Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-23
The Age OF the Iron Mountains ol
Missouri.


asked the Iron Mountains of Mis-
souri,, 'sFrom whence art thoup' And
the answer was, .sV'e are the children
of the sum- each atom of our metallic
contents. from our deepest ores to our
ferruginous SUBMITS, rode in nature 8
electric vehicles, being transported
from the nebulous matter of space and
piled, atom by atom, in this geographical
center of the basin of the Missouri,
Mississippi, and were especially stored
here to supply the wants of coming
populations. How long we waited?
We stood here in the Ozarks when the
Assyrian Empire was in the zenith of
its development, when the Persian mar
shaled his army against Babylon.
When the pyramids were being built we
looked much the same as when Column
bus landed.
said: Were the ores then filled in
the great iron, lead and zinc fields, the
coal in the basins of Illinois, and the
silver and gold in the centers and belts
of the Sierras? The answer was:
They were all then completed, and
their metal content, come from the
same source, and by the same electric
common carrier as ours. l asked:
Was there at that time known anything
of the character of the people who
would occupy the basin or the Missis-
sippi in this crap And the answer was:
1t was then understood that in this era
golden cereal sea would annually
wave over the grand prairies of Illinois,
Missouri, Iowa and Kansas; that iron
would be needed for railroads, bridges,
fences and thousand other industries,
lead for paint and pipe, copper and
zinc for Leyden jars. antimony for types,
tin for culinary purposes, nickel for
plating baser metals, and silver and
gold for coin and ornaments. l asked
that at the time the silurian limestones
were laid down on the floor of the ocean
that was three thousand feet under the
present streets of st. Louis, if it was
then known the location of the Iron
Mountains, coal basins, lead and cop
per fields, and silver and gold belts, and
the character of the people, their politi-
cal industrial and theoretical status?
And the answer was: 1t had all been
seen in the ideal, all been foreordained
by the great Architect, and the filling
of the basin of the ocean, until
the country became dry land, and
the mountain and river system
were inaugurated, and man came
to have dominion on the earth,
has been as the marching of a pageant.
asked if there was any chance? And
the answer was: There is no chance;
all is direction, system, order, law; all
moves under the direction of the life
principle of the planet. Chrystaliza-
ton is the basis of the substructure, of
the mineral fields and veins, even of the
word itself, whose atoms have moved
according to geometrical laws.
l spche of the aqueous theory, the
metals being held in solution in water,
OF the igneous theory, the ores being
have been advanced to explain the
origin of metallic veins, and the answer
was, there is but one primal cause of
the filling of ores in an iron mountain
or the smallest lead, copper or silver
vein, and that is a galvanic force that
reaches from the earth to the sun, and
all his primary and secondary planets,
and out in space beyond, and the force
has transported metallic atoms accord
ing to their primordial elective affinity.
discriminative power of attraction and
bias, and that same law applies to ideas
which, with the metals, are indestruct-
ible, they may pass through thousand
changes, yet never lose their individu-
ality. An atom of iron, lead, zinc, an
timony, copper, silver, or gold is for
ever an atom of its natural bias, which
cannot be destroyed.
In the archives of the Iron Mountains,
coal basins, lead, copper, silver and gold
fields is compiled history of the rise,
progress and development of continents,
and decay of governments or empires,
all being directed by the spirit of the
times, which is definite spirit, all
forming a part of the grand pageantry
Of nations. All that man has to do IS
to study and translate this system, and
carry out natures programme to rise to
the highest attitudes, individually and
nationally. Attempt to coerce this
natural progress and the Nihilists and
other radical forces start up to drive
the development of the nation in its
proper channel industrially, socially,
morally, politically. VancleUe Phillips
IN Chicago Mining Reciew.