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Show VTA 11 IS ONK OK T11K. f' KtfllKST SPOTS ON KAK'I'll I'lllll IS HMO Ot tllO 1'il'lH'wl SHVS on !), siu'fai'o of tlio tmith us fur us minora! woiiltli is oiMioornocl. Tlio liU'Ki'st. silver niinos in tho Unitoil Stnti'9 uro in I'luh, I lio lurnost. oikmi rut I'OiUH'r nitno In tho ontiro world is in Utah nnd tho hugost smelting i-eittiM- of the world is situiitoil in Vtuli within fifty milos of Suit I.nke Citv. Thoso stutonunits woio nindo in u ImUotin, eompilod lwently by the United States llnrenn of Mines nt tim University of Utiih. The value of gold, silver, copper, lead and situ; produced from Utnh mines last year was more than $S2,-000,000.00 $S2,-000,000.00 or over one and a half million dollars worth of thoso metals on an average per week. Tlio bulletin compiled at tho University Uni-versity of Utah also states that practically prac-tically 61 per cent of the total yield of the Utah mines remains within the State and is expended for wages, supplies and freight or disbursed in the form of dividends. So during the year 1925 commerce of the State of Utah was enriched by practically $72,000,000.00 from mining alone. Mining was first given a sorious thought in the State during the early fifties when lead ore was mined in Beaver County to supply the Pioneers Pion-eers of Salt Lake City. Since that time the growth of the mining industry indus-try in Utah has been such as to make the whole world take notice. |