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Show THE C T1ZEN 5 CONFERENCE OPENS. volumes two decades ago. Mr. Yore was seventy years of age the other day, yet he still is engaged in the battle of extracting precious metals from the mountains, and he is known as one of conference of the Mormon The ninety-eight- h church opened yesterday, and thousands of visitors have come the best informed prospectors in the West. .Mr. Yore has been in conference with R. C. Dugdale, mining to the city to attend the services. At one time the Tabernacle engineer, living at the Newhous hotel, concerning the peculiari- was considered a very large church auditorium, but today it ties along a hanging wall at his Lone Mountain mine. He has cannot hold the large membership that wishes to gain admission to hear the conference sermons opened many properties which have developed into rich mines, and those who are anxious and he says that all the country needs just now is honest, indus- preached by President Heber J. Grant and other officials of the trious prospectors ; he laments that they are so few and far beT cnurch. However, radio makes it possible to broadcast the sertween, and believes that the inactivity in prospecting a great mons. Conference week is a great reunion for the Mormon people. economic mistake. In 1885 Mr. Yore was marshal of Durango, Colo., when that They come from all quarters of the globe and renew acquaintances and receive spiritual instruction and return home happy, part of the West was infested with some of the most dangerous wTell satisfied with their lot. outlaws that ever trod the hills. He brought many to justice, pleased and engaged in many battles, but boasts that during many decades RACES SAVE FAIR. ftf activity he never killed a man. He was a close friend of some of the early Ute chiefs and served many important missions for Manager William P. Kyne announces that the horse races the government. will be closed Saturday, which ends thirty-thre- e days of the best Mr. Yore is one of the best known prospectors in Nevada, this state has ever seen. The racing at the state fair and although advanced in years he hopes to uncover many im- racing has drawn extra large crowds, and the concensus of grounds divide. the before crossing portant prospects opinion is that the fair would have been a bloomer without the races. CATES PRAISES MINES. That people like horse racing has been conclusively shown, and there is no reason why they should not have it when conThe mineral resources of the United States form the back- ducted in a clean and able manner. The breeding of race horses bone of the nation, says L. S. Cates, and general has gone on for many centuries and will continue in the cenmanager of the Utah Copper Company. turies to come. It is a thrilling sport, and can be kept clean No nation can be great or endure long without mining. Evi- under strict regulations and good management. dence of the importance of mining is carried in figures which Kyne has made good his promise that he would give us the show that during the first quarter of 1927, 300,000,000 tons of best racing possible, and this was only possible because of the railroad freight originated in the United States, 166,000,000 tons, many high class horses imported for the race meeting. d and or fifty-fiv- e per cent of which came from mines, oil wells or other mineral resources of the nation. The king of the bootleggers pressed a gun to the stomach The United States is the greatest mineral producer in the of his wife and shot her, cussing her all the while. We favor the world. Over half of the copper, 40 per cent of the lead, 60 per same prescription for this fiendish murderer, the natural procent of the zinc, and more than 50 per cent of the pig iron pro- duct of prohibition. duced in the world come from American mines. FIRE WEEK. Mining is one of the basic industries of our western states. It adds greatly to their new wealth, furnishes a home market Fire prevention week is to be held this year from October for farmers produce and offers steady employment to labor. Reasonable taxation and an absence of freak laws are essential 9 to 15. Throughout the. country various organizations will to its prosperity. again attempt to train the public in offsetting the greatest menace in the United States today. Our people will do well to learn, and profit by example. STRONG TEAM. The tragedy of fire is that it is almost entirely preventable. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is being suggested as a running mate There are, of course, natural causes for conflagrations that can for Governor A1 Smith in 1928. Democrats believe that the beau- not be helped, but these are a very small percentage of the total. tiful wife of former President Woodrow Wilson can push Smith The greatest damage is caused by carelessness and ignorance. over the tape a winner in the presidential race in 1928. Is is a Billions of dollars are wasted and destroved each vear by a few combination as a vote getter not to be sneezed at. peoples carelessness. It would not be so reprehensible if the loss were borne bv them alone. But it must be shared, directlv or indirectly, by every citizen and taxpayer. YANKS LOOK GOOD. ? It is the duty of every citizen to cooperate in the observaPittsburg won the first game from the Yanks, but the tion of Fire Prevention Week. And it should be his pleasure. The Pirates Fire loss can be stopped. And in a single week, if every one will latter was awarded the decision by the umps. did all the hitting, but their errors switched a well earned game observe and learn, a great deal can be accomplished in the way of reducing it. to their opponents. It was much like the Dempsey-Tunne- y fight Dempsey did all the fighting but T.unney got the money LAY-OFFDANGEROUS. and the decision. In the second game of the series, the Yanks clearly outJack Dempsey intends to keep on fighting now until he seplayed the Pittsburgers and their famous pitchers proved infants when the liomcrun stickers got working. It looks like a cures another match with Tiinney, when he hopes to take the cinch for.Nesv York to win, but the home stretch is a long way off title from the champion. The former champion says that lie will continue training and fighting as long as he remains in the game. 5 is vet, and there is always a chance in baseball until the last No more s for him. man is struck out. The peace statue on top of the city and county building is Statistics show that thirty years ago, four voters out of being painted white, the color of purity. Now if some of the inmates of the building are whitewashed, the purification will be every five went to the polls on election day. Today, less than half go, even to the more important elections. complete. semi-annu- al . vice-preside- nt one-thir- w S v lay-off- |