The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-02-04
XIII.

Copyright, 1914 by Herbert auick)
There other metals In the bunkers when We
should be sorry to do without. Copper is Immensely
important-and when we come the work of using
all water-power to save the depletion OF the coal
In the ground shall need to use great dear more
OF copper Therefore, it would be sensible deprlVa-
ton to all OF II the supply OF copper were worked
So with zinc, which is needed Tor nlehsllsi 10,
the preservation OF iron and steel by gavanzing' anu
as an alloy OF copper for the making OF that NeLs
useful metal brass and for paint Lead is the OASIS
OF a very important industry, is widely consumed as
paint and is almost essential to many JOBS OF WoIk
which we should scarcely know how TO dispense WIN
And the metal aluminium, and manganese
yanadium mercury and lot more, mostly WIN
names ending in ''um.' from the precious platinum
TO the unfamiliar molybdenum. are all useful and
yearly becoming more We find out more about
their propertes-all Important but we need not
about the stores OF them being exhausted from
that thin skin OF the crust OF the decks or the Gooo
Ship Earth which penetrate and search ana
subject TO service.
We need not worry-because they are not
sental to civilization iron and coal; nor 10
life Is the SOIL We need not worry for the addi-
tional reason that the moral uplift that car
ries TO the height OF looking after the iron and
coal and forests and SOIL will bring us to the point or
looking after these subordinate good things which
God placed in the bunkers OF the Good Ship Earth
for the OF all the Passengers alike
But must mention two metals because they are
OF such wonderful interest TO the world for the
reason that they have been taken as measures OF
value for other commodities Though not extraordi-
narily useful in themselves they exert an influence
upon prosperity which would be ncomprehensible
10 Il person brought up outsiue tnoT SWAY noou
silver and gold
These metals are useful-in fact, II they were
plentiful they would take the place OF the baser metals
In many OF the arts Like znc copper, lead, nickel
platinum and other OF the metals. there IL no
way of telling how much OF them the earth contains
We keep looking for them and the supply varies from
century to century have good luck or bad luck
When Columbus discovered America he led the way
TO the mines and gold and silver treasures OF Mexico
and Peru For hundred and fifty years the precious
stream flowed into the worlds strong boxes at rate
meyer before equaled. Then Il dwindled. With the
opening OF the mines OF California, the fountains
were again flowing Australia liberated her great
output. Then other new finds In the Rocky
Mountain regions and In South Africa with ton
mage Of gold equal to any Of these. Lastly comes
Alaska And all the while the science of the world
has Iabored to make the methods Of extraction
eicient-until the output OF gold and silver has be-
come greater than before. and to promise
a continuous supply.
Now this has a great influence on prosperity.
strange to say For gold and silver. owing to their
beauty have been for ages devoted more to the pro-
cesses of boarding than OF consuming 10 IL the
SQUIRRELS paid much attention TO the boarding OF
nuts as forget that the real object OF saving eat
ing We human squirrels do eat gold and silver-when
we consume them In the arts-but mostly We have al
WAYS boarded in bars ngos or round pieces
called coins and by this boarding have created
manent scarcity them which appears to have great
deal Of effect upon their value as compared with
other things of value These gold and silver nuts
we human squirrels store in minis and national treas