Show announcement there are prospectors handbooks by score and scientific treatises treatis eg on mines mining by the hundreds but bu have you seen a book which contained all the facts fact the one and the theories of the other w te yet which was truly a story of the hil hills I 1 g 0 0 gulches told in such a way as to be er of the most intense interest even to t f aln Os who are not prospectors and miners 9 a book is secrets of the rocks its au aut share has been a practical prospector prospecto r in the irn coop bains of the far west for more than thi tb decades and during all that ti time me he atho 1 itous been striving to learn the secrets ot of been rocks by personal observation and elhai tive study of the researches of others I 1 done has embodied the result of his work in 00 book which reads like a romance and old which is a gold mine of the facts wh bro a prospector needs to know facts which a to be relied upon for they are gleaned fr fro actual experience the the formation of our globe from the i arl tensely heated vapors that once compos compa jt the solar system is graphically describe aw and the importance to the prospector of 0 kir th knowledge of the formation of the he roe rock ab amongst which he is to work is clearl clear th shown the history of mining precious me to Q als in this country is a story of suf ferin feria by y of hardship of frequent failures and of br bf j biant successes and it is here told by ol 01 in who has taken an active part in anak ar that history c co the cha chapters apters on placer mining river mil mi 1 ing and quartz mining are bristling with us a ful information and made interesting I 1 I 1 i ja anecdotes connected with those indu industries t the chapter on salting mines may some da be worth a thousand times the cost of tt c book to its reader the tests for the va t ious ores all of which can be made by tl 0 1 prospector in the field are simply and a at s curatelo cura tely described so that with this book biou his pad one can determine on the SP i the value of his find this book is certain to become a pop lar one especially here in the west aher there is no one who has not had his dreal dread 1 that he may some day himself strike rich to prospectors it is almost inva bable as a handbook of practical all linfors informs n tion to prospective investors it is full warnings t and suggestions to the old tin it is a chronicle of a life that is fast digap and to everybody it is an inter intel esting story of one of the worlds gr greatest creates eates industries written in language that all ca c understand 12 mo pages cloth binding st aini d in gold and black for sale by salt lake mining review price postage 15 cents |