Show GOLD m SILVER mihe another great boam has lorg been the oreain of prospectors and speculators they are probably doomed to disappoint neat methods changed the product of a M ne now regulates Us value ore Is now what makes mining ground valuable another boom J us long been the dream of tt e prospectors and mining speculators who lived tl the ex citing times of V ireania city and lead ville but tl ey are probably doomed to disappointment lie tl ev hive been sc 11 coi dil on of affa ra in tl e cst tiie the 1 ten ye changing with greit ra BO t at it is no loi ger the coun try which they knew hen in 1849 alio reports of tl e discovery of gold in began to sir eggle to tl e 1 ast aliey aue received with but 1 en tl ey binally became so deb nite 11 ey on credence was so little knowledge of tl e v country lyn g bi yond the rocky mount lins that tl e men of the eastern states imagined it a veritable Ll dorado wl ere tl ey 1 id only to go in order to an fn d gold and there commenced tl e first and most re excitement recorded in the annals 0 the mining industry of tins country fhe miners who gathered in california at that time although gen eral y men of intelligence as compared feitli the laborers in countries had vague ideas of the geological dis of gold and tl e marvelous amounts won by them from the rich placers excited tl air fancy so much eliat they would scarcely have been able to form a sound in any case is 0 story was too extravagant to find believers and men who biad been earn ing but a dollar a day in the be came dissatisfied if they were not clear ing twenty and ure always ready to start off on some ex i edition in search of distant diggings rei buted to be rich after awl lie tl e n iners became better informed but 11 e discovery of gold and silver in colorado and tl e wonder tul bonanza of tl e amstock added flames to the f re and for a quarter of a century after marshal s discovery the history of gold and silver mining iu tl e bocky mountains is alie record of a series of rusl es and booms lvin so late as 18 8 tl e est was but corn par alively little known ml it needed only of the leadville ore depos its tl e ease with wl icci aliey w ere open cd and tl tir grat extein 1 to arouse a new excitement from one ocean to tl 0 oil er bince alen however railways have been built in ill directions gr it cities have grown up and alie lion of some states 1 as more tl an dou bled with tie 11 flux of from tl e 1 ast tl e of tl e phoi ie has changed 1 lie argonauts wl 0 went to california in 1849 aro fast j assing AW ay and those wl 0 were on the corn stock in tl e early days lie now old men here tl ere was one dis net in wl icci profitable mil es were worked ten years azo there arc now probably twice the number ai d BO much capital being lib in ill of tl ese enterprises as well as tl e numerous oilier industries which are spin ging up all over the tl ere is not tl e ready to seek ii vt i ew mining under gs tl attl eie was once mir ing for tl 0 precious metals moreover is no longer a new branch of industry in tl is coin try but is one which the conditions acce sary for success are ui der stood and 01 e is being conducted on as sound business 1 acs as are in oil er industrial undertakings 11 e i aoi ie aho vho are now in building up 11 c cst lire too much engaged and arc too cautious to embark in the M hd si which forms 11 e foundation of a milling boom luiere r ave been sever il important and valuable discoveries of ores g tho metals in v nigua larts of the cst during tl e 1 ast ten years but in no instance 1 as there l an old time boom fl e dica cank region may i rove to ie ry i reductive aid ils mines as 03 it is expected and in that babl it will undoubtedly attract considerable attention in oilier p arts of tl e est all i 01 ol arc tl at its develon auit will be as tt at ot tl c biti b iti juin district of chloi ido 1 is been and wl lie new may be ac tl ere it is in II 11 at iny will be won in i d y dover M H axel ant journal |