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Show I saw mining more gigantic than I ever dreamed of. By steam machinery and dynamite they are tearing down a mountain" and removing, rock enough every 'day to bury out of Bight all the fortifications of Port Arthur. The rock carriea a low percentage of copper, a little silver and gold. And where the rock ia reduced and the metal taken from it the works' are still more majestic. It is impossible to estimate what such a people might do in a war that would call out all their power. It would be well nigh irresistible." Had he come here, he would not have failed to urge his country to try to get control of the mines of China, before the Americans did, and to instruct every Japanese studeut in American universities uni-versities to make a tour of thorough inspection of American mining methods before returning. home. He should even now change his mind, return from his visit to Quebec and Montreal and come west via Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver and Salt Lake to San Francisco, and then go north via Portland, Tacoma and Seattle to Victoria or Vancouver Van-couver to embark for home. He is . not only a fighter from away back, but he is a mathematician mathemati-cian and can not only calculate forces, but measure what the forces of peace would be if made to apply to war. TOCO'S MISTAKE. ' ' Old Admiral Count Togo is throwing off n himself in not coming to Salt Lake. He ia a military, mili-tary, chieftain, and from the habits of a lifetime. 00 matter what he sees, he unconsciously ia making mak-ing estimates of real or possible offensive and defensive de-fensive strength in what he sees. He is sn expert 1 judge of applied forces in pesce" and wart and what the genius which sets great forces st work in peace (sight do in war. 1 No matter how oordial he may be. no matter how. joyous he may seem st visiting the I'nited States, we may rest assured that what he will secretly se-cretly report to his eotintry on his return wilt be the fighting strength of the I'nited State its present Strength snd how swiftly snd efficiently that strength might be increased in the-event of a war. . jfio we say he is throwing off oa himself in not visiting Salt Lake City, because were he to come he-would pass the three most interesting honrs of his journey around the world at Bingham.' And on hia return one pars graph of his report would resd something like this': ' . ' "It is hard to fntjinat theJatenV forces of the American people, or their resources. For instance, in a little place far in the interior of thai country |