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Show BIG INTERESTS TJILSES Silver mining has pained tremendous Impetus since the sidv;iueo in the prico of the metal to over 5 L an ounce, and some of the bipuest men in New York and the west, hit her t o inexorably wedded wed-ded to copper and gold mining only, are becoming" heavily interested In silver mining, says the New York Telegraph. Among these may bo mentioned Seeley Mudd, P. "Wiseman and Frank Keith, who control the X'nited JOastern gold mine at Oat ma n, Ariz,, and the first two of whom were closely identified with the Kay Con-sol Con-sol Ida ted Copper com pa ny In I lie early stapes of its career. Ot her prominent mine operators are Slier wood Aldrieh, president of the Utah Copper company ; H. C. .Tackling of Utah, K:t y and other big copper companies, and Charles Hay-den Hay-den of the firm of llayden, Stone & Co. The steel industry is represent el by Charles M. Schwab and II. C. Friek. All of the above have become Interested In-terested in the new silver camp of 1'ivide in Nevada, and to this list could be added the names of some of the leading firms on the New York stock exchange. The outlook for a long extended period of prosperity for copper and silver mining min-ing Is practically assured. Copper stocks have for many years : been favorably regarded by the investing and speculative public. The silver situation is now being fully realised even by investors who have obstinately ob-stinately ignored this industry in tho past, and silver stocks are now coming into popular favor. Silver is the one vitally necessary metal of which there Is a shortage and for which tho demand is far in excess of the supply. Kven at a minimum figure- of $1 an ounce the mining of silver yields a higher percentage of profit over cost of production than any other metal, and this fact, when properly appreciated, will undoubtedly cause the investment of much sadly needed capital In the silver mining industry. Civilization is dependent absolutely on the production and use of metals. Savages may exist by agriculture, hunting and fishing, but civilized man must havo metals, met-als, and of all that Are necessary to civilization civ-ilization the one for which there is now the greatest world-wide demand is silver. |