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Show WHY MINING SHOULD BOOM. Bradstreet's reports that in the financial centers cen-ters the men of money are fighting. shy of investments invest-ments in the tremendous sums which the railroads are demanding to increase their trackage and rolling roll-ing stock. It is only thirteen years ago, when railroads were very much less efficient in track and rolling stock than now, that more than half of them were put in the hands of receivers. Only a few of the very strongest were able to escape. It is possible that investors still remember that and keep in mind that if anything should happen to cause, for want of money, a congestion in the business busi-ness of the country, that might be repeated, and it would be difficult for them to get any interest on railroad bonds and impossible for them to unload railroad stocks. That ought to another reason to influence men to keep mining in the condition of a boom, if possible.. We mean that kind of mining which creates new money |