Gilpin observer., 1915-03-11
GOLD MINES THE
SAFEST INVESTMENT

Dfd IL ever occur to you as pro-
found thinker, that all the CONNER
cialism Of the world is based upon
the one element, viz: that of gold?
When We go into the financial marts
of trade to solicit aid to develop our
mines that will enable us to add to
the circulating medium that stand
arddzes the commercialism of all ma
tions. We are too often told that
gold mining is a gamble and that
more money has been put into gold
mining than was ever taken out. Did
you ever stop to realize that there
never was dollar expended on a
gold or silver mine, but had it's equiv
alent OF one of these metals depos-
tied with the United States treasur-
er to give that dollar value? We
boast of our great iron, steel and
coal industries, as well as our great
manufacturing centers, that sup. ly the
world with all articles of consump-
tfon, each and every one of which
would still be in an embryo state were
1t not for the yellow metal that is
acknowledged by all nations to be
the unit OF value of the world. Did it
ever occur to you that Bradstreet and
Dunn's commercial gazetteer attrib-
utes $50 of all Colorado's railroad
earnings to the movement of her var
ious metals and coal? Sixty per cent
of all the railroad freight in the Uni
ted States is derived from metals
and coal, and every dollar of this
money is backed by either gold or
silver bullion deposited with the U.
S. treasurer. Ycu cannot purchase
U. S. bonds or costly wearing appar-
ell with coal or iron, but with gold
yol can become the possessor of any
thing of value on any portion of the
globe In holy writ we learn that
gold Szd silver. wss the medium of
eAcnsnse in ancient times, and it
betrayal of cur blessed Savior and
brought about his crusifixion.
The rich live in luxury, and all ca
ter to their every wish because they
have the gold to pay their obliga-
tions, while the poorer classes suf-
fer hunger, privation and distress be-
cause they have not the gold to as
suage their grief. 1t is often said by
the people of the east, and with some
degree of truth. that gold mining is
gamble, but is not every pursuit in
life a gamble? The farmer plants
his crops and CANDLES whether he
ever receives returns. Floods may in
undate him, the simeon winds may
dry up and wither his crop and rem
der it worthless and there is no
intrinsic value left behind. But gold,
the money metal of the realm can
be subjected to fire, water or any
other element and still retain its in
trinsic value.
1t has often been said by the So
cialist class that man cannot become
a millionaire in lifetime and gain
it honestly. Many of the mul.i-mil-
lionaires of the west have made their
money from the bowels of mother
earth by mining gold and have new
er distressed their fellow man, but
on the contrary have brought plenty
and happiness TO thousands whom
they have employed who shared with
them in the rich gains afforded by
dame nature, without in the least in
terfering with the rights of others.
1t has also been said that we of
this gold producing country iuveigle
those with money to invest for pri-
vate gains. Statistics show that 500
of the dividends paid from gold mines
go east of the Mississippi river, and
1919 of them to investors in foreign
lands. We do not solicit capital from
our eastern neightor for the purpose
of deception or fraud but for the pur
pose of more speedily developing our
great gold fissures that everywhere
abound, and whose product is so nee
essary to carry on the commerce of
the world. There never was a more
propitious time for idle capital to in
vest in sane and safe enterprise,
than in the great gold fissures al
most daily being OPP med up in Gilpin
county and like mining counties in
Colorado. provided the management
Of mines is carried on with honesty.
sobriety and Judgement.
NOTICE ITO TEACHERS