Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-31 | Page 6 | Mining is Big Business

Mining Is Big Business A A VISIT to the American Mining Mining- Conr Congress is e. e exhibit of various types of mine machinery 1 and nd equipment at the fairgrounds Is Imps S. S I 1 lIve sive That is true even to the layman for lor lorI 1 I whom many of the different displays are in in- comprehensible v Included in the exposition arc are all types PCs of of machinery and equipment Some are full Lull size I regular machines others just models All to- to 1 gether it it is estimated a half halt million dollars dollars' t I worth of machinery is on display t The exhibit open to the public throughout the congress sessions has been attended by many curious Salt Lakers Most of these visitors who were unfamiliar with th the complexities of ot twentieth century ruining mining must have been a little helmed by bythe the maze of elaborate and app apparently costly 1 machinery and equipment required in the operation operation op op- cration of otan an efficient mine today I It t That at least was the chief impression of oft i t this writer Titer after visiting the congress and the tho exposition It emphasized that mining tod today y 1 1 Is rs really Big Business a great industry f jig ng a huge investment before any of the earths earth's i t stored mineral wealth can be turn turned into doll dol- dol l lars Jars rs and cents profits profits- I It is the cooperative combination tion and effective dice I tive functioning of capital capita brains and labori labora labor labor- i a all three prime e essentials that essentialS that is necessary for mining success today today- But as a result of that smoothly working ng combination the metal tJ mining Industry has been been iab il le to Increase efficiency elf effi 1 dency raise wages lower lowe prices develop low grade ores ores and and in the process to a very large extent contribute to the development and prosperity prosperity pros pros- of 01 the entire west