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Show IK FUNDAMENTAL liUSTRYOF WORLD Mining la the fundamental civilizing industry in-dustry of the world. It is the foundation foun-dation upon which all commercial progress prog-ress is based. It dominates every line of endeavor and has a de-ding Influence over human destiny, says the Mining Record. Without the mines there would be no railroads or steamships and commerce would bf at a standstill. There would be no circulating media of a fixed value, val-ue, based on gold, and methods ol barter used by primitive man might still bo In vogue. The arts a nd crafts would be practically nil. The printer, minus metal presses and type, could no longer supply sup-ply the world with literature and newspapers news-papers would be unknown. Telegrams, cablegrams and telephones are words that would be eliminated from the English Eng-lish language. And our friends across the water would have to resort to clubs instead of shrapnel if they were determined deter-mined to exterminate one another. The farmer lacking agricultural Implements Imple-ments could not garner his crops unless he pulled them up by the roots. Dugouts Dug-outs or flimsy wooden structures would supplant the modern skyscrapers with their altitudinous towers. Everyone that had a desire to live would have to take up farming and stockraising in order to support and clothe himself. Taking all facts Into consideration, the west is to be congratulated upon pos-, pos-, sesslng an industry of such vital importance import-ance to society. Agricultural districts may boast of their fertile farms; manufacturing man-ufacturing communities may be self-laudatorv self-laudatorv over their immense production and financial centers may swell with pride over the far-reaching power of their gold, but, coming right down to facts, they all owe their being to the mining industry. |