Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-23

mining In other trades and professions.
here is a vast amount of gold and silver
left In the world. i doubt indeed. If it
Will ever be exhausted. The main trend Of
the Rockies has been scratched over and
parts of II have been pretty well prospect
ed but there are innumerable spurs and
cross ranges. the contents of which are
unknown. There is many little valley or
side hill in the Rockies not yet dug INTO
which may contain gold. and no one knows
how much. Some OF the best OF my prop
critics do not cover much land at .he
sdrface as two Washington city blocks
There may be little unknown valleys in tho
Rockies out of which will be taken hum
dreds of millions of dollars worth of gold
ore"
What do you think about Aiaskao'
Il feel sure there is great amount Of
undiscovered gold in -,laska. That which
comes from the sand of the seashore liz the
washing of quartz deposits somewhere in
the interior. They are sure 10 be discovered
sooner or later
A Word About the Camp Bird Mine.
'"rell me how you discovered the Camp
Bird mine. Mr. Walsh?'
II bought that property as a silver and
lead proposition. was the reply. 1T had
been unsuccessfully mined for silver and
lead. and millions OF dollars had been spent
In tunneling the region and I'm taking out
ore. | thought by consolidating the mines
We could perhaps make profitable invest
ment out of them. although they had not
been profitable before. In going over the
mines. however. / found gold i'm a form
which the operators had not noticed. You
can see what mean by this piece of rock"
Here Mr.. Walsh crossed the room to a
cabinet set into the wall. II was filled with
nuggets, Jumps of rock some in the rough
and some highly polished little gold bricks
and other mineral specimens. lie picked up
a piece of stone which looked like a chunk
of broken quartz with a black rusty stain
upon it.
THAT stain" continued he as he pointed
to 1t rs gold and very rich II Is. There
is also gold in smaller quantities scattered
through the quartz. as YOU may see from
this polished piece of rock
He here wet the surface, and I could see
the little gold specks shine out.
The most gold is in the rusty stain.
The first miners did not notice that
They did not think they had any gold
worth mining, and in their search for silver
and lead they threw away as waste thou
sands of dollars worth of stuff which we
have since ground up and sent to the
smelters. In going over this region seeing
this rock. / told my assistant that /
was sure it contained gold Shortly after
that | had to so east on account OF
my health. and | left instructions to have
the region prospectcd and assays made.
When | returned the samples were ready
for me. but | would not look at them until
| had gone out and made further nvcstigo-
lions for myself. | found that my first idea
WAS cOrrcct-that there WAS gold and lots
of it developed the property and We
have taken some millions of dollars out Of
it. Altogether more than ten million dol
lars have been taken out Of that immediiie
region since / discovered the gold was
there
Are there many discoveries Of that kind,
Mr. Walsh l asked.
Not many" was the reply; but every
now and then gold is found in form or
in region not supposed to contain it. The
Cripple Creek country was tramped over
for years before It sprang forth into a
great mining camp. and the same may b.
said of some of the Utah gold regions ana
others. 1t was a long time after the dis
coveries an eastern Australia that the
great gold resources Of western Australia
were aScertained: and the mines of South
Africa are Of compare lively recent date.
Indeed. we suppose that We now know
where the chef gold of the world is, but
we cannot ba sure
a Great Gold Trust.
''Nll the time ever come when the gold
mines of the world will be controlled by
some mighty trust, when a gold syndi-
cate may control the mines of the United
States?'
Il think not" said Mr.. Walsh There
is no reason for such combination. God
mining, to a large extent, is an ind vidual
proposition The smelling is usually done
near the mines, and there are different
form of reduction for different ores. You
can carry iron and steel to one great
melting center, and there are reasons why
combinations of capital can greatly de-
crease the cost of production and the pro-
portionate profits. 1t is not 50 in mining.
The only thing that trust could save
there might be in the cost of administra-
ton. / don't think great trust at all
practicable, and l doubt if it would pay"
FRANK @. CARPENTER.