The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-12
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5iNT PLEASANT, w. VA.
August A, 1896.
En 5R REGIsTER. Often do our
.soui money friends tell us that
the eess of the free sil0er craze
will eft the bonanza mine own
era'l the West and them alone.
kShow one bonanza millionaire
Fin th Vest and we will show you.
fifty llionaires in the East whose
for ssfss have been made through.
the manipulation of gold toward
the digging of which they did not
make one effort; even then, ten to
one your mine owner has made his
fortune in the production of the
blessed gold, not silver.
The real facts in the case are
these. With exceptions i'll some
properties, especially favored in
situation, character and body of
ore, the production of one dollars
worth of gold costs less than the
production of sixteen times its
weight in silver.
The reasons for this are many;
and with slight study of the sub
iect obvious. Gold, with the ex-
ception of the small placer produc-
ton, is most frequently found in
paying quantities in what is Known
as Gree milling" ore. From this
kind of ore the gold is easily obtain
able by the comparatively inexpen-
sive process of crushing in a
"stamp mill" These mills are
quite portable and are usually in
cluded in the outfit of all gold
miners of any Importance and where
one miner has not an adequate
supply of ores for the working of
one of them group of small
miners support one in common.
Silver, OH the other hand, exists
almost invariably in chemical COM
bination with baser metals and ele-
ments in such manner as to
necessitate the shipment of the
crude ore long distances to elabo-
rate and expensivesmelting plants.
In some instances, as when in COM
bination with link, antimony and
copper, the ore must go through
several distinct processes before
the silver is obtained in its purity.
The falling price of silver has
caused the closing down of number
less silver mines, and consequent
addition to the ranks of the unem-
ployelthousands. Start the mines
and the mon will be again employ
ed. Trainmen will transport the
ore, miners dig it, and smeltermen
reduce it. Nearly all those men
receiving high wages, as the West
has ever been the stronghold of
union labor. Thousands have been
living on soup and are clothed in
rags in the cities of the West.
Place these men at work and they
will at once begin to consume the
products of the East. Let the
misrepresenting cry of sectional
ism be silenced; one part of this
broad land cannot be benefited
without contributing to the pros
perity of the whole. 1t takes iron
to make tools and machinery. The
ore comes from the North and is
made into the manufactured pro-
duct in the East. Miners must be
fed and clothed, the wheat and
and other farm products they eat
is raised in the Mississippi states
and on the prairies of Kansas, Ne
braska and the Dakotas and is ta-
ken out of competition with the
farm productions of this section,
the clothes the miner wears are
made from the cotton of the South
and the wool of the West manu-
factured in the East.
A. l.. Morse.
The vulgar and untruthful re-
port of the Democratic Conven-
tion, printed in the Gazette of yes
terday, is unworthy of the man
who wrote it, and deserves the
contempt of all-meaning and
decent people. To misrepresent
party's convention, and be-
little the honorable men who
engaged in it, is something
the Register has never yet
done. Poffenbarger's partisanism
leads him to do some very mean
things.
Bryan, the fearless champion of
the peoples rights, is gaining
ground daily. The Republicans
on November Sd will think n "cy-