Show BUSINESS AND MINING NOTES Illiuclulllc aliiileo hsoclutlon iinunl Ilcport The okciullc Illiio suiulrj ItcniN The first annual report of the Secretary of tho National Bimetallic Coinage Association Asso-ciation wo find printed in the leadvdlo I Chronicle of the Jlth nit It will be recollected re-collected that in Januaiy 1885 a silver convention assembled at Denver Col largely attended bv delegates from various parts of the Union among which were delegates from Utah Out of that gathering grow the above mentioned men-tioned National Association whoso active ac-tive labor during the past year has I done much In enlightening the people on the silver question Ihero have been distributed through the agency of this I association 222000 documents relating directly to the necessity of silver coinage and circulation The chairman of the executive committee of this issoeution is i Prof L IL 1 Holden of this city mid E I 1 Ferry Ecq I of Park City is one of Us I members About 12000 contributed for tho most part bj Utah and Colorado I parties who were active workers in the i movement This fund has been ju chciouslv and economically used in the manner indicated in the furtherance of the main object proposed towit to Iutitug about the passage of a bill for the I free and unlimited coinage of silver with nut distinguished I i icpoit I I alludes European to correspondence writers and I finineieis who iceommeneled mdepcnd cut tidbit i by the Tinted i States in con ncction with thin t Biher question low ait I for inter continent il cooperation rather than to foice it by a speedy idoption of a policy of free and unlimited silver coin age is suicidal on tits part of our Gov sOaU eminent This nation has l titi in its power to bring to I speedy issue the matter of silver as an equal factor with gold in the I metallic currency of tho world Aith retire to the > Avtouition whose icpoit I is herein but slightly driwn I upon iN xncoess with but Inn iteel me ins to ulj upon inintR I greater intercut t all addition Im mi ul issHtaneo as a most potent intiumin talit > in bringing about reform Every days continuance of the shdly I shallv I policy it present t prevailing by which i silver sil-ver is limited hampered and prevented from plying its legitimate and necessary part as money in the business of the I country is ellcetm great injurv to every department of business I in tint Nation In mother column I illusion i leI le is I made to I the necessity of competition which is I the life of trade III tho buym of ores I in the Salt Lake market buylnr is the ore producers be ir the burdens mi posed hy deprecation of lead and silver in the market When lead drops I WIi i WIatk ltl f in the market are thin charges for smelting smelt-ing i lessened Is there I disposition on the part of the furnace len to sham tho depreciation with the producers These questions are pertinent for they affect in their practical action the general pros pority For instance it is reported that mines m Imnliam and wo presume in other imps could greatly increase their output were the prices for reducing the ore reasonably satisfactory to the miners Take this oseimto mine which is capi bio of shipping three times the ore which it m I now doing provided the prices wore s itisfactory mil note the result in tho number of men employed and the amount of mOle disbursed in the com niumty When trade is depressed and prices of proetucts tire lowit is but fair that tho various processes which handle tho raw material and fit it for market should litur their Mimes of tho hurde ns incident to hnrel tune Iho pludut t of tho Ontario imno for tho month of Iinuarv was in hire of bullion 81017 < 8 flno ounces ire Hales nino lots 7J1711 1 a tot II for tilt month of fl 15IH3iH Cable advices report that thei feixon Government has dcci d led to Htop opera tioim it several Hilver i mines that l hays I been worked foi moro than acintniv i owing to thin continue I elepre e i ntion I of r silver I ast year the Govcrmm boiiLht t4 I 000 000 worth of silver bullion mil coined it into ne irlv 0 000 010 standanl elolluiH I Ibis 1 i uvirtiioemit lulu a profit eit 1001 IMHI on thi iihliit5t i II I i I 1 xptits aro ox tinlmuj tlm mmcH at hurehlll SneetH iter countj in tho In terest of Chicago cupit ilists Tho Contention mills flfteon miles i south of Hen on Ariona rosumcd opera I tioim t on bits 2utit I TIl mines at ualpoiiH I Mcxleo pro shies HOinoOii > iiir Innllvcr |