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Show THE CITIZEN 10 MINING AND INDUSRTY MINE PRODUCTS. Utah, Americas Great Mining and Smelting Center," is the title of a booklet of our mining industry compiled by the Chamber of Commerce. Copies are being sent out to all parts of the world, and great good will result from this method of advertising our famous silver and lead mines. The value of mineral production in 1926 was $119,270,000; metal mining dividends were $15,073,500; the. worlds largest open cut copper mine is located at Bingham; the largest silver mines in the United States are in Utah; in 1926 the state ranked first in silver production, second in lead, third in copper, fourth in gold and second in total dividends paid; the world's largest smelting center is located within 50 miles of Salt Lake City; the total value of ore treated in Utah in 1926 was more than $100,000,000. The value of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc produced from Utah mines in 1926 was $81,971,000, or more than $1,576,-00-0 each week. A brief review is given of the mining history of the state since the days wheu General P. E. Connor, in 1862, first started the encouragement of prospecting among his soldiers at Fort Douglas. Space is given in the booklet to the latest field of exploration in the group asphalt, gilsonite and potash. There is also a survey of the efforts to build up large oil fields in the state. Special paragraphs are devoted to the development of electrical power for mining in the state and the smelting industry is gone into at some length. Utah as an iron and steel producing state is the subject of another division, and the enormous coal deposits of the state Is also touched upon. non-meta- ls MONTANA OIL FIELDS The Department of the Interior, in announcing the publication of GeoThe logical Survey Bulletin 786-geology of the Cat Creek and Devils Basin Oil Fields and adjacent areas in Montana, calls general attention to this issuance of another contribution to the knowledge of our oil and gas resources. This report, by Frank Beeves, discusses the geology, oilfield problems, and future oil possibilities of an area of about 2,700 square miles in Petroleum County and adjacent portions of Fergus, Garfield, and Musseshell counties, in central Montana. Of especial interest to the geologist are the description of the Cat Creek and Devils Basin oil fields and the discussion of the part played by faults in the accumulation, migration, and yield of oil in the Cat Creek field. The larger structural features of central Montana are described in the text and are shown in a structure contour map. The report is illustrated with several figures and plates and is accompanied by a colored map which shows the distribution of the rock formations that crop out in the area between the Cat Creek anitcline and the Devils Basin dome and portrays B, i the structure of the First Cat Creek sand by means of structure contours. LONG GAS LINE . Two gas pipe lines are in prospect from the Amarillo, Texas, fields to Kansas City. Each will cost about $20,000,000. A 400-miline is projected for Denver. A slightly shorter one is proposed from Colorado and Wyoming gas wells to Salt Lake 450-mi- le le 2 Citizen oil tax; is taxed from the time it reaches the surface until it comes out of the exhaust pipe of automotive or stationary engines as expended energy, says D. H. Bancroft, in the El Dorado, Arkansas, News. It is taxed with a severance tax, a storage tax, a property tax, and a gasoline tax and the machines that use it are levied upon with property tax and license tax, road tax and Oil school tax, state tax and city tax. Wherever there has been a hook to hang a new tax on it has been so decorated, and whenever there werent hooks enough, they were manufactured for the occasion, to meet the need of a new source of revenue. Over 400 measures affecting the oil industry were introduced in the legislatures of practically every state in the Union, during their recent sessions. Of these only two proposed to reduce the tax on gasoline. Deep hidden in the earth, accessible only by expensive drilling, accompanied by grief such as only the wildcatter knows and which is shared in to a large extent even by his brother operating in proven territory, says Mr. Bancroft, oil appears to the average legislator as the magic lamp which needs only to be rubbed by a new law of some sort to release vast wealth for the benefits of roads and schools or a public library in OLD MINE PRODUCER An old mine in Montana, opened in 18G6 and having seen every extreme from bonanza riches to poverty, has just opened an ore vein carrying $500 silver to the ton. A 50-tflotation mill may be built to work the rich find. All over the west these are being rediscovered, many of them to bloom again as real producers. Few are actually worked out. Many great mines are tied up by litigation among jealous or ignorant owners. Some mines in which stock has been sold, are plagued by timid, careless or stubborn stockholders who in their ignorance fail to do the right thing, or who in their greed, will kill or cover up a good property rather than divide fairly with their partners. A percentage of mines really do fail, of course; but more of the reputed mine failures fall under these other headings. Mining itself is one of the safest, most fascinating and most necessary human industries. The spirit of hope and optimism which it breeds may be more valuable as a spiritual tonic, than the physical wealth it produces. As a general rule, mining develops men, and is an inbig broad-minde- d dustry which should be better understood and encouraged. on old-time- rs The city of El Paso with a po EE about half Mexican, compare ably with any other city in eeh civic enterprise, social progi i prevalence of poverty and crii of i If any change is to be mad proj City Utah. These lines are to carry natural and not manufactured gas; it cannot be said what will happen to them if or when the natural gas supply abates. But a study of gas development indicates that if that day ever comes, manufactured gas will take the place of the natural product. The commercial world is rejecting the day of coal smoke, ashes, personal handling expense, and inconvenience of coal for direct heating. Only a few years ago, lighting was the only use for gas; today there are few gas lights burning, but the demand has increased It must continue, so long as mankind ten-fol- d, 100-fol- d. is looking for efficiency and comfort. OUR LABOR Great care should be exercised in the matter of further restricting immigration. Under normal conditions at the present time, demand for common labor in the Pacific Coast territory and in agricultural belt of the Middle West is greater than the supply. Were it not for the labor obtainable from Mexico, Pacific Coast indutry agricultural, horticultural, packing, manufacturing and transportation would be crippled. The great fruit, vegetable and cotton crops of California, are largely harvested by Mexican labor, and much of the track labor of western railroads is Mexican. This is a kind of labor which the average white man no longer desires to perform, hence it does not compete with or economically concern him in a competitive sense. From Seattle to New Orleans and as far east as the Missouri River, there is scarcely an industry that does not employ some Mexican labor, not from preference, but from compulsion, because it is the only kind obtainable. There is no valid objection to the admission of Mexican laborers in a moral or social sense. They are no than other people. less law-abidi- ng - ay: immigration law respecting oun zens of Mexico, it should be re repeal of the visa and head for that this channel through wl industries may obtain needed pa tc labor may be relieved from 8 E impediments which serve no essential purpose. I bi ion UNION BORDER PATRO Ida cloc Washington, D. C., May 6.' con migration Border Patrol as a uniformed unit is the latest to Uncle Sams armed forces. It completing its third year and nearly 600 men, about evenly between northern and southei borders. Its primary purpose is vent unwanted aliens from c the gate" and making their legally into this country. In the: ratrol has nothing to do with tion enforcement, but actually a leading part in dealing wi; runners, gun runners, and dopeQttt glers. It has a big job on its and is making good. The immigration service guar: wll cruited largely from mm They are square shooters and t oil them are expert marksmen, I: ie are under orders not to shoot ei self defense. This means that ap Itor iably the smugglers have the fir CO The activities of the border Ha are a great deal more extensir Dili is generally realized.. In the 16 his ending last October at the is border alone, 224,760 persons questioned, more than 25,000 searched and more than a t automobiles and thousand busses stopped and examined. ' trol guard traveled nearly miles by automobile, 80.000 m: horseback and 60,000 miles rc Five hundred alien smuggle: more than 10,000 aliens were hended the smugglers were to criminal prosecution and the to expulsion. ex-serv- ie 1! ; iratiiiinmim W. H. DAYTON a DRW COMPANY High Class Drugs Expert Pharmacists Specializing in Prescriptfa 80 East 2nd So. Phone Was.' of irt lor 2 Ct er American Smelting & Refining b Company H, . of Purchasers of GOLD, SILVER LEAD AND COPPER ORES Consign All Shipments to American Smelting & Refining Compaq Ship Lead Ores to Murray, Utah. Ship Copper and Siliceous Ores to Garfield, Utah. Send Bills of Lading Direct to Plants. Address Correspondence and Hand Samples to 700 McCormick Bldg., Salt Lake City C. kav Utah. i |