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Show MINING OUTLOOK BRIGHT. Here's an encouraging paragraph, taken from the Mining Review of Salt Lake City: "Increasing activity in the metal mining industry, augu-mented augu-mented by $35 gold, and a more favorable fav-orable outlook for the other metals, is the gladsome refrain now growing in volume and strength from all sections sec-tions of the west. A recent survey among more than four thousand companies com-panies from Arizona to the Canadian border gives definite evidence of a return to activity . . . Assayers are busy again, old mills are turning wheels that haven't moved in more than three years, and many new ore treating plants are contemplated, smelter receipts show a substantial increase in ore shipments, and equipment equip-ment and supply houses are awakening, awaken-ing, after a long nap, to realize that there is a growing interest in their merchandise." Workers, farmers, storekeepers, professional men, industrialists of all kinds, will smile happily on reading that. It means thousands of potential iobs, a vast jump in western purchasing purchas-ing power, a tremendous field for selling services and commodities of every kind and shape - from legal knowledge to groceries. And it likewise like-wise means revived tax income for government. The outlook for mining is better than it has been for many years. That, in turn, considerably improves the outlook for recovery in general. |