Show II I WEALTH FROM THE GROUND i L I The great prosperity of the United States is due primarily to the wealth being produced from Mother Earth The West is exceptionally prosperous particularly particularly because the tho world demands ever eyer increasing quantities of the tile metals produced produced pro- pro produced from Its mines and the petroleum produced from Its oil wells The demand Is greater than the tile supply and the re result result re- re sult suit is that the tho world Is now paying higher prices for the tho products of ot Mother Earth than had been paid for many years previous says the tho Dally Daily Financial and Mining Record The silver miner is exceptionally happy and if It the oil fields of Wyoming and Texas were not so attractive to mining men and mining promoters there would be even greater activity in the mining camps of the The mines were inactive when war conditions and I f in government effect n The price I oil 1 fixing fields f fd d were of r metals then ha more were I attractive for the reason that Uncle Sam was paying big prices for high power gasoline and lubricants The result was that many mining men mining promoters promoters promoters pro pro- and brokers turned their attention attention attention atten atten- tion to oil Since the the- war Var ended silver sliver has gone to better than 1 per ounce and copper zinc and lead have shown marked advances The old time mining man has naturally therefore returned to his first love and camps from Alaska to Mexico and throughout the Rocky mountain region are again beehives of ac ac- ac- ac Out In Nevada the greatest mining excitement dit n in t the tho West is gur ur under e nw nay wa r and this boom m is spreading d g in all d di The wonderful new silver-gold silver camp of Divide has set a pace far ahead of ot any other section of the West Colorado formerly boasted of many hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of silver producing mines and now that the white metal Is again j soaring upward there has been a rush for or prop prop- The booming mining camps and the booming oil fields fIeld are always in the public public pub pub- lic Ito eye and we are sometimes liable to forget the wonderfully productive fields that are aro a adding to the wealth of the nation every day and every overy hour of the year without any noise We should not forget the prolific oil fields of California Califor nia Oklahoma and other states which still offer wonderful investment There are grand chances for moneymaking In the mining districts of Montana Idaho Utah Arizona and Colorado Colorado Colo Cob rado not to mention other Rocky mountain mountain moun moun- tam tain states of lesser or greater nence They ar are all feeling the stimulating stimulating stimulating lating effect of the higher prices for forth forth th tOt metals The added wealth being pro- pro dued by these mines and oil fields Isa is isa a a. vital factor In our more Important position position po po- po- po as a world power Wealth from the mines and oil wells is clean wealth It Is not the wealth obtained by the profiteer who robs roDS the public by placing fictitious values no goods sold There are no happier men living than the successful developers fo mines and oil wells They are able to sleep nights because they are robbing no noone noone noone one to obtain their wealth and they are adding to the tile happiness of the world through their efforts The West Vest is still a great undeveloped empire with plenty of rom for aggressive aggress aggress- ive lye men with capital to dev develop lop its latest resources |