Show TWO HUNDRED MILLION it is an easy thing to speak of a certain sum of money in the abstract and one can write down the sum of one thousand dollars just as easily as he can two hundred and afif fifty ty figures alone fail to convey to the mind the true value or the volume of a hundred dollars or of one hundred thousand dollars in the last issue of the mining review the statement was made that during the last twenty three years the mines of utah had produced over in sold gold silver copper and lead when put in figures unless expressed in very large and boldfaced bold faced type this amount does not look large to the average reader in fact to impress him with the magnitude of such a sum it might be necessary to put the actual money before him in gold coin in silver dollars and in paper currency and ask him to count it out dollar af after ter dollar then perchance a realization of what is meant by two hundred million might be acquired two hundred million is a princely sum and the contemplation of such a vast amount of money should impress one with the thought t that at any state producing such wealth should be entitled to due consideration at the hands of mining men and investors and at the same time the reader of this should bear in mind that this output of the precious metals means that the amount specified has been added to the worlds supply of imperishable wealth and to the money medium of the country there are but few states in the union that surpass this record colorado california and montana older mining states are able to make a better showing than this but it is safe to say that that no other state everything considered has made greater advances during the past few years in a mining way than has utah the forty afif fifth th star in uncle sams galaxy of states As a matter of fact mining is still in its infancy in utah and yet our people are able to point with pride to our large array of heavy producers and magnificent dividend payers and to the sum total produced by our mines to date and the amount disbursed among fortunate stockholders in dividend payments we have referred so often to the princely fortunes paid out in li velvet levelvet money by such mines as the ontario the daly the daly west the silver king the centennial eu reka the mammoth the eureka hill the bullion beck the mercur the horn born silver and many other utah bonanza propositions that we feel in writing on the subject again that we are springing long iong haired chestnuts upon our readers still the subject is one that will bear harping upon and especially so as just now there are so many in the middle and eastern states who are considering investments in western mining propositions and in mining shares and other securities to all such the mining review would say and truthfully too that in no other line is there offered such opportunities for safe and andi profitable investment the mining industry has been robbed robb edof of late years of some f not nearly all of its old time hood poes and very largely so because of the fact that mi binl f t 1 I 1 ing in all its branches has been reduced t to an exact science and is now carried on in the same manner and the same business methods are employed such as one would use in embarking in any other legitimate enterprise the chances being as great the results more certain and the profits larger than could be realized in any other pursuit we all know full well that many rai mistakes stakes have been made in the past in mining ventures but we know also that many princely fortunes have been amassed in the mining camps of the west and that they are still being beina made r yes they are still being made madd in utah and will continue to be made with millions upon millions to be added to the two hundred and odd million already recorded and it is therefore with pride and satisfaction that the review again calls the attention of its readers to the output in the precious metals made by utah mines during the past twenty three years |