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Show It is interestinir to note that the law providing a tariff to be collected from lead ores imported into this country from Mexico has created a more lively demand for ores of that character produced pro-duced in I'tah. The agents of thn white lead trust sought to make the peoplo of the mining regions believe that a sullieient supply of fluxing ores could not be procured if the importation importa-tion of the cheap product were stopped. Men acquainted with the resources of the intcr-moiiutain country could not bu misled by that assertion. They knew that ail the lead needed could be produced pro-duced by American miners from American Amer-ican mines, and that the tariff would be of direct benelit to the mining industry in-dustry of this country. The benelit to Utah is so marked that it cannot be questioned; and any lair-minded man, after viewing tho results reached, must i admit that the cheap lead advocates have been discomfited by tho practical operation of the new law. |