Show INCREASED INTEREST IN GOLD it is possible bu but t hardly probable that irian man might become more interested in gold at the present time than were his forebears centuries anfu i rie s ago if I 1 there ever was a time when all interest were not centered in the yellow metal history has failed to chronicle such a strange condition con diton of affairs but interest in the metal itself in the yellow stuff when coined into tens and twenties really has nothing to do with the production of gold with the fascinations the successes and the failures of gold mining therefore when we say increased interest in gold we should qualify the remark by adding the word mining as the tendency of the day in commercial and financial circles is not only to consider the gold as it is stacked in heaps on bank counters and crowded into gloomy vaults but to also consider its source in other words gold mining is again becoming popular with the masses as it has long been with the small minority and the indications are that the demand for gold producing properties within the next twelve months will be greater than has ever been the request for producers of silver lead and copper ores it is really astonishing to note the yearly increase in gold production in the united states this growth began with the dis discover edver of gold in california which state during the thirty years ending 1878 produced the enormous sum of in the precious metal during the ten years last past alaska has produced in gold and it is believed that the gold output of the united states for the year 1910 will boit fall short of but where does it all come from this is the question that many will ask for one thing and this is a positive statement this great bulk of gold comes very largely from new discoveries the old old mines were played out years ago and it is from new discoveries from new fields that these millions are being wrested and the discovery of new mines new bonanzas will continue from year to year from g generation en to generation even until the end of time for the mountain trail we have traveled over for years for a quarter of a century or more will some day be found to have led over a blind ledge in which will be found the key which will unlock the treasure vaults of nature it is the increasing knowledge of these facts of these conditions that is attracting the attention of the masses to gold mining as a profitable occupation because new gold discoveries are constantly being made over a rapidly increasing area of territory the yearly output of gold is steadily being added to another twelve months will bring in new gold producers in 1907 the total output of the world was estimated at and it is safe to say that within a period of ten years more the annual gold yield of the united states will fully equal this stupendous amount there is no wonder then when we consider thes facts and figures that people in every walk of life are eager to secure an interest in a gold mine either as an owner in ground or stock |