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Show THE GREAT COMMUNITY BUILDER. In days gone by, the gold mining and silver mining industry made history. his-tory. Some of our greatest states were settled and built up as the result re-sult of mining activity. Copper, lead and zinc played a tremendous tre-mendous part in our industrial development. de-velopment. I Mining has suffered severely from economic causes during the past ten years. ! Today the outlook seems to be ' brighter for mining activity. If favorable favor-able conditions develop, it will be a' godsend to many states which have xi-au a viuu oojeci lesson as to the value of mining payolls, purchasing power, employment, etc. Penalizing the mines with exhorbi-taht exhorbi-taht taxation will not be as popular a pastime as in the past More people will realize that conditions which encourage en-courage rather than discourage mining, min-ing, are the greatest benefit to the! commonwealth. |