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Show ffSIETi in Search for Wealth 2S Caused Writing of Many Romances. l3ry of World and Hunt cr Treasure Inseparably Insepar-ably Interwoven. ? es aff. lien the wor3d waa ''.'tntal stage. Mother Xature, ' "Lt once whimsical and mys-in mys-in various parts of the Mid treasures of precious metal. , 1 pager search for these k'Ht- "- "'.,'r haa caused to be written 'rl'mtincc, as yet unfinished, Vri ritii the riso and fall of cm-' cm-' coloring the whole range . fabled quest of Jason for the ' '--.-re so called because tho.na-''Co'cha, tho.na-''Co'cha, which he set out to con--J his band of heroes and his 1 ( '-v oars secured the gold in r J-twk ri3 as tt washed down ,-v the most recent and spec--WW of the Jm-nic pnld and rvt in 'western Nevada, the lure metals has given to history r'-; Vxh v dramatic touches and has ' : ' ' .".lU-r" that has 1-d men lo con-1 con-1 . -Vr aid imperishably emblazon " ' "--Von the tablets of time. ' ,.-Vian code of Menes, written i-izo Tfivs to the relation in ;:.T,V gold and silver. This ' '..t two thinps first, that mtal were u?ed at a . .-pVr'od in history, and. second, -hn William J. Bryan attempted ''"-4 ratio between gold and silver ;':,vn-.f,tine to solve a problem as jVry Itself. n of Gold Is Strong. ! (B C, Cadmus, the rhoenic!an, . a Er.!d mine in Thrace, and about r s!ftmon mentions In the Bible . .'i Hihir mine in Sheha, Arabia. . 'n.'.'gd -hearing sands of Tactolus I fabulous fortunes of Croesus, i H iMheus, and the hire of gold - ns arjro in the lives of the then - ,m rA"t':f8 of the earth. a , B. C, Alexander the Great, V Pirs of af,-e. conquered Persia , ' ".-vM with gold and other booty : t f li.OiO.OOl, Accordiner to Plu- i; T-.:'luir(l 10,000 teams of mules amels to transport this treasure. f ijlfiiy that was Greece and the : .;r thiit was Rome" came Cohim- -. lured by Dio gold of the Indies, ' ; -i Fhrrwd business men of his day the expeditions which resulted -.wry of America and marked '-i'jt.h in' the story of the precious i tr fall of the Roman empire to -'Vf-iy of America, states Jacob in '''rv of Precious Metals," men r r''t as tnOy by exploring the i (. the earth, but by the more jirocrss of conquest, tribute ;r.1fTp for the world's metallic !-, - Hen Age Dawns. r i'ir-n riawn crime frith the dis-k dis-k r nf America, and since then the . ivftr and copper mining industry H'.vn to its present high state of . M'ion and pipantic proportions. ' 'vikiiR In Am:riea Is practically aj .ijrini? proposition, with labor 1 - 1 'f.iviiiR machinery and with- ore 'i and ore locations accurately es-. ruieh as engineers dig- tunnels by 'f at Iwth ends and meet In the I ' ii)i practical iy no variation. ft'.-by la also a democratic indus-. indus-. . v. h : h anyone may invest and take '( the profits. No longer Is the !tr liable metals a hitrhly auto-I'lKult auto-I'lKult of kiiipa aild adventurers. ''He of precious metal mine out-"i out-"i ypar has reached the vast -' WiZM't. Out of every $1000 1 hV precioufl meta.l mines for , ' r d 1 1 t , the shareholder received : " -"(ImiiJs. Compare this with the ' W In railroads, where out of !") received by the roadn for .. ''i::r.n, the shareholder received ( in (livlrtcnda. ' ' ulii'iitos how sound and profitable . '''riii mining industry is to the-' the-' '.vhn does not let prejudice ; to the possibilities of enormous ' - i M'ler and Investor. |