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Show A "Musi" in Utah Here in shown a Makeready for tunneling into mineral prospect A no. 1 muyt in Utah. : America's future status among nations will be determined by the development of her metallic resources. re-sources. This fact is attested to by the world-wide search for metals and the fact that no major discoveries have been made since early in the century. These, toother with the growing demand for copper, lead, zinc and steel are causing many nations to again take stock of their reserves. Mineral development should be a No. 1 must for the post-war era. Utah, one of the leading mining states in the nation should do every thing possible to encourage and stimulate the development of its resources. Wines badly depleted during the war when the demand for production produc-tion made necessary the curtailment curtail-ment of development with limited labor, are now struggling to re- i habilitate themselves. With man- J power still short, the program of J rehabilitation in Utah is progress- i ing slowly. 1 Restrictive measures to perjnit a free flow of venture capital intc , mining ventures should be removed 1 and taxes made comensurate with the gamble taken today in trying , to bring prospect into the produc- tive stage. Like the one pictured above, all of the great mines were once men prospects, and with proper encouragement en-couragement these small operation) will restore Utah rapidly to I healthy mining status. |