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Show I SILVER TO BE PURCHASED. Good news for the slher mining Industry' In-dustry' comes from Washington. The treasury department has made the announcement an-nouncement that the government, In response to the Pitlman act, will continue con-tinue to buy silver at $1 an ounce and the purchases will be kept up for wo years more. Silver in foreign countries is selling at 70 cents an ounce and, if that price were to preail in the 1'nited States, more than half the mines now operating operat-ing would be forced to close. At present, in this state, camps like Park City are enjoying real prosperity pros-perity More miners are working in Park City than in years, and. as a re suit, men thrown out of employment by the closing of the copper plants, have found the brightening up ot the silver properties a means of wardinc off a caJamity The Plttman act has beeu of incalculable incal-culable benefit to the silver mining industry and the treasury departmer.' in liberally construing the law, is helping this entire mining region. DO |