Show TIMES HAVE CHANGED many changes have characterized the mining ing I 1 industry of this great intermountain region ion during the past twenty five years indeed de eq they are so varied in their character and their scope of influence and progress 1 cover so wide a field that it would be somewhat difficult to enumerate the many new conditions governing the mining industry of the present day d ay year ago every effort was exerted in the endeavor ed eavor to find and locate deposits of gold and silver the first mines of this western western country were productive of these metals and ledges and deposits bearing lead and copper were totally ignored while properties containing f low grade gold and silver ores were passed by as useless only the very richest rock being acceptable to the and operator of a quarter of a century ago d as S at that time mining and milling methods W were ere both crude and expensive while the def fiand for lead and copper was so limited that deposits of these metals in almost a pure state would have been looked upon as practically valueless in this day and age however with a radical change in conditions governing mining and the industrial world with new innovations in ore reduction with modern and improved improve prove A machinery with the extensive demand m and and uses for both lead and copper the mining industry presents a new aspect to the miner and investor a new avenue for investment and profit the result being that more activity is noticeable noti cable in mining affairs affair 8 than th a ever before becote with thousands engaging in this fascination fasci fascinating g and profitable pursuit where but alcore or more of years ago there were but a few hundred J then again abrain with the advances made in in metallurgy metal metallurgy lurg y in geological know knowledge knowledg led a e in the science of milling in the employment employs ent of experts much of the risk formerly attached to mining ventures has been eliminated to a very ery v 11 large extent while the insight gained in mining affairs by the masses has greatly I 1 assisted in establishing establish ilia the fact that the in austry is entitled to all c claims aim 0 of leg intimacy and that when intelligently f followed it i far more profitable than any other pursuit occupation within reach of the or capt capitalist lt the laboring man or the man on a sala salary with a few hundred dollars at his ry cOm command mana |