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Show forpret the wondyrful productive fie!. Is 1 that are adding to the wealth of the na- , tion every day and every hour d the; year without any noise. We .should not forget the prolific oil fields of Cal i; or-nia, or-nia, Oklahoma and other states which still offer wonderful investment o-j;mr- . tu nicies. There are grand cham-ed lor muney-makin in tlie mining disuvts ui Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and Colorado, Colo-rado, not to men i ion other Kooky Mountain Moun-tain states of lessor or irreatt-r pronii- -nonce. They are all feeling the stimulating stimulat-ing effect of the hit'iier prices lor the ' metals. The added wealth beinu' pro- , j duced by these mines and oil fields is a vital factor in our more important po- , I sition as a world power. i Wealth, from the mines and oil fields is clean -wealth, it is not the wealth : obtained by the profiteer who robs the ; public by placing fictitious values on goods sold. There are no happier men : living than the successful developers of ; mines and oil wells. They are aisle to ; sleep nights because they are rohhing no : one to gain their wealth, and they are 1 adding to the happiness of the world j through their efforts. ! The" west is still a great undeveloped ' empire with plenty of room for aggressive men with capital to develop its latent resources. re-sources. Mining and Financial Ilecord. MINES OF -WEST LUREJpEST The great prosperity of the United State3 is due, primarily, to tho wealth bo-lug bo-lug produced from Mother Earth. The west Js exceptionally prosperous, particularly particu-larly because tlie world demands ever-Increasing ever-Increasing quantities of the metals produced pro-duced from its mines and the petroleum produced from its oil wells. The demand is greater than tho supply, and tho result re-sult is that the world is now paying higher prices for tlie products of Mother Earth than had been paid for many yeas previous. The silver miner is exceptionally happv, and if the oil fields of Wyom'inpr and Texas were not yo attractive, to minin? men and mining prospectors, there would be even L;reater ai:ivi;y in t::e mliii!! camps of the Colorado Rockies. The mines were ir.aftivu wht-n war conditions and government price-fixing of metals were in effect. The oil fiplrls were then i moii) attra-tive for tlie reason that L'nle tHun wan paying big prices for Hh-;mw-Pr gasoline and luhrieants. The result was that many mining nif-n, mining promoters pro-moters and brokers turnVd t heir attention atten-tion to oil. Since the war en-led silver has gone to better than il pt-r ouiFe, 1 a n J copper, zinc and lead h a e shown marked advances. The oidtime minim? man has naturally, therefore, returned to ' h's first love and ramps from t0 Mexico anil throughout the llt .-kv moun- ' ; tain region are a L'ain bcer.;vt-s of a , I tivity. i Out in Nevrrla the crreate.-t mining --- i ; citement in the wet is und'T wav, and i j this boom is spreading in al! directions. ! , The wonderful new sliver-goid ivimp of Divide has set a pace far ahead of' any ; other mininc section of the west. Ca'.o- rado formerly boasted of many hundreds i of silver-producing mines.- and" now that thft white metal Is acrafn soaring upward,! there has been a rush for properties. The booming mining camps and the booming oil fields are ahvavs in the public pub-lic eye. and we are sometimes liable to |