Show SEAR i EAR OF UNEQUALED PRODUCTION OF UTAH MINES DINES ore are Money Distributed to Owners and Wage age Earners Hidden in D Depths of Earth I J Brought to Light for I 1 i U Use se by U l j I. I I I lose Hose to Fifty Million Dollars Record for J Metal Mines in 1912 With About Men Employed r HEN rHEN old Father Time points his finger to the fat prosperous rs s in the history of Utah and in western mining in general he ho honark mark nark the year car 1912 1012 as ou one of theThis the This year closes with a bigger action luction with heavier d dividends n a greater wage distribution with re men Inca employed directly in tho the stry and with more active gropes prop grop- les es s and with more money going Ik in modernly equipping equipping- the mines ever er before in the history of the te e. e e total production of or precious mot mol including gold silver copper lead lel zinc In Utah for tor tho the year ear dusted Just dust led ed d will no doubt foot toot up between bet and rho Tho gOY gov- ent lent statistics for last year car comes com corn es 8 3 It t at and for tor 1910 at But with the gro greatly aug- aug ted oro ore production for Cor this year I the tho substantial increases for tor all nil metals over tho the prices of ot the tho past pastor pastor or three years these should bring fil 1 valuations even en above the fore fore- ig r g estimate ils IS IB Is exclusive of Utah's expanding Industry Industry which according to tho the thoE E government estimates placed the luction at for tor 1 1911 11 or 2 75 7 short tons valued at loss than thant t ton n. n Counting In Utah's coal proon pro- pro Ion Con on for 1912 and at 3 33 a n ton for tor forthe forthe the the amount of oC wealth which Utah 1 o 0 operators and their faithful men dug out of ot tho the earth cluth In twelve t months past will foot toot up over This Is nearly four tour times total total production of or all nil the tile fruit agricultural products of ot the state ch h Is estimated at nt at e i number of at men employed direct direct- n Ii the thc mines and smelters of or Utah who are dependent directly on the tho Ing Industry for or their living is ested ested es- es ted at nt between and coal cOllI mines employ amplo probably 1000 OO more moro n At the tho low wage of or 3 this means menns a apa apay apay pa pay roll for tor men employed In the tho mining min min- ing Ins industry of ot this stute of ot a aday aday day or every thirty d days s or approximately to a n year rear Practically all nil this splendid sum Is Immediately dropped Into the cash cah boxes of oC the groceries meat moat markets markets mar mar- clothing and furniture stores or turned over to landlord or banker furnishing furnishing fur tur- the main artery ry of r trade trado with Its supply of or energy and life liCe Unquestionably th the chief Industry of or Utah Is mining It will wUl remain so while the eV everlasting hills continue to bounteously gho forth with lavish la hand their precious Mining has been in pro progress res here over O forty forty- ivo years ear now the state has added to the nations nation's actual wealth approximately yet ct the tho Industry has hns but started tho sides of or the hills containing their 1 billions o ha but hut been scratched Indirectly Indirect the very foundations o of the state rest upon ullon the mining Industry Indus indus- try If that should suddenly be he cut n asunder the whole structure would go tumbling to tho the ground round paralyzed and dismembered as ns If It stricken with abroad a abroad broad sweeping thunderbolt sent out from tram the master builder the maker of oC states nations worlds Nation Wide Mining Not only In Utah but In Nevada No In Arizona In Idaho In Colorado In Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana and other neighboring states stales has hns thero been an nn unprecedented Impetus In the mining Industry with a f whirl of or activity and prosperity and seldom before bc- bc fore foro foil foH In fact tact tho the mines of Am America America Amer Amer- r- r ica for the first eleven months of or have ha a n ld dl dividend nd record unequaled The Tho total for Cor that period reaches tho the tremendous tro- tro sum of oC This em em- embraces braces mines and metallurgical met works but Is exclusive of paid IJ by nine securities holding corporations which look for tor their profits from stocks owned In mining The fhe total dividends dl paid out to tu dato lato from these 1 n mines reaches caches i the lilt mug mug- mu sum um of or 7 And yet ct some men still live right hero lucre in these ribbed metal western states slates from which tho biggest est thirds two of or this great groat i wealth comes tonnes who still sUll assert that mining does not pay No o other r 1 actual m I wealth making companies In the world cuts CUll show sho- better than a a. fraction f. of such sueh I records cor s. s |