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Show THE MINER AND THE FARMER. The great mining congress at Sacramento has, again demonstrated demon-strated that they rise and fall together. The discussions demonstrated that a closer relationship between be-tween these two great basic industries, mining and agriculture, is beneficial to each. Conventions of miners and farmers emphasize this point by declaring for the encouragement and advancement of both as a surer basis of national prosperity. More complete co-operation will increase the employment of labor, increase the food supply and increase the world basis of metallic money. Going farther, the miner supplies the cotton grower and the orchardist with arsenic to fight insect pests and increases those great crops. Mining should be relie ved in every way from being hampered by unjust restrictions, or 'nandicapped by unwarranted legislation, or excessive taxation. The miner stands -with the farmer in the production of primary and basic raw materials without which the world cannot enjoy normal nor-mal prosperity. |