The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-08-04
The King of Metals.

.Wnen AOranam traded silver Tor the
ground in which he deposited the re-
mains of his beloved wife Sara, the
white metal had a value not determined
by'any ratio. When Solomon built the
'tethplei in which the faithful worshipped
their Creator, the gold which adorned
the magnificent structure was not
valued at to 16 parts of silver. When
Judas was paid for betraying Christ in
thirty pieces of silver the ratio of 16 to
was not established. He took the
pieces for what he could get for them.
Before Cleveland emasculated the
white metal and threw it in the chan
nels of trade with onions and rutabagas,
it was clothed with a ratio which
enabled it to keep company with gold.
But since the STUFFED prophet of Viii
liams street" turned his back upon the
money of his fathers, and fell down to
worship the golden calf, bats have
taken possession of the great mills which
covered thousands of once laundering
stamps, and the mines that fed them
are as silent as the tomb of the dead
Caesars. Gold is now crowned king of
the netals.
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. 1t
was once the consort of royal mate.
Cleveland divorced it from the yellow
metal, and it now stands with the Marie
Halpins of the day with monied lover
or a presidential protector. Gold is
enthroned, and its erstwhile consort
grovels at its feet a discarded and de-
graded queen.
Never in the history of mining has so
much attention been paid to the pros
pecting for and development of gold |
properties as at the present time And |
the search has not been fruitlsss. From
the north and the south, from the east |
and the west come reports of discover
les of fabulously rich gold deposits in
placers or in quartz. and Still they
come. 1t is we'll. The gold is needed.
There are 1,5OO,OOOOOO souls upon this
globe Of OURS and only s3,00o,OO0,OOO, or
81 to each inhabitant. More gold is
needed. About the same amount of
silver is in the world. This means 81
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 s5,OO0O00O00 on
deposit in the national and state banks
of the United States. The estimated
stock of gold in the nation is s50O,OO0,-
600. The king of metals must hump
himself to meet the demand of deposi-
tors if. called upon Immediately. A
thousand Buffalo Humps would
scarcely relieve him. The rich placers
OF klondike and western Alaska, the
wonderful golden wealth of Arizona,
the marvellous gold mines in the
recently discovered camps in Idaho,
the siftings from the golden sands of
the noted gold fields of
Colorado, the annual outputs of the
yellow metal from the other gold pro- I
1ucing states in the great west and
northwest, and the tribute which our
OWN Incompatible mining state pays to {
The king of metals may put him in
better fighting trim, but will they, with
out the aid of his divorced queen, ,
furnish the coin money necessary to r
seep the commerce of the world moving :,
n healthy channels.-Western Mining i
World. :