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Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-29 | Page 6 | They'll Forecast Utah's Future

Type issue
Date 1939-08-29
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title They'll Forecast Utah's Future
Type article
Date 1939-08-29
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 6
OCR Text They'll Forecast Ut Utah's hs h's Fut Future re THIs week Salt Lake City is host to one ne of 1 the most important conventions which meets anywhere in the nation the nation the American S Mining Congress Some two thousand leaders of the metal mining min mining min min- ing industry are arc attending the sessions discussing discussing dis dis- dis- dis cussing problems exchanging views and information information mation and in various ways discovering the ther thet t r prospects for and establishing the policies of S that industry for the coming corning year That is a c. c matter which is of the utmost importance to toS S the nation to the west and especially to Utah S Perhaps to emphasize this importance it would be well to repeat here the estimate based S on a careful study by economists that almost half of Utah's population is dependent directly or indirectly on metal mining raining Thus ThU what the mining industry docs does in Utah the scale of its operations the degree of its prosperity determines determines determines deter deter- mines to a very great extent the well being and prosperity of Utah's citizens S Even though you dont don't own a a. dollars dollar's worth o th of mining stock or have any connection directly t or indirectly with the mining Industry you have a big stake in Utah mining and its future futureS S prospects are of great import to you I It n is with pleasure then that Utah learns from Howard I. I Young president of the congress I that conditions in the industry are the best they have been in two years with good prospects for continued progress the rest test of oC the year Abo Also will wm follow with considerable t the d discussions at the congress on such vital questions affecting the ml mining industry as tariffs on metals the outlook for tor silver the problem of war as it affects the mining Industry industry indus Indus- try and the need for an assured supply of ot essential essen essen- minerals for national defense labor relations rela reI a- a in Jn the industry etc All AU these matters are important to us as aswell aswell aswell well a as to the mining congress because they affect Utah's Utah basic industry and will to a a a- acon considerable considerable considerable con con- degree determine its future prosperity and continued activity This vital interest in mining makes Salt Lake City doubly happy to be host to the con con- gress Not only do we have the honor of being heing the site for the gathering together of a large number of the nations nation's industrial l leaders but we have the advantage of having a first hand contact with the spokesmen for and the deliberations deliberations deliberations de de- de- de liberations of an industry whose future is Inseparably in inseparably inseparably in- in connected with that of Utah
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