Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . formation, but as showing how the United States is leading theworld in this important industry also. He says : — No phase of the development of the natural resources of the United Stateshas been characterized by more rapid, or more really remarkable progress, thanthe growth of the copper industry. For one thing, this commodity holds theunparalleled record of having shown, even in the face of financial panics and business depression, an in-crease of production duringpractically every year sinc
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . formation, but as showing how the United States is leading theworld in this important industry also. He says : — No phase of the development of the natural resources of the United Stateshas been characterized by more rapid, or more really remarkable progress, thanthe growth of the copper industry. For one thing, this commodity holds theunparalleled record of having shown, even in the face of financial panics and business depression, an in-crease of production duringpractically every year sincethe inauguration of opera-tions, until now the annualoutput of the metal is worthapproximately ^100,000,000,or considerably more thanall the gold produced in thisAutomobile Factory country during an equal in- terval. Perhaps even more impressive is the fact that the United Stateshas within little more than half a century risen to the position of min-ing more copper than all the rest of the world combined, and in so doinghas virtually control over the markets of the globe. Copper is produced in5. r t ~;;, o» F^ ly jj r 1 --I 1 >» » ^ -IJ! -R-^ 58 THE MARVEL OF NATIONS. rr
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