Show A KHITOUIAT MINING SCIIOOI Tire Wood Klver Time appreciates the fact that tho life and ProsPeritY of its own locality and of the rich Territory of Idaho depends upon tho mining indu try It shows Itself to bo n wide awake representative of that rich district and of ho mining interest generally by insisting insist-ing ilKn the necessity of speedy e tab hshment of a Territorial School ol Alines As its arguments applj with great force to Utah we quoto from its columns Our mines nro but mere prospects our vein formations an unknown book tho methods of reduction employed moro expert monte If wo had n properly equipped school of mines much hroRe I now dark in this prowmK industry would lit I ruado light and many of the failures of the day would l not bo Oar prospectors and miners who are over on the lookout for wi ideas bearing bear-ing upon their vocation would cheerfully devote tho long winter months to the acquire montof tho theoretical knowledge of that ge lu rclof which they havo hitherto I only studied from tire exposed surface of tho rooks nnd tho almost inaccessible fastnesses of tho mountains Our youths who are growing up within reach of untold millions of hidden wealth would eagerly seize tho proffered opportunity to easily and cheaply learn tho theory and practice of n science which others hnvo vainly expended millions I to master The assaying testing and sampling departments could also bo profitably opened froo of charge to nil having ores to bo assayed or tested in small lots of course A fireproof building is needed In Utah in which tho present useless Territorial library could be safely preserved and made practicillj useful besides furnishing furnish-ing accommodations in the winter eenso at least for a courso of lectures with illustrations experiments and practical studies in onnoction with metallurgy aud mining Private contributions have been liberally made for the defunct mining min-ing Institute and other movements in aid of our leading industry The line has I fully como for a public appropriation which could undoubted bo supple incnted by a liberal private subscription in aid of the permanent establishment of a Territorial school of mines Wo havo local scientific nnd practical talent which might bo pressed into the service it small expense ind with great benefit Within leach of tho business and gcneious men of om LommumU ate facilities and opportunities to hasten the development of our mineral resources and to fix the status ofSalt Lake City as the greatest mining metropolis and ore market in the world It is but a ques don of time when tho most extensive inetnlhirgical works on the continent will bo established in this valley Railroads already built and to bo built to and through this city will make it the greatest inland railroad centio west of ho Rocky Mountains And this in spite of a public ann private lack of enterprise absolute astounding The rule of a barbaric clan of priestly Ishmael lien whoso highest ambition is to bleed ann not nfiilmto with railroad building and mine opening Genlilon bus rested like nn incubus upon oven treat public interest in this Territory The spirit of freedom and a desire to moo abreast with the world leaches and affects the moro intelligent oung men of the Mormon Mor-mon fintoimt and it is for them as well as others that wo ask for tire establishment establish-ment of a School of Mines |