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Show Old Mine Districts Center of New Work Current search for new metal supply centers on old mine areas. There is nothing so disquieting as a ghost camp. No for sale signs hang on the tunnel or the dumps or the tumbled down shacks. Everything of value disappears from these silent regions whose mine dumps are tumbstones of better days of the paBt. However these districts never die completely In the hearts of men. There is always someone, an old-timer old-timer or a young mining engineer who holds out hope or who is willing will-ing to back his judgment on a new theory that the former operators opera-tors passed up this or that ore body. Today a new secge of prospecting Is sweeping western areas. Ola districts are being combed over once again, and operators are going to deeper and deeper levels to find one. The reason: The post-war demand de-mand for metals, particularly lead Is greater than the supply, and the future outlook holds hope for those who discover new mineral bearing ores. In Utah encouragement for those who prospect is needed, as metals ars becoming more difficult diffi-cult to find and mora costly to mine. |