The Helena independent., 1893-12-14

and ny using the best hydraulic appli
anoes, the placers might 10 made L
yield four times as much a. they d.
now, whore each man works his owr
short claim with what water long divi
sion makes his share Of the supply. II
any miner will 80 to all the numerous
placera in Madison county and learn
what they hare produced by tho present
systems OF working and how many have
not beon worked by any system, he will
doubtless think as we do, that the use
OF the best systems of mining would
moro than quadruplc the products OF
tho Madison placers. How much would
that DO for the yield OF this one county ?
II all the placers Of Beaverhead were
worked in the same way their yield
would DO increased fully ten-fold.
Under auoh an improved system of min
ing the placers OF Deer Lodge, Mssoula
and Lewis and Clarke would quintuple
their products; and Silver bow and
Mengher and Park would largely in
crease their placer products. Such a
system of mining would add to the yield
of our placers more than the profits Of
all our silver mines for the last year,
and give US more annual returns for our
labor than all that class OF mines while
silver remains under tho ban OF the
Wall street manipulators.
The coming season promises to be
very favorable for increasing the pro-
ducts Of our placers. There is now, at
the beginning Of winter, as much snow
in our mountains as there usually is at
the end OF that season. and we have
good reason to expect the amount will
be doubled before the spring opens.
Since the water Used in our placer min
ing nearly all comes from the mountain
SHOWS, we have the best possible reason
to expect large supply next season,
and We should be prepared to utilize it
to the fullest extent and make it an
efficient agent in making up In gold
what we expect to lose in silver.
Money kings want money scarce SO
they can control the price of its use and
exert still more power over the debtor
Glasses. Hencs silver is demonetized, is
made to play very dilapidated and
cracked second fiddle in the financial
world. One half the money Of the
world is thus banished from Thread
needle and Wall streets and all the great
centers Of financial operations. Uncle
Sam owes many debts, but when did he
pay one with the silver dollars he was
once SO proud of? The good old fel-
low is getting superannuated, and he
tries to please the financial dandies
from Wall street, and pays his debts in
gold. His money bags and his vaults
are full Of those silver dollars, but he
never pays o debt and scarcely car
fare in silver.
But the miners Of America and
Australia could make gold so plenty
Wall street would look at it askance, as
they did when the new placers of Cali
tornia and Australia and Montana we're
pouring their millions into New York
and London.
There are two reasons then why we
should work all our gold mines, both
placer and lode, to their full capacities.
1t will make gold so abundant the
money kings cannot make money by
boarding it, and thus making it scarce;
and they will be more willing to see
silver restored to its legitimate position
in the financial world. Dig gold, make
money, restore silver. Vigorous gold
mining will do more to restore silver
5han all the anathemas men can pile
Upon Cleveland's head.