Jón Bjarnason Academy - 01.05.1936, Page 39

toward ultimate production. The year 1935 was marked by the advent
of one more major gold producer. 1936 will usher in two or three
more. Older properties which have been in production for some
time report conditions as greatly improving due in part to ex-
perience gained during their brief period of operation. The future
of the mining industry in Manitoba looks bright indeed.
Manitoba is well on its way in its transition from a purely agri-
cultural province to a province where industry and particularly
the mining industry will play an increasingly important part and
the next few years may conceivably hold for the mining industry a
position of equality in the field of primary production. Whether or
not it reaches so high a position mining is an anchor to windward and
will influence the economic development of the province more than
any other single factor in the years which lie immediately before us.
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