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Show ikfesiries, Men Rise From Small Beginnings 1 -.. r. H - 1 I ! I . ! , -r i d ; , it"'' -""" T I 'j'T4 T' fc" - . -Oi''"' 11 t . t ' - r-,,- 'Wl -.-. I I J-- s , I . . 1 - r ' , v, - ' J Mo:)t ot tho Ki-uiU industrial enterprise en-terprise of Utah today stand aa monuments to men who began their careens In humble circumstances; men who rose from small beginnings begin-nings to leaders In industry and leadera in their communities. Such is the way of democracy ajid the way democracy must and will be in the future. Out of the current conflict will certainly emerge a new era of opportunity and reward for individual effort. This is particularly true in the metal mining industry. During the past decade virtually no new mines of Importance have been developed, and since the present conflict there has not been sufficient manpower available to perform necessary exploration ex-ploration work to find new ore deposits de-posits to replace those now being depleted. The future reconstruction period will place heavy demands upon the metal mining industry, those mining min-ing gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc. Possibly history will repeat itself and there will be other men such as Raddatz, Keith, Kearns, Lambourne, Jackling and Moffat who advanced from the bottom to industrial leadership. . Possibly no story is more interesting interest-ing than the story of E. J. Raddatz and his development of the Tintic Standard mine. Raddatz who migrated mi-grated to Utah in the early 1900s first worked as a laborer in the old Mercur district. He always wanted to do something himself and he located a group of claims in the east Tintic district of Eureka. At first his property was slightlingly referred re-ferred to as "goat pasture," but undaunted un-daunted by criticism, he succeeded after years of heartbreaking de-lopment de-lopment in opening one of the gTeat mines of the west, the Tintic Standard. |