| Show announcement there are prospectors handbooks by the score and scientific treatises on mines and mining by the hundreds but have you ever seen a book which contained all the facts of the one and the theories of the other and yet which was truly a story of the hills and gulches told in such a way as to be full of the most intense interest even to those who are not prospectors and miners such a bok is secrets of the rocks its author has been a practical prospector in the mountains of the far west for more than three decades and during all that time he has been striving to learn the secrets of the rocks by personal observation and exhaustive study of the researches of others he has embodied the result of his work in a book which reads like a romance and yet which is a gold mine of the facts which a prospector needs to know facts which are to be relied upon for they are gleaned from actual experience the formation of our globe from the intensely heated vapors that once composed the solar system is graphically described and the importance to the prospector of a knowledge of the formation of the rocks amongst which he is to work is clearly shown the history of mining precious metals in this country is a story of suffering of hardship of frequent failures and of brilliant successes and it is here told by one who has taken an active part in making that history the chapters on placer mining river mining and quartz mining are bristling with useful information and made in interesting te resting by anecdotes connected with those industries the chapter on salting mines may sonia some day be worth a thousand times the cost of the b ook book to its reader the tests for the various ores ores all of which can be made by the prospector in the field are simply and accurately cura tely described so that with this book in hi his s pack one can determine on oil the spot the value of his find this book is certain to become a popular one especially here in the west where there is no one who has not had his dream that he may some day himself himself strike it rich to prospectors it is almost invaluable as a handbook of practical information to prospective investors it is full of warnings and suggestions to the old timer it is a chronicle of a life that is fast disappearing and to everybody it is an interesting story of one of the worlds greatest industries dus tries written in language that all can understand der stand 12 mo pages cloth binding stani stamped lied in gold and black for sale by salt lake mining review price postage 15 cen cents s |
