Show LA A DEF DEFABER ERB 3 the individual who writing for the batte batto intermountain inter mountain concerning la plata district speaks disparagingly of cotita its present condition and future prospects furnishes ample evidence ot of being either a fool or a knave possibly a it combination of both if 11 be is not closely related to ananias of old he be certainly could give that old fellow follow several points pointe in the game of lying and beat him at it without an apparent extraordinary effort L la a plata mining district about which the sapient scribbler for the intermountain inter mountain writes BO so flippantly and falsely is believed by competent mining men to be a good mineral district which only requires development work to prove its value no man can gainsay the fact that the surface indications bear out the theory that immense deposits of silver lead and copper ores are contained in the mineral belt in which L la plata is situated that la is all that haa has ever been claimed by TUB STANDARD or those who have given any information upon the subject through its columns it does not matter what motive may underlie the inter mountains attacks upon this promising new district they cannot affect the ultimate result nor retard its rapid development and tux tax suil still slavs with its original ori einal proposition that la plata is destined to become one of the greatest ore producers in utah at no distant date everyone Ere who reads the 1 following lowing ol paragraph from the intermountain inter mountain will at a glance see bow how utterly untrustworthy itis it Is that paper says the utah pipers papers are committing a great wrong la in booming the Ls plata district there ll 11 absolutely nothing there except a little very low grade trade lead ore anil and yet on the strength of the assurances of the utah newspapers new paper hundreds of poor devils are an rushing into the new now district expecting to find and work or to discover bonanza bonan zes there will be much suffering tiniest unless the stampede ll 11 promptly checked and it should be checked by those pipers papers which started it they ought to be in better business we append au an editorial paragraph from yesterdays yester daya salt lake herald a paper which has never been accused of being unduly friendly to la plata plats or anything else in which ogden is interested the very best recommendation which could be given of la plata the tb new mining district in the north li Is the he fact fac t that those wh who 0 0 own D the ledges and are really interested I 1 in the w place are so to full of faith falth that they do not hesitate to freely expend their money in development works it occurs to ill us that so 10 long aa u this condition of thin things gs continues the croakers should sing low |