Show um 111AINU PILOCIRE14 Coadilloors 11111h leave U11ked 7111 4ountry Am he 44droalL Iraclueer Tlie quantity Rail I value ot Ibu mm oral ruuticu of the United States Forma Form-a good barometer ul Industrial fire lenly Mineral Industrie are more directly Directed by ujmmerclal changes than almost any others fcincu tbeciuJu products t of tile mines serve ai tile tlsrllu I olut lor most mou acturlog enterprises Any industrial explosion must bo anticipated by ic corrtsiondliply increased supply ol the crude minerals necessarily Involved In-volved This isn dtllereut conulllou ol aflilrs from that revalsut only a low years ago and In flits mind 01 m ally tile mineral product Hill consuls tf whatever the prIeclor hap en to till caver anti mite To trials uiiulpi mtunasieculatlou uothlDeniort Per l hatim even tt majority of tuiieas men fall to nuounlu that hero is lam sptculatlo about Ihe cool product limit lu any agricultural crop the volume 01 which U I bUtcttil by every chauge lu the weather acolucois tu whlcu tbe miner is practically InjK f6refol Formerly we mined what we could of our mineral want land Imported the rett > ow ou tbe ojutrarj the United Blatu Is Ibo greatest mineral t reducer furnishing nearly two third tf Welfare i petroleum more thee oue halt of all Its copier one third < of the Ilglroo and coal and 1 a I nr Ore n1 nu iii still zinc We export b far greater volute than we Import Not only are our mines well erjulppeJ but the rees oure re-es known though undeveloped alv aurane or continued gainers Supplies even without the pros pectin which aided < by more exact geological exploration la I constantly becoming more itlic live One well recognized condition con-dition necessary for mining pros Verity Iota find a market fir the continually con-tinually growing supply Full activity fur the cnoimcius mimic plants of the country mends great prosperity lint after several years of declining Industrial Indus-trial activity a glares over the field shows kgteat aggregate ot capital Invested In-vested lu Idle mines and their accessor Ics I 1 hat this IBB serious oven cntl oj1 condition for tile capital Involved will bo appreciated by considering the rapidity with which an Idle 1 mining plant uenreelates Mining machinery Is rendered worthless more raldly than that of a well protected factory Frequently the mine water Is so acid as to quickly corrode metals to a worthless condition and In the deeper mines the encroachment ot water alone frequently amounts to more than the mineral Is worth and then a Shutdown shut-down means abandonment Dr David 11hy In the Prosperity Number of the Engineering Magazine have nnd amirs John Data returned from Mercur last availing lie pronounces every thing O K Yesleruayi shipment of Galena ore showed values of 67 per cent lead and 020 ounces In silver Bales nf Northern Light were made so fist today that 11 took some time lor Iho brokers to learn where they wore dt The Homestake property la reported to be In iood shape at present This accounts for Its encouraging showing on change I The Utah and Galena companies are expected < lo hold < a directors meeting tomorrow at which time the declara lion of dividends will come under cool I deraglogs L F Chapln of Ogden one ol the owners of the Checkmate In Idabo says that that ropurty Is I allowing a Hi e body of rich ore ou the 150 foot level Ine Buckeye la I said to ba si owing Incremcd ore valuta ou the 150101 level Average values of the ore run OJ 5 per cent lead 43 ounces silver and 2 in gold to the tell |