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Show Scholarships Estafiiisfiecl By The Mining industry More than 53,000.00 in cash and scholarship awards are being offered to the high school and college students stud-ents of Utah by the Mining Industry of the state through the University of Utah. This announcement was made today by the University of Utah and can not help but be of great interest to all to whom the healthy growth of the State is a matter of pride and concern and who are interested in carefully studying the economic foundations foun-dations upon which it rests. As is well known, the mining industry in-dustry is one of the most important industries of the State of Utah. The State boasts of the largest lead and copper producers in the country, not to mention a growing iron and steel enterprise, and is the center of the greatest smelting activity in the West. It is believed that in our metal resources and their development we have our greatest and economically unlimited agent to advancement, and to the building of a balanced, self-contained self-contained State. Utah is near the be ginning of her history.' A study of the means of progress in the past, when applied to our own circumstances, circum-stances, should show where the current cur-rent of progress lies and how to get into it. To encourage such a study, particularly par-ticularly among the rising generation some of the leading mining companies of our State have offered, through the University of Utah, cash prizes la the form of scholarships, to assist those desiring to continue their education edu-cation at the several institutions of higher learning of the State those companies who have contributed funds for these scholarships may be mentioned: Utah Copper Company, Tintic Standard Stan-dard Mining Company, Silver King Coalition Mines Company, Bingham Mines Company, International Smelting Smelt-ing Company, Combined Metals Production Pro-duction Company, XT. S. Smelting, Refining Re-fining & Mining Company, American Smelting & Refining Company, Chief Consolidated Mining Company, Utah Apex Mines Company, Utah' Ore Sampling Company and New Quincy Mining Company. It is expected that others interested In this subject will also contribute. Although the University of Utah will, in the near future, send to the high schools and colleges of the State literature giving full information con cerning the awarding of these scholar ships, the plan for their awarding is as follows: 1. The writer of the best paper, on a subject to be announced late, In each of the high schools of the State will receive a cash prize of $15.00. 2. The writer of the second best paper in each of the high schools of the State will receive a cash prize of $10.00. 3. The writer of the five beat papers selected from the ten best papers from the high schools of the State will be given a cash prize of $100.00 each. 4. The writers of the two best papers pap-ers submitted by members of the freshman class of the University of Utah, Utah Agricultural College, Brigham Young University, Westminster West-minster College or any Junior College of recognized collegiate standing wilj each receive a prize of $100.00. 5. The writers of the two best papers pap-ers submitted by members of the sophomore class of the institutions above named will each receive a cash prize of $200.00. 6. The writers of the two best papers pap-ers submitted by members of the junior class of the University of Utah, Erigham Young University and Utah Agricultural College will each receive a prize of $300.00- 7. The writer of the best paper submitted sub-mitted by a member of the senior class of the University of Utah, Brlg- ham Young University and the Utah Agricultural College will receive a prize of $400.00. Should the response made show that the plan had met with the approval ap-proval of the citizens of the State, the donors for these scholarships have planned to offer these awards every year. o |