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Show In other words, it is intended to lake at last the light from under the bushel and let it shine forth in all its effulgent glory. That is all we need to start a mining boom in this country, using the word boom in its most legitimate sense. Disseruiuate the facts concerning our mineral wealth and the rest will follow as a sequence of cause and effect. ' To this end the mining exchange and individual miner should agree upon some method to report promptly all strikes, outputs, and monthly dividends paid, in Utah. I'NMKK THK Hl'SUKU If wo should assert that not a day passes but what somo important mining strikes ate made in Utah; would you believe it? If we should aver that Utah will stand second, if indeed not first, as a dividend paying mining state in the L'niou; would you credit it? If we should declare that the mines of Utah paid last year $10,000 more in dividends than did the mines of Colorado; Colo-rado; would you not doubt it? And yet it is the simple, unadorned I truth suoDorted bv statistical data Then why should the aflirmation create surprise in anybody's mind Simply ! because we hide our light under a bushel, bush-el, and do not allow it to shine where all the world can see its rays. There is no question whatever but that tho mining wealth of Utah need only lie known in order to attract the attention of tho world. All tho wealth that is being torn from the bowels of mother earth is nothing when compared com-pared with the treasures still hidden from sight and awaiting the expert eye of tho prospector and the plethoric purse of the investor. Why, the mines of Utah have scarcely been touched as yet. Xo systematic or scientific search has ever been inado for them until very recently and even now they have j been scarcely more than walked over ) casually. It is no misstatement to j say that with all the fortunes i and with all the record hitherto made i in our chief industry, we have but j barely reached the beginning, and the I great future is all ahead of us yet. Due to this fact, the directors of the chamber of confmerce. wo understand, j wisely propose to issue circulars in the shape of folders, containing nothing j save the history of mining in Utah, j Arrangements are also under way to telegraph at least nnce a day through the associated press all the, important I strikes that aic'nmile in the territory, r |