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Show GO TO SEE THE MINES. It is to be hoped that during Elk week as many as possible of the visitors will visit some of the adjacent mining camps. The Park, Tintic, Bingham Bing-ham all of them will welcome the Elks, and any one of them will be able to show such wonders of mining as not many of the guests have at present ideas of. From what they will be able to see some new thoughts will come to them. They will realize as never before the difference between maklnjr money and creating it. In the East when a man gets a dollar someone else is a dollar out. He may have value received and be satisfied, but the money of the world is not changed by the transaction. The Utah mines, on tho other hand, give to the world $1,250,000 in new money. The whole world is made richer by it, for when tho metallic money of the world is measured, the property of every man is made more valuable. Aside from the financial question involved, we are sure that the visitors will be exceedingly interested and enter- t H tained if they go and see how mining is carried H on and how when the ore is produced it is con- ,;. H verted into shining metal or some other commer- H cial form. They will discover, too, if of investi- J B gating natures, that the mines are typical of the , ' H lives of men. To the unpracticed eye the rich ore ' jf H does not seem so very different from the waste j ' H that is tossed over tho dump. It is so with men; ' w H a large proportion of them are fit only to bo 1 fl thrown over the dump. That thsy are not, is due, jr. ; B we think, to a mistaken civilization. Again, they j 1 B will notice that to the best ore is attached a vast ' Tj fl amount of base matter. That is not unlike the la ! human family. If they watch the final process ' ' p ' B they will discover that when tried by fire, the per- ' bB centage that survives the ordeal and comes forth ' t ' , purified, exalted and luminous is really very small, w ' B while the slag pile increases rapidly in size. If ; L ( B they think of all the men of their acquaintance ' ill M who have been fired in the crucibles of adversity, jfe ' B and how many have proved to bo of pure metal, JU . B they will see how aptly the reduction of ores typi- h fies the lives of men in this world, and how great a i lj 1 B proportion ought to go to the slag pile. W, B There will be more instruction, too, in a visit m,a' B to the mines. They will take in their minds the 13 1 M thought of the work those miners do ; how tremen- If1? P M dous is the achievement to explore a great mine ' J M and bring out its treasures, and will not be sur- j t M prised at the statement that when, a few nights i M since, an accident- came which spread death 1 1 M through two of the great mines, the difficulty was 1 1 f M to keep those who were out of danger from rushing I jf1! M into that spreading death in the hope of rescuing 9l H their fellow miners. Is. ft 1 ifl They will understand, too, why miners become im.tr ' H reticent and sometimes terse and sententious of l.f flfl speech, for men who work in tho darkness and in llfi the shadow of possible death every day feel and 1 1, j A are impressed by that shadow. IwX 'H To the natural student nothing is so interesting I mT ' 1 as the study of a mine. To trace out the indica- tW jfl tions which led some prospector to believe that It? $ fl there was a mine in a certain spot, and then to I $$ flj mark what steps were taken to discover the truth I g H or falsity of the belief is enchanting itself. Then Iltyi H how the difficulties were met and "overcome below 'lrf k fl ground is another most inviting study how the $ifflfl ground is supported, the waters fought back, the wiHH ore mined and hoisted are all intensely interest- BiHH ing. wMH Surely the Elks should all become good miners fHfBH before they leave this region. They will find that HUI what they may see in tho mines and reduction kwHH works will be what their friends will most desire 1 rLBi9 to hear about when they shall have returned home. BHaBlM |