Show SHOULD MINES BE TAXED I 1 ro fessor henry montgomery of tile debret university hasa grand g p r scheme in his hiis head to mass at all I 1 tile ca colleges of butali in a n great university at salt lako lake city the present deseret university to be made tile the nucleus of this monopolist ici cleoine with professor montgomery r at al the head and center cenac r of it the professor elaborates elaborate his plan in ft a communication muni cation which appeared in the tribune Tri bline iune of last sunday As the tribune says fays professor montgomery is one DUO of the foremost educators educator not only of utah but of tile the united plates hit words wor t Is are arc entitled to all consideration the editor of tim JOL jour NAT enjoys the personal acquaintance and I 1 friendship of the professor and esteems him is as it broad thinker and progressive educator and endorses all the tribune says of him but sonic soma very learned educators when it contes to a matter of practical business are arc the most impractical men in the world professor montgomery says the amount of to lie a I 1 liroi by the leg ix slature be e at least as large ain tit amount as aa that appio forthe agricultural college and aind tile hie mining inning st houll clotild be alced in fit rela relationship t ith the state in la t ipp thili and by by way 0 atio rolion 1 I II 11 I 1 refer tu to tile lie position of eimira ins tit lotions in obber stales and territories in the state university ol of california tile llie co follic I 1 ie of mining minin is one 0 of f eleven cleven colle colleges eg which lire are upon footing fooling all possessing tile of being closely in tilt the use art and up building of law large convenient and suitable laboratories nill libraries nes etc it will here ile be noticed that mining and agriculture are treated hs s equals lit in the state university of Vvo miny tile ibe school of mines and tile llie ol 01 of agriculture constitute two tivo schools of equal as they ilo do also alo in ill the cherer territorial rit orial university oi of arizona we a aree agree ree with professor montgomery goi nery emphatically that atah should have a school of mines mine hut but we are as decide decidedly dl y opposed to tack ing this new colle college 0 C as a tail to the le a an liquidated ni hersity and its ita ram shacked buildings 0 s on its cramp ped patch of ground when we ire have here in logan a ma magnificent 0 inifi new modern buil building dino 14 with a hundred acres of the finest ground the sun lias has ever shone on reserved for this very purpose logan lias has also the advantage C of cheap heap living the price of board not being n more than calfas half as much as it is id at salt lake city the morals of the place are arc also infinitely better the town being largely laadt inada up of a rural population and is entirely free from the evil influences of variety theatris theatres the thea atres gambling dens and houses of prostitution which so often vitiate tho the morals of tile the boys and girls whom parents make a sacrifice to educate for this reason we find nearly all tho great colleges and universities of the country located away from the alic baleful i influences of the vices of Z great cities like salt lake to another part of professor articles we most decidedly take exception whether the school of mi mines ties is to be located at lo logan 0 ark or at salt alt lake city the amount of morley money to lie be appropriated should be at least ua its large as viat appropriated appropriate il to the agricultural i college the professor arrives at this conclusion on the theory that the mines produce as much as the farms farm granting that they do produce as talich much which they do not what do they aliey contribute to tile the territorial taxes under the present system of taxation the mines are arc nothing pay nothing no liina contribute nothing not liing and are arc nut not entitled 11 titled to a red cent millions of dollars ollars il are arc taken out of the mines of utah every year and ship shipped pett to new york and san francisco francieco without contributing C to help pay the expenses or ol maintaining a legislature legisla tuio tuie which apen spends its i its t 8 simein time in making anakin laws for their benefit and protection until tile the ml mines I 1 les ire arc taxed equally with the farat a school of mines le 4 no claim lor for tile hie appropriation of a dollar at the hall handi I 1 of tit alie C legislature the farmers are already taxed tor too much tu to kec keep Is a few millionaires lion aires free front from taxation while it might inight not be wise to tax mines nt at their valuation like farm land it would be just juet and nil larn practicable ti to tax them at a valuation bawl on oil their outi output lut to ro encourage unit and developments celop I 1 belits we ve would f divor avor exempting pros depts aud and small cities from taxation it they bey varn ton ten thousand dollars a year over and above operating expenses expense if th the largo elarge r mines were taxed the alic legislature could afford forato to appropriate fifty thousand dollars every year for ft a school of mines CS and a nd have money left for buil building dinO roads bridges 0 and for bonuses for new railroads running to tile tho mines ininee for the encouragement of shelters smellers sm ellers elters and for all practical purposes POS of developing and giving L new impulse to the industry in this territory As it is tile legislature is now dow beill being 0 asked to appropriate prop from taxes paid largely by the fat mers a great suni sum of moll money e N to 0 o a school of mines at the exen c find and embarrassment of tile lie agricultural collee college it is is also asked arkel to donate to the worlds fair half of which money will go to make a mining exhibit of the mines mine that pay nothing it is high bih bi h time that the mines should pay ilay their own way anil and cease to be ii a train drain anthe farmers the tribune Tri bitne never lo 10 los cs tin an opportunity port unity to make a mean fling at tile the far farmers and in commending professor mon agoni t 1 crys article went out of its way to say the agrical agricultural tural lands ire are about nil ill I 1 11 p abed mining iiii n tile lil life e of 0 t alic lie t ak without it utah would lie be little more than a i stock range it is the he baleful influence of that kind of talk that lias has kept the land about salt lake city grown up tit in in weeds and sigo s igo brush while cache valley and other oilier remote places have licen been converted into tile the richest and most prosperous of any valleys in tile the rocky mountains fountains should the mines of utah give ive out as they did in nevada N ev ad aana and tile the tribune tribu had it its way utah would become as bleak as destitute us is barren as N nevada evada is today to day dav and a 1 rood good place to irom from but we believe in the auto mony of mining and n agriculture 0 and that neither should be arti artificially filially fici ally seimu batted tatted at tile the expense of the other oilier gaelic cache county is particularly interested te in the development of the mines mines as she lias has already expose exposed 1 I ledges of galena high in silver that will tax the ingenuity 0 of the practical miner for a quarter of a century to uncover and there will be a it demand here for at least fifty superintendents fifty engineers 0 fifty Rs sayers and of metallurgists to our mines and smelters shelters sm elters and we would rather have thorn them graduates of school of mines than from arav any school of technology OY on earth rut but we ire are arc also interested in the most staple of nil industries and when the scientific agriculture 0 ire row being taug taught ait in our college shall be applied to the farms cache valley will produce more wealth than ill all the mines of this territory are now pro producing ducin 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