Show THE GROWTH OF THE MINING INDUSTRY from time to time the mining review lias touched upon the growth of the mining industry and of the great future in store for this fascinating and profitable pursuit still we believe that but few have any real conception or idea of the magnitude the scope and the possibility of mining in all of its branches some guage their ideas of mining by what they know or one or two camps or of a few sections of the west and are convinced that the industry may give employment to a few thousand people with earnings proportionately small even those who have lived all of their lives in the mountains ha have hae e but little comprehension of the extent to which the industry has grown during the past few years of the great army of men employed in our mines and mills and of the many millions invested in mine equipment and development and of the vast fortunes made through successful mining operations in our state utah we know that the mining industry is in a most flourishing condition that new bonanzas have been added to our fine list of paying mines and wealth producers and that there is reason to believe that the number will be doubled during the next five years but we fail to appreciate the fact that the same wave of prosperity has visited our sister states and that our successes in mining have been at least duplicated by our neighbors within whose boundary lines may new and rich camps have been established of late and whose claims for recognition at the hands of capitalists and investors are on an equality with our own year after year we see that more interest is being taken in mining affairs more prospects are being transformed into profit making mines great enterprises are yearly swinging into line being the forerunners of extensive work in mine development and equipment in mill and smelter building long neglected properties are now being worked and thousands of new prospects are falling into the hands of those who are able to carry on their exploitation in an able and intelligent manner and the prospector keeping well in advance of the mine operator the middle aged man and the stock buyer is yearly adding to the already large area of mineral bearing ground and yet it will take hundreds of years to exhaust the mineral possibilities of this western country leaving opportunities for coming generations to take advantage of even as the men of experience nerve and ambition are doing today it is interesting to note the growth of the mining industry during the past few years to show that while the output of the precious metals twenty or thirty years ago amounted to so many thousands that today it runs up into the millions and it is with pleasure that we have the assurance that within a few years more it will figure up into the billions |