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Show ItKIUIlT OAVs) COMING. A little more than two weeks since the new silver bill went into effect. And behold tho transformation that has come over tho face of every industry, including mining. Its operations so far have proven just what the papers of the western states and the leading senators sena-tors and congressmen have been iterating iterat-ing and reiterating for years. Agriculture Agricul-ture has begun to feel' the revivifying effects of the new infusion of life-blood into its famis.iing veins. Tho dark cloud that enveloped the farmers like a funeral pall is clearing away, and the bright sunshine of hope is bursting through it liko a glorious dream. With the fetters only partly stricken from tho lirabB of silver, It has daily mounted higher and higher, until It promises to reach a p arity with gold by the 1st of January, if not bofore. But it is not alono the urico of silvor that has advauced. If that was all, it would go a long way toward proving the assertions of eastern money sharks "that the west was sordid and selfish, and onlv w.tntnd favorable silvor legislation for personal ends." But as we havo always confidently confi-dently predicted, every commodity, except labor, has advanced iu price, keeping perfect step and timo with the advance of silvor. . Labor will, too, in a short time sharo in the benefits of theso results. Every farm product almost, wo might say every farm in the United States, has increased in value in tho.last sixty days. It only proves that what has boon asserted in the past is true, namely, that the business of sixty-live millions of people cannot be done with a volumn of currency only sullicient for thirty million. Everybody can woll afford to bo elated at the splendid prospects. pros-pects. But of all persons, who have reason to congratulate themselves on the result of the years of pationt labor on the part of newspapers and statesmen of the west, who have written and worked, cajoled and threatened for years, it is tho miner. Not only he who is fortunate fortu-nate enough to own a bonanza, but the poor prospector, the man who polishes the head of a drill in the grimy depths of the earth. He can well be pleased aud can shake hands with himself and partner at the opening of a new era. It will not bo so hard to sell a prospect now, if it only shows a foot or two of low grade ore. Perhaps It may not be necessary to even seek a purchasor, for with a foot or two of low grade oro, a property can now be made self-sustaining. self-sustaining. There will bo an awakening awaken-ing in Utah and the west in the miuing business before another year that will surprise people who are never prepared for changes until they come. This advance ad-vance ought to mean in a short time, hundred thousand dollar mouthly dividends divi-dends for the Ontario and lif ty thousand a month for the Daly. It will mean au increase of earnings of 25 to 83 per cent for every mine in Utah. Bingham, Bing-ham, Stockton and tho Cottonwoods will thrill with new activity that will remind old residents of the balmy days of tho past; whilo such camps as Tiutic will havo a hundred new shafts sunk in hitherto unexplored territory, the result re-sult of which will probably bo fifty new mines that will pour thoir wealth iuto Utah's lap. |