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Show VITAL TO THE WEST. Mining is vital to the west.1 In normal times, the mining industry indus-try is the foremost employer, purchaser pur-chaser of supplies and contributor to the cost of government in a number of states. Its prosperity is related to I that of every other business the banker, manufacturer, farmer, storekeeper, store-keeper, all look to mines for a large share of their livelihood. In the pioneer pio-neer days the lure of precious metals was principally responsible for the development of the west in these days mining is necessary for the west's future development. The mines will come back. Their problems are gradually being solved. And in the meantime, it behooves every western state to do all it can to encourage the mining industry, and make its struggle for existence easier by providing constructive regulation and taxation measure. , |