Show e A S M 4 S M FAMOUS MININ MINING STRIKES I A By fly THOMAS THOHAS E STEWARD I 1 f e f H t r 4 San LUIS Potosi in Bolivia I of ot such treasure strikes S ns nl those thoe thos of ot the Comstock Lode I 1 on an J Goldfield lov I ov are e events of but yesterday In tho the history of mining is In Inthe the new Dew world orld A As a 11 matter of ot fact flet one ODO of ot the richest mining strikes e eser eer er modo mado In the estern i hero here took place I lefore the tir founding of ot I Lay colony In Massachusetts by the Pilgrims In Or tte year 1620 1020 Spain was WM not Dot slow about seeking out the lie treasure houses of ot South America after the tho discoveries h b bi Col Columbus embus showed them theiu the tir way to n a ne new world In which they suppose I there was an endless Js tren treasure of golf goll gol I and nn I precious stones The me heights height thin atmosphere nn an I 1 blasting winds of or the Andes And s where what hat Is now called the of BolI In lies Iles were w ere re no more mon left lett J than wore were the hot and easily accessible coastal plains Historians of ot South America tell I how In the Sixteenth century tl II Spanish made mode a n tremendous find ot of treasure In Bolivia then part pirt of I c I and colic I 1 th the mine Sin Luls Lull 1 I i 1 This Is a n name that recurs at nt seer se e eer er il II places In I but no nth oti or er erI 1 1 Ins his I len INn ern ns grent great as af th tint t at I ISan San Luls Luis In 1 I li is w word meaning menning a sud oud an I 1 endowment of ot wealth the tho same thing that English h or Americans would call n a be b nanza An 1 Potosi was the right wold to e a the treasures of ot I oils oll la la Early accounts describe San I J uis ulaI I as a typical nit There was an exceptionally dar cling fast life in the dace riace as ae the Isolation and hardships of ot life drove white while men mell using lining Ih there to seek f r of their exile and lonell ness In hate er hate er were erl the Sixteenth century euh equivalents of at atthe othe the western estern dance halls and drinking bars sprang up In profusion In the no Bo Boa i- i a Andes I Men en who made wealth In the mines spent pent It like water let et the provisions of ot the Spanish govern go government meat CO co e 0 ownership of colonial mines were extremely strict and there thera can be no doubt that most mot of ot It was borne home to Spain In the royal gal Icons It was OS upon the ship ships from ban Luis Luls and other South American tress treas treasure ere ure houses that the I n 11 leers such as Morgan and Sir Ir Fran Francis Francis cis Dral e a preyed In the tie period o s splendor And It was wis In n a nbattle nbattle battle between bet een such men as tile they and Spain s proudest fleet the In III that lint grandeur was nas destine I to start on n a downward do don n path hilI- hilI h sen sea power poster PO er began the rise which carried It to Its present em nence |