Show TIIE THE MINING it is astonishing to note the greatly increased activity which dominates the mining industry of the great west and to observe the almost feverish demand in almost every walk of life for gilt edged mining properties the situation as to mining has much improved duriez the past few years and investors and capitalists who not so very long ago looked upon mining as a gamble and the mining operator as a shark are now glad to become interested in the former and to become intimately associated with the latter it ir is said that the difference between a fool and a wise man is that the namesake of the animae animal that baalam rode will never change chancre his mind while the descendant of solomon will willy thus it is that opinions will change that that which was black a few years ago acro is is now white for experience has shown that mining as a whole is legitimate t that fortunes are more easily marle made in mining enterprises than in any other commercial manufacturing agricultural ri or business occupation bitter prejudices pie against mining have been buried in and because of the fact that their holders holder could not stand out against the over whelmine whelming evidence that mining was both profitable and legitimate they could no longer arraign the mining industry as a fake a gamble when on every hand they heard beard of millions made from thousands invested of incomes pouring steadily into the lap of friends which would have been fortunes fortuned fortu neg for kings and rulers in the olden times and as a consequence have investigated into mining in all of its branches to such an extent that they are now glad to become identified with this fascinating industry indeed to such an extent has mining become popular throughout the length and breadth of this fair land of ours that the miner and investor are now brothers the natural sequence being that in almost every mining camp in the west increased activity is is noticeable noti cable new producers are being yearly added to the list of our dividend payers old bonanzas are being r resurrected innumerable hoisting works are going up reduction plants are being built and there is such a demand for mine and mill equipment that machinery machi nerv houses are months behind in their orders such then J is the healthy condition of the mining 0 industry of today 1 and this is but a starter to what it will be a year from now |