The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-05-25
to say that as proof of the profits

monument, which will be forever in
effaeeable.
Three hundred and twenty millions
extracted and wilderness immediate
| ly transformed into the busy haunts
Of men was the result of that discov-
cry.
From the carly stages of mining in
California and Nevada, the industry
has branched out in every direction.
until it seems almost co-extensive with
our territory.
Not only has gold and silver been
produced in fabulous quantities, but
we have become the greatest copper
producing country of the world.
There seems no limit to our mineral
yield. Utah has produced from one
mine, the Ontario, over $4,000, 900 !;
Dakota from the Blackhi!ls over So
ooo, 900, one mine, the Homestake,
having 800 stamps at work turning
out surprising wealth from low-grade
ore. Arizona from the Tombstone
district over $1,000, 900. Idaho has
produced over $40, 900, 900; Montana
over s12,coo, 900; Colorado, whose
mineral industries are the glory, pride
and wealth of the state, has added
over 500. 100000 to the country S
wealth. Michigan from its copper
mines over s55,ooo,ooo. We could
continue further, but when Maine and
New Hampshire ire able to show divi-
dend paying mines, when Georgia and
the Carolinas are adding their mil
lions to our vast output Of precious
metals, is it not superfuous we repeat
to dwell on the profits of mining?
There are other things to be taken
into consideration than past returns.
We are still in an infantile stage as to
mining, hardly out of our swadling
clothes.
With the great bulk Of our mineral
territory still undcveloped. with new
mines being constantly opened and
great strikes reported from every sec
ton, indicating great mines IN embryo,
with our greatly extended lines Of
railroads and most important, the
vast improvements in mining nlachi-
merry, reducing the cost of extracting
and treating ores to figures heretofore
conceived to be impossible one
would be daring indeed to attempt TO
compute the profits Of mining for the
next decade.
We predict that ere long there will
be a tide of capital turned in that
direction that will be productive of
results little dreamed of to-day. The
most conservative capitalist will surely
be convinced that while he is hugging
his three per cent. bonds, he has been
blind to an industry that is capable,
if properly invested, in bringing a
return that will make any other fo1m
of investment seem poor indeed by
comparison.
We of the East have little compre-
hension of the aggregate of wealth
that has been distributed from our
mines, but the lesson will yet be learn
ed and learned so thoroughly that
there will be a 6 boom" in "mines
that are mines," such as the world
never saw.
This golden epoch is coming, the
cheapness of money alone assures it,
and the path to successful mining
which has hitherto seemed to many a
rugged one and full Of pitfalls will BE-
found safe and inviting, its dangers
greatly exaggerated.-Stoek Report.
The corpse of business man. who
had never advertised during his whole
life, was secured by one ofour Eastern
medical colleges and placed in dis
secting room, where the young would
be doctors went to work on him. They
found him very tough. He had been
so close in all his dealings that the
very arteries and veins had become in
the latter part of his life, SO contracted
that he had not for years enjoyed good
health. His heart was black and cal
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