tons tho the thant thre ehIgh helth roll imin anu the th tables aro are wonders to arhold be hold I 1 remember when it was mas a big biff undertaking for a largo force of 0 men to handle a KO GW pound ingot of ihori or iron but here nt at the works marks ot of tho the bethlehem company a boy bay by simply turning a a valve will still pick up a mass ot of metal hing rounds pounds and decher di it anywhere within reach of tho the crane another crane put puta it in tho the furnace hakea it out again anil and it where alio G ulon itlo to tables bles push puah it t buck and forth fort through tho the tolls rolls twill i it t Is 1 r reduced to ito the tha required the dublon take it to 10 tho lila silence which cut it tho the proper size alzo tho plate it hen fill labod are about two to inches thick still that company declares that mat it connot mako make armor plute plate for A amar nor lean ican ships at per ton though it did supply somo some thousands thou Mands of tons to n 3 to hussla at that price the same writer further gain alaya the ali government aldeia car 1 ais 1 0 0 phipps co and tho the beahl hm 1 iron 01 e company in ill iho a construction of armor armar 1 ta aind rid notwithstanding th by avy ia incurred in the firby year of at I 1 their willell congress morn mar in capald tho latter company hu has 9 17 acon applying foreign govern cuts with r mar for th their t ir ships chile thit formet former mika of mil ing out to russia tho the dou ble turreted montt monitor or ans one of the iho aret vessels of ill alio lie new navy aind L rid m wa ecie ly y compound om pound r plis 1 ie J or tr from england wb 1 la kt to jo OW wo we can build our plant and nd be independent of 0 the th world there aro are or cr mechanical nor financial difficult difficulties ios in boived it la Is as easy caay its R falling oil off log loe england it Is i said Is using more copper than can be supplied by all germany js is drawing heavily upon tills country the exports for june reached tons the usa of 0 the mineral in electrical works the unusual demand still it II Is maid gald that if it were not for or that chete would mould be an immense demand for or copper at ii 0 fair price that the iron and steel etcel navies of 0 the horld orld would mould sheath all their ships with copper it if it could bo be obtained without incurring an am unbearable expense ex penne A man mail who has a real copper mine does not need to so go to alaska tor for a fortune orl unc |