| Show A MINING ciivrcn I What 1 Los Angeles liming Paper Says of alt Lake F W Edelsten the editor of the Mining Min-ing and Metallurgical Journal of Los Angeles Cal who paid a visit to this city a few weeks ago accompanied by I his wife is now on the tripod again in the Journal office and in the last issue is-sue of that excellent publication he pays Salt Lake a high tribute and compliment com-pliment besides which he publishes a lengthy review of the business and mining men of this city and devotes considerable space to an illustrated writeup of Camp Floyd district In an article headed Salt Lake a Mining Center Mr Edelsten says There are many requisites necessary to make a successful mining center Thriving cities have been started in the west on the supposition that the mineral min-eral resources were of sufficient magnitude mag-nitude to not emily sustain them but to make them great in population and commercial Importance but the vicisi tudes of the industry have been such that but few important cities have been entirely sustained in their growth by the mining industry Salt Lake City probably more than any other city in the United States owes its present prosperity and its promising future to mining aside from Us favorable location in the center of one of the richest valleys in the United States it is surrounded bv a mineral belt which present development is proving to be one of the most extensive ex-tensive in the world But other things are necessary to make this vast treasure treas-ure available for the use of mankind These immense deposits of mineral have probably existed thousands of years but were useless to within a few years ago on account of the want of a process to extract the precious metals economically The fame of Utah has attracted mining men from all parts of the world and there are now to be I found in Salt Lake City many business institutions and mining men to whom the credit is due of having overcome all the apparently Insurmountable difficulties dif-ficulties of winning the values from the hitherto useless deposits of mineral |
