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Show SMELTING. The State of Colorado has instituted proceedings to dissolve the smelter trust in operation in that State. That is all right in a State where the mines aro small and the terms of the trust are oppressive. oppres-sive. We think, however, that a better arrangement arrange-ment is being made in Utah. Some of the heavy companies have already supplied themselves with reduction plants and others are preparing to do the same thing. By next spring it ought to be possible to obtain a fair price for ores in this valley. val-ley. Up to very recently a miner sending in a few tons or even a few carloads of ore has been obliged to accept whatever price the Trust pleased to name for the ore, with the result frequently of losing about 50 per cent of the real values in tle ores. This has led to the erection of outside heavy reduction plants. If the same rule prevails for another year it will have the effect -to surround the Trust works with independent smelters. One beauty of our free institutions in-stitutions is that there is no limit placed on individual in-dividual effort and no oppression that individual effort cannot eventually overcome. T. Kearns ought to get along pretty well in Paris. His French can't be any worse than his English. A Burlington Denver-Chicago special the other day ran from Eckly to Way, Colorado, 14.8 miles, at the fearful speed of ninety-nine miles an hour. The track has many curves and it was a heavy train of engine and nine cars. The engineer was J. V. O'Connell and the stolcor Alex. M. McLean. The time was verified by several watches. The picture of O'Connell is that of a self-contained man whom one can readily see would say without emotion: emo-tion: "O, well, we are late and it is best to let the engine make up the time if it can." Such a look as Dewey wore when in Manila Bay he said to Gridley: "Mr. Gridley, if you are ready you may begin." McLean's faco says plainly enough: "O, well, if you want to break your neck I'll give you the steam." It was a great run. If there arn't enough places for the Elks to sleep, the ticks up Parley's canyon might servo, |