Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-30 | Page 7 | Utah Mines Prosper

r-r r Ii a- a 0 S S rz U tah Mines i Prosper P I HE Ut Utah mining industry i in 1928 1928 e enjoyed joyed the most prosperous year since the record wartime period of 1918 r Dividends paid by by metal min mines in in the state in 1928 totaled d i 5 an increase increase ase of more than two tv and one half mil mil- million million lion dollars over the 1927 disbursement Copper production for the y year ar unofficially es estimated mated at pounds sets a new state stafe r record and firmly finnly establishes f lishes lashes Utah as s the second largest producing copper copper producing area in in the United States The gross value of non-ferrous non minerals mined in Utah last ye year is estimated at an increase of nearly eight and one-half one million dollars over over 1927 J Total tonn tonnage ge of ore mined l set a new peak in 1928 the estimated i figure b being ing tons ons which is approximately one and one one half million tons more than waS was mined in 1927 the year of largest production v vin in the last decade S S In 1928 Utah maintained ined her metal production ranking apt among ng all n other states in the Union namely First in silver second in lead second in i copper fourth i in zinc and sixth in gold oId I I. I