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Show H NO PANIC YET. H IMutn c'ourant. H After gold mid silver, tho metals of H which tho groat west generally, and H Utah particularly, look for coinmor- H cial activity and substantial progress, H nro copper and lend. Tho lucrcaso in H the production of all these is steady, H with -n constantly rising ratio of nd- H viiuco. It doos look as If thoso who H liavo for somo years been predicting H a great panic would havo to keep on H revising their conclusions, each time H Iceoplng tho calamitous result far H cuiough on to kcop tholr roputnttons H as prophets from becoming conlluent H with that ol calamity howlers. It Is H not necessary to ho overly optlmlstlo H to roach tho comforting side of tho H proposition; one has but to refer to H tho facts ns recorded, thu cold llgurcs us dovolnped, to obtain full satlsfac- H lion nu to tho financial situation. Just H I(M)k Thu roBiillH for last year not H being completely tabulated, but con- H shier the showing for tho Immediate- H ly previous period; Thu production H of copper Increased tram Sll',5:!7,'Jt!7 B pounds, valued at si()&,G:'U,8I5, In M 1901. to DO 1,1)07,8 13 pounds, valued at M 1139,795,716, in luofi, an Increuso of H 8J,'I70,&7( pounds In quantity mid ot H $XI, 105,871 In value. Tho production H of lead In 1905 was aou.OUO short ton. j' ns against 307,000 short tons in 1001 H ami 282,000 short tons In 1903, Tho H vnluo or thu production In 1005 was H $28,G!iQ,000, us comparod with JU'lJ.- j -102.000 In 1901, and with 23,u,!0,000 H in 1903, While lead Buffered it small H decllnu ns compared with tho Imme- H cllutoly pruvinus year. It gained H onough ovor 1903 to mnlto tho gonoral H trend upward, nnd tho figures ror Inst Hj year will mtiko tills still more pro H noiincod. H No, Indo- d; there will bo no panic Jr. UiIb year, and It would bo hnrd to IlnU wutf thu materials to construct ono for H next year. You might as woll say H, thnt a horso or cow would Btarvo ' with their barns full of liny or corn as H to llguro out n llnanclal congestion H with monoy motalo so very abundant Hj and so cortalnly Increasing, |