your TT I 1 cuir vote vote needed to T 0 kill ill that T hat amendment A men dment when you strike a blow at the mining industry of utah you injure every other industry that gives men and women employment and tends toward the growth and advancement of this state go into any of the larger cities of utah and look around and see what they have that has been purchased with money from the mines see what the town owes the mining in austry now take our state capital as an example where did the tile money come from tor for the erection of its largest and best buildings 9 I 1 rom roin the mines what about the new louse I 1 ouse building the judge building the hotel utah the New newhouse hoube hotel the magnificent ell cli b buildings and th modern hospitals would they have been built if the men back of the enterprises had not taken money motley the minesa vve think not who Is it that are prominent in the big banking mercantile manu fac fracturing turing and irrigations enterprises of utah who have built the best residences at salt lake and in other parts of the stated we all must agree that it ii is the mining n en rn aney are consequently paying the b bulk u ik of the taxes in utah it if they hae hane made money they have invested it in a manner whereby the whole state has profited after all where does the money that is made in the mining camps go goa ion t it immediately taken to other parta parts of the state where it benefits every one of utah s industries how much of it is spent in the mining district for permanent biml improve rove ments practically nothing but there Is a large amount of it in an effort to open new mines and to keep those which have been open ed in shape for greater production then after all it is not the farmer who really benefits most of all from the opening and development nt of mines why then should the farm er be antagonistic to the mining in dus austry du stry tryX does the farmer desire to kill ott oil the goose that is laying the golden eggs does the farmer not realise that his very existence and ity depends on the mines rigl at this time a bunch of in dividu is s who are trying to bring abo t ill brained reforms in taxa bior lef to make the far fancer fa that it Is his duty to I 1 1 L mining industry by the ra mall pai s xo amendment to the con 1 who are cespon sibl t tt am profess to know ule we tie than the framers of our conat tt tz on they think that it ion t elac enact tor the mine owner to pay a tax r i his property on the improve mei mel ch he puts upon it and on his ne tie proceeds they want to ceaf chause e i ie constitution so that they can cani i ss the net proceeds of a ala a three times what they really aboa amob amoa to was anything more anji etever hatched out in the ler fer tile bain of the most pompous state offic official faT if tle mines had been paying a tai tax or one third of their net proceeds as property has been assessed asses bed at abbat one third of its value valde then it would be all right to multiply the assessment by three but it so hap lip pens ahat that the entire net proceeds hav been properly assessed and teed and right here we want to there Is a big difference betitta net proceeds and dividends don L run aay with the idea that it is the money paid in dividends that taxed as net proceeds because this 14 1 not the case there are a whole lot ot of mine expenses that an not b deducted before figures are prepared tor taxation on net pro ceede alere Is but one safe course tor for brienli of the mining industry to and every man in utah should be friendly to the mining op craft i s and that is to vote NO on tl ti s p amendment affect ng the tax apiou of mines