Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-09-22

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II appears that an effort has been
made b induce Congress 10 provide
| fsr an artesiau boring Into the earth,
to be- prosecuted until the greatest
depth possibie Hhall be Arrived at.
With some the object Is 10 crafty
scientific curiosity, bat " l. claimed
By Others that In this way II miEht he
possible to discover enormous deposiia
OF gold. IL seems that the grealest
depth ever reached by mining or
boring IL a. Spelling, Germany, where
. hole has been sunk 10 the distance Of
/ something les than mile. But Il
does not appear TINT any goli was de.
/ covered, nor j. Il tue experience Of
miners that gold is found In large
quantities. nj great depths. The gold
| found In quartz veins h richest near
thu surface. aud NJ any considerable
deutb l. reached the gold becomes less
| In quantity until Il finally "pl1ys
out.b Not 90 with silver. Silver
ores are probably worked ut n depth
/ VI 1000 10 5000 feet below the surface
aud often veins that Afforded gold near
the surface loss their value ~ gold
/ mines when u considerable depth u
reached. hut may stu furnish silver in
paying quantities. In connection with
Tue fact thst the richest gold deposits
are invariably found near the surface
! Of the EARTH II may be- mentioned that
! MI the countries which were at flrat
noted ~ gold producers, have finally
! given ~ their gold and only retain
| prominence ne silver countries. The
most conspicuous examples nrr Peru
aud Mexico. When they iint became
known ~ the Spaninrds they weru In.
conceivably rich In goll. After hging
worked fof nearly 400 years they have
become destitute Of gold aud furnish
0nly silver. II thus seems - be- entirely
possible 10 exhaust the gold deposits
and, ~ las ~ known, II has been done
IN al the region from Peru north 10
Mexico, Will. the pro re-s ofexhaustion
u going on In North America nnd
Australia. Unless some fresh dis.
cDvorics shall bc made In Alaska of
Greenland, or In Patagonia, the time
II not far distant when the gold
supplies VI the New World will have
been worked out. Europe and Asia
are moi likely 10 furnish any fresh iiui,
aud the only hope tor the gold hunters
T. In Africa. A. au evidence Of the
iutility Of expecting gold discoveries
from any deep borings II u only neccs.
sary 10 examiner little the conditions
under which gold occurs ON the sur
face. IL invariably occurs In veins n
quartz aud granite which have
been cast up from very great
depths. Often n range u noun.
tains containing gold bearing
veins show that Il has been forced
through bodies Of rock and earth hun.
dreds Of miles thick. The matter
which was displaced by the granite
pushing H. way below has had H.
layers VI strata disrupted 10 such de.
gree that they are turned up ON edge
and thus the limestone, slate amt saudi
slonu qualification that once ovetlaid
the granite 10 the thickness ofhundfcds
~ miles IA ~ placed that Ia once VERT.
cal depthcau he measured horizontally.
hut In all this rock no gold Is found
until II h reached IN the quartz aud
gmnite which came up from vast
depths fellow. Gold IL Ouly found In
ridges and ranges of mountains which
Traverse the glohc In a northcrly and
.Ouiherly direction; bat never In
those which run EAST aud west.
Whether under tho theory that
the earth was once n globe or
sphefoid Of molten matter. that the
| centrifugal forces aud the Hhrinkagu VI
the polar extremes produced r0nvul.
aiOns which raised the merldiOnnl
ranges from a greater depth than was
the ease with the lhtllu1inal ridges, or
whether the former were male when
the matter was more fluid aud was
most subject 81 the forces which would
operate on revolving spherold, can.
not be- definitely declared, hut nature
has some sufficient cause for an e..
tahllrhcd net. In such molten body
the heaviest material would bc certain
to settle at the center NJ volume. Gold
IL nearly 20 times ~ heavy as water.
In more carefully stated terms II h
1919 times as heavy a. water aud plati-
mum ~ 9l.5 times ~ heavy. The
gold aud platinum melted together
would make body whose specific
/ gravity, that II, IT, weight, compared
with that NJ water, would be 20.9. The
average specific gravity Of the earth II
about .. II we may assume that the
| various substances, In u molten state,
are arranged IN the earth according 10
| their specific weights and densities, we
will be- safe In concluding that gold
nnd platinum are NJ the center " the
earth, and make up H. heart, and We
must bore many thousands Of mile
before reaching II. A body of the ptec.
/ inuH metals 5000 miles In diameter re-
mains hidden there until some titanic
commissions, which viii rent the planet
aud change the relative places Of sea
aud land, shall east up the froth Of this
Internal ocean of tiory gold and place
II In the reach Of the man who may be
spared To oujoy II.
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