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<br />Local markets have not greatly increasad in volUllle <br /> <br />since 1925, but there is Bome prospect that the grsdual revi- <br /> <br /> <br />val in mining now tsking place in llIost parts of the San Juon <br /> <br /> <br />Mounteins will continue under the stimulation of the increased <br /> <br />price of gold and other mets18. Me reviVlll wall in GOms part <br /> <br />inspired by the disoover-/ of II. very rich strike in the Red <br /> <br />Arrow mine on the heed of the East Me.nCOB River, IIhich has <br /> <br />been followed by other discoveries in that neighborhood, <br /> <br />end by renewed .ork in the old camps. <br />General Considerations <br />A turther stimulation comes from the severe crop <br /> <br />tailures in the hWllid sections of taa country wh.1.ch have re.1sed <br /> <br /> <br />the pr10ell of ferm products, wh.1.1e locally there haa been e <br /> <br /> <br />very grest reduction in acreage end oropll b1'oUilht about by <br /> <br />the deoreesed wster supply. As to how long nBtiOnal com- <br /> <br />modity prices 11111 reJlla1n h.1.gh there can be no certainty, <br /> <br /> <br />but it will teke yeerll of heavy precipitlltion or the building <br /> <br />of many expensive storage worka to rel5tore tb.e irrigated <br />sreBS in the San Juan Basin to their former size and pro- <br /> <br />ductivity. The tremendous reduction in the number of meat <br />animals which the depression end drought nave cBulled indicates <br />that projects BUch sa the MenGos, which ere primarily founded <br />on the livestoelt indUStry, hBV9 (I ho>>eful future. <br /> <br />l\) <br />l\) <br />W <br />-..J <br /> <br />16 <br />