Show A communication MINING on mining to which our local replies with aall deserved sarcasm ht to days col aning has aaen brought vividly homo to our mind abo long ed that tharo is a vast deal of ignorance igno ranco concern ing mining looking back through alio llio ton years files of the JUNCTION there is not a volume that does oot tell of courageous attempts and di heartening heArie ning failures tick and shovel bavo niada many holes in the rocks of our hills aid and holes wore af aa abo dockets lockets lock ets of thouc who dug hem again and adula adventurous men swung the pick bent on tearing the precious mineral fiam he bowels of unwilling earth tins however au activity liaa been which we think giai adver before been eean on the rocky dopes of our tho hill tides aro dattel ith and wil WW clai and dozen or scores of men are buy in unearthing the long bidden treasures of the dark deep never was the prospect better there are few men of meane who with out noise and bustle have gone to work and invested homo of their capital in the promising enterprise even i men or men of limited fortune have gone and are going about it with a pluck and vim that rich success the sturdy in nr when ho comes down to town after his provisions comet with a radiant face and elated bosom over tho excellency of his how and when lie plods his way up the mountain slope in the rays of the morning gun tha promises of wealth before him give bis step an elastic buoyancy still there are many defects which retard the progress and development of our mining industry it is the ignorance which we referred to at the beginning there are many who engage in the search after the auriferous quartz and ledge with no greater qualification than a couple of brawny arms and a desire to get rich in a trie it takes in mining like in everything le knowledge first knowledge second and knowledge third abi knowledge my not have boon derived by burning the mid night oil over books on geology mineralogy er chemistry and other cognate sciences it may have been acquired just M legitimately by long years of practice and experience down in the dismally yawning shafts or among the rocks of the hill ade but still abia knowledge baa sharpened the mans eye and sharpened bis judgment so that he will with readiness strike bis pick in the spot while others plod over the ground for acres and hiloa and pick up nothing but pebbles but the very same miner who haa picked up the knowledge which leads him to discoveries co resulting in will bo tho first te acknowledge that theory can ba made an effective helper in the arduous work all true theory scientifically speaking is nothing but the and classification of practical experiences by actual explorations pl orations researches and experiments chemistry is based on the iona jelt experiments of the alembic retort test tube etc mineralogy has been founder on the actual results of observation with blow pipe mi scalea etc and bo with every science pertaining to a thorough training in mining A good deal of this almost indispensable knowledge the fruit of many a studious lifetime of highest can be brought to the public understanding if those men who possess the science would be willing to come forth on the lecturers stand and demonstrate how and where can relieve anil release toil and labor will gome of our mends notice this gentle hint A SICK elephant story comes from littleton N 11 old dick second in aizo sizo among the eleven elephants in menagerie is tho fortunate possessor of a fino pair of tusks which he wields to terrible advantage in the above mentioned town he rebelled against entering hii car hit unusually ferocious mood necessitated the sending for charlie forepaugh jr who has supreme control over the animals generally charlie at once charged on dick on horseback and ordered him to enter his car in a great fury dick brought hia powerful trunk around and knocked forepaugh insensible olt hia horse old bete the largest of the elephants had carefully scanned abo whole and at thia critical instant rushed on dick and bore chiai down to the irth with her mighty strength after giving him a terrible punishment such as was never by man before she carefully picked up the insensible young man in her trunk and tenderly to a place of safety dick got up and slunk into the car like a whipped cur moaning with his pun bument since that time ho has never carefully avoid off endine old beta THE carcaci ocean calls upon the greenback erg to vote for gr field and closes its appeal for their vote with the following the vital question for green backers in ting can they afford to run the risk of helping to elect uan cock and of thereby helping to addao the country with revenue only with the sequences of excessive importations specie drained away and a contraction of A will they not better serve their aea in this emergency by voting for gurgold Gr gold all of which is a very al pleading for a coalition the the of the republican barty most flagrantly it i ono dieco however with their notion in the alabama state election tha ool orious radical aada thal he voted for in hia life and that ho has not seen a bal lol boic for fifty year A people will conclude that mr bury not adapted to this ago or this country A man who takes no in good government who doc not the means at his corn manil in this direction but only glands off and growls at mr pills bury for forty years put ia unworthy ot citizenship in a land of free home and free men mr rilla bury was born either too early or too late to ba useful |