Show UTAH AS A MINING STATE The carefullyprepared tables sup plied elsewhere in this edition show what claims Utah has ll as a mining t miling State Of the four leading products there was last l year mined H S Tend Copper pounds pounds1S35475 297iU65Cl Value Silver ouncixs Plllt 3I32I00 81var ounCNI 10I j lS ct2o1 I i CJokl ounces 2062i G1OZi1i I < 221 1tJHS Tplal Output forlSK nt0IJlrr1 3 Gain in 1MO over ISM S037CS2159 IO I G3it 159 Vyfe 4hlnk that is a marvelous state nieijt as well in the amount as In the variety of the metals The yield of one great mluo has been ben greatly c I because of litigation flt some curtailed others which fire just beginning to yield will be marked factors in I the wi corning year The dividends declared for the year v hlch do not include the profits onIn dividual mines or close ol clQE corporations aggregated J 3OC0IQQn lSSTegated an fucrcasi over J > if 1SOD of 1H5900 The aggregate of known mine dividends for the State up to date amount to 38042750 In this connection to give an Idea what a mining State means t transpor to tation companies It is appropriate handled by copy the pounds oC metal tho railroad companies In Utah last year as officially supplied They aggregated ag-gregated 2C9821301 pounts which was of 122035012 San Increase over 1SW 2052 pounds To haul the product required 6745 railway cars Of course the figures represent only the different forms of the four chief metals carried with the exception that 140000 of Iron for flux is Included The coal and coke and mining machinery ma-chinery and mining supplies belong to other tables A marvelous thing is that not until now have the men of Utah real assurances that a railroad running through a wonderful mining country for 500 miles Is about to be pushed through to the coast Looking over the showing is It strange that Ulah is exultant on this close of the year and that the prospects pros-pects of her people seem as bright on the earth as is the sunlight overhead |