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Show PLENTY OF MONEY TO S INVEST IN MB C. H. Gibbs Returns From Trip to Financial Centers Cen-ters of East. There is more ready money for investment invest-ment purposes In the east at the present time than in years, according to C. H. Gibbs, general manager of the Wasatch Mines company. Mr. Glbbs has re-t re-t ur ned fro in a tr ip to N'ew Y ork Ci t y . Boston, Chicago and other eastern cities. Practically every line of industry Is teeming with activity. Where a few years ago business men were jubilantly discussing transactions involving thousands thou-sands of dollars, they now speak in a matter of fact sort of way of transactions transac-tions involving millions of dollars. A spirit of optimism is found on all sides. Manufacturers of all kinds of supplies have their factories working clay and night. Prosperity has not only arrived, but has apparently taken up permanent quarters in the United States. The consensus of opinion, in the large financial circles is that, due to the absolute ab-solute necessity of reeons true ting the property destroyed and being destroyed by the present conflict. the United States will be forced to supply the world long after the Europea n war is ended. With more ready money for investment invest-ment and speculation, the interest In mining Is. as a. consequence, growing keener each week. In discussiiig the situation relative to mining In the east, Mr. Gibb3 said yesterday: Xo later than three years ago if one went east and approached a business man relative to investment In a mining line he was met with a frigid sort of politeness and the interview in-terview ended with a decisive and emphatic refusal even to consider a mining proposition. That sort .of thing was the case, as a general rule. Visit the east today. The very moment mo-ment it is known that you are engaged en-gaged in the mining industry that in itself Is apparently an open sesame ses-ame to the most courteous treatment treat-ment possible. You axe Invited' into the private office and later on taken to lunch. You are piled with ail rerts of questions. In a word you are eagerly sought after to explain your proposition. Any legitimate mining proposition that will bear investigation is eagerly looked into and snapped up. Never before has money been ao plentiful. Never before have the New England states, the manufacturing manufac-turing centers, been engaged in turning turn-ing out all manner of supplies on such a wholesale scale. There seems to be an insatiable market for every ev-ery staple article in the list. |