Show THE MINING INDUSTRY in another another column we republish an interview with horace horace V winchell of kinne minneapolis minnesota on the subject of the revision of our mining laws which will we believe prove interesting reading to the mining men of this western country the arguments and statements advanced by mr winchell are good and sound with the exception of one sentence in the interview ter view to which exception might be taken if quoted aright mr winchell in his remarks says although the agricultural industry is everlasting and the mining industry n is only temporary so to speak etc etc now in our opinion the mining industry is just as permanent as everlasting as the agricultural industry As a matter of fact they are temporary co and both date back to the dark ages and their relation to each other is so interwoven that the entire failure of either would work a great hardship to one or the other because a business house fails now and then it would hardly be right or just to make the claim that business was only temporary the perpetuity of the agricultural industry is not menaced because of a failure of crops on one or a dozen farms and the same can be said of mining A mine may become worked out or prove a failure but this does not prove that the mining industry is only temporary and there never was a time when the stability and permanence of 0 the mining industry was seriously questioned As a matter of fact the mining industry is becoming more and more firmly established as the years come and go and because of this fact the world is steadily growing more and more prosperous because of it people are enjoying more of the luxuries of life are richer and the whole country is gaining in prosperity and progress which would not be the case if the industry was only temporary as mr winchell says without being backed up by the mining industry and kindred enterprises the whole world would sink back into a condition of semi barbarism and for the reason that a generous circulating medium based on the metals means civilization without this circulation medium the intrinsic and imperishable wealth coming through the medium of the mining industry there would be a stagnation in business circles in financial centers and in regions throughout the world As a matter of fact the mining industry is the sin sinew ew and muscle the backbone of the financial fabric of all civilized nations and this all important relation could not obtain if it were only temporary people might continue to exist as agri culturists only if they were content to use wooden plows the old time flail the old conveyance of wooden wheels and a circulating cu efu lating medium of wampum but they would never become a great and mighty community such as exist at the present day and this greatness this steady growth and advance in civilization is due alost solely to the benefits reached through the medium of the mining industry a growth and advance that would not be possible if the industry was only temporary and lacking in permanency and the everlasting qualities that mr winchell ascribes to the agricultural industry |