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Show THE CITIZEN 10 company purchases Farragut group of claims. Price Utah Honey Producers association holds meeting, contracts for 1926 crop renewed with New York firm. Manila Work , on Vernal-Manil- a road to start early this season.Vernal Work of preparing Second ward chapel for landscaping, started. Vernal-Drilli- ng operations begun on Neal Dome. Price Drilling operations on oil structures within city limits, to begin - soon. Vernal Ashley Development company considering proposed irrigation project north and east of here. STRIKE MADE AT MIRZA. James Moffat, manager of the Mirza mine, is quite elated over the recent inch vein strike made of a twenty-si- x of ore that runs into the high grade. Assays show that the vein carries 472.9 ounces of silver; 39.7 per cent lead; 11 per cent copper and $2.80 in gold, per ton. Quite extensive prospecting has been done in this ground but not until recently have the owners gotten into the mineral zone, and the recent strike has given the stockholders much ANTIMONY AND QUICKSILVER Central Idaho is an almost untapped Alstorehouse of mineral wealth. miner though the day of the with equipment that could be carried on a pack horse has passed, that of development by modern methods has only just begun, having been retarded by lack of transportation faciities in this rugged, forested region. The Yellow Pine district, in Valley county, in the Salmon River mountains, is a part of central Idaho in which there are promising deposits of antimony, gold and quicksilver, none of which have yet been developed beyond the prospecting stage. The district has now been reached by an automobile road, and additional roads across it are in prospect, so that the time wrhen its possibilities can be adequately tested is close at hand. The geology of the Yellow Pine district and of its principal known ore bodies is set forth in a report just Issued by the Department of the Interior as Bulletin 780-- of the Geological Survey, entitled, Antimony and Quicksilver Deposits in the Yellow Pine District, Idaho, by Frank C. Schrader and Clyde P. Ross. Now that the quicksilver industry in the United States is on the decline, this district and neighboring parts of Idaho are especially interesting, for they constitute one of the few remaining areas in this country that contain inadequately tested quicksilver deposits, some of which may prove to be of considerable value. At one of the quicksilver mines in the Yellow Pine district tests are being made of a new apparatus for obtaining this metal from its ore. The apparatus and process are briefly described in the report just issued. Initial tests of the plant under working conditions wrere unsuccessful, but it red-shi- D rt contains novel features that may eventually prove real contributions to the metallurgy of quicksilver, in which few fundamental advances have been made in many years. The district is of especial interest just now also because of the price of antimony, which for the last year or more has been abnormally high and shows no sign of decrease. One of the Yellow Pine antimony deposits contains a considerable quantity of commercial ore and made a small production during the war under very adverse conditions. THE EUROPEAN WAR DEBTS By George B. Lockwood. After describing the unpopularity of the United States in Europe, Senator Copeland of New York said in the course of recent Senate debate: What is wrong with us in our dealings with foreign nations that we cannot comIs it always mand their friendship individual an something wrong with that he cannot command the friendship of some others for instance of those whom he has helped and who have borrowed money from him they do not wrant to pay? Why is it assumed by so many that when the United States is criticized from abroad, it is proof that there is justification for the criticism? Perhaps there is nothing wrong with us in this situation; maybe there is something wrong writh the other fellow. This is an assumption that is at least worthy of consideration in the discussion of foreign affairs. Let it 'not be forgotten that all controversy relative to the debts the United States by foreign na- ate has confronted only the alternatives of partial settlement and Italian repudiation would be repu-d'atio- Now the United States is confronted wdth the necessity of doing the best it can with a bad situation. Collec- tion in full from our foreign debtors, had led to believe that they would never be called on to pay anything is clearly out of the question. Because of the conditions under which the loans were made, they must be negotiated. Demand for payment in full would result in most cases in no payments at all. Common sense indicates that the best thing to do is to collect to the limit of the willingness and capacity of our European debtors to pay, with the knowledge that with every passing year disposition to pay at all weakens, not merely among but among statesmen, responsible the people of the nations involved, among whom a crusade of hatred against the United States is constantly being carried on. In the case of the Italian debt settlement the Sen n. followed by French repudiation. Russian repudiation has of course definitely taken place, which fact does net disturb at all some of the politicians loudest in their renunciations of Italy for failure to pay more fully. How will we proceed to collect debts which our European debtors refuse to pay? Does anyone favor going to war about it? Are those who declare that they would prefer to get nothing if not more than is in prospect representing the interests of the American people who would have to pay the bill for this exhibition of feeling? Our bill for saving the world for democracy is a big one. President Harding estimated that before the last bill, bond and interest coupon is paid it will aggregate a hundred billion dollars. Perhaps we have had that much worth of experience. America demonstrated, anyway, that she was not too proud to fight when attacked, and the vastness of our military and naval operations brought to Europe and. the world a realization of Americas potential strength which may in the future save us the necessity of a war nearer home. It has also made Americans more than ever determined to keep out of European politics and world crusades. We might have learned our lesson under conditions far more harmful to ourselves. Who knows, in the light of such considerations, that Americas part in the World War was worth as much as it cost? ow-in- g tions is due to the failure to take from our debtors definite evidences of obligation, with stated maturity. Such evidences in the form of bonds were given to the people of the United States who furnished this money during Liberty Loan drives on the assurance that the money sent abroad would be repaid to the American government. Billions wrere loaned to our associates in the World War, after as well as during the war, and there was no serious thought at that time that this was a gift. It. isn't the skill he shows; It isnt that he can do better work; It isnt how much he knows, For the skilled man often bemoans his lot, And whines that they never raise him, While the poorer workman is favored more If hes square .with the man who pays him. Gasco Bulletin. Of course the United States is un- popular abroad. The wealth and stability of the United States is envied; but Americans earned that wealth and stability, and are not compelled to sacrifice their high level of life to the rest of the vrorld upon the heels of an experience which teaches them that such sacrifices bring in their train only the enmity of those we try to help. The more we become involved in the tangled web of Europe intrigue, .the more we seek to arbi- trate Europes age-ol- d and unpopular the hatreds rivalries, the mote United States will become. The lesson is clear. Close the accounts on the European war transaction as quickly as possible, and realize on the World War in the only way open to us and that war, and what has come out of it, should teach Americans. 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