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Show A Promising Outlook I According to the Nevada Minmj Press, the outlook for the mining industry is promising. Prices for f copper, lead and zinc, which recently re-cently reached the lowest point in many years, have stiffened. Demand De-mand is on the inciease. In the western states, particularly, stimulated mining activity will be the quickest road back to prosperity. prosper-ity. There are hundreds of thousands thous-ands of workers whose livlihood depends directly on the industry. There are thousands more who have an indirect interest in mining min-ing because of its purchasing power, pow-er, the taxes it pays and the seasonal sea-sonal employment it offers during normal activity. The railroads, farmers, store-keepers, mining helps . all of them. Lending mine executive are working work-ing on a program to adjust production pro-duction to demand. A variety of factors must aid in re-establishing one of our oldest and most necessary neces-sary industries on a sound ejm-omic ejm-omic basis. |
