| Show WELL NOW LETS GET BUSY next tuesday will be election day when men will be selected to conduct the affairs of the united chates corporation for another four years it is the biggest business concern in the world with more than stockholders all of whom will be glad that the battle for control will have ended so that there may be a return to the conduct of f individual affairs which for months have been negle neglected viewing the situation from the metal mining standpoint it would seem that now is the time to shunt politics into the background and get busy by those in a position to know we are being repeatedly advised that there is a constantly increasing increasing inc reasin g demand for lead silver copper and zinc that stocks are diminishing to the vanishing point and that new sources of supply for all the metals with the possible exception of copper are entirely inadequate to meet present consumptive demands to say nothing of future needs and requirements conservative men in the ranks of the worlds greatest banking and industrial concerns are declaring this country is on the verge of the greatest wave of prosperity that the world ever experienced perien ced such a period of business and industrial growth as is being predicted cannot be stimulated to its grda greatest test possibilities if the metal mining industry is not also stimulated and expanded to a degree that will make it possible to supply the demand for the various metals enumerated aerated Me rated I 1 met metal al mining therefore must not be allowed to la lag new mines mines must be found and made productive and money must be supplied with which to do it lead is ad avancing in price every day zinc is also addan advancing cing and I 1 there is everything 6 to in indicate that copper must also corn com r mand higher prices no one not even the producers want to see a runaway market in either of them that would retard industries in which they are needed such a condition is not to be thought of and every effort must be made to avert it evidently metal mining must receive greater attention As we are able to visualize the situation it is already beginning to be realized that the salvation of the country rests on the ability of men to meet the exigencies of the case the metal mining west is already being combed for properties that can be developed into producers and the work is going to be pressed with increased vigor from now on the industrial boom is coming all right and metal mining is going to play an important part in the pro gramme gramme now is the time to get ready for it so get busy |
