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Show THE NECESSITY OF MINING. Probably few people realize the extent ex-tent to which our modern civilization is dependent upon metal mining. Without mines there woufd be no telephone, telegraph or electricity, no stoves or machinery or jewelry. There would be no medical instruments or any of the thousands of necessities and luxuries that play a prominent part in our industrial and social ex;s- tence. ! At the present time metal mining is in the midst of the most progres sive age in its history. Scientific and engineering progress have resulted :n higher recovery, overhead is cut and production increased. Executive genius gen-ius is stabilizing the price and equalizing equal-izing supply and demand. Great industrial projects of many kinds have caused an unprecedented demand for the base metals. The result re-sult is high standards of employment at good wage and increased mining activity that is playing an 'increasingly 'increas-ingly important role in forwarding our epochal prosperity. |