| Show gold in the black bills general cuter custer has found mund g gold bid in n the black blaer hills and P now ow die jie diels I 1 is hap happy py for now he can satisfy t the e skeptics who pronounced his expedition L x p edition useless or nothing more inore than I 1 a na a disguised crusade against the sioux and lie can nobly repel the charge that the army is an encumbrance on the tue nation not earning its salt what an expedition useless that orns opens up to the world woolda a new gold region with treasure in it enough to pay the national debt and an army burdensome that stands rands ready reads at short notice to clean out the indians ai so that this immeasurable wealth may maybe mayac j be brought to light when custer ouster started ont out with his fighting column he was at a loss fora for a good reason for ithe movement and the best his friends could say bay of it was this that he would keep his command healthy by e that lie he could by an imposing show deter tile the sioux from hostile operations if they had a mind for a gy quarrel guarrel arrel arrol and that he would add something to our stock of geographical graP laical I 1 knowledge but now that custer lias ilas discovered gold among the black hills he bb need ma make mako ke no other excuse for being there that will satisfy every everybody lody ludy except capt cool coo I 1 leads heads of tile the exceeding elcee ding wisdom and profit of the expedition it seems almost ungracious to inquire calmly into the value of this new gold field the particulars of the discovery thus far received are but tew jew the party found indications before they had journeyed far into the land then they began to strike the color J 11 and at last washed out pinhead pinhead pin head gold the hill sides everywhere iv here showed droppings crop pings pinga of auriferous rock we do not doubt a word of all this and would accept twice as much again and still respectfully I 1 decline to be astonished wo bould should be astonished only if custer ouster hadnot found ail all around hloi him for he is in the centre jentre and stronghold of the greatest gold belt in the world that which comprises montana idaho wyoming colorado arizona california and new mexico through all that country gold is the most rommon ly distributed of metals traces of it can be found in every river and every brook it can be washed out of the debris in every old ravine alithe aalthe quartz rock has invisible gold locked in its hard bard embrace but unluckily for the miner this gold while wh ile lle everywhere every where existing existing g is nowhere abundant in one oue place but bt always thinly scattered and in many ma ny districts so blended with base metals or sulphur that it costs more inore to get it out than it id worth the spanish proverb it takes one gold mine ming to work another is notoriously true of the great W western estern gold fields r sines sutter suiter discovery in ins IMS gold mining in the west has been a dreary history off of failures allures interspersed with a few successes the amount of gold taken out of the ground in certain rare localities has been large larges and a small number nu of people have become enormously wealthy in their ownership of rich deposits ani an J well conducted works the joint production of these few mines and the and findings of thousands of adventurers rn make ke up the total yield of gold which looks so large on paper in the annual returns the same labor and capital put into almost any other business that cau be named yield better fruits than when invested in gold mines this will nowhere be seriously disputed and therefore we do not deem it necessary to warn intelligent meli meil men against making an immediate exodus to the black hills if general custer ouster has discovered gold fields equal to those of idaho colorado or rew kew mexico and that would be saying a great deal he has merely added another district to the enormous area of a kind of land more productive of disappointments than thau any other in the universe ar A y journal of commerce august 13 tm f |
