Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-13
Mining is Styled
 AS THE GREAT Modern Missionary
ITS HISTORY THROUGH THE ACES
 TERsELY TOLD.

Review Readers Will Find Following
 Article, oy Newton Hall, Entertain. ing, as 1t Pertains Entirely to Great
 Industry in Which Ali Are So Thor.
 oughIy interested.
 An article of exceptional interest to the vast army engaged directly or in- directly :n the paramount industry of mining appears in the current issue of the American Magazine of Mining. It was written by Newton Hall, ana. though covering a very broad scope. briefly and iersely tells so many i'm portant facts that its perusal will be of benefit to every Review reader The article i5, therefore, given in full below:
 "Accor ling to a statement made in December by United States Treasurer Roberts. he golc holdings of the United States are greater than ever before in the history of the country, and exceed all records in the world. and he says that the gold accumula- ton of our government now amounts 10 $6S5, 900 coo in round numbers. A year ago they were s615. 600 900, which a. that time was the high-water mark. The gold certificates outstanding against this stock of gold are s3S4,- I000, GOO.
 "'There $ no element of danger. says Ire lsurer Roberts, who is re- lsponsible For the safe management of this vast treasure, in the accumula- tion of this great stock of gold. It is received in the legitimate way, and is 8 menace D no one.
 ] The zeal wealth of the United States is better appreciated in reading of the enormous holdings of gold in the treasury, and in comparing them with the liches of other governments. | In comparisons of this kind, the United States ranks head and shoul- ders above all other countries, stand ing pree eminently as the richest gov ernment on earth.
 l At the present time the gold in the stock of money of the United States is. in round numbers, s1 300 900, ,00O 1 + this stock of money could be brought together and melted into a solid mass. it would make a cube. of nearly sixteen feet, weighing 2,353 tons, and requiring 147 freight cars to move. Were it coined into eagles and placed edge to edge, the line would be 2,116 miles long, or from New York to sixty miles west of Col ora6o Springs.
 | The wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Does the reader realize that of all this wealth, one great industry. that of mining. the country's great mineral production. has contributed more than any other source to it's gigantic growth. Now, as of yore. there are theusandsof Jasons searching for the golden fleece throughout our posses sions. and like the Sesame of the Arabian Nights tale, the doors of the wonderful repositories of our mineral wealth are opening wider and wider yearly. and from chosen fields of min ing there flows an ever-increasing stream of wealth.
 The quest for mineral wealth, for precious metals, for gold, its antiquity history confirms. The immense, far reaching influence yielded by the mining industry is recognized by but few. That the rise and fall of na- tions and empires ever depended upon the output of mines may seem, to many, at first thought, unreal, and that such a statement could not be supported, put it is an incontrovertible | fact. A little investigation into the past history of man himself and his civic governments will substantiate this statement, broad though it is. Prehistoric man, with only clubs and stones for weapons and tools was, indeed, handicapped in his struggles for existence. But, in the course of time, he 'oarned to chip fiints to a ! cutting edge, and this enabled him to | deal a more effective blow Then came the spear, the harpoon, the jay elin and :he arrow. Following this came the stone age, with it's stone axes and 1atchets, which enabled man to clear sUrests, fashion logs into ca noes, build rude huts and estalish a permanent place of habitation. But man was still practically a savage. and would ever have remained so had not the art of working metals been discovered. With this discovery man soon become a skillful worker in cop per. gold and silver. Tools and weapons then made gave a more ex- tended range to mechanical appli- arces and means of defense which are so necessary to the protection, conve- nience and advancement of civilized or semi-civilized life The superiority !of bronze weapons made ther owners easy conquerors of men who defended themselves with weapons of stone. Then came the iron age. and steel gave to tools and weapons greater strength, keener edges and sharper points, and this again extended the range of mechanical appliances con-