Show GOLD IiOT MOST ULUAIILL In these dar cl geld lover II Is I rtf naps well to U reminded of the fact hat the tocalled ptccleui metals by no means are Ina meat Important as a fooudatlon for the material proems 01 a Dillon r ru It I rot a great republic nor have gold and silver md Mexico a mighty nation California It a urea state In tbo Union bat without Jim vast resources In other directions II I would perhaps not lie much Letter off than Nevada The discovery of gold In Alaska and adJoDI territory ImporlnlDOUKb even II 1 but one ball ol I Ibo tumors now circulated are true but ol mole In I term itlll are the reported discovery In home regions I of coal and oil People l will of course first turn to the goldfields gold-fields tot It Is I not Improbable when then lite about exhausted that they Will give attention to Ibo other sonic ol natural wealth and will more lait log benefit the nation Few people reflect that although gold and silver ale precious metal their chief worth Is I the convenience with which they can Ile used at a medium exchange If then were no gold or silver something else could bo ud Instead but wbal would clvl llnllon I be without Iron and coal for Julian To a rillectlng mind II will easily be ten that the greateit Page toil of the world la due to discovery and proper use of Iodine pastels The United States list generally led the world In production of gold Yet the annual value of that production Is I lar below that of coal Iron and coal I oil It give employment only com psratlvely I few laborers while It II I almost Impossible to follow thermally ways in I which Iron aDd coal supply work and wages Lovers simple building build-ing rock gives employment to more laborer than do the procloui metals I Aiof real value to a nation neither I gold nor lIver can be compared to the I products of the Curtis or the yield ol I I the mines without which the present I late of civIllntlou would have been Impossible I |