Show PROFITS IN MINING it itis is refreshing says an exchange to have hav e a closefisted close fisted banker admit that there is more money in the legitimate vocation of mining than there is in the banking business while anyone at all conversant wi with th mining readily admits that mining is the most profitable business on earth yet those engaged in banking are the last ones to admit it mr E T rich a prominent eastern banker in a recent article on mining vs banking published in the national banker has the following to say on the subject there is as much money invested in mining as in ban banking kinZ and the former pays a much handsomer dividend the prejudice against mining like an hereditary taint still clings to the u ultra itra conservative the timid and the less ambitious such notions and ideas on mining though well intentioned are based upon the theory that some one lost money either in the mining proper or in min mining ng stock speculation millions are sunk yearly in corn wheat or pork speculation and no one condemns such except perhaps the agriculturist or the suffering poor that the number of dividend paying min min ing companies is larger than all other combined industries is fully sustained by statistics that mining produces quicker and greater profits than any other industrial pursuit is evidenced by the score of multi millionaires that there are risks in mining as ag well as in other pursuits is well known to all reasonable minds but that the immense fortunes fortun esq of the macnays Mac kays the fairs the fields the aharons Sh arons the baldwins baldvins Bald wins and thousands of others are due to mining cannot be denied |