Show SPEEDING UP A year ago in these columns in which attention was called to our regular annual annual 1 review number reference was made to the great improvement in the mining industry of the west during the year 1916 and the prediction was made that 1917 would be so fraught with successes in mining operations that new records would be established and new standards chronicled and it needed no gift of prophecy to forsee that business activities throughout the united states would materialize from the awakening that has resulted throughout the length and breadth of the land because of the fact that our nation is now engulfed in a righteous war with a so called cultured people whose civilization is only skin deep and whose highest aspirations would still further brutalize the most savage tribes if injected into their barbarous code and this prediction has been more than realized for the whole country has joined together in speeding up almost every branch of industry every line of df work until the nation pulses with the throb and bibra tion of increased energy increased manufacture and increased production and it is even now difficult to foretell the heights to which business will ascend during durin k the period of conflict and for many years thereafter land iland I in hand with other industries mining has kept pace with the leaders in this forward march and the production of the precious and baser metals during the past year has furnished the sinews of war so necessary during this period of national peril and we of the west feel proud of the fact that the spirit of patriotism has so dominated the leading mining operators of this section that they have sacrificed opportunities port unities of profit in order that they might render needed service to the government at the same time speeding up production to the limit and making concessions that could not be asked for or expected in times of peace |