Show WHAT MINING MEANS TO TIIE THE RESIDENTS OF UTAH the congressional record in a recent issue contained an item from a speech delivered a short time ago by representative abe murdock in the lower house of congress that should be carefully r read by every resident of utah because it bears more useful information on mining industry arid and its importance to the s tate state than any article we have read on this very important subject in years in fact it Is a mighty good piece of literature to file away in your scrap book for future reference here it Is nevertheless it is true startlingly true that the nations as well as the worlds store of minerals Is confined to comparatively small areas to illustrate this fact let me call attention to the fact that since 1854 the state of utah one district of which I 1 have the honor to represent has produced line ime ounces of gold tine line ounces of silver lbs ibs of copper pounds of lead ana pounds of zinc the total value of this one small states vast mineral output has been 1 of which the value of f our gold go ld production accounts for over during the years 1913 to 1923 utah produced approximately 7 per cent of tile worlds production of copper 7 per cent of the worlds proc production luction of lead and 2 per cent of the worlds production of zinc according to liguras furnished by the bureau of mines the area embraced within a mile circle drawn with salt lake city as its center produced in the last 20 years per cent of all the gold per cent of all silver per cent of all the lead per cent of all the copp copper erand and 2655 per cent of all the zinc produced in the united states including alaska jt likewise itis true that in those areas rion rich in minerals the relative economic importance of the mineral industry increases to an almost incredible extent in 1930 out of population of slightly more than halt hall than halt half a million people or per cent were dependent d epen dent on the metal mining industry in our state the mineral industry employs one third of the total number of employees carried toy by the state industrial commission produces about one third of the new wealth annually created in the state and supplies four fifths of all the railroad freight tonnage of utah the annual output of the mineral industry of utah averages about eighty five million dollars of this amount is immediately expended in the state for wages freight smelting smelling sm elting and supplies |