The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-07-18
THE LEGITIMACY OF MINING.

After season OF unsatisfactory investment in railroad
securities in manufacturing enterprises in the reclamation
swamp lands in real estate and lands financial and commercial
circles in the east turning their eyes the west the
splendid opportunities offered the mining field to the great
advancement being made in mining operations and the
derfu fortunes being made by those engaged in the mining
industry, says the Salt Lake Mining Review
In financial and commercial centers in the east all eyes
turned to the west great many whose attention has
been directed westward particularly interested in
cia pursuits in agriculture in farming and in stock raising
but the greatest interest by all odds being taken
derful mining industry.
In reviewing the history of the west in noting its almost
marvellous growth not but be impressed by the
that was mining that reclaimed the DESERTS the valleys and
the hills and that had not been for the adventurous spirit
the miner and popecor the Pacific slope today would
be what fifty sixty years agoan unknown country
barren waste, region beyond the confines of civilization
10 the mining industry the west debt that
be repaid and its very existence almost due to the
slant stream of mperisabe wealth that has poured from
mines from the day that gold first discovered in California
As matter of fact California with its genial climate its
chards and it's groves the mighty that making
the principal cities and ports famous the world over its
large and rapidly growing population, but the ougrowth Ct
the boom that started when discovered that in the
hills back from the coast there existed great and almost mex
hausbe deposits of the precious METALS and the be
ruthfuy said Of the interior states in this nemounan
glon.
Gold the odesone that first led to the settlement of
California by the American people; and the spirit of unrest OF
enterprise and progressveness caused the early pioneers
branch out and seek bonanzas in unknown fields result
ing that there is hardly western state today but that has its
MINING camps its business centers and country that
tied by the farmer the rancer and the fruit and cattle grower
When the disgrunted man claims that mining is not
legitimate pursuit he should pause while the net results the
benefits of mining being enumerated Nothing that
great founded aselood a e insecure
and rotten foundation and yet the splendid empire of the
was built upon nothing less than the mining industry and
this to fail it would not be long before the material interests
OF this region would become demorazed that in
time the whole country would be surrendered the bowling
coyote and become again virtual Wilderness Money to h
certain extent civilization Take money and real value
away from country nation and in time will rerograd
into savager and real values based upon the precious
metals the industry which produces gold and silver not be
otherwise than legitimate and the regions producing those
metals must of necessity be the stepping stone to growth il
population to Improvement and advancement every land
Without it's mining industry there would be west today
the east would be much and opportunities for safe and
profitable investments would not be knocking at the door Of
almost every American citizen.