The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1900-10-10
PIONEER OF CIVILIZATION.
Mining Industry Has Developed This west.
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On the western side Of the continent,
mining. in an eminent degree, has been
the pioneer of civilization. The develop.
ment Of empire in 1t dates from the discov.
cry Of mineral wealth In California and
the unfolding Of the industries which that
event created The fur trader and the
stock raiser who preceded the miner in the
west opened an avenue for civilization to
follow aud they possessed no genius to
attract 1t. All Of the vast territory lying
west of the Missouri river and the great
lakes, which Is now bristling with mining
camps and a hive Of industry, might still
have been The hunting ground of the ma.
tive tribes and the trappers Of the fur com.
panies and the grazing lands Of the herds
Of Spanish cattle and Mexican mustangs
but for the advent and subsequent opera.
ton Of the miner. Cities have built,
states created, commerce developed and
telegraphs, railways, manufactures and
all forms Of agriculture have followed In
the miners wake and drawn their own
subsistence from the product Of his labor
for the worlds enrichment
Mining Is performing the same function
today In the far north. 1t Is pioneering x
civilization into the desolaie aud inhospit.
able regions on the edge OF the Arctic cir.
Gle. As II by a maRician's wand, the IN.
dustry has created cities Of large popula'
tion where five years ago no man would
have beep rash enough to suppose the es'
taolishment Of human settlement was
possible. And into these there have since
been introduced many Of the comforts,
convenienees and luxuries Of modern civ
iIized life. On the bleak banks Of the
Yukon and It's tributaries aud on the desc
late shores Of the Arctic sea such cities
have, however, sprung into heihg unde'
/ the inspiration Of mining f'r gold, ant
railroads aud telegraphs are following as
fast as capital and human energy and en-
terprise can provide them.
Civilization has established itself per
manen,iy in these inhospitable regions be
cause mining promises to he permanen
occupation there, as valuable and inex
haustihie bodies Of other useful mineral
have been found to be present. Railroad
have already been built and are to he ex
tended. The Canadian government
also building line into ! awson City d
the mouth OF the klondik-, and tels
graphic and railroad communication wi
soon be possible with the metropolis Of tn
Northwest Territory and other parts q
the far north. Then II is proposed 10 es
tend the telegraph line down the valley Z
= the Yukon to join the projected Unite
!. States signal seTvse line which Is TO b
erected from St. Michael TO Fort Cudah,
Before next spring 1t n expected that s.
Michsei will be joined by telegraph wit
Cape Nome. Thus mining will have COZ
structed an overland telegraph TO Behrin
straits, which commercial enterprise, III
J der the stimulus OF competition, attempte,
but failed to do IN 1904.
Recent mining Developments on Amer
can territory have induced the federal 20,
seynmsnt to undestsIe 'he constTuitio" I
overland telegraph lines and 400 miles
sea cabtes Ia Alnska. Csal and copp,
|. jniniag also promhes tohs valuable al
|. iWthe expansion Of sivilizs,io" i" the 4
north and IN its conversion at an earl
: dats into o thester Of great industrial .
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