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Show Reviving Mining Important i If the various plans to restore the value of silver succeed, the nation will be benefited in two ways by renewed opportunities for foreign trade which will result re-sult in stimulated industrial activity ac-tivity at home, and by a revival of mining operations. In the western states mining Is one of the largest industries -In some states it normally employs em-ploys more men than any other industry, pays more in taxes to the state: and is the largest purchaser pur-chaser of supplies. "Poverty prices" pric-es" for metals have forced the industry in-dustry to retrench, and the effects ef-fects of that have been felt throughout the nation. Anything that will again make mining profitable pro-fitable will do much to help the country at large to solve the problems prob-lems brought on by depression. |