Show CONGRESS DECIDES I TO M MAINTAIN OFFICES The abolition of f Western surveyors general and of certain assay offices in including In- In eluding that at Salt Lake will not occur according fn to messages e e from Congressman r s Mays and Welling of Utah to Surveyor General I I. I C. C of this city On the final the house by a safe margin retained the appropriations Inthe inthe in inthe the general appropriation bill which would Insure the continuance of these offices according to the dispatches General concern was manifested in the West when it was reported from Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington that the general appropriations committee of the house recommended in the interest of economy that thirteen surveyors general of thirteen W Western stern states be abolished and that the assay offices at Salt Lake and Deadwood S S.D. S.D. S. S I D. D be closed The action of the house yesterday I probably closes the incident it is said |