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Show NOT THE SAME MEN. We iind the following in a recent number of the licno Journal under the headlines ''Should Fix he Price of Silver Sil-ver Thomas Kearns of Utah Favors Limited Coinage . at Steady Price WouJd Help Nevada Mines immensely Present Slate of Silver Question Prevents Pre-vents Full Production of Nevada Mines": . Thomas Kearns of Utah, banker, miner and railroad owner, was in Iteno j last night. lust before taking the train feu; Rawhide, Raw-hide, on his return from San Francitco, where he has been rompletlns: arrangements arrange-ments for a fill to be installed at the great, camp, he said In relation to the question -of the limited coinage of silver by the government: "It would be a great thing for this State if the government would take hold of this silver question, aid establish, at least for a specified ilmc, a Htandard prion. As It now exists, It ia like hay and grain Il'k any old price. K in 50 cents this year, and some other price next year. "I don't like to see it going up and down, for then nobody knows where we are at. If we could get 70 cents, it woull ho fine: It would be a dandy proposition for all of us. , "Even If we couldn't get hut '65 cents, or even 60 cents, that would please me. .I'd like it at even that. T would, of course, prefer the lfi to I basis, which is Uhout 823 cents, but anything- reasonable, reason-able, from GO cents up, would be much better than the way it Is at present, bettering bet-tering not only the price.- hut the existing exist-ing unstadincss. "The Tonopah mines are not working to half their rapacity now. If the government gov-ernment would coin silver, to any number num-ber of millions per yeav, l don't care how much, and the standard figures were kept from 65 cents up. Nevada mines would turn out twice their present production. pro-duction. Others believe as 1 do. that the government ought. tof!x a standard price, at least for a time, so we mav know what to depend upon. But I'm afraid It won't." Now, we don't suppose that any oue in this region would havo any great fault to find with- this sentiment for silver, a3 expressed, barring the error inr. counting value. But it was not TltQiuas Kuurus of Utah' w.hu . expressed. ! it'.' The Thomas Kearns quoted by our ; Nevada contemporary is no doubt the man who has in charge extensive min- iug operations -at .Rawhide, and who lives in San Francisco. Thomas Kearns of Utnh has just returned home from a two months' visit to Uuropc, and has not been in Nevada for a good whilo past. We take this occasion to correct tho error, because a good many Nevada newspapers have confused the identity i of tho two men. i |