Show ADVANCE IN quotations since the last issue of the mining laining review there has been a marked advance in the market quotations of silver lead copper and zinc and this improvement naturally is having an inspiring effect upon those who directly or indirectly are interested te in the mining industry As a matter of fact this increase in metal values is already stimulating mining operators and if these advances are well maintained and if the even higher market that is anticipated finally prevails there will be no reason to complain of mining conditions throughout the country A most optimistic feeling prevails in almost every section of the united states and there is a general impression everywhere that the wave of prosperity that will sweep over the country during the coming year will be unprecedented in the east where factories are working overtime and where the demand for raw material is almost in excess of the supply the panicky condition existing during the past seven years has almost been forgotten already while in the middle west where boomer crops have been harvested no one seems to know that the country has been passing through a season of depression and if the west can get gcoy markets for its metals for its coal for its hydrocarbons and other commodities of like nature and at prices that will insure a reasonable margin of profit this section will soon be so completely in tune with the whole country that no one will have the time or courage to talk ab about hard times |