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Show A all.MNU SANITARIUM. For a quarter of a eeutury the west mountain (Bingham) milling district in Utah, by the extent of its mineral ledges, the aggregate yield of its precious prec-ious and useful metals, its accessibility to niarkot and the cheapness with which its ores are reduced, has won for itself the first place in the grand procession pro-cession of famous producing mining districts iu Utah. During all the years named from its hills and placers a continuous con-tinuous stream of riches, varying in volume, has furnished bread to the eater, seed to the sower and material prosperity to tho territory. A new and downward departure is being inaugurated in the "Old Reliable." Down through the surface strata of pyrites (heretofore the occasion of profanity to tho retreating, horror-stricken miner,) some adventurous adventur-ous navigators have pushed their prospecting pros-pecting picks and powder-blasts in pursuit pur-suit of a subteranean ocean of marketable market-able ore. They have found it all honor to their indomitable pluck and enterprise. enter-prise. Comparatively bare-handed labor, rather than plethoric capital, has pe ned the way into this new world of mineral wealth. The captains of industry in-dustry who have led the van of this discovery dis-covery column, a majority of them but a few years ago dependent upon their daily wages for their daily bread, have, like P. A. H. Franklin, tho Jay Gould of our mining interests snatched victory vic-tory from the jaws of defeat, and are pushing their successes. "Deep mining" is to be tho order of the day hereafter In Bingham. Bing-ham. Leaving "Muudic" behind with the Cornishman's saying that "he rides a good horse;" tho industrial column col-umn is pushing its way from the surface sur-face to the center and long trains of loaded wagons and cars join in trium- phant procession bearing legitimate spoils of gold nnd silver to the rear. Let the idle capital of Utah set the idle men of Utah and the west at work in the opening mines of Bingham and elsewhere. Instead of watching vanishing van-ishing banking accounts in the city, draw freely on exhaustluss treasures in the mountains. Show your faith in a bi-metalic standard by adding gold and silver to the exhausted treasuries of the world. From llingham alonu by a long pull, a strong pull and a pull altogether, you can make from the sleep of centuries ten millions of precious metal within tho next twelve months. We are drifting into a community of speculators, consumers and pot-house politicians. The American itch for office of-fice and city life can best be cured by roughing it in the mountains. It is but a day's walk to liinghaiu and there are as good fish in that newly discovered sea as were ever caught. Let the men who are not ashamed to handle dollars, club together with the men who are not ashamed to wield the pick and shovel and together leave for tho mines for their own and tho city's good. Work in the hills means growth of wealth and population in the marts of trade. Production Pro-duction precedes accretion. Creat cities like great rivers depend upon a multiplication of tributaries. |