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Show DEI BOOSTS M AT11GC0IGRESS Special to The Tribune PHOENIX Ariz Dec 10 In response to addresses of we come at the &e en teenth ses on of he American M n ng congress Geo ge H Dern of alt Lake orea ed cons derable favorab e comn ent and drew to the suppo t of the Utah de e gat on in I s b d for Salt Lake to be se lected as the meet ng place of the e ghteen annual session a considerable fo lowing Mr Dern said In part Utah peop e ha e the 1 gl est re gard for the r next door ghbors of Arizona and are a ways g ad to vi t then On behalf of the U ah de ega t on I want to t ant them for the r friend y welcome, and express o appre atlon of the r boun eous bos pi tal y I have often heard of t e wonder ful Hassaampa ive of w hose lln pld wa e s e erj loya son of Ar zona takes a drink and thence forth never aga n s eaks the t uth If we had a Has ajampa 1 er n Ltah tlere m gl t be some advantage In coming so ate on the p ogramn e of these esponses because one wou d I now by t at me 1 ow ha d to boost In order to make one s own sta e look n ore important than a 1 the rest as a mlnera producer Howe e not having the benef t of the mag c wa ters I must conf ne myse f to the II eral tru h With becon ner n od estj I sr'a I ne U er attempt to ca a logue U ah a m neral resour es in de tal nor g e you any of tlat keen de ght wh ch comes from 1 sten ng to a ot of stat sties So I will put i m dly and say that Utah has to d enough o pa e the st ee s of the new Jerusa em She ' has silver enough to put a appro pr ate 1 ning in every cloud be it po tl al ndustr(al f nancial or other w se She has copper enoug to make a 1 er al s a es tu n gren wlU en -j Perhaps that is putting it pret y strong when we go up aga nst .r zona but then copper s aw te e ephant Just now anywas and the peop e who ave copper a e to be p ed ather tha env ed so we wl 1 et that pas Utah 1 as so much lead that Its ery weight keeps her from ran9 to an en nence bevond the view of o d nary fetates She has a who e coun ry fu 1 of iron that as not been tou hea and that w II some time n ake Utah he Iennsjl ana of t e west She as coal ga ore and I want to tell ou right now tlat nobody need worry about th s od word running short of fuel bo long as Utah Is on the map and we have no immediate In ten on of getting oC tbe map Our hydro carbon depos ts are stupendous and are g owing nto a ery mpor tant industry T ese and count ess other resources 1 a e s arce j been s ratched and we therefore fee -that we are not o ernguine when we expect some day to be the very frst state in m neral production instead of the second th rd or fourth, or where er we are placed now In ore dress ng and meta urgj Utah is second to none e t er n magn ude of operat ons or n ad vanced n etbods The immense con centratlng mi s of the Utah Copper company at Garf e d trea ing 0 000 ton of copper o e per day are among the modern wonde s of the word The smelters at Murray M dva e Garfle d and Tooele are an ong the largest and most up to date that have ever been bu t The cvan de proce s whi h has re o ution zed go d n ning had its f rst s ccessfu An er lean app cat on In Utah acuu n si me f tration wh ch subsequen j re o ution zed tl e cjanide process and vas y broadened its scope was in ve ted in Lta And now we a e co n ng a ong with a rew method of ch orid z ng roast ng by means of wh ch el ceous go d s er and cop per ores are treated with remarl ab e cheapness Th s prom ses to rank as another great metallurg cal ach eve n ent. In short Utah mines ha e contributed contrib-uted 1 beral to the wo d s wea th, and Utah men have contr buted lib e al y to m ning sc e ce and to the store of hun a know edtte |