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Show LEAD TO HE HIGH Probably never in the history of the world has industry faced tiiu same situation with regard to a metal met-al as it does today with regard to had. The leading aspects of this unprecedented un-precedented situation can be summarized sum-marized as follows: 1 Demand for lead is increasing by leaps and bounds. 2 No new lead mines have been discovered recently. 3 Substitutes for this metal so vital to industry and science iu a multitude of ways, are lacking. Particularly in ruining circles ar those topics being given careful con-, .-ideralion, for Utah prosperity is u intimately related to the prosperity of the state's lead industry that the ropidly increasing price of the metai has t remendous sjgnifioaii'-e. Not a few careful students of metal niark- ets predict that if no new lead mine., are opened up, if demand continue to mount, if substitutes are not found the gray metal will some day soon be 'lliiiK on a parity with copper. After a study of statistics and r-'vicv.- of the uses for the metal, it does net require any groat stretch, of ine's'iration to beiieve so. For on si! .ides is t'-i- need of lend growing. Lend -oes ie'o j .-ils. batdi .-elder roofinrr, pr'.rsVrV ne-ta, chern-irr''-.. f-l;e-s. pottery ijri;iii-s a it d batter: bat-ter: Mor- nvr-r. i lias si-oe-:; or I-.Ver use- too numerous to name. A |