S. bureau of mines and the university is now established. The work at the station here in flotation methods and other experimental work was gone over and an extended inspection was made. The visit was of the utmost importance to the university school of mines.

SEEK CLOSER COOPERATION WITH U. S. AND VISIT IN ALL DEPARTMENTS.

Noted U. S. mining officials were guests of Dean Thomson, of the university school of mines, Wednesday. Experimental station. Governor D. W. Davis was interested. Congressman PLAGES GAT ABOVE A PRICE ON CENTER LOT MUST HAVE PLACE TO LIVE IN SAYS OWNER—HOW ABOUT A COW OVER THE MOON?

New York (By A. P.)—A woman who owns a yard facing 50 feet on Fifth Avenue at 39th Street, in the center of the city's most fashionable shopping district, refuses to sell it because her cat "has to have a place to play in." The property is worth about $760,000, according to real estate men.

The dollars paid on it each year in taxes would, if stacked dollar on dollar, make a hurdle not to be sneered at by anything short of the cow who jumped over the moon. The cat is "just one of these years every day walking round cats." It was never known to take a prize at a cat show. 