| Show THE WORTH OF MINING l Mining Is a vital element clement In m the economic life of the Western states In a single state tate Utah the Industry employs about one third one third of the total number of workers and produces about third one-third of new annual wealth It supplies four fifths of all states state's railroad freight tonnage I Its annual output Is about of which is expended mainly within the state for tor wages supplies smelting and transportation Thirty millions goes directly for tor labor while about one-eighth one of the gross total is expended to stockholders Such facts as these reveal the danger daner of any program which alms aims at overtaxing overtaxing overtaxing over over- taxing or regulating over the mining Industry Retarding the progress of the Industry In such a state would precipitate a calamity Mining developed the West in m the early days daS and it as vital ita to the present and the future as It was to the past If It only for selfish reasons the people of the West must demand that mining 1 he o treated fairly and equitably 1 I I II I I |
