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Show MINING TAKES COURAGE The huge mineral .development of our country, greater and more varied than that of any other nation, is due to one thing courage. cour-age. The mining industry has needed all this courage in recent years. Exceessive taxes, high operating costs, scarcity of labor, blue sky laws and freak and restrictive legislation of every kind, all have done their bit toward making the lot of ihe mine operator anything but pleasant and profitable. A convention of mine owners and operators is to be held inac- rsmento, September 29 to Octooer 4 to fully discuss all handicaps! which now affect the mining industry and an effort will be made to develop conditions which the western mining industry may be j brought back to its old-time stage of prosperity; not only for the ben- j tfit of the west, but in order that the nation may not be hampered in its prosperity by the lack of those basic materials furnished by the ! mines. |