| Show OVER speculation and inflation of values has had a disaster ous effect on the mining share market but this has in no way interfered with legitimate mining and investment on the contrary as a matter of fact there is more activity in mine development in the purchase and sale of gilt edged mining propositions than has ever before been recorded re corded in this western country and more big enterprises are now under way in the mining camps of utah and adjoining states than has been the case for several years past it is one thing to own mining stocks of speculative value and quite another thing entirely to own an interest in a producing and paying mine or in in a prospect of undoubted merit upon which development work is being actively pushed stock in a good legitimate company is also a good investment and owners of shares in such should not be discouraged cou raged if they have shrunk in marketable value of late as a stock that has fallen below its sale price of a year or two ago is bound to advance again in fact it will doubtless go 90 even higher and make good money for its possessor the great trouble has been that thousands of companies have been incorporated on worthless ground and the country has been flooded with stock not worth the paper upon which it is written the wise investor will always investigate before buying as it is just as easy to get in on a meritorious proposition as it is to become identified with wildcats wild cats |
