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Show Life-Span of Utah's Mines Proves Long t M, -i , J." I , A i i The size of this slag dump at one of Utah's smelters Is evidence that mining here is a long-term stable industry. Time was when mining was regarded re-garded as a "boom" industry. Overnight Over-night men became wealthy and overnight mushroom camps sprang up in the hills of the West. Miners, gamblers and speculators followed the cry of "strike". They gleaned the high grades and reaped a rich harvest. But the high grades do not last; they never do, and many of the ghost camps with their scarred hills bive mute testimony to this. Mining has outlived the economy of the high grades, and has entered into an era of .low-grade ores. Today mining . is a problem of salvaging what is left and probing deeper and farther into the unknown un-known below the earth's crust to find more. Today mining calls forth even greater courage, greater knowledge and greater sacrifice. |