The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-20
"Now tell me what is the theory Of

N0W tell me Wnat Is Sne tneOry oi
which you spoke"
81 must tell you then that in prospect
ing for gold and silver we must hook
where Nature points. That they are gen
orally found In quartz or other rocks OF
an igneous or volcanic origin is well
known. Now to look at the subject his
torically we find that silver was found
first in Mexico many years ago, and that,
according to Humboldt, the yield to 1903
had been over $2,000,000,000, princi-
pally from the north. We
know that in the beginning of the eigh-
teenth century silver was found by Mex
cans in Arizona (which was then Mexi-
co's) in large amounts; one find is re-
corded of a mass of pure native silver
weighing 2,700 pounds, and we have the
more modern records of Arizona and re-
Gently of Colorado. So far it has been
shown that the further north you 60 the
more silver has been found; and my
theory, briefly stated, is this: Silver is
found most extensively in the mountains
of volcanic origin; the Rocky Mountains
are of pure volcanic origin, and in Colo
RADIO there is the clearest evidence of a
volcanic blowout in the vast and i'm
mense upheayaIs that are still apparent;
there are the pure Plutonic ores found,
and there, l believe, is the eliminating
point Of the production of ores by vol
canic action, and Ibelieve that we have
hardly mad the beginning of silver min
| inrr and fhnf cIlx, will ha fa,,rI
throughout the whole range Of noun
talns from Mexico to British America;
but the richest point is in Colorado, and
for one reason alone--it is known that
the best yielding silver mines are the
loftiest mountains; the Potosi mines,
which have yiehed over one thous-
and millions, are higher than Mont Blanc,
and the Colorado Mountains are from
5000 to 10000 feet above the level of the
sea-"
"What do you think about the long
continuance of rich yield"
"Iistory shows us that silver mine
once begun never ends. The mines of
Hungary, which were worked before
Christ, are still worked. The mines of
Mexico, which We're opened by the
Aztecs untold centuries ago, are even
now profitable, and so all over the world,
in Saxony, in Norway and Russia, the
rule holds good"
"What do you think of the future of
Leadville and the mining districts gener-
ally%
''The future, it seems to me, is not hard
to tell, in former years the difficulty of
access prevented many from going there.
The country was sparsely settled and full
of Indians, and, by the way, about the
Indians l may say that ] have lived
among thousands of these very Utes who
are now fighting, and finer and more
peaceable set of men l never saw. There
is no doubt that they have been outraged
and treated shamefully, but now they
must go. There is no help for
it and there can be but little
further danger from them, the country is
becoming so we'll filled. But to continue
about the future of Colorado, would say
that there is no finer country in the
world. Nature has there been most pro-
fuse. The air is healthy to all and espe.
cially beneficial for pulmonary diseases
1 have known consumption cured and
asthma instantly stopped. 1t has the
finest scenery in the world. Imagina
tion can not surpass the scenery of the
Valley of the Gods Coal abounds
near the plains. 1t is well known as the
finest grazing land in the United States,
and all agriculture iourishes vigorously
You can gather Strawberries in one hand
and snow in the other. 1t is the water
shed of the country. From the tops ol
the mountains you can see streamlet,
starting for the Atlantic and Pacific
Mineral springs Of all kinds abound, anc
as have said, its mines are inexhausti
BILE in wealth, and other and richer mines
are to come; and now that network Of
railways is covering the country, Colora
do, think, is bound to develop still fur
ther, and become some day the Empire
7 State of the West; and all this, | say, al
though not Western man nor citizet
of Colorado"