Show - - I 41 tt 20A:The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday i: Se tember The Public Forum 16 1990 Common Carrier 1 Tribune Readers Opinions a Snyder enough of an admission charge" An Sem Dale Bumpers of Arkansas example of this principle is the Utah and Congressman Nick J Rahall of Jazz arena The West 'Virginia want to replace the arena is sitting on land leased for $1 1872 mining law with legislation a year The lease is justified by the which contains high user fees severe high financial risk The total propenalties and land specting dollars spent by industry to titles (patents) The 1872 mining law locate and obtain a mineral patent (updated numerous times to keep it are staggering current) provides US citizens the High domestic mining costs caused right to enter public lands and ex- by misguided legislation can encourplore for minerals Assessment work age other countries to dump their which verifies' an economic mineral materials into US markets Foreign deposit can lead to a patent for title countries with poor pollution control to the land or land restoration regulations can Mining is one of the most regulat- offset their higher transportation ed industries in the United States A costs by ignoring good environmental practices Thus unless caution is mine application must include studBy William ar I g 1 Unlearned Lesson Mining Industry Must Balance Between Need Environment difficult-to-obtai- n ies on environmental effects and plans for land restoration in order to obtain numerous federal state and local permits Minerals are literally building blocks of our society Fertilizers medicines housing and manufacturing are a few examples of our use of minerals Reducing pollution and environmental cleanup requires minerals For example Utah's fusion metal palladium (platinum group): is used in the catalytic converters of cars to reduce toxic emissions: The need for this industry to be strong is taken for granted and often misunderstood It is economic strength which provides the muscle to improve society and its environment Economies in trouble have difficulty- allocating resources to prowell-know- n tect the environment Defining problems is important but industry universities and agencies (such as the Bureau of Mines) must solve them A solution which puts people and lands out of use without regard for their resource potential is bad stewardship Why are fees and big changes in the mining law bad? Any increase in overhead or uncertainty brought on by legislation requires mineral deposits to be of a higher grade in order to be economie cal Unfortunately ore bodies and easily recoverable ore are becoming scarce Current mining of marginal mineral deposits will be stopped until economic conditions improve The costs and restartinvolved in moth-ballin- g ing an operation have great potential for wasting mineral reserves especially if legislation causes premature land restoration to occur Marginal ore reserves around a working mine may not be fully utilized -- Good legislation should encourage mine'operators to develop and use these areas Without longterm assurances these areas will be wasted Mine operators would not survive during bad times in the mining cycle EH Snyder a prominent mining engineer likened the high risk in mining to a casino when he said "Successfu l casinos do not charge admission High financial risk is high-grad- exercised in seeking domestic ronmental solutions the global ronment will be harmed envienvi- Today's Common Carrier author is William Oo Snyder 2731 Falcon Way Sandy Utah 84093 Mr Snyder is a computer software engineer for Eaton Kenway He received his bachelor's degree in mining engineering from the University of Utah where he also did graduate work in medical biophysics and computing He is president of the Combine Metals Inc Snyder Mines subsidiary and a member of the Society of Mining Engineers The views expressed in the article are the personal views of the need any more uncertainty Fluctuations in mineral prices ore grade and government regulations are just a few variables that can put a mine operatien in financial ruin These considerations are not factored into this legislation — Patented mining claims can secure mineral properties during bad times in a mining cycle They add continuity until changing conditions make a claim profitable again Cycles for a property can take many decades The Mercury gold mine in Tooele County has been through three major production periods Forty-on- e years lapsed between the last two producing periods The 1872 mining law works in concert with land restoration and pollution laws Those who want to repeal this law or ban mining altogether often do it under the name of environmentalism Environmental concepts of land restoration and pollution control are good The specific conflicts which arise need to be resolved at local levels Parties most familiar with a particular situation can make better decisions than those removed from it Authority to be innovative and flexible should be given to agencies in charge of pollution and reclamation at local areas They should be encouraged to resolve environmental and problems based on environmentally sound principles The mining law does not interfere with this We live in a world where complicated and confusing laws are increasing Restrictive legislation can create an unnecessary mineral crisis A mineral shortage similar to the 1970-styl- e gas shortage can create environmental damage The necessity of quickly exploring and obtaining a strategic mineral would preclude environmental concerns cost-effecti- Increased legislation is always fol- lowed by increased bureaucracy The free enterprise system of supply and demand gets twisted This situation could result in tariffs and mineral supports The small operators will be hit the hardest There are mineral properties currently held by small investors which the big companies will not touch because of insufficient volume These "little guys" have kept properties intact and collected "years" of geological data This has given the next willing investor a better chance at developing the deposit If the "little guys" are lost a tremendous amount of geologic data will be lost with them The importance of patented mining claims: — Do you know of a real estate developer who would develop property without title insurance? Do you know any bank that would make a long-terloan to such an individual? If they did what kind of interest rate would they charge? Can you imagine lease "subject to how a change" would choke off financing? — Business security is the very best reason for having patented mining claims Development of mineral m I5-ye- properties are long-terprojects Investors must have reassurances their ore bodies are secured Government must guarantee that a few years from now fee schedules will not by quadrupled Investors do not planning prevents crises The 1872 mining law is a longterm plan with sound principles It is capable of accommodating economies with environmental concerns A petition is being distributed by "People for the West Campaign" (PO Box 4345 Pueblo Colo Long-ter- 81003) It is supported throughout the mining industry The petition urges Congress not to depart from the balanced approach current law provides for environmental protection and the sensible harvest of our natural resources We need to have people educated in natural resources to contribute to the legislative process People who are knowledgeable in either economics or environmental issues alone only have half of the solution If both groups had studied environmental economics then we would have a balance of clean lands and good jobs I believe the people of this country want that balance! tion systems for Northwest Pipeline Ted A ?MOW retired Utah district chief in charge of water operations for the US Geological Survey Jean Kelly a Bountiful and Utah State League of Women Voters member Wayne G Hol- land Jr director of community Utah State and Hanni Hochberg retired head nurse for general surgery at Cottonwood Hospital and a member of the Red Cross The board seeks articles from all segments of the community services department AFL-CI- O So-call- one-thir- -- r Otis Pike p - other of whom is inclined to say mean things about him or at least to ask some very tough questions It is infinitely safer to stay in Washington cranking out the old press releases putting congratulatory messages in the Congressional Record having the computers churn out all the laudatory messages to the large-numbere- arou dent Arab MI neve and Mob be el 01 Lake Inter of bt At lar 1998 FA has died and hardly a word has been mentioned of its passing No Jake Garn Palmer DePaulis or Jon Huntsman lived there Only the little people who work pay their taxes and struggle to raise their children Before you could walk down Stringham Avenue and find children at play dogs barking and people doing what people do everywhere Now there is only the sound of the bulldozer tearing down homes that have provided shelter for years Weeds grow where once roses bloomed only to be paved over with concrete Clark Financial has taken over What does Clark Financial get? A $15 million subsidy out of our tax dollars And what do we get in refamilies forced out turn? Forty-plu- s of their homes homes that Clark Financial promised to relocate elsewhere to ease the housing shortage But relocating homes is not profitable and Clark Financial let them Oath he di Watk EX Sovie natio sumn possi 1 point move IR) help Ford capit According to an article in the Aug 15 Tribune KSL-Tthrough its Executive Vice PresidentGeneral Manager William R Murdoch has decided to eliminate all future beer and wine advertising contracts KSL and Mr Murdoch cited "the rising death tolls on the nation's highways and an increase in family break- 1980 V and F force KUWE EL as int to th( thous all of down" The traffic flows which are currently tolerable will be replaced by congestion And the half-etrpt- y buildings filled with the ghosts of businesses past may be joined by new ghosts as these remaining businesses in Sugar House go bankrupt competing with Shopko Some people will find jobs mostly at minimum wage And tax revenues will go up if the tax revenues of competing businesses do not decline And of course Clark Financial stands to make its millions But is it worth it? Is this progress? Economic progress is more than income and expenses on a balance JOHN WATKINS Salt Lake City funei Appeals to Sheep deteriorate L JENKINS West Valley City died The ACLU is something I place in the same category as body odor and nothing chafes me more than the face grin on Michele Parish-Pixler'- s but that is exactly what I will see when she and her army of footsores prevail in the "Battle of the Benediction" Clue in Norm! there is no way you can win this fight Quit now while there are still a few hundred people who may vote for you in the next election PAUL NIELSON Skyline High Class of '90 A neighborhood in Sugar House neighborhoods should be required to spend as much money on new housing and new foliage as the value of that displaced If the developers will not be socially responsible then our city council and other elected politicians should ensure that they are responsible Otherwise why elect them? Let the developers choose our politicians and save us the expense of an Chry! $156 CA When will responsible people in positions of authority in this state begin to realize that censorship of a product's advertising only serves to call attention to the product rather than reduce its consumption? I suspect Mr Murdoch's base intention is to get free publicity for his station and simultaneously appeal to the sheep mentality of some people within the "predominant religion" rather than actually attempt a reduction of alcohol consumption in Utah I equally suspect that the other local television and radio stations will gladly pick up KSL's lost revenue laughing all the way to the bank It will be interesting to see if KSL will then be forced to raise its advertising rates to help cover its loss and thereby make its remaining advertisers share the increased amortization costs Or is KSL so rich that they can arbitrarily afford such a loss from their fat coffers and thereby force their own brand of "free speech" and "free agency" on the rest of their myopic sheep? STEVEN E PORTER Salt Lake City sheet Developers that destroy aid P mitte secur SA Huss( Mond US Iran ally RE Doe playe Mond Corp woun his wi PR At 1 r1P1) ItigNril ' xi R I 1? 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I' 1 '1777C:rr7i:i!- - 141:)35:5'7111i:'71'7P'Air-4772L:ril45rli!!!tlT77-i::i1::'4-- 4 u 'pl' - 11 ':' x'4" ' $ r:': tt-' '''''' til -- - :4 1- ' vit4 ' -- t -- 117464 4 '''::" st1C4 - $ 4: 41 - rst 4- r' h - :lfx i -- 1i m - -11:45' A6rtzV rs''''''-tV-4'144 0' 1441!0 4!: ik 4 so e '1"i 1114 i'r tALWA15talf "-- Pq k - - - -- lit :' i7- -- 1 " t' eturr Ind H ' : d the birthdays and anniversaries team that won the championship and the team that came close You can give heavy odds that Congress will not adjourn when it promised it would Having diddled all year about the budget it must now dawdle up to the edge of the election They will pretend they hate it but they love it If they didn't love it they'd change it They'd come home and face those tough questions In the unlikely event that you get to see your campaigning senator or representative before the election be gentle Do not ask if he voted for higher taxes or lower benefits for your particular favorite Do not ask if he voted to clear up our debt to the United Nations now that we're using Do not ask it so enthusiastically what he did with the campaign contributions from the S&Ls Do not ask what he did with his pay sise Do not ask how many American lives he thinks restoring the billionaire oil sheiks of Kuwait to their thrones is worth Do not ask whatever happened to the War Powers Act Be gentle and be kind for he didn't want to come home and answer questions anyway He hates it and can't wait to get back to Washington where he belongs ( sion c Genuine Oriental Rugs Material should be mailed to Common Carrier The Salt Lake Tribune PO Box 867 Salt Lake City Utah 84110 graduates the the p in Ft "open Home Is Not Where Congress' Heart Is I Pres supe prayer With the situation heating up in the Middle East look for two traditional actions to occur in this state First the "weekend" warrior line will shorten and second the line for church missions will lengthen These "safe haven" actions were followed during both the Korean and Vietnam wars and the United States government should not allow this to happen again Where is these people's 11 Newhouse News Service :WASHINGTON — It is high time " -''' to debunk one of the oldest fictions pervasive in US politics: that the d members of the House and the ?1 of the Senate up for 'i 1 out of to can't wait Washington get so they can go home and campaign The last Thing any incumbent wants to do is go home and hit the campaign trail There he will be expected to get to every public meeting stays in Washington at great personof every civic association taxpayers al risk sacrificing his political yearnassociation property owners associing to hit the old campaign trail in Comclub Chamber of ation service order to more nobly serve the people merce church group and any other who elected him The message is utgathering of warm bodies sufficientter nonsense to views his in invite ly interested While the legislator is in Washinghim ton he is the incumbent presiding He must demonstrate great enthuover a mighty army of administrative siasm for ethnic foods for which he assistants legislative assistants has no enthusiasm at all No matter writers research assistants speech roast beef the how gray the tough case answerers and mail workers New York strip the chicken or underdone the pasta gofers all of whom feel obliged to he will be expected to swallow and reinforce daily his opinion that he is wonderful praise it It is all "wonderful" When the Congress belatedly adsome he like wouldn't Then "great:" journs (and it must before election more? Urp you bet he would He must pretend he wants to do just to maintain the fiction that the these things "There is nothing I voters have some voice in the govwould like better than to be able to ernment's doings) the legislator must go home Constituents fawn a great attend your candidate's but the deal less than the hired hands They will ask gliDctinne and aern Persian to prised when he doesn't know the anhere reppresence my requires swers The worst nightmare is acturesent you on these critical issues" Letters like these are being ally having to share a platform with churned out by the millions on the an opponent When the representative or senathousands of computers and automatic typewriters that multiply liie tor is in Washington he is the reprerabbits in the warrens of the House sentative or senator When he is and Senate office buildings The sharing the platform with an oppomood that the messages connote is nent he is whittled down to being that the representative or senator merely one of two candidates the Dead Street Changing Lines Articles need not be professionally prepared but should be between 950 and 1200 words long and be typed and double spaced They should pertain to the economic political and social wellbeing of the Intermountain Area Articles should be timely have a basic idea promote dialogue and be challenging letters" are not acceptable At Skyline High's commencement this year we did not have prayer nor was one necessary to the occasion Had there been a prayer a good number of students would have been offended or annoyed Among these people I would dare classify even those of the LDS religion It is true that graduation night is a special occasion but it is not a religious one and I know I would be upset if someone taught calculus in my sacrament meeting Besides our seminary graduation the previous week was what I felt was the appropriate time to offer a prayer in that sense Ecclesiastes 3:1-- 8 says: "To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven" High School graduation is not the appropriate time to offer a public Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer's full name signature address and telephone number Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reason on others Writers are limited to one letter of 300 words or less every 14 days Preference will be given to type written (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writer's true name All letters are subject to condensation Mail to the Public Forum The Salt Lake Tribune PO Box 867 Salt Lake City Utah 84110 g Rules for Common Carrier Articles Opinions expressed in Common Carrier do not necessarily reflect those of The Salt Lake Tribune or the Common Carrier Board of Lay Editors Articles in this department are selected by the lay board of editors which operates independently of The Tribune editorial and reportorial policies The Common carrier board representing a cross section of the community is composed of E Jerome Battle supervisor of marketing customer service and produc Not Right Time Forum Rules OPEC refused to sell In 1973-7- 4 oil to the United States because we supported Israel during the Yom Kippur War Oil supplies dropped prices skyrocketed and we had to conserve Unfortunately the United States did not learn its lesson Our conversion to conservation was skin deep automobiles are popular again car pooling is a dimly remembered quaint custom of old days public buses run half empty The president sets an example of lavish oil use by shuttling between Kennebunkport Maine and Washington DC in a gigantic airplane and by tooling about the Atlantic in a big motorboat Today the United States is now even more dependent on foreign oil This has really become apparent in the past few weeks President Bush talks of "defending principle" but his rhetoric clouds the real issue of the Persian Gulf crisis: Who will control Persian Gulf oil — the United States or the people who actually live on top of the oil? Unless we come to our senses this crisis will turn into a war Already Operation Desert Shield has become our biggest military operation in 20 years It is easy to see why the Pentagon is so enthusiastic They haven't had a decent war since Vietnam and a military man can't earn his promotions and the ribbons and medals for his dress uniform by spending his days bivouacked behind a desk at Camp Funstom Kan There are after all more important things at stake here besides mere principle There is glory money and a pension Whether or not we will share their enthusiasm for this game depends on how we feel about our children and grandchildren fighting and dying over rights to oil Before we get into another war we need to answer two basic questions: Is it morally right to send our troops to fight and die defending regimes in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia who are both stingy in letting their oil profits trickle down to their citizens? Is it morally right to send our troops to fight and die for our right to squander oil that is under countries 6000 miles to the east of us? RICK SOULIER Provo I ' 1 r r memeigoomoolommum i tan tc problc Weste gan tc brougl clans i to atte seems countr than years t |