Show POSTAGE FOR THIS ISSUE in mailing this issue of the mining review a four cent stamp will be required for each copy extra copies can be had upon application at the mining review office 1601 walker bank building already wrapped if desired send address price and postage and the mailing will be done for you from this office price per copy 25 cents to send to foreign countries double the postage will be required 0 the government has thrown open its potash lands for lease and development this is another case where a shortsighted short sighted fighte policy of conservation has worked hardship upon the nation the hour of need has arrived and the land must still be prospected and developed better that the public be given free rein in these matters so that the preliminaries will be attended to before the crises arrive utah mines paid a total of twenty nine and a half million dollars in dividends in 1917 there were ninety assessments against mining stocks levied during the year raising revenues estimated at a total of six hundred thousand dollars utah figures are a fair criterion of the industry as a whole what then becomes of the favorite statement of the uninformed that more money is put into mining than is ever taken out utah indians have laid aside the peace pipe and grabbed the war club with an expressed intention of walloping the kaiser our civilized indians would be outclassed 1 by the european barbarians however the former are only untutored sons of nature whereas german kultar has taught the huns fiendish methods of torture which would have caused the fiercest frontier indians of a hundred years ago to quit the field in absolute disgust former united states senator thomas kearns prominent in western mining circles recently said if the loafers on our street corners refuse to fight for their country then round them up and make them work on our farms and in our factories that better men may have food and clothing and we may add in our coal and metal mines that our fighting men and our industries dus tries may not lack the first requisites of success thousands of these corner bums may be found in every big city most of them well dressed and regular devils with the ladies make them fight or work |