Show SIC EM IDAHO SIC EM STEWART elsewhere is a summary of the remarkably comprehensive and complete annual report of the mining industry of idaho for the year 1925 here we want to call attention to an utterance or two of state mine inspector stewart campbell author of the work contained in his foreward stewart campbell takes the stand that metal mining is a legitimate resourceful clean and properly encouraged and protected profitable business and he evidently has the unanimous backing of his state in his attempt to make it just that in the judgment of the mining review other metal mining state could and should follow every the example set by idaho and place the industry on a higher plane of integrity and worth metal mining as such is one of the greatest cleanest and most valuable industries on earth it does not rob peter to pay paul only as its real sponsors rs and well wishers permit an unscrupulous and pretty large armyon army of crooks to pose as mining operators and legitimate promoters and flood the country with boom literature and millions upon millions of shares of stock that are seldom issued with any other purpose than to get the money no one has to wear this shoe if it pinches to this class of vultures the state of idaho through its state mine inspector issues warning in these words in so far as we have the power this state department is is going to continue to make the way of the mining transgressor hard and rocky we are not going to sit calmly and quietly by and watch crooked brokers dynamiters dyna miters high pressure salesmen fake promoters and financial sandbag gers catch and rob the public with idaho mines as a bait 1 we are going to continue to assist the honest promoter in every legitimate manner possible to interest th the e public in idaho mines but a firmer stand than ever before is is going g to be taken against the faker who would rob the public and discredit idaho and its mining industry by promoting worthless properties or by starving worthy ventures through excess commissions and stock gambling graft the orderly development of the industry is interrupted so this office will be used in so far as possible as a means of destruction of crooks and fakers bakers and notice is served that idaho will not be a safe place for the shady dealer or his crooked schemes the mining review has no quarrel with legitimate promoters of legitimate mining enterprises it is back of every one of them body and soul it recognizes the fact that if prospects are ever to be converted into mines someone has to secure the funds which to prosecute the work and someone has to plan the campaign of development and see that the funds secured are put to a legitimate use but as we have stated many times in the past when for example some property is developed deve loved to a stage where ore is is uncovered and then a flock of promoters have a country 4 staked out for miles around and organize companies by the dozens and capitalize them for hundreds of in millions illions of dollars and tens of millions of shares and announce that the biggest boom ever is on it is time to call a halt idaho is making no mistake in warning a gullible and unsuspecting public sim em idaho sic eni em stewart |