Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-03


The Denver Sun of the % ult.
reports the hosting in a single day
from the Little Johnny mine OIL
Leadville of $128,00O in gold. The
best record ever made before was
the hosting Of $4,000 in silver
from the Robert E. Lee mine, also
of Leadville. The expenses of the
mine on that day were probably
5000. We wish to call the atten-
ton of the Chicago Tribune, in par
ticular, and a good many other pa
pers in the East to the fact that
this $128,000 in gold was produced
at cost of 5000. We know, con-
sidering how these journals have
dealt with the silver question, that
they will instantly insist that gold
shall be demonetized. If gold can
be produced at little more than
SO cents an ounce, we are satisfied
that these papers, and especially
the Chicago Tribnne, will rush to
the defense of the people, and see to
it that they are not any longer
robbed by accepting gold at the rate
of $40 an ounce. We heard a good
deal about the lightweight dollar
last Summer-the sixty-cent dollar.
We saw in several papers, and es-
pecially the Chicago Tribune, where,
in certain places, silver was being
mined at 80 cents an ounce. Now,
if it was wicked to pass silver which
cost 80 cents an ounce for $1.2929,
what can we think of Govern
ment or of a people which tries to
pass an ounce of gold, which cost
only 81 cents, for 500? This is a
matter which goes right to the in
tegrity of the subject, and we insist
that the papers, being honost, of
course, who raved all last Summer
over the fact that silver could be
produced at half it's commercial
value, and at about one-fourth its
coin value; it ought not to be used
as precious metal; it ought not to
be considered as money, and more
than that, those men who thought
it ought to be recognized as real
money, must be inherently and es-
sentially dishonest, they surely
must protest against this gold swim
die, for we have a sample before us
of how GAO ounces of gold were
raised on a certain day from a GER
tain mine, at an expense of only 80
cents an onuce, and how it was
palmed off on the Government, on
the people at the rate of $40 an
ounce, and hence that such trans
action lacks all the elements of
that ancient commercial integrity
and honor for which our people
originally were noted.
We trust that the first movement
of the Chicago Tribune will be to
have gold demonetized; that the
second will be to explain how mon
umental are the scoundrels in Lead
vile who insist upon receiving $40
per ounce for their gold, and third,
in how much danger the property
of this country is now in, because
of the nefarious practices of the
men who mine gold in the West,
and who are seeking to obtain $40
for something that cost them less
than one-third of one dollar. Of
course, it is all very simple, and
those gentlemen who write sagely
in the East ought to be notified at
once of this work which is going on
at Leadville, and in other parts of
the West, and ought to lose no time
in notifying the Government that,
as things are turning out, there is
no safety in using gold any longer
as money, and the only possible
substitute which will satisfy the
people at all, will be those cheap
diamonds which will come in when
the Wilson Bill shall become law,
and shall have performed its per-
feet work.
GOETHE said-'It is hard to think