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Show ccl. jcnu.vrriii talig i OF FTJTTJT.S OF UTATI. Col. JohnWelr of the Utah-Nevada Mines corporation, will leave for New York this afternoon. He skid this morninff that his company had a force of men cleaning, up the old workinfcs at the mines around Pioche that have been Idle for twenty years. The work is simply preliminary and It will be alons in the fall before tixe campaign of development work has been mapped out so that the company can beffln the production of ore. Col. Weir expressed himself as being very sanguine of the outcome of this State and said that .we had only begun be-gun to realize the Importance of the mining industry here. Bingham 1 Is having the benefit of the first Influx of Eastern capital, and when the mineral min-eral zonea of this section are better known In the East, the growth of the State and the amount of money that will be expended In the development of the mines will be something of which the casual observer of today it not prepared pre-pared to appreciate. . "Your climate is preferable to anything any-thing that I have ever seen." Col. Weir said in conclusion, "and I'm sure that when the men with means to Invest are made familiar with the wonderful resources re-sources you have within the bounds of Utah, a great many of them will come to make their homes here and Salt Lake will develop Into a city of large proportions. ' 1 ....... |