Show MINERAL achievements FOR YEAR 1925 SHOW UTAH IS GAINING GROUND arizona only state to outclass utah mines mine in value of production dividends highest at sum salt lake city utah has reached the premier position among the metal producing states ot of the united states the records ot of mineral achievements tor for 1925 disclose of six great mineral producing states ot of the rocky mountains utah arizona montana idaho nevada and colorado the mines ot of this state stand out as the greatest dividend payers ot of any other state and second in the value ot of precious mineral production mining companies paid in divia dividends ends to stockholders in 1925 as against for art arl tons lona tor for montana tor for idaho tor I 1 nevada no report ot of colorados mining dividends has been received arizona with its pounds 0 of copper produced outdistanced utah in the value ot of its metals produced with but utah Is second by more than lead over montana with a production value for 1925 0 of idaho Is fourth with nevada faith with and colorado sixth with achievement in the production ot of precious mineral Is unique the state Is the leading silver producing state ot of the nation with ounces ot of silver which Is equal to one tenth 0 of the worlds production and Is more than one ninth ot of the combined 1925 sliver silver production of 0 the united states mexico canada alaska and peru utah produced almost three times as much silver gs as idaho more than three times as much as nevada and more than five times as much silver as aa colorado this state also leads all ot of the six great mining states ot of the rocky mountain region in the production ot of lead with pounds idaho Is the only near competitor with pounds the others tailing falling way behind arizona Is by far the largest copper producing state with pounds but utah pushed montana for honors boners being merely 0 0 00 0 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 2925 than montana but the mines ot of this state paid more in dividends and exceeded the dividends paid by arizona by 1000 00 |