Mohave County miner., 1899-08-12
The King of Metals.

When Abraham traded silver for the
ground in which he deposited the re.
mains of his beloved wife. Sara. the
white metal had value not deter
mined by any ratio When Solomon
built the temple in which the faithful
worshipped their Creator. the gold
which adorned the magnificent strnc.
ture was not valued at to IS parts of
silver When Judas was paid for be-
traying Christ in thirty pi, c,s of silver
the rotio of l6 to was not establi. he'd.
He toook the pieces for what he could
get for them. Before Cleveland emas-
culated the white metal and threw il
in the channels of trade with onions
and rutabagas, it was clothed with a
ratio which enabled it to keep com
pany with gold. But since the stuffed
prophet of Williams street" turned his
back upon the money of his fathers,
and fell down to worship the golden
calf, bats have taken poss ession of the
great mills which covered thousands of
once laundering stamps, and the mines
that fed them are as silent rs the tomb
OF the dead Caesars. Gold is now
crowned king of the metals.
Silver is no longer an object to be
sought for its market value alone 1t
Is handled AS bi-product in the work
ings for gold, copper and lead. 1t is
classed among the metals as "has
been" Attention is diverted from it
and gold occupies the minds eye. II
was once the consort of a royal mate.
Cleveland divorced it from the yellow
metal, and it now stands with the
Marie Halpins Of the day without a
monied lover or presidential protec-
tor. Gold is er,throned and its erst-
while consort grovels at its feet a dis
carded and degraded queen.
Never in the history of mining has
so much attention been paid to the
prospecting for and development of
gold properties As at the present time.
And the search has not been fruitless.
From the north and the south, from
the east to the west come reports of
discoveries of fabulously rich gold de-
posits in placers or in quartz and still
they come. 1t is we'll The gold is
needed. There are 1,500,C00.C00 souls
upon this globe of ours and only 3,OOO,-
O0OO0S, or only q to each inhabitant.
More gold is needed About the same
amount of silver is in the world. This
means 4S to each man, woman and
child, not enough to keep full the
channels of trade without the aid of
paper or credit money. There are
so 0OC0OOOs on deposit in the national
and state banks of the United States.
| The estimated stock of gold in the Ia
tion is 0,C00,O)0s. The king Of metals,
must hump himself to meet the de-
mand of depositors if called upon i'm
mediately. A thousand Buffalo Humps
would scarcely relieve him. The rich
placers Of KloL dixie and western Alas
ka, the wonderfully golden wealth of
Arizona, the marvellous gold mines in
the recently discovered camps in Idaho,
the siftir g. from the golden sands Of
Califorrii, the noted gold fields of
Colorado, the annual outputs of the
yellow metal from the other gold pro
ducing states in the great west and
northwest, and the tribute which our
own Incompatible state pays to the
king of metals may put him IN better
fighting trim, but will they, without
the aid of his divorced queen, furnish
, the coin money necessary to keep the
commerce of the world moving in
healthy channels. Western Mining
World.