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Show WESTERN MIXES' WONDERFUL RECORD The mines of Utah, Montana, Idaho, Ida-ho, Arizona and Nevada paid a total of over $100,000,000 in dividends the past year. "Never before," said U. S. Secretary Secre-tary Lane," has so large a draft been made on the natural resources of our country as during this year, and never before have the metals been extracted from these ores with less waste or utilized to better advantage in advancing the general prosperity of the country. Even as written in the plain figures of 1916 production the wonderful record of our mines sets forth a degree of national industrial indus-trial independence only hoped for a few years ago. "Again copper stands out as the best illustration of how American mines can meet a world demand. The output of nearly 2 billion pounds of the red metal is double that of ten years ago and its value is twice that of copper produced in 1915. Add to this the facts that in value copper now contends with iron for first place among the metals and that together the amount of these two metals produced pro-duced last year had a value of more than one billion dollars and we have a measure of what this country can contribute in useful metals." |