Show UNLIMITED CONCEIT the los angeles mining review in trying to boost its home city is pursuing a most laudable course every newspaper should work for the best interests of its own community but a close adherence to facts and a restriction placed on imagination will invariably bring the best results in a recent editorial unconquerable combination the los angeles review names the southern city as the greatest mining center in the west perhaps the mistake is justifiable as it is derived through a misconception of the term mining center according to the article in question a mining center is a city where mining men congregate to do their business and from which they draw their supplies if that was all to be required of a mining center los angeles would be permitted to take first place there are more fake mining promoters to the square inch in that city than in most any ally other community in the west the is al also soless less actual mining business than in hl many other more modest cities A mining center to justify the name naine must be in the center of a great mining re gion it must not only be a base for supplies and have its full duoto of mining men but it must also afford a market for the products of the mines the promotion end of mining may be carried on most anywhere but the actual operations of lefiti mate work must be centered in the field itself in every respect salt lake city is the best mining center in the country and facts will substantiate this cla claim 1 m it h has as the location geographically for it is in the very heart of the greatest mining territory on the continent it has ample railroad facilities to every portion of this great mineral empire it is admitted to be the greatest smelting smelling sm elting center in the world and justly so many of the most influential mining men of the country make their headquarters here it is the hub for the whole 1 intermountain country los angeles is a great city but there are a score of others which outrank it as a minin mining center |