| Show till present legislature while giving indications of beina more energetic than former bodies ot its kind Is alv ing plenty of room for the prediction thit its last hours will develop a rush lint will necessitate the clock being turned backa ard tor several hours in order that its work may be finished within the law THE inter mountain mining kevles in its last issue advanced an idea con the duty of estern banks in selecting eastern reserve agents that is deserving of careful consideration on the pirt of least all the banks in utah among all the banking institutions in new lork the mercantile national of which mr st john is the president Is the only true friend to the one great interest of the west and yet standing that fact the first national ot 1 ark city is the only bank lc utah tint does business with it the review takes the ground that all things being equal it Is the duty of western bankers to give their eastern business to tt e mercantile at lonal nd thus touch the enemies of the vest in their ony vulnerable point their pockets the position is well taken and Is deserving of more than a passing thought on the part ot utah bankers JOHN the white haired sinner who represents ohio in the united estates bedale is being told some plain truths these days not only by his fellow senators bena tors but by the scores of Influent lil papers tant are coming to the rescue of silver ills little scheme to retire the greenbacks green backs on the sly was thoroughly ventilated by teller and others who showed in vivid language the misery and loss that bherman had chused this country when he secured the demon of silver the leople are hatching and the day is not far distant when bis name fiill be a stench in the nostrils of decent people in all parts of the union hen peo pie come to realize as they some day roust tl e full extent of john bherman s evil influence upon their prosperity and happiness his name will be linked with venedict arnold and when the two are mentioned bherman s name will always be spoken first elive closely examined the pro posed bill making county recorders ex raining recorders and find two features in the measure that sl meet the n of all i prospectors and mining men first and the most important point Is it at it paces tl e mining records of every district in the archives of the county and greatly les sens the danger of their destruction by 1 re an evil that work untold dis aster should it once hai i en As the matter now stands the records passing from band to hand and kept in busi ness houses are liable to be destroyed at any time ind every prospector knows what such a loss would mean again it fixes by law the ing locations and at a cheaper rate than now fixed by district laws it does not take away any advantage ot access to the records now enjoyed nor does it complicate the worl of recording new claims in fact the only objection that can be advanced against the ased law Is that it lessens the fees of duly elected mining recorders to annual summary of failures in the united baates there were 13 them in 1890 with losses much higher than in 1894 and with every section of country and every branch ot business affected the western states however being less crippled than any other the showing is i hard blow to those papers and prophets who have so predicted beneficial results from a thousand different sources ill 0 were as lar the truth as was the man who foretold that california Calif orntA would be shaken loose from the main land and isea 1 ork by a monster tidal wave from the effects of a magl ty earthquake it e 1 as enjoyed most bounteous crops and still the peo pie are going hungry they rei baled tl e purchasing clause of the fc herman law and still times are hard ve have en joyed high and still there is no relief the gold reserve has been high ar d been low and still distress con in fact every way the appon ants ot free coinage have turned for relief and to appease tl e clamor of the people they have met defeat and yet they stubbornly refuse to t y the only true method and continue their sense less cry of sound money ahen they know that gold Is 11 e vilest ot dishon est money recent advance in ore ralis made by U e union is an ait illustration of bow a knull chii s will otten bring great loss to a community and cl ange alio llio tide of events referred to albo the compliments heaped upon james mcgrigor 0 tie rutih central as a brilliant jn UP old days the otah central give a rite of sei per ton upon 11 ores sl li pid over its line to the bait I 1 ake shelters smelters sm elters and while tl e union 1 hid a rate of 87 per ton to denver it as compelled to take all fc ill I 1 ike ores dt sa per ton things have cl anaed however and the rate to zion lias advanced j mak ing it erml to the denver rate lie secret Is that tl e balver king comper y whose ores constituted tl e bulk 0 tt e utah central traffic enraged at manager mcgregor became he opt ased its effort to bring the ater flora bradow lahe aal annulled ita contract with the utah central As soon as the consequences of the act daft ned upon mr mcgregor he went to and made a contract ulah the union 1 M for a consideration consider ution amounting to more per ton than tt e 3 rate n ore he agreed to ibs liln any ores whatever ind turn the whole bus ness over to tie union rhe compact was made and signed aej the union pacific at once advanced rues go that the short haul was equal to the long so that the utah central gets more money for every ton ot una ore than it did before and s ayes the expense ot handling it BO that the silver iving company loses 83 pronta on every ton of ore sent to salt lake and a great hardship la worked to every small shipper in the district the public suf fers and the railroads reap the profit and all because the king people got mad over a law suit that could have perhaps been settled out of court |
