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Show Ijnfj tiif. dor.iir.v rni. tlBE Gold hu boon rieacrlbed by a user of lilUt i lncl(ul 1nuge at "the celsetlal (lro Wtm ' Proniolheut drew from heiven." Nolh- lllflal ! IwrcouUWound floor and nothing bo fuR ' mora lttnctrlcAlly opposite to the l!wK truth. At a rule, those who lV.ck to uSttr ' D,w 80,a "r,J" or lo" mo " DOt " I UK' of llielrjuelgment when thoy hear of IkP' I'Tlnu and accessible discoveries, IKK would not bo drawn any iHstance nor Iffil' take the slightest Interest In anything IIJjjS, which really cunt from htnven, at n lljjfjf evidence of which III choicest bless- I jMlll logi aro constantly Ignored or slighted Off In the persistent worship of this tame IjXt golden clf. IHF' ' There It no longer any quoslton In I Mr , the mludt of the carefully thoughtful I Jit that rllter It doomed to comparative HI disuse eicept for artlcloi of utility or ISF ornament; this may occur at once or Irtk be deferred a few months longer, but lljKKJ that It will come It at certain at that InffK '"ow night, union there be a !' mighty and at present wholly tin- Ml expected check In the prevailing liflK tendenclea. Wbelher such de- IfK '' tuttudethall be permanent or tem I IV wrary Is a matter totally beyond thi I HE Judgment of any ouo to determine, IBh depending as It docs altogether upon Iff the extent to which RolJ shall be lH" found and put In circulation, tho final MM, awakening that will come to Kurope IH through iion-produotlon, and many M other things. Abundance hat pro- IR duced contempt, and It may be that a ' year or to of the world's principal TQ, money ooullnoJ(at Itwould bo sooner Ml or later) to tho bonds of a few would jUJ make the demand for a return to the Bjw -j white metal so unlrersal and so prcta-W prcta-W i Ing that It would reach a high point In Wfjm the financial scale nd stay there. I UK Hut this Is mere speculation. I Ui What It better known than anything H Bj else In this connection Is that the con- IB spiring speculators and tllverphoblats H acting lolntly have about accompllihod H n the object of their long and altogether dl aefarlout campaign. At the same H Iw time nature teems to hare come to the III' rescue ust In the nick of time, ft) for nearly all the great discoveries that H 3) are being made now are of gold. Utah, Hll as usual, lain the lead. Hho was near-HI'W near-HI'W ly so as a silver producer and woulil HkC have been absolutely so but for thu HjiK discouragements of recent years whire- 1 by much of that which was discovered In has bucu but Indifferently worked and tiff perhaps nine-tenths of that which Hllff might have been discovered has not Ok'jj even been sought for. Now we pro. HJTtT oeed. upon another lack, as It were. It Hf it' the world doet not waut our sliver It HRflt need not have It; wo seem to bo well Hll slocked with that which will not Ic HUjjK rofuaed until man's nature andclrcum-HhuT andclrcum-HhuT stances undergo a complete revolution. H'Jk That tho stories which drllt along Hub from the Ban Juan discoveries are HJf I- more or lest colored, If not In some HJl esses highly exaggerated, Is iullv Hj , probable; but making tho necessary HJl deductions It teems certain that there Hfi 4 Is an Immense gold Held In the great Hj ; . ' canyon hedging In the southern Hj t flow of the Han Juan river. HJL B From Indian creek, In Ueaver county, Hi I X tne reports are not quite so roao-colored, HJ i . but the preponderance of the evldeuce HJ1 I la to the eOcct that the finds aro genu HJ, if Ine. We seem to be on the eve of Hj' W (treat events, and these are likely In Hjj E more respecbi than one. |