Show AL1SIUN UOLtONDA That report 01 a fabaluui gold discovery dis-covery lu Alaska my be true and It 1 may not Nearly all of ui can bear wlloe to Ibo fact that treasure Leave Sierra unlike Moat things In nature Iota nothing through repeated usage but rather gain at a rapid rate until puoclurrd when they subside as rapidly ai they grew up It may be true as relates 10 the discovery so Ir made and tbo report be utterly at tea ai to Ibo conjectures and ntlmiUi reo gelding Its dlmuniloui and probablo duration Were It 1 otherwise the world would have another Calilornla IBM climate and acccnlblllly opened up to It and In such cites history Is not prone to repeating Itself Breaking of California brings up VIvIdly a circumstance oooooalloo with modern mining If not with rare leg In all 8121 aa showing bow evec ly and equitably nature has arranged thlnga geologically Bo far as history goes the discovery Hutteij mill In 1843 opened up a field of f gold ao wealth under clicumetances which mado California bead Ibo Hit for all previous times and perhaps for all limes to come 11 Is I a recognized rule that valuable aid listing list-Ing discoveries aps 01 madn the banks of 1 babbling brooke where na lures verdure greets the eye from shady groves luxuriant undergrowth and grassy plats while Ibe sturdy blow and strokes of Ibo miner are ac ampaole < 1 by the blrruplng and chanting of birdso gorgeous plumage amid day of equable temperature aDd r1 a night Is aiotbed with the plaintive Clientele 1 the wblppoorwlll and the turtle dove Instead of such a Arcadlsthe locale of a rich find li I more likely to be a greaeewood plain whitewashed from end to end and from center to circumference with a dlrlitreaked and rankly poisonous crust which Is not strong enough U bear ouoj weight and too strong to let him down with uniform ease no wattr except In low m > rebe > and one swallow II would cure the gold or any other lever Inilaater Home thing like this or elie a precipitous range which delllbe effrto made 10 scale It 1 by Interposing not only lie own steepness but breastwork after breastwork and < 1 countencirp upon counterscarp of 1 frowning grinning sharpened jagged rock plentifully i flanked with pigmy pine inly I cedar mail stubby undergrowtbp the rayaofthatcorclitagouti ID ummer and high winds escillopod with borean billows capering madly overall over-all but impassable fields of snow lu winter In some such places and amid < 1 similar or wore conditions the practical miner controlled In till jndemcutnot altogether by superstl iron but largely by bitter prolonged experience prefers to look forlipsy rociPl In goodly quantity California reverted all this and com pretty close to Ibo lIul 01 the total Ding prose u tstione In The Matter of unluodlog and coudllloui w hire forging away nbeaJ of anything pri vlously Urcnmcd ciao to productive hotnllhslandlDg Ibo countless mil lions th tit bn been extracted from her soil there Is an anundiuco yet It lue AIka finds are at reported or anywhere any-where near It and rimuiu for a few years without perceptible deletion Ibo Jordan State will have something of n rival lu Ibo matter of quantity but still remain queen of the field In all other mpectt Let It first be considered con-sidered however that million dollars worth of si d nugcela contained withIn with-In a limited area very to eel al wculd be 8D eaortauo thing Ibo days and make several men comparatively wealth P ll might also Le equal to a complete reilltulon of all Ibo claim set up rignrdlug the Alatkau dlioiv crlff and yet It would icarcely amount 10 a drop In Ibo bucket Compared Tllb California |