Show INTEREST IN MINING The interest displayed by many citizens of this city during the tho past year in various mining enterprises throughout the state is isan isan isan an encouraging aging ing sign of progress It shows they are pulling out of the old ruts worn deep by years of usa usage e and are arc getting in inline inline line lino to advance with the tho advancement of the tho state ut Utah's hs h's hope lies principally ly in her mines Sl Sw S has wi within hin her r bOlln boundaries s. s the iho greatest t C K mineral wealth of any state in the tho Union Nearly every known mineral can can bo be found v J somewhere in the State Every day new and rich strikes are being made Many very j r rich mines have been developed but hundreds hun hun- of others die are lying in the mountains mountains- j.- j. 4 waiting the coming of the tho int intelligent pros pros- 1 Rector Things which have I been een known for oi b i iye A Ayears ye years rs and passed by contemptuously ar are aro turning out ont to be bo bonanzas The Golden Reef property dis discovered over d last summer by Thomas Foutin and others has v been tramped over by prospectors and others other's for years but it was left loft for tho the persons person's named to show to the world that it contains a t valuable mine mino The great oil shale beds of this place are aie 4 another example of the same kind For years they have been boon known to exist and t have often been worked in for one ono purpose u C or another bu but bub t never never until last spring springy was the tho shale shalo analysed to see what it contained The analyses show it to be very rich in d. d tho the p very finest 21 ado of oil and it if is I all question on one of the most im im- mineral discoveries of the year It Itis Itis t. t is a new now thing in this country to extract oil ir from shale Lut Uit it N- N as Nas as a n. now new thing thing also also a few- few tt f y ra s r ago g tr sugar t-sugar l N eats ts' ts That t. t t industry is now one of the tho most important inthe in J T. the country and the extraction of oil from I shale will soon come to the front also In Au Australia Australia- ti alia the extraction of f oil oil fro from l shale yielded a n. profit of over twenty twenty- twenty millions of of dollars in a n. few ye years What is possible in n Australia is certainly in possible Utah with a n- shale shaie that contains s n a a gi greater gleat cater r percentage of oil There are aro vari various U other othe mining enterprises es of merit that have havee atti attracted acted the tho attention of QUI our people during the past year It is iR a good R sign to see seo young men invest a portion of their earnings earning in this manner The wealth of many communities in this state have been largely increased by br the proceeds of mines an and wo we offer r the prediction that in tho the course of another tw twelve lve months this city's wealth will be greatly augmented from th the same sarno source 7 I |