Show dark mining clouds have A silver lining from 1865 to 1920 utah produced ounces of silver valued at in 1921 the mines of the state produced 12 ounces valued at 12 dur ing the first half 0 of f the present year brodu production cl t on has been increasing to such an extent that it may be safe to assume a production of 14 ounces for the year or 7 up to date added together it gives a total of ounces valued at added to the sum of the world a wealth from utah through on one e metal alone utah has the largest single producer of silver in the united states and is producing one fifth of the entire silver prodoc tion of the nation with less than one halt half of one per cent of the P lation these facts are significant enough in n themselves but they become all the more significant when the reader stops to think that silver production product i 11 II should go forward by leaps and bounds for several years to come and I 1 in fact should continue fadeff bately figures that have been compiled indicate that though production of copper tell fell oft off in 1921 to almost a quarter of the production of 1920 silver decreased only about one thirteenth in other words the sil sit ver lead mines came forward and they are still coming forward as new mines are being brought in with the higher price of silver and lead and old properties are opening new ore reserves this fact taken in con junction with the resumption of cop per production means an dented silver production for th s state with sliver silver staple for several ear ears 8 to come at 1 an ounce and lead reaching higher levels th the amount of development in silver lead districts Is 1 astonishing and Is bringing astonishing results by a strange coincidence our two premier silver camps of tintic gintic and park city are both finding immense ly rich territory to the east of the old workings in sections that a few years ago were absolutely ignored in the case of tintic the ol 01 1 bonanzas turned out wealth various va rlou ly estimated between and and from campara dively shallow workings east tin tic Is now coming forward with dis co verles of vast ore bodies that ap pear to be equal if not greater than those of tintic gintic proper at park city the great mines west of the fault are said to hate prodoc ed in the neighborhood of here again splendid ore bodies have hav e been opened up east of the fault while in both districts the old mines are finding continuing riches at depth in both districts it is now freely predicted that the new methods of exploration adopted and the results being obtained will eventually bring about a duplication of the past pro the famous comstock lode of virginia city that has been florl fled in song and story tor for halt half i century has been extravagantly credited with a production of a bil lion dollars more reliable authority restricts the great lode to 50 thus we see that here in 10 utah without the blare of trumpets or glamour of romance we have two potential Com stocks in the making desert news |