Show eternal pursuit of gold tf the news of some days ago that a new valuable strike of gold had been made about miles north of vancouver british columbia is one more item ina history of human effort that runs back to earliest civilizations A crowd of people have now coined the new gold rush to tens of thousands of such rushes in past years th e human race has been feverishly pursuing gold since earliest history the ancients regarded it as the purest metal contained in our planet and one of the most absorbing pursuits of ancient scientists was that of the old al chemists who wore out their lives in futile attempts to change over baser metals into gold the settlement of our country owes much to the hunt for gold the explorers did not ordinarily find much but they discovered fertile spots where people settled and raised products that brought them more wealth than the gold seekers ever located the settlement of the pacific coast states was hastened by the gold discoveries in california had it not been for those discoveries these states might have remained in the hands of the early spanish settlers and perhaps they would have continued permanently a part of mexico the more easily reached supplies of gold are somewhat exhausted the worlds business depends on gold which is more suitable than any other substance to constitute money the growing scarcity of this metal lea ds to renewed efforts to find gicand wild mountains and nearly inaccessible deserts are combed over by adventurous prospectors pec tors A scarcity of gold means low prices tor products which con sat discouraging influence on business so that the work of gold seeking is something that should be encouraged |