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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO.. INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, BUSINESS MANAGER SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, $1.50 for Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within, the; Postal $4.50 Union, per year. :i r r . six-months- . -- i .7 .Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered-Letter' payable to The Citizen. , Address all communications to The Citizen. matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at Salt Lake Entered as second-clas- s City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Salt Lake city, Utah Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 . 311-12-- , 3 i 13 . PULL FOR MINING SCHOOL and schools, ore treatments were perfected by which these heretofore Shall Utah have the best mining school in the world? Geologists say that Utah is located in the center of the best and waste minerals are now saved, and which metals bring a good price in the market. Utah has billions of tons of low grade and complex most varied mineralized zone known to the world today. ores which will some day be handled at a big profit, but that can only If that is true, why not have the best mining school here? Students from the larger eastern mining schools make at least be done through research work carried on at bureaus and by the the larger mining comtrips to this state and the west to inspect the mines and mine chemists and metallurgists employed by panies. vast mineral zones we have. The farm and the mine in Utah go hand in hand, and a similar Why not have the best mining school right here and draw a ma- As soon as the harvest is over, the jority of the students to our city and state? That alone would bring condition is found nowhere else. farmer boys go to the nearby mines where they remain until it is hundreds of thousands of dollars to our state. Have we been sleeping at the switch? It appears so, when we time to plow and plant the crops. When the crops are harvested, the check up the past history of our mining industry and learn how little bulk of the products are taken to the mining camps where they are we have done for one of the most important, if not the most important turned into cash. In the east we find the itinerant farmer. If his crops are not big enough to bring in sufficient money to keep him industry of this state. It is true that we have a school of mines in connection with a over until the next year he must travel, and the result is that the federal bureau of mines, but it is based upon a scale not commen- average farmer boys leave home and do not return for several years, surate with the high class and vast mineral resources we have in this if ever. That condition does not exist in Utah. The mines absorb the farm labor between the seasons, and the American labor is the state. The United States Bureau of Mines is willing to add more and best in the world. In Utah there never is a mine labor shortage in the farm during the help the university to establish a better school of mines. In fact, that the winter and the same condition prevails on school would be placed upon the highest possible basis which in a summer months. So it might be said that the farm in Utali cannot get along without the mine, and the mine cannot get along without short time would acquire a world-wid- e reputation. If Utah does not accept the present offer then there must be the farm. In the distance we hear the rumblings of higher taxes for the something wrong with our system of government; Mining has enriched this state to over one and a half billion of mines, but it is only the wail of some who would like to make condidollars. Yet this same industry which has furnished so much money tions such that they could jump into a fat job. Today the mine is was the last to receive any attention from our legislators. It was taxed for the land, all improvements, and three times the net proW. Mont Ferry, now managing director of the ceeds. On the other hand, the farm is taxed for the land and the not until Silver King Coalition, and one of the prime movers in the late silver improvements only, but not for the crops taken from the soil. We are for a reduction on mine tax instead of an increase. Let conference, introduced the first bill to establish a bureau of mines at the University, which bill passed and carried with it the small ap- us encourage our mining industry by a fair tax, and no one will obpropriation of $7,500 per year. The federal mining bureau estab- ject to a fair tax. We also hope that Dr. Merrill will soon realize his hopes of seelished itself here then and Col. Enos A. Wall, who was also a mining engineer, came forward and gave his personal gift of $7,500 a year ing the best mining school in the world located at the University of towards the support of the school, and ever since this school has had Utah. He has the right idea of how to build A Greater Utah, and this school should have the undivided support of all the people. an uphill fight for existence. ; Dr. Joseph F. Merrill, dean of the University School of Mines, MORE PAVED HIGHWAYS. can; see the big possibilities ahead for our school, and will ask the incoming legislature for an appropriation he says it will not take In last Tuesday mornings issue of the Salt Lake Tribune there to place Utah at the head of the class.. more than $50,000-r-suffici-ent No More Paved Then1 three of the best experts could be brought here and placed 'in1! was;published an editorial under the caption, Then it goes on to say: charge. There would be a mining geologist, a metallurgist and a Roads. What this state needs in the way of roads riglit now is not qualmining engineer of international reputation and men recognized the world over for their ability. ity but mileage, according to the district engineer for the government The business men of Utah should see to.it that this. state gets bureau, of public roads, speaking in the Chamber of Commerce rethis mining school, and the state can well afford the cost, no matter cently. Those were words of wisdom, and should he accepted as a what the price. guide for every road program in the near future. We have plenty of mileage in this state, hut what we do really Great Improvements are made possible by research work only. For instance, up to three years ago. zinc ore went out into the slag need is quality in roads. We have a mud or dust road leading to with paved dump.. Up to three years ago the Tintic Standard dumped its lead every hamlet in the state. Our larger cities are surrounded ore. But by the constant application of the various mining bureaus highways. But at certain times of the year the only way we can gel semi-annu- al ex-Senat- , or |