Show UTAH OCCUPIES HIGH PLACE while we are patting ourselves on oil our collective back and crowing about the great output of our own mines it will not hurt us if we look around occasionally and endeavor to keep some track of the strides made by other mining states the present position of utah for instance is interesting advance estimates by the united states geo magical survey indicate that the value of the metal output for 1917 was no less than comparing with in 1916 of this amount no less than was contributed by salt lake county count alone a per capita earning that will probably compare with that of any similar area in the united states the tonnage yield from that county was containing ounces of gold ounces of silver pounds of copper i pounds of lead and pounds of zini thus in diversified metal yield salt I 1 lab county also sets a precedent so far as ve are advised the state of utah in general and the city of salt lake in particular are full alive to the value of the mining industry neither has yet reached the point when at mining ng dinv inv in hinves bankers shake their heads ments and endeavor to steer capital away ava when we of washington and idaho gain I 1 proper idea of the value of the mining tf il 0 austry and refuse to be drawn off after false gods of real estate and apple ord 0 of better ards we shall be immeasurably ec the just are suffering from now we I 1 to convert con of if would be miracle workers else we mining country into something olde bucking nature and strangling the a truth apo goose northwest mining wash |