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Show Mining, First-aid To Progress As late as 1855, aluminum gold for Si0 a pound. In 1880, Professor Jeweft of Oberlin College told his class that the man who could produce pro-duce cheap aluminum would be a public pub-lic benefactor. One of his students, Charles M. Hall, took up the challenge, chal-lenge, and five years later was given his f ir t patent for cheap methods of aluminum production. The price has pone dovvn as low as 15 cents a pound, and cheap aluminum has revolutionized re-volutionized living. Radium was discovered less than o third of a century ago. Helium gas was isolated a few years earlier, but the cost was almost in the aluminum or radium class until the last decade. Nobody knows what elments are still undiscovered; there are as important discoveries still to be made, as aluminum al-uminum or radium. The business of mining is essential i ----- j to civilization. It offers a career, ' employment, adventure, life. The I community that has mine prospects1 of any kind, is committing industrial suicide it if fails to encourage mining as a first-aid to community progress and social uplift. |