Times Independent | 1930-01-02 | Page 4 | What Mining Does

WHAT MINING DOES mining is unique among industries in that instead of employing outside capital upon which to build prosperity it creates new wealth it takes ores from the ground where they are useless and changes them into taxes dividends wages and the necessities and luxuries of life for hundreds of thousands of people it Is a major factor in the progress of related industries and every citizen in a metal producing state whether farmer laborer teacher or grocer benefits directly from mining operations without mining there would be no industries no automobiles telephones stoves surgical instruments motion pictures or any one of millions of services and commodities we now enjoy in short mining is a great industry and an essential factor in the building of a civilization it we as a nation and as individuals are to progress to the limit of our possibilities mining must be encouraged