Show W estern mines make wonderful record the mines of utah montana ida ho arizona and nevada read paid a to tal of over in dividends dividend the past year vear never before aad U S see sec detary lane has so large a draft been made on the natural resources resource of our country as dying nathis this year ear and never before have the melad been extracted from these ores with less waste or utilized to better advantage in advancing the prosperity of the country even alven as written in the plain figures figure of 1916 production the wonderful record of our mines sets seta forth a degree of na dional ind industry ostrY independence i n hoped for a few years ago again copper out as the best illustration of how american A erman mines can ad acab meet t a world demand the output of nearly 2 million dounda a de of the red metal is double that of ten years ago and its ita value is a twice awaa that of copper copler prod produced ed in 1115 add to this the facts that in value copper now contends with iron for alt blare pha among the metals and bat together the amount of tinse these two metals produced first year had a value of mor mom than one billion dollars and we have a measure of what this thia country can contribute in use in ful metals |