Show Mining lining Industry Is Is' Immense I By Ira C. C Tichenor r TH r I HE action of the Western Pacific Railroad company a few days dars J- J ago in in reducing its it freight rates on Nevada and California pres ores and concentrates to calls als' als attention att not not only to the tlC fact heretofore alluded to o that that m more r ore oro is smelted in Utah than thanin thanin in any other state of ot the Union but also to the fact moro Interesting in a general way that 52 per cent of ot all al carload freight shipped during January Januar February and March of ot this year consisted of raw products of American if mines t iy i me measured the tonnage it it produces produced the This fact fact clearly learly pr proves ves that t s d by mining Industry of ot the United States is the biggest industry in the tho country countr Statistics show that for every ton of farm an and therefore In the world ever during the three months mentioned there were shipped products s transported durig mentone were two and one- one mines These shipments were four tour and nd a half hat tons from the half times Ures greater greater than the shipments of tilt all manufactured articles combined shiPments shiPments' forest products and nearly product of or shipments five times gre greater ter than the ef of meat and other animal twe two twenty times greater than the shipments products during the tho same period of or wheat or cornor corn cornor cornor greater than that In n fl Iron ore alone the tonnage was or or of or flour our alid nd meal combined almost three times gr greater ater than cotton coton and than and greater than th n all al shipments nearly IY twelve times greter greater nc products falling into any anyone one classification of at agricultural of an any single group while tho the shipments of ot bullion base base bullion bulon and matte mate or of salt sal alone alono were greater gater tilling of some of the richest soil coll collon soi the than tan those of at tobacco which on tho the continent Tho The soft coal Industry and In which Utah Is becoming an important sor nearly three times as much mentioned a factor produced In the three months times Umes that of or all the than three in America more al tongo tonnage as all aU the tho farms merca forests forests and ard nearly half hal again ag in as al much as a all aU the te factories largo large and small in tho few people even in Utah are aware It Itis Is ls safe saCe to say that comparatively o ol otho t th tho I fact tact that this state leads in smelting operations that it i has ha stood that it is a close of ot silver second In the production siver i firsthand and now is a close contains more coal than has state third in the output of or copper that the tho that In this state is located been mined mined- up to this time In the entire entre country countr has the largest lamest and world and that it ha the larlest In the greatest known iron deposits of ot oil shale in the world orld richest deposits oi is due to the neglect of ot the mining Much of ot this lack of ot Information lak of ot the means of or publicity to o inform interests of ot the state in not making use Interest the citizens of Utah of ot the tho as w well as generally the people of the country l to greatness of the mining industry of ot Utah Uth and the possibilities for investments here |