Show NEVER OUT OF FASHION different branches of the mining indus industry stry are at times in and out of fashion today the trend of public demand may be for copper properties within six months copper may be overshadowed by the popularity of silver lead bearing propositions it is difficult to even predict which metal may be in the most demand a year from now or to state definitely that either of them will be quoted at such prices as will justify their extensive production with gold it is different for gold is always in fashion copper may slump below the cost of profitable production tire quotations on silver and lead may fluctuate within a few months from it 70 0 to 50 cents an ounce from 4 to a hundredweight from a margin of profit to a margin of loss but gold never fluctuates and it never goes below 2067 an ounce for this reason gold mining is always popular always in fashion and always a source of profit to the mining operator just now the mining for gold is more popular than ever before and for the reason that the horizon of thre the silver lead copper industry is clouded by the decline in the selling price of these metals and for the further reason that the owner of properties productive of the same are subject to the whims and prices caprices ca of every market manipulation ula tion of every trust and of every juggler who may care to corner the metal market or to send prices skyward to knock away the underpinning after his ends have been accomplished mining alining for gold has about it a fascination not possessed by other phases of the industry in the majority of cases the pure metal etal is turned out from milling plants on the fhe ground and the owner need not wait for smelter returns to find out what his cleany UP will vill be and this gold can be sent direct to the mint in return for which coined money the real yellow boys goes direct hect into the pockets of the mine owner laid d that is all there is to it it is no wonder then that the popular clamor elaanor is for gold producing properties and this s is the th e reason that eastern capital now has representatives in the field looking for desirable mines of this class and this is 1 why y ln in nearly every proven gold camp nu rous stamp mills and reduction plants are ale now in course of construction the cry is now for gold and the result will be that luring during the coming year gold mining will be far more popular than ever before |