Show 0 SILVER MINERS ARE NOT CARED i i i 7 western wr 2 silver afy miners have no characteristic hiyi more ff fixed and more v admirable aa than their persistent hope and 0 optimism in the face of the most depressing discouragements they W have af been manifesting this trait in a notable 77 manner during the disastrous drop in the price of their product from considerably more than a dollar 7 an ahir ounce as to a figure approximately ninety nine c e n t s r they jg have ay gone on energetically 7 with their development work lit this state and in af its neighbors on 7 the west and north realizing t hat the 7 slump was only 5 temporary and that 7 by every reasonable hypothesis the average price of 0 the white metal must soon advance ifa above yf 1 00 7 in ounce i seeking the ww cause of the recent drop Sayi they readily found 7 it in the fact that the british treasury temporarily a suspended silver buying in india a and also in the reaction following malting v of its silver currency bought at fifty cents an ounce to sell at the high aff prices the logical TS ff effect of both these fiad poll aigy cles was vw to destroy 1 the price ff of the metal a and cause it to drop ashy severely but immediate a reassurance came tai to the producers s aff in the reflection aseff that during ff the jaff war the U S treasury 5 department melted more 7 than ft ww quarter billion dollars in silver and wr sold it ff to supply the needs of asia and that in consequence the govern ment will have 2 ass to replenish V its say vaults js with american silver a pro gram that 3 Is now being carried r out which ff will require at least vyse four years of the total output ff of amerl can faw mines in addition to all this ff the intelligent 1 white metal dyff producer knows that the s whole fi mafoi world Is ex cee short afy of silver w and 71 that a gold production Is a still declining if even 7 under 11 iffa the usual run of luck the saw silver miner of the great west 0 is inclined if to hopefulness bev there rw Is everything osy in a these incontrovertible to 37 strengthen his courage and r |