Show TAXES MUST NOT RUIN UTAH MINING INDUSTRY statistics show what mining means to the welfare of this state in an effort to bring before the public the importance of the mining industry in utah and in the further effort to convince the makers of the tax laws that it would be suicidal to drive this industry out of the state by over taxation the bureau of mines of salt lake city Is publishing some mighty interesting statistics mentioning only the most important facts disclosed by those statistics we find that the mining Indu average annual disbursement in utah for wages freight and supplies amounts to the tha payroll of the industry Is one third of the states total and the supplies purchased to operate the mines and teed feed the employed emp loyes average a day the mining industry constitutes the largest home market tor for the other products of the state and does not compete any of them in addition to continuous employment for certain groups of mine workers the industry furnishes seasonal employment tor for large numbers of persons persona when their services vices aro are not needed elsewhere at times on one third or more marc of 0 all the employed emp loyes ot of a mine are men from farming communities and hundreds iund reds of at students find employment orri ploy during vacation time in the mining industry I 1 persons engaged or directly dependent upon the mining industry of utah consume among other things pounds of beef pounds of veal over pounds of 0 pork over pounds pound 0 mutton and nearly pounds of chicken of 01 fruits they consume bushels of apples bush els of peaches over quarts of berries and nearly pounds of other fresh fruits the con sump 1 tion of at vegetables amounts to nearly pounds of at potatoes over pounds of cabbab cabb apo pounds of tomatoes pounds of onions and pounds of other frea vegetables of dairy products are consumed nearly quarts ot of fresh milk and cream 15 pounds of at butter and pounds of cheese A million pounds of lard over a million dozen of eggs efer brer sw six million pounds of flour nearly seven ws aj aaa g wf v million pounds of sugar are some other roja items enumerated as consumed in the statistics since 1864 the states mineral ra 1 production as recorded by tho the united states bureau of mines includes filc ludes ounces 0 of gold 1541 ounces of 0 silver D pounds otinus of copper pounds oc lead pounds of zinc nine toua tons of ebal coal tons of coke utah ranks highest in the prodoc tion of sliver silver second in ili copper sec ond and in lead fourth in zinc sixth in gold and twelfth in coal production of coal and other nonmetallic non n on metallic mili orals Is limited only by the available markets the iron industry Is s developing rapidly the variety 0 of minerals in the state is not definitely deff nit ely known but as far as we know about state valuable minerals exist I 1 in the A the freight tonnage of the indus 4 try Is eighty per cent of the total originated by the railroad at 0 the tha years mineral output of utah would completely till fill allne all nt the tracks ot the state ts t s ij |