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Show MINING A BASIC INDUSTRY Mining is an integral part of our modern civilization. A metal famine would mean industrial indus-trial paralysis. Great railroad, electric elec-tric and manufacturing activities would come automatically to an end. There is no such danger of course. At the present time the American mining industry is in the process of resurrection. The old hit-and-miss methods of the past have disappeared. disap-peared. Science and executive ability have combined to increase ore recovery re-covery with greater economy and efficiency, ef-ficiency, stabilize the price level and adjust supply and demand. Mining brings prosperity to thou- j sands of American familiies. In sev- eral states it is the greatest of in- I dustries. And ever; piece of unnec- j essary, restrictive mining legislation ! strikes at a basic element of our j prosperity. j |