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Show cign competition, domestic mining min-ing has been hurt by local "do gooclers" whose '"rosy plans. have resulted in a state an local tax structure above that of neighboring mining states, Mr. Richardson said. "DREAMS" PERIL WEST MINES. OFFICIAL SAYS The "wide-eyed dreams of tne do-gooders" have played havoc with the western mining industry, in-dustry, James K. Richardson, secretary, Utah Mining Association, Associa-tion, told the Salt Lake Lions Club last wek. . . Modern American mining equipment and experts have been sent at taxpayers expenseto ex-penseto help foreign nations achieve the same high productivity produc-tivity as U. S. mines, Mr. Richardson Rich-ardson said. The result has been that cheap foreign labor, an unnatural currency cur-rency exchange and lack of protective pro-tective tariffs have enabled dollar-hungry foreign nations to undercut the domestic market. he said. Since March 7, 1949. the price of lead has fallen 35 , zinc 45 and copper 25. This situation has not raised the living standards overseas, but it is forcing the United States to lower its own, declared the mining executive. "Can anyone be so naive as to believe that once the foreign producer has torpedoed an American raw materials industry, indus-try, that he will continue to supply sup-ply those materials as cheaply as we were producing them ourselves?" our-selves?" he added. In addition to cutthroat for- |