| Show J MINING CASES DECIDED Decisions of Great Importance to Mining Interests In-terests of the West Handed Down by Secretary Hitchcock He Sustains Applications for Patents Barney B Quinn of Utah and of Thomas F Walsh of Colorad He Holds That Improvements Improve-ments Made Upon a Group of Continuous Mining Claims MayBe May-Be Credited to Each Claim TRIBUNE BUREAU C l Fourteenth Street Washington DC March S 1901 Secretary Hitchcock In sustaining tho applications for patents of Barney B Quinn of Utah to the Henley Cactus Cac-tus Ruth Henley Fraction and Mary Btll Fraction and of Thor F Walsh of Colorado to the Zephyr anil Divide Lode mining claims today rendered decisions of particular importance to the mining interests the Yet The deciding points In the two cases were similar i The Secretary holds that Improvements Improve-ments made upon a group of continuous continu-ous mining claims may be credited to evh claim for the satisfaction of time toa development work required by law He holds as immaterial the fact that all claims are not patented and that all are not Included in the same application cation for patent SALT LAKE PUBLIC BUILDING Superlslns Architect Taylor said today to-day After the plans for thc Federal building in Salt Lake have been approved ap-proved it will be three or four months later before the first contract can be let After the Cabinet board which is composed of the Secretary of the Treasury the PostmasterGeneral and I the Secretary of the Interior has approved ap-proved the plans the architect will prepare all the details and specifications specifica-tions for the prosecution of the work This necessarily taken time said Mr Taylor and the first of July will come before residents of thc city will see any signs of activity on the site of the r new building Cheyenne and Boise arc in the same boat said Architect Ta llorTh plans on these buildings have been approved and work begun and with the additional appropriation the people of those cities may expect to see work resumed early In the spjing UTAH NATIONAL BANS TheComptroller pL the Currency today to-day ffffvoout an abstract oC reports of the condition of the ten national l banks In Utah at the close business February Febru-ary Cth Compared with repOrt of December De-cember 13th It shows that the lotvc I resources decreased from S10171780 to 10162S Loans and discounts increased In-creased from 3151051 to 3721313 and the cash reserve advanced from 1031 183 to 1GS9034 of which the god holdings hold-ings Increased from 5571770 to 005657 The individual deposits declined from 5592128 to 55170220 and the average reserve held from 1231 to 3732 per cent PERSONAL MENTION Mrs J E Kearns Mrs Wilson and Miss Ivcrs leave here for the I West Sunday morning They will be accompanied accom-panied as far as Chicago by Joseph Illppman who will proceed from Chicago Chi-cago to Texas He expects to be In Salt Lake by the 20th W P OMcara left for New York tonight to-night I Is i probable that business matters will keep l him there for several weeks Senator Kearns does not expect to get away from Washington for ten days or two week lie will go to Montreal Mon-treal t before returning to Utah Congressman King left for Salt Lake today E Y McCurdy of Salt Lake Itt here for New York today and from there will go home Ben Rich of Utah was at the Senate today His son who is studying law in Washington has secured an appointment appoint-ment In the Senate clerks office Mrs John Henry Smith wife of Apostle Smith of the Mormon church was at the Capitol today Miss Daisy Dixon of Haskel institute Lawiencc Kan has been appointed teacher in the Fort Lapwai Indian I school Idaho at WO per annum I POSTMASTERS APPOINTED Utah Cove Cache county 108 Larsen Lar-sen vice C R Bradbury resigned Idaho Castle Creek Owyhce county Urcllla McDonough vice JStolla Spencer Spen-cer resigned I W reslnc Fort Fred Steele Carbon A R county Mattie Sammons vice Cousens removed 1 PENSIONS GRANTED Utah Widows LllUe E Clark Suit Lake SS Susan Bruce Ogden 17 FAREWELL TAt T-At n farewell banquet given last evening to retiring Senators Shoup of Idaho Carter of Montana and Thurs ton of Nebraska the following Western West-ern men participated Senator Clark Representative Mondell and Coy DeForest Represenlalye 1lon cl Forest Richards Wyoming Senator Kearns and Capt Parsons Utah Senator Sen-ator Ileitfeld Idaho1 Senator Turner Washington W 11 Michaels Nebraska Nebras-ka Senator Uansbrough North Dakota Dako-ta Two of the guests of honor Senators Sen-ators Carter and Thurston were today < offered places on the SU Louis fair commission Gov Richards of Wyoming and family fam-ily who have been inauguration visitors visit-ors will leave tomoriow for New York and will co to the Bermudas for a thirty days visit |
