Show DOES gold grow prof arthur lakes the eminent geologist of denver 5 answers this question in the affirmative in an article entitled the orlain origin of gold there are many aho who have believed that dame nature was taking a rest and that she had closed up her laboratory that she had come to the conclusion that her store of the precious metals were inexhaustible and so was standing idly by while while the children of men were busy tapping pin her storehouses of imperishable wealth but this it seems was a mistaken idea for it is proven beyond a doubt that the deposits of the auriferous and other metals are being 1 added addea to by natural means and by natural causes and that in certain sections of this western country and probably all over the world the great work is still going n on in nevada for int instance tance at a place called steamboat springs there are true fissures from which steam and gas are constantly rising the hot water below in combination with carbonic acid gas deposits the metals in their matrix of quartz gradually filling up the fissure and every crevice and in due time with the cooling of the whole mass another ore body will be formed ready for the arps the mining minin g operator or the mining 11 magnate the metals in solution are often deposited deposit edon on anything with which the water waier may come in contact with old mining men men visiting abandoned mines have found that ancient dumps have been made depositories repositories deposit ories for gold silver and copper merely because the water flowing oving fl from the tunnel or other workings has percolated the mass which has absorbed the precious metal in solution while the wealth of our hills has been but little diminished as yet by the efforts of man and it may take centuries before any exhaustion in this respect is noted it is still a gratifying thought that future demands are being provided for by an all wise creator |