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Show AS TO THE ASIAY OFFICE. Representative Hutherland appears to have won a very substantial com eeslon fiom the Directoi of the Mint on the assay offlii question Heretofore, the Director has opposed the establishment rf additional assay ortii.es. on the ground that their benefits to the people uero not sufficient to Justify their cost -not on the absurd ground reported by the opposition that thio was ton much gold produced now and that he wanted .0 restrict It by keeping down the number num-ber of the assay olflres But In reply to Rcpiesentatlve Kutherland arguments, argu-ments, the Dlrtitnr now Loncedua that rtah might folrl have a Oovernment assay office, nnd he even goes to the extent of suggesting that the assay of-llu of-llu nt tit Louis could he dispensed with In order that the cost of establishing estab-lishing and constructing the needed of-hei of-hei In this Slate would add nothing to the total of public expenditures on this account. So the matter Is getting Into fair shape, and It I not unreasonable to expect that Provo lll get this bene-ili-lal establishment an Institution that wilt not only be a substantial addition to that city's business, but a convenience conven-ience snd saving to all the gold-pro-duusrs of the Htate. |