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Show INVESTMENTS. It is an old saying that nothing is ccitaln, In this life, but "death and taxes." If this statement Is true a "safe Investment" Is not "certain." Real estate has been popularly looked upon as being one of the best and saf -est Investments that one can make, and yet values In realty are subject to change, and small prollts generally characterize the history of other opportunities op-portunities olTcred for "safe Investment." Invest-ment." Sometimes a difference exists between what might be termed a "safe" and a "good" Investment. A "good Investment" Includes a wider range and greater possibilities; a greater return for the amount Invested; In-vested; and consequently an opportunity oppor-tunity to make thousands where hundreds hun-dreds have been put In. In tho beginning begin-ning tho clement of loss Is greater In a "good Investment" than Is the case In a "safo investment," but the profit , In a great many cases, arc so much larger that there is no question as to which is the "best Investment" sas tlie Salt Lake Mining Review. When It comes to putting In money In Industrial, manufacturing, railroad and mining securities, Judlng from the Immense fortunes made In the latter, there Is no question as to which Is the most desirable Investment, be it "safe," "good," or tlie "best," and In commercial and llnaucial circles it Is generally conceded that nothing equals a mining Investment when the same care Is experienced In making It that a level-headed business man would exercise when embarking In any other occupation or pursuit. In Utah and elsewhere in the west great fortunes have been made through tho avenues of the mining industry, and poor men, through its medium, have become Independently rich. Men who invested In mining shares in a good company was In its Infancy, now live In palatial homes' lu the best residence portion of Salt Lake and other western cities, and they havo big bank accounts to draw on; whereas, before making their fortunate fort-unate Investments, many of them had dllllculty In meeting their monthly month-ly grocery bills. In Utah mining men have made fortunes out of the Ontario mine, the Silver King, the Daly-West, the Daly, the Kmma, the Horn Silver, the Ceiitennlal-Eureka, tlie Eureka-Hill, Eureka-Hill, the Hulllon-iicck, the Gemini-Keystone, Gemini-Keystone, the Mammoth, the Mcrcur, the old mines of Stockton, Alia, American Fork canyon, Opiilr, Silver City and numerous other camps, including in-cluding lllngham, and those who are today interested in this fascinating pursuit are in line to duplicate the rccoids made by those who were engaged en-gaged in mining In thlsintcrmoiintaln region twenty and thirty years ago. |