Evening journal., 1913-10-09
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Senator Jones Idea Of the
American Gold Supply
BY Holland.

About a year after the discovery Of
gold in the Yukon district of the
Alaskan peninsula, and at a time
when the excitement occasioned by
the discovery caused those who re-
membered The California discoveries
of iS49 to be reminded of that earlier
excitement, I met one afternoon in
Washington ex-senator John p Jones,
of Nevada knew Senator Jones
was developing what was said to be
a small gold mine situated I'm the vi
cinity Of Sitka. I also knew that he
was esteemed among the foremost of
the authorities upon the precious
metals and of the geological forma-
tions In the United States in which
gold and silver we're found.
| said TO Senator Jones that only
a day or two before had been in
formed by former Mayor William r.
Grace. of New York. that he had met
mining engineers from South Africa
who told him that they had not begun
TO develop the gold resources of the
Rand and other South African fields,
and that IL was interesting now TO
know that on the other side Of the
globe there had been discoveries,
which bore out the prediction by VIII
liam n. Seward, then secretary of
state, that gold would be found in the
Alaska peninsula, or what used to he
called Russian North America
II sometimes hear reports from men
who profess TO be good authorities
upon the precious metals of the world
intlmating that we are rapidly ap-
preaching the climax or maximum Of
gold production. But these men don't
know what they are talking about, ="
said the Senator
AS we walked along together he
continued In my opinion. the sur
face Of the world is only scratched SO
far with respect to the production of
gold. Science will show the way not
only TO fresh gold fields, but also the
way to extract with profit gold ores
which in the past we're not thought
worth working.
why, my dear sir. the entire Amer
ican hemisphere, from the Arctic
Ocean and Alaska to Patagonia. is
lined and scanned with veins of gold
great d small In my view, there
was one tremendous impulse of ma
ture in the formative period OF the
world which resulted in natures al
chemy. whereby gold was produced
rivers of II. along the backbone OF the
American hemisphere.
we have only just begun. When I
went 10 Alaska TO study a little mine
in the lower part of the peninsula |
made up my mind that the entire
Alaskan peninsula is saturated with
gold. Further investigation persuad-
q Of 81.
began the study of the precious met
ais. their location. their geological for
nation and the manner Of mining
them, have been satisfied that some
where on the North American conti-
neni the great mother lode of gold
existed and that some day adventur.
GUS prospectors and explorers would
discover IT,"
Here Senator Jones raised his
hands. and. with great sweepine
gesture that was intended to cover
symbolically the remote Northwest
he said: II am now satisfied that the
mother lode of gold lies somewhere ~
that immense icy and dreary territor,
which we call Alaska. II will he dis
covered some day, because there. il
no difficulty of geography or climat,
which men will not master IN tn,
pursuit Of gold Furthermore. tel
you that ! am persuaded that centur
les will pass before the worlds sup
ply Of gold viii be seriously dimipish
ed"
When Senator Jones spoke to me II
this way the other great discoveries
of gold in Alaska had not been made
| Copyright. 1913. by r. j. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tell o
Thomas l.. James Visit to Genera
Grant"