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Show OHNT1NAASD UTAH MININU. The Engineering and Mining Journal, Jour-nal, of New York oity, edited by professor pro-fessor Raymond, U. B. commissioner of minoa, has recently published from his forthcoming report of mining statistics sta-tistics of tho United States, the products pro-ducts of tho soverat States and Territories Terri-tories of precious metals for 1372. The yield of Montana in gold he places at $4,721,395 Of silver, including the lead in ores shipped, at 346,944 Of oopper ores shipped at 5,000 Making a total in value of $6,073,339 The above journal of April 18th publishes the statistics statis-tics of Utah mines for 1372 made up from three different dif-ferent estimates. The largest estimated yield of gold, silver and lead is $3,232,377 Yield of Montana greater I rhn t.htir. nf Utah. $2.A40.962 ' We take the largest estimate of Utah for 1872, although the smallest estimate esti-mate makes the total yield but $2,-427,181. $2,-427,181. Marshal Wheeler makes the yield of Montana for 1872 about $7,000,000, in which estimate our bankers and business busi-ness men concur; but Prof. Raymond deduots the estimated shipments of the first four months of 1873, (tho time, May 1st, for which the contracts for 1872 of the shippers of gold with the Express company expires,) and whioh must be made up from the produot of 1872. Conceding all this, aud taking the lowest estimate of Montana and the highest estimate of Utah for 1872, and wo havo produocd nearly double the value of precious metals yielded by Utah in that year. Our present white population does not exceed 20,000, whilo Utah olaiojB 120,000, and it is stated that over $30,000,000 of foreign capital has been invested in Utah mines within the uast three yoars. Thus, with one-sixth one-sixth of tho population of Utah, and no forego oapital, our people have produced by their own labor nearly double in value more prcoious metal b than Utah. This state of facts should give our people the utmost enoouragement to wait in faith and labor in hope for a speedy development of the unbounded wealth whioh surrounds us in every mountain gorge and gulch. We produce pro-duce now every variety of grain and all the vegetables of this latitude in the greatest profusion. We oan and do raise with very little cost more cattle, horses, sheep and hogs than we oan use. With this unlimited profusion of mineral, vegetable and animal wealth abounding all around us, we require but one more element to make us the greatest producers of wealth in the world. Our present isolation outs us off from the teeming, living, active world. We need and must have in the shortest possible time a railroad to eooneot us with that world. Every year's delay is a loss of millions to us, and very soon after such connection is scoured, we would not feel tho payment of interest a burden on any reasonable subsidy we could give. Helena Herald. |