Show AX OPTIMISTIC YLE Weekly Boston Bulletin May Ia 23 3 George o N of the well known Stock Exchange firm of To lo Fi Fitzgerald who has just returned from froman an au extensive tour of or the tho lea leading Western Vestern mining camps Is s an enthusiast on the time country an and pre pro diets an even greater wave of prosperity during the few rew years than wo mso o li lie have e yet et t enjoyed Mr Towle rs A man may be a pessimist on th the tho stock market but I defy cf an any Easterner to go goo through th the thc great states stats of Iowa Montana Utah Colorado In fact the entire West Vest without becoming becom becom- log InS an all enthusiast over o the richness and the tho greatness greatness greatness great great- ness of 01 this country countr an and amid its future futuro possibilities The great state of ot Montana has but inhabitants nn and of or these are concentrated concentrate Inthe in inthe the tIme city of ot Butte where the tho principal copper mining min mm- lug illS operations of or tho time state are located locatell It t Is not believable able that lint the tho entire mineral resources of ot this great at state are aro concentrated In Butte Hill Tho con among amone Butte nutte mining that cJ than 13 12 cents during the tho year 1906 Speaking of the time cost of ot production of ot COppOl copper of of which so much account account account ac ac- ac- ac count Is made In the press dispatches from the various copper copper- mining mining- camps of the country countr the manager of ot the Washoe smelter tol told mo me that the cost of ot a pound of ot copper was yet very Aery much a matter oC or bookkeeping We had hat a mo most t Interesting visit to Salt SaIt Lake Lako CIt City an and amid tho the Bingham ham camp The s system stem of ot steam stearn shovel sho mining that has been inaugurated at nt the time Utah C Copper Capper and Boston Consolidated properties are marvelous exhibitions of modern mechanical Ingenuity applied to the ancient In Industry of or min ing B By fly this method metho these companies are ure handling a I. I ton ion of ore of-ore at a acost cost o of only onh 25 fi cents The Time mills and ana concentrating plants of ot tire tb-c companies are another another an an- other othel example of or the revolution of or the raining mining In Industry In- In which has made It a manufacturing business s rather than a 1 game of chance Another matter r which Interested me rae greatly was the great progress that has been made malle po possible In lii G agriculture through the new government Irrigation a I tion lion scheme The application of this system has revolutionized revolutionised this Industry and amid has le tho the possibility of ot crop ClOp failures almost to the tho vanishing point |