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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- prospecting1 Is being done, as John are but the forerunners of a series of strikes that are certain to follow each other in rapid succession. The erection of more and larger reductive plants is also a certainty, and Mercur will ex- Coumerilhs lease expires on the 1st of July. It is reported the company, which still retains Interest in the property, will take charge of and run it after that date, and that Harry Gregg will return from Oregon and take the management The estate h inof John Coumerilh owns terest in mines and mill. Only the lower mill is dropping stamps. A mass of concentrates have accumulated at the mill, owing to the tad roads. The freighters will have a picnic hauling them to Wallace. five-sixt- hs one-sixt- Terms Used In Hilling. 9 MINING REVIEW. N perience livelier times six months hence than the camp has yet seen. No one possessing an intelligent idea of the conditions will for a moment lose faith in the district. 4 Ogden Canyon Accidents. part of those engaged in mining throughout the United States would quickly accomplish results that can never be attained through the haphazard efforts of individuals, and the first practical step will therefore be In the direction of securing united effort. The Mining Review suggests to the political managers of Utah and Idaho that the mining industry be given recognition in the platforms soon to be framed, and that the sentiments in favor of the appointment of a Secretary of Mining may find expression in planks demanding the creation of such an office. Delegates from the mining States should also urge upon the national conventions the importance of this subject, and thus pave the way for more determined effort in the future. The Ogden Press of yesterday reports two deaths yesterday, as the result of blasts in the canyon, presumably in the work of the Pioneer Power company in Ogden canyon. One of the victims was the Italian foreman who was struck on the head with a piece of flying rock two weeks ago. The other was a new-comsupposed to be John Mullens, who had just started to work, and whose name had not yet been placed on the rolls. A rock from a blast crashed through the tent in which the man was sitting after lunch, striking him on the head and driving a hole into his skull, from the effects of which he shortly died. The numerous accidents on this work bring the matter to more than ordinary importance. A short time ago. a number of lives were lost by a premature explosion. Since then two more are recorded from blasts, and it is hard to suppress the belief that had experienced rock men been employed on the work, none of these fatalities would have occurred. The Review does not A Leap Year Proposal undertake to say that men lacking experience have been employed, but it that wont be declined is oars. What is it? looks that way. Simply this: We offer to supply all men, young An exchange gives the following definitions of mining terms for the benefit of the tenderfoot: Ore Sometimes spelled oar; sometimes a rich syndicate will stick in when a poor man is about to patent a good claim. Lode More properly spelled load; something a prospector carries around town with him when he sells out a hole for $1000, more or less. Vein or Vain The hopes of the tenderfoot when he goes around breaking up building stone and looking for gold pieces on the inside. Whim The peculiar inclination sometimes felt by a miner to rest when the foreman is somewhere else. . Windlass The condition of a man after falling down a shaft. Contact A cont act is a touch, and a touch is what the tenderfoot makes on the homefolks when he learns that mining means work. Air Drill The homeward journey of the busted tenderfoot on a menu composed chiefly of atmosphere. Lead Something each miner wants when the whistle blows to quit work. A True Fissure The mining broker Another Utah Railroad. who lives by catching suckers. The New East Tintic railroad has Country Rock or Old Country Rock been incorporated with 500 shares of a The shamrock. par value of $100 per share. J. A. Cunis president and general manThe fate of John Hays Hammond ningham H. S. Young is treasurer, and F. and the other political prisoners in the ager; B. Cook, secretary. These with J. A. Transvaal is still the source of great Cunningham, Jr., and William M. The death Bradley constitute the directory of anxiety to their friends. company. sentences of the five leaders, it is re- the The object of the company is to conported, have been commuted to fifteen struct and operate a line of railway beMammoth mill in the Tintic years imprisonment, but this report is tween the and the Mammoth, Ajax, discredited, as the assurances made by district, Sioux, Utah, Swansea and other mines, the Transvaal Government had led to and to transport the product of these the expectation of much milder punish- mines to the Mammoth mill for conthe smelting ores over ment The imposition of a penalty of centrating and railroads. connecting such severity would Intensify the an- the The road will be standard gauge, and tagonism between the classes, however will be equipped with one Shea locofreight cars, the init may be justified by the treasonable motive and several tention being to handle the cars of conduct of the prisoners. The year, both the Rio Grande Western and the that opened so auspiciously for the min- Union Pacific. The total mileage as upon will be something ing industry of South Africa, promises now agreed miles, and the maximum to end in gloom. The existing political over five be 6 per cent. will and labor troubles have greatly cur- grade tailed the production, and there is nothThe creation of a governmental deing in the situation giving promise of partment of mining, with a Cabinet immediate improvement. portfolio for the chief of such department, has been suggested and urged d The weak-knee- d and during the past decade by the indiin the district operators Camp Floyd vidual action of those interested in this have plucked up courage from the reThe rapid growth and cent strikes and are recovering from great industry.of mining has recently development their silly fright. The cessation of the resulted in renewed attention to the noise and clamor raised by the wild-cdesirability of such an office, and the boomers last winter led many thought- sentiment favorable to such action Is less persons to believe that the district by the notorious incapacwas dead or dying, but the truth has strengthened of the Interior department and its been that the propects for a season of ity Land Commissioner to deal with the important and extensive development multitude of intricate and Important were never brighter. While a number questions arising under the adminisof important discoveries have been tration of our defective mining laws. ..made during the past ten days, they Unity of action, it is believed, on the er twen-ty-doll- ar 50-fo- ot . and old, with the finest Spring suits at unbeatable figures. Dont imagine that we sell a cheap quality of clothing. We dont. Our idea is to sell fine clothing at prices which are cheaper thpu those of other concerns. These suits are good enough to crowd the tailors to equal them. We do not mean dear clothing, for in our stock can be found medium grades, suits from $3.50 up, overalls, jumpers, duck suits, and, in short, everything for men of every occupation. DONT BUY CORDUROY SUIT until you have seen ours Strictly one price. J. 136 P. GARDNER, and 138 Main St., SALT LAKE CITY. GO CP Ul O p r pi Kj eg 2 5 o 23 a r (A PI CP 3 m a CO 3 o 2 CO w o z 2 a O o TJ 0 x H CP Ni CD p CP faint-hearte- at A a m w H H W p CO f a d |