| Show GATHER UP WHAT 13 LEFP OF lint A down town contemporary still asserts thit such portion of the wages of onesix teenth of the working population of Utah as is spent for beef flour and vegetables is the sole support of this territory The sheet winces under our statement that it dares not let its readers see any of the facts we gave and bawls out thus This lunatic says we do not repeat his statements of facts correctly If we do not it is because we lack the ability do so Well that may be true as to the lack of ability but the fact remains that the sheet l even this time dares not or does not let its readers known the argument and facts we have given First the sheet says of our facts He nays but onesixth of the people are engaged en-gaged in mining JJThis is simply worse lying than the former statement We said no such thing The United States census says that about one sixteenth about six per cent of the working population is engaged in mining min-ing And when we asked of the organ subsidized by nonresident mine owners how the small portion of the wages of one sixteenth of the working population that is spent for home food products could possibly pos-sibly support the other fifteen sixteenths the sheet replies He says but onesixth of the people are engaged 0 en-gaged in mining which while theoretically true perhaps gives no Idea of the facts Miders asa as-a rule are unmarried while twothirds of the Inhabitants of this territory ten years ago wore under sixteen years of age and probably one half of them are under sixteen When the women and children are eliminated it will be seen that quite half of tho workingmen of this territory are directly or indirectly at work because be-cause of the mines lilt will be seen that quite half of th e working men of this territory are at work because of the mines will iU Well let us see if it will be seen Turn to page S4S of the Tenth census the volume on Population The number of adult males engaged in agriculture in Utah is given at 14470 and the number of females 80 and t of all these only 13CS were under sixteen years of age The total number of miners including coal miners was but 2592 out of a total of 40055 engaged in productive occupations occu-pations of whom only 2887 were females Yet this infinite liar while actually protesting pro-testing that he tries to quote us correctly says if the women and boys were left out the other occupations would be so reduced in number that those at work because of mining would constitute quite half of our working population Observe too the phrase directly or indirectly meaning that since onesixteenth of the population spends some of its wages for goods produced pro-duced by the other fifteensixteenths therefore there-fore the latter are indirectly at work because of the former Taking the sheets assertion that two thirds of the miners are unmarried as correct cor-rect and it will be seen that about four per cent of our population are directly dependent de-pendent on mining and the sheet assures us that the home grown beef and vegetables vege-tables eaten by four per cent of our population popu-lation are the means of supporting the rest t i of the population in comfort and general affluence Then follows a piece of economic reasoning < d < > rea-soning that would raise the hilarity of even JOHN LAW were he alive to hear it Now if more than half the product of the i richest mine is absorbed in expenses while i twothirds of less rich mines Is thus absorbed and thousands and tens of thousands of dollars is expended annually on mines that have not yet reached the paying point what becomes of that money What becomes of it Why it is sunk Into the mines It goes to buy supplies machinery ma-chinery and food No one except the miners themselves and the few men they buy from here gets any of this money It is the part that comes out the profit that counts building up a territory It takes four millions to work the mines and the mines yield eight millions mil-lions The four millions of profit are carried off to Denver and San Francisco and four millions aro again put into the mines paid for excavating tunnels in the mountain To be sure this four millions represents the living of theminers themselves and it supports them but it doesnt support anyone else here except avery a-very few that supply the mines and miners with their products The correct statements that four millions worth of supplies and machinery mostly from the east is required to get another four millions in profit and this profit goes to build up Denver and San Francisco Or it takes half the product of the mines to keep the men and machinery at work and the half that remains is carried to other places Now the half that is required to work the mines does not represent this amount of money circulated in the territory for most of the supplies for the mines come from the east and any talk that the comparatively small amount of homeraised supplies consumed con-sumed by 6 per cent of the working popu lation or 4 per cent of the whole population popula-tion is the life of all the business of Utah is the most mendacious piece of deception de-ception with wnich a newspaper could attempt at-tempt to deceive its readers We remarked that mining would be a great thing for this territory its profits were only invested here but that the pro tion of the wages of G per cent of the working work-ing which is spent for home produce is the sole support of the other 9t per cent is just a little 4too thin To this our contemporary responds I How about the twothirds of the product that it spent here The answer is that twothirds of the I mining product is not spent here and that it is not what is spent but what is sated the profits that counts in building UD a community Further since only a small portion of the expense is for home products pro-ducts the rest being sent abroad for supplies i sup-plies it follows that mining in Utah supports I sup-ports those engaged in it and practically very few besides This answers the following fol-lowing piece of nonsense Should Mr AscniiEiM send east SlfOOcO in bullion and receive in return 5100000 worth of coods they would be a foreign product and would not benefit this territory Is that what the lunatic means No no boy we mean that these goods benefit ouly those who buy them the miners what you are trying to show is that the mineowner by paying and Mr ASCIIHEIM by receiving the miners wages and pending them east for miners sup j I plies are somehow or other supporting the rest of the people of this territory as well as the miners No one disputes that mining supports those engaged in it just as any other industry does What we insist in-sist upon is that it supports only those who are engaged in it just as long as the profits of mining are taken to other places and invested there instead of being invested in-vested here We shall be obliged to any reader that can gather up and exhibit what is left of tho argument that the prosperity of Utah is all due to mining |
