Show UTAH STATE RANKS ha HIGH GH AS PRODUCER OF MINERAL fai chairman Bait elay of committee of salt lake city chamber of commerce Com Coni mem says minerals Mine mineral rall production for 1927 fon utah will total future stupendous by J A BARCLAY chairman salt lake chamber 0 of f 0 commerce mining committee SALT LAKE CITY utah dec 31 pew few people realize the extent to which the success of ar the industries ot of the united states stales are intermingled I 1 ter with the welfare ot of the state ot of utah for the manufacturing industries of the entire entile country tire are dependent upon a plentiful supply of raw materials in order that they can produce the manufactured article it is here that the state of utah saps in for that territory Is the source ot of more raw materials than any other state staffa in the i lessen the supply of raw materials and our great industries would languish if they would be it at the disadvantage of being dependent on the imports 0 of raw materials from foreign coun tiles our state esthe gica test metallurgical field in the country and has hals more diversified mine mineral ral conditions than are t to 3 be found in any like area utah is composed of 29 counties and in all these counties there are known deposits of commercially valuable minerals in fact utah has practically every known commercial metal except tin tho impressive feature ab about aut its mineral resources is that development ia 13 practically in its infancy and while the shipments of minerals may look imposing in amount I 1 they nevertheless come from a very ver small area and in all cases are surrounded by virgin vi gin territory that ill at awaits the application of capita and labor to further rend aiom the earth those abounding riches the rill mineral production for this year will approximate these are new dollars because they are produced out of the earth eart h and they go 0 increase the wealth of the world without injuring an any Y on ons 3 utah paid in dividends in 1926 and the dividends for 1927 in the facie face of lower prices for metals were ere with that kind of a record it should not surprise readers to learn that utah leads among all other states first in ia the production of silver second in the production of land arid and copper fifth in zinc and sixth in gold this mineral production cornea comes in a large measure from three of the leading mining districts of the state although there are other see sec irions which are beins being steadily expected to rank tn in the future with an importance thit will be imposing denver mining and financial record |