Show EDITORIAL KOTES the discovery that gi the new which has been found on indian landa in utah will a ships bottom from seaweed and corrosion is likely to end the attempts of ep curators cula tors to induce the government to open these lands to entry it the iov owna the only Ri deposits known it will hardly consent to make it an article of commerce available for use in foreign navies A monopoly would enable our war vessels to keep the sea indefinitely while foreign ships are obliged to seek port at short intervals to be scraped and cleaned it would be worth millions of dollars to this country in a war to always have the best speed of its cruisers available at a cruiser long in bervice eer vice made knots on her trial only makes fourteen or because ol 01 foul bottom but with the bull painted with twenty cnota coald be run if the stories about the new asphaltum are true by a vessel abich bad not been docked in years always providing that no accident should intervene the probability that piles could be protected from the by thia new substance ia not areat but it would bear looking into at present however the chief advantage of its use is naval and this is 10 warrant the government in eualdine eu ardine it with jealous carp inventions may be copied naval plans stolen and engines and ships duplicated but if we have all the gilsonite there i and that on government land we can keep it for cur own use no matter what the anxiety of foreign naval officers may be 10 get some of it for theirs sun francisco chronicle |