Show STATE SUPPLIES TENTH OF MINERAL achievements FOI foh YEAR 1925 SHOW UTAH IS GAINING GROUND arizona only state to outclass mines in value of production dividends highest at surn sum salt lake city utah has reached deac hed the premier position among the metal producing states of the united states i tho the records 0 of mineral achievements tor for 1925 disclose ot of six great min oral cral producing states of the rocky rock mountains utah As arizona izona Alon montana tana idaho nevada and colorado the j mines ot of this state stand out as the greatest dividend payers of 0 any other state and second in the value of precious mineral production mining companies paid in dividends to stockholders in 1925 as against for or arli arl i zona tor for montana Alon tana 57 83 t tor for idaho tor for nevada no report of colorados mining divi bends has been received arizona with its pounds of 0 copper produced outdistanced utah in the value of 0 its metals produced with but utah is second I 1 I 1 by more than lead over Alon montana tana with a production value for 1925 of idaho is fourth with nevada aith faith with and colorado sixth with achievement in the production of precious mineral Is unique the state is the loading leading silver producing state of the nation with ounces of silver which Is equal to one tenth of the worlds production and is more than one ninth of the combined 1925 silver production of the united states mexico canada alaska and peru utah produced almost three times as much silver as idaho more than three times as much as nevada and more than five times as much silver as colorado this state also leads all of the sli six great mining states of the rocky mountain region in the production of 0 lead with pounds idaho Is the only near competitor with pounds the others falling wa way behind arizona Is by far the largest copper producing state with pounds but utah pushed montana for honors being merely 0 00 0 0 pounds behind for the first time in histron utah romped away from montana in mineral wealth by a large margin not only did utah mines produce more than more mineral wealth in 1925 than montana but the mines ot of this state paid more in dividends and exceeded the dividends paid by arizona by |