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Show which the district is situated, the location, manner of recording, and the amount of work IN ADVANCE necessary to hold possession of a minl'HU'E OF MltSfltll'TlON'. Cinn ing claim." One year Under the sect ion quot ed Six inuntliK local ... 1 Mi it is clearly within the power of Threv month If wit puld In advawe: One yi'nr, M.OU; regulations to require that all loca(ix months. i'2:; thrw months, fl..Vi. tions shall be recorded in the district,, and regulations and when the Entvn-at Eun'ka. I'tah. at the district do rea properly-organizefur traiiHinissloii through the mall as Heo of a legal lohow see matter. we to fail it, quire cation can be made otherwise. In answer to a further question as Published every Friday morning liy to where a prospector should record C. F. Il E. H. RATHBONE. when outside of any organized district, whether in the office of the recorder of the nearest mining district or in the office of the county recorder, the Minku would recommend CfDfr.1 FJcflion, Ausrusl 3, 1S9I. that the location under these circumstances be filed, if possible, with the LEGISLATIVE. county recorder. Such a location will For Councilor. Fifth District, hold whenever the records contain J. A. CALLAG11EK, such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some For Representative, Ninth District. natural object or permanent monuIt. C. LEUG, ment as will identify the claim. As JUAB COUNTY. a means of preventing any vexatious For Hi'lectnu'ii. can then litigation, the claim-ownrecord with the nearest recorder, but J. It. MITCHELL. K. V. TONE. there is no statutory requirements in For SuHTlntendent f ScIukiIs. this regard, and after filing w ith the county recorder in the manner above J. D. G1LLILAX. stated the location may lie considered For County Attorney. as being legally sufficient and -g- &hc CEtnttc Uiuct overning by-la- I'ost-offl- d Liberal Tickot er 1IENKY ADAMS. THE LIBERAL TICKET. The conventions lmve done their work and the Liheral ticket is now hefo're the Titers of Juab county for ratification or rejection on August .Id On the whole we believe the ticket to bean exceptionally strong one, made up of men representative of the differ ent interest of this section, and there fore capable of drawing out a solid vote. The nominee for Representative, It. G. Legge, is a most popular man in Bingham precinct, where he is superintendent of the Brooklyn and Lead mines. He will make a great run and will undoubtedly be elected. For Councilman, J. A. Gallagher, of Eureka, will receive a heavy vote in Juab county and Bingham precinct: he should receive votes sufficient to more than offset the Mormon count ies of Morgan and Davis: and being more distinctively a labor representative than any other candidate for the legislature, lie may reasonably be expected to carry the votes of many workingmen regardless of other party affiliations. The county offices will be in good and honest hands if the gentlemen nominated are elected. It is needless to eulogize them individually. We take it that no man who goes into a convention and is fairly and honestly beaten can alford to be a mugwump and a traitor to the cause, and for that reason the Minku hopes that every man will vote the ticket straight and swell the Liberal victory August 3d. THE SILVER RESOLUTION. We think the convention on Saturday made a mistake in reference to silver, not intentional, perhaps, but a mistake nevertheless, for the resolution reads in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver "of American production," the sense of which might be understood as being against the adoption of free coinage of silver unless it were solely the product of American mines. We say that we do GOLD AND SILVER PRODUCTION. The bulletin issued by the superintendent of the census relating to the product of gold and silver in the United States during the calendar year 18!1 is a matter of much interest to the mining fraternity and shows the grand status the industry has now readied in our country. The bulletin shows that the production of bullion during 18811 was: Gold l,r!Hi,8fii ounces United States coining value $32,880,744. Silver ounces, United States coining value (i(i,3!Mi,!i88. Total United States In gold value !!i,8.i, coming this is nearly 28 percent of the world's product and in silver 41 per cent. The bulletin says: The number of silver mining claims, or locations, commonly called mines, in the United States is practically beyond computation. The names of nearly 100,000 of such claims, or mines, were received by the census officer. The total value of mining plants was $4.",fKi(),;ii. made up of buildings, railroads, ma chinery, underground improvements, mine supplies and cash estimated value and mines exclusive of aliove items, $338, 094,821. The value of mines and reduction works was Total value of mines and -- 2. works $480,323, 438. Of the 004 mines in which returns of production on lalxir statistics were made, 208 were reported idle, 1000 were reported working, but not pro- were ducing bullion. Twenty-eigh- t producing over $."i00,(HX) worth of bullion, 44 as producing $2,"0,(HX) to 107 as producing $100,000 to IK from $10,000 to$KX),000, 437 from 1408 from $1000 to $10,- $1000 to 000, and 1010 less than $1000. From the statistics it appears that the labor employed in the actual pro duction of the precious metals is bet ter paid and more productive, in fact, than any other industry. Thus far (May, 1801) reported in the bulletin issued by the 11th census, the average earnings of all persons employed at the gold and silver mines ("7,03.") was $725 a year, while the average output per man amounted to $1723 a year. $."i00,-00- 0, value depends upon the law of supply and demand. An unlimited supply of anything, however desirable, destroys its value. Why have not the liti'.w of day. the heat of su n, the air w e bre.Hiie, in their natural condition, valio-- Is it not because the supply is unlimited? On the other hand, suppose that no more gold could tie mined, or that one half of the stock on hand were lost or destroyed, would not an ounce of gold buy more property than it now dues? Has not the purchasing power of gold increased from 30 to 40 per cent, since f silver was demonetized and of the supply of money metal cut off? Why sneer at France for using silver? Have you forgotten that when the Barrings failed the 'wiseiikl bird'' was compelled to borrow from the Bank of France to save herself from immediate ruin? Is it ignorance or insolence which inspires you to tell the people of the United States to buy gold? You know, or ought to know, that is just what all the people of the civilized world are trying to do without success. Whoever buys gold must pay dear for it. Those who will pay the highest price for it will obtain it. Whoever obtains it w ill sacrifice his property for his freedom. The rich w ho have gold are the sole beneflciaies of your policy. Under the gold trust their hoards arc increased in value, while the people are sacrificed.. We told you before the Barrings failed thatthecommercial world if required to pay in gold, was bankrupt. The dismal array of empty vaults which that failure disclosed, seems to have inspired you with profound admirtion for the work of the conspirators who demonetized silver and got the business of the commercial world under t he control of the gold trust. It must be confessed that your scheme of contraction has worked to perfection. So, Mr. Carnigie.you cannot justify the crime of the nineteenth century, by which silver was demonetized, by or asserting that either falling price of silver was the cause. Silver was not demonetized because gold was the better metal for us as On the contrary, the effort money. to destroy one of the precious metals to enhance the value of money commenced with an effort to demonetize gold. Chevalier and Maclaren and their followers, between J 850 and 1800, were clamorous in their demands for the exclusion of gold from the mints of the civilized world, f(,r the avowed purpose of enhancing the value of bonds, annuities and fixed incomes. They contended then that silver was the only metal possessing fixity of value, and that gold was unfit for use as money on account of its uncertain and spasmodic production. Moderate your tone. Cease to insult people by telling them to buy gold, which the gold ring has cornered, when you know that every effort to break the corner with free coinage of silver means disaster. Yours respectfully. rw'4 FN Ml ? one-hal- Unle O z VALID Stkwakt. LOCATIONS. COOL! You can do so by Buying your Ice during the hot weather of the yon are Looking for Bargains. JOHN:-- : McCHRYSTAL, Leave orders at Xoali McChrystal tfe Go's meat market. Tl. Wholesale and Retail NOW T IIEALEU IX - Desires to cull your attentiini to the fact that his CO SPRING STOCK HAS ARRIVED! Q O O O And that his assortment is larsrer and more complete than heretofore. Iiy all odds. Anions; the late arrivals in our Dry Ooods Department may he found elegant cc Q IS THE P0NGESE, CASSIMERES, HENRIETTAS, TURNER DRESS GOODS, UNSEYS, BRILLIANTINE, PENELOPES, SERGES, BROADCLOTH. PERSIAN MULL, LLAMA CLOTH, WASH SURAH, CHALLIES, CALICO AND GINGHAMS TIME Fin- est line ever shown in Eureka. Fine Ltuc of Dress Trimmings, Tonsils and l'lain Gimp. LACE CURTAINS AND SCRIMS j Plain and Fancy. , FLANNELS, OUT DOOR SUITINGS, RIBBONS, CORD and TASSEL and Fixtures, New and Tasty. TO SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ..::::::::zzzz?muwvui New Styles and Patterns in fillU Jj 1 0 OUR C LOT H I N G D P A RTH E NT cc (Einttc 21Ttner Is Again Complete, With Stylish Suits, from Latest Patterns. Hats and Caps, New Styles and Superb. Q DC In BoOtS over-produ- Wm. M. This ! KEEP and Shoes we carry X Large and Klegant Assortment. UJ We have Large Stocks of cc a THE ONLY 5 H When you need 2 GROCERIES CC D Print All-Hom- e- call and sec us. Our stock is Lai'se and Fresh. groEverything usually Jound in a cery store, we carry. first-cla- HI Lowest Prices ! Best Quality of Goods. John McChrystal, JOHN H. McCHRYSTAL, Manager. NEWSPAPER IN Jueib County. Rice's Tintie Sampling Works The ouestion of valid location is al ways one of great importance when mineral land is to be taken up. and to a valid location the Ores sampled in the most careful manner and sold on of a mining claim under Section 2324 the public market if desired. The works are using the Revised Statutes of the United States most improved and modem machinery, and are managed should always be carefully complied with by the locator who would not by a thoroughly reliable and competent superintendent. leave his ground open to "jumping" our patronage is respectfully solicited. Hates furn or relocation. not think the convention intended It should always be ished by the superintendent at mill, or at main office rooms such a construction to be placed on remembered that the right to posses 32 and 33 Gladstone Block, Salt Lake City, Utah. sion of a mining claim comes only the resolution, because there is no from a valid location: if there is no gentleman who was present in the GEO. STEWART VS. CARNIGIE. location there can be no possession convention who is not a firm and devoted fiiendof silver, and consequentThe following extracts from Senator under it. In answer to some inquir& CO., ly in favor of the free and unlimited Stewart's letter in the New York ies, and as a matter of law, the Minku Conwill say that under the act of coinage of silver w ithout any restric- World in his reply to Mr. Carnigie's, of May 10th, 1872, which requires tions whatever. Every careful stugold bug article have been compiled gress dent of the silver question knows by the Silver Dollar and sent broad an annual expenditure of $100 on all claims thereafter neither a that ultimately it must come to that cast throughout the nation. Here is rule of miners nor a located, OFFICE AND STORE FITTINGS A SPECIALTY. State or Territorbasis, and the laborer, the farmer, the The freedom with "squelcher": ial law can authorize less without bethe business man and the miner, who which you abuse Congress for legisla have been systematically robbed since tion to restore silver would ing in conflict w ith the laws of Con- Plans and tending specifications furnished for those we build for and therefore void. Under the 1373, w ill not be content to longer ig- be less offensive if you did not endorse gress, nore the treachery which lias placed the clandestine and of the is mineral law, the discovery only. Our work guaranteed in all cases. fraudulent demo them under such damnable tribute to netization of that metal. Your vio first essential after that the posting of a discovery notice, t lie Office and shops on Main street, opposite McChrvstal's the gold kings. What the gentlemen lent invective against the United on the committee on resolutions in- States w ill not benefit of the surface boundaries of warehouse, hureka, Utah. making the gold trust. the claim, and the making and re tended to express was doubtless a de- Your motives are too to of a location certilicate. The mand for free coinage of all American deceive. You express transparent your gratitude cording silver, without any limitation as to for the country which has made you importance attached in a court of law to the regularity of these proceedings the outside production, but as stated rich as follows: the wording is defective and might was always the last resort to de- cannot be overestimated by our min"It readily give riso to another and very base the coinage. These instances hap- ers, for the decisions on locations are AND wrong impression, and this silver pened long ago. Nations of the first all to one point, which is that the of is ion of a a matter on which no rank in our day do not fall so low. right quest possession mining claim mining community can afford to be I must pause to make one exception is founded upon a n allege.) compliance misunderstood, for sooner or later this to this statement. I bow my head in with the law relating to a valid location: ail the necessary steps therefore momentous question will have to lie shame as I write it the Itepublicof aside from the dealt with, ami the United States of the United States. making and recording one of its Every America, as a producer, consumer and silver oonars is a "debased coin, of the location certificate, must, when DEALERS IN be established by proof distributor of silver, is the only coun livery time the government the contested, stamps irj on ine iaee or me earth that can word "one dollar" upon 37U grains outside of such cert illcate. The certificate of location, when satisfactorily deal with the question. of silver it stamps a lie: disgraceful, is only competent evidence recorded, but alas! too true, for the silver in it MORE ABOUT LOCATIONS. is worth not a dollar, but only to show the date of local ion, the deOF ALL K,NP-One of the prospectors and mine 78 cents." scription of the premises, and that the owners in North Tintlc district called If 37 U grains of silver are wort h less statute requiring such certilicate to into the Minku office this week with than a dollar in gold, it was the secret be made out and recorded has been with. The 'possession" an inquiry as to the status of mining and fraudulent legislation which you complied meant by the law is imt residence on locations made in that country and your gold associates procured, the and to urge that all locations which made it so. In 1873, when premises, nor continuous actual you made in that district be filed demonetized silver, 371i grainsof silver occupation, but simply constructive acquired by compliance with Kecofder Webster, instead of were worth 3 per cent more than a possession Fly being forwarded to t he county recorder gold dollar. You do not Ikiw your head with these requirements of law. and of Utah county at Provo. In answer in shame for that fraud. On the con in a possessory action for the recovery will Call to the gentleman's questions, and trary, you glorify the crime, because of a mining claim it devolves upon the defendant, ami not as is the genor me oeueni oi i nose making loca- it puts money in your purse. Your to to tions, i he Mink it will say that If argument is that, because the value eral rule in land cases, upon the North Tint ic district is properly or- of gold cannot be changed, it is the plaintiff, that lie shall hold upon t lie is by ganized, with a legally qualified min- only material til for use as itumev. strength of his own die ami not upon Dufrthe weakness of that of his adversary, ing recorder, under IkukIs, then it w ill SupiKise, Mr. Carnigie, that all the bvild in be obligatory for everyone making a rocks were gold, would an ounce of for strictly speaking there Is no legal of will location In that district to record the that metal buy the same amount of title to a mining claim until il is when the issue of by same in the office of the district min- iron or steel that it now does? if therefore, of patented: gold ing recorder, while at the same time were so plentiful ail over the world right or possession is rai-e- d by an adthe locator may also take the addi- as to render it necessary to remove it verse claimant it will be seen how All filled Lowest'pos-sibl- e tional precaution of filing with the from the land before the soil could be hesessary it is that, every step in the matter of location, and If lie recorder so desire. county The cultivated, wonld not its value be description shall have been properly Revised Statutes give the miners of changed? By what process of reasoning recording each mining district the right to did you reach the conclusion that the complied witli in order that, t lie locamake regulations not In conflict w ith value of gold did not depend upon the tion may stand good in a court of law. the laws of the United States, or w ith iw of supply and demand? You your forfeit ore not ices to the laws of t he Stateor Territory in ami it lie ignorant of the axiom I hat ' I In r.rinif MlN'KK ollice for pulilicat ion. U. P. UTAH. TINTIC, ARTHUR RICE, Proprietor. Subscribe NOW and get the first chapters of the thrilling and fascinating story entitled, imperial WETHEKELL ontractors and Bulders. ADAMS & SONS CO. EUREKA An absorbing story of "American Life and Love." BRING AL0NO YOUR NEPHI. i i) Lumber and Building Material JOB PRINTING. - OO Ta; i ' to-da- y Builders' Hardware, Nails. Etc. 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