The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-05

IDINGS that ought TO bring joy to
the heart of the goldbugs are
new every morning and fresh
every evening. They want to feel sure
that there is going to be gold in such
abundance as to stop the argument of
the silver advocates: according TO the ru-
mors that are coming. this goldbug hope
is going to be gratified so fully that, at
a day which seems to be even at hand.
gold will be as cheap as mud. The latest
gold-field news comes from Passama-
quoddy Bay-thats up in Maine. The
Passamaquoddy craze will be a sort of
counter irritant for the ISlondike in
Illumination. The gold hunter can have
his choice; he can travel west and brave
the perils of Alaska. watching his
chance to stub his toe on a millun-dol-
lar discovery, or. he can travel east till
he strikes the stern and rockbound
coast Of Passamaquoddy and there
wait till the tide rolls by. leaving it's
electrolytic millions in his lap.
It's a great scheme-it is wealth on
the ocean wave and your stake" in the
rolling deep 1t is the discovery of the
pastor of the First Baptist church in a
Connecticut university town. who is GO
ing to extract peck measures of gold
from the ocean waters that lave Passa-
maquoddy's friendless shore. Probably
the discovery is the result of earnest
theological research-the accumulation
of all eternity in the shape of the refuse
of the god-p paved streets. of the New
Jerusalem. slowly carried down the
stream of the River of Life. emptied into
the ocean and. so disposed as to make
Passamaquoddy Bay convenient, tide
washed depository.
The claim saberly set up and ar
nounced in recent news dispatches is
that at last the secret of the sea is
solved. From the salt waters of Passa-
maquoddy Bay, so the report is. MT only
gold but silver also is being extracted
IN richly paying quantities Responsible
persons-so assurance is given-vouch
for the report p. t. Jernegan. pastor of
the First Baptist church, at Niiddletown,
Conn. a graduate of Brown university
and of Newton theological seminary, is
Abt Aohndfi VI NilS EIlEIDItS1. his part
ner is William Fisher. They found that
the highest tides in the United States
occur in Passamaquoddy Bay A water
privilege was secured and the erection
of building begun. company was
chartered under the name Of the Electro
lytic Marine Salts company A. Il.
Ryan. a wholesale ieweler. of Middle
Hown. Conn. was chosen president. The
machines have just been worked for he
first time If no improvements were 20 he
made on the machines now in use they
could accumulate daily more than $4,000
in gold. The erection of big plant to
contain 1000 machines will be begun
the first of April.
That beats your Klondike craze TO
death. We submit to the professors in
the schools of mines. jointly and sepa-
rately, this problem in hydraulic en-
cheering: If Rev. p. f. Jernegan can
gather out of sea water ten thousand
dollars day. if no improvements are
made on the machines now in use. how
much money can Rev. Mr.. Jernegan
gather per day if the machines are i'm
proved And how long will it be before
the pastor of the First Baptist church
at Middletown has money to burn2 of
a truth, he hath a softer snap than
George w. Irwin or William b. Rodgers
or any of the rest of the favored nabobs
in the Carter combination; they're not
in IT with the dominic.
How plentiful gold will be- After a
little. at discovery's present pace, no
man so poor but gold viii be on his
table. IN satisfying abundance. al three
meals a day. Think of the dollars we
shall have; there'Il be tin dollars and
lead dollars and rag dollars. and the joy
fuI occupation Of the goldbug viii be TO
conduct a campaign OF education 10
prove that the gold dollar is as good as
any other dollar N earth. Consider
how many bays there are besides Pas
samaquoddy on the coast Of the United