Show SPENDING REAL MONEY TO MAKE MINES IN NORTHERN IDAHO according to the compilations of ravenal macbeth vh s rotary of the idaho mining association reported eis in in this issue e there was expended during the past pas t year one ten of the northern counties of idaho nearly five a an lid half million dollars in the worthy effort effar t to increase ln crease the eral cral wealth of that region nearly one half of that and was expended for mine mill and power plant maan machinery applied to equipment inc including ludin supplies the balance was app 0 f the labor and transportation account no e expenditures A ass acs large dividend paying companies on new work ani port so ment account are included in secretary ma ervy far nervy it is evident that the hope and determination ot of vork done seeing men has been entirely responsible for the w it the g in the and will ivill be made rna belief that new mines can be northern half of the gem state to those naho ahoi as a vesting money in the bus business iness of r mining ninin it in I 1 idaho idan 0 as the concerns of the country that are called u po to heele machinery equipment and supplies to keep turning turn illg the macbeth report mentioned can be read with profit and while on the subject it may be permissible and certainly pertinent to say that what is being done in northern idaho is also true of southern and central idaho also it is just as true that similar records are being made in utah colorado and elsewhere the task of finding developing and equipping new mines mines is going right ahead and while success will in the very nature of things not crown every effort the measure of rewards won will average high when the results are finally tabulated there never was a time in the history of metal mining when there was greater demand forthe opening of new mines this is an age of expansion in all lines of world requirement and production of the basic metals must be made to keep pace with it |