Bisbee daily review., 1916-06-04
Immense Resources Of The County In White Metal Pro mise Great Things For The Entire State
SILVER WAS HURT
 IN EARLY sos
Many Of The Bonanza Prop critics of Years Ago May Be come Active Again After Non-activity Over Years
By William P. De WoIw.


 PRESCOTT. Arizona. June 3.-Yav- apai cOunty's silver mining industry Guiescent and more or less meribund since the repeal of the silver purchas- ing act in the early 90's-has been quickened by the recent advance in the price of that metal and is now. assuming proportions akin to those of the days of bimetalism and -l6 to l." There has been no period since the demonstration of silver when the financial well-being of that branch of the cOuntry's mining industry was so thoroughly assured as now. It is talk ing on virile activity that reflects the increasing demand for and price of silver. and is facing future that promises to be generally prosperous.
 Silver the Metal.
 Except for the two years following 1890. silver the metal. has never reached SD high a price range as that now prevailing: and existing condi- tions indicate further and sustained advances. Eastern advices are 10 the effect that reserves of silver all over the world are lower than they have been for years and are being depleted rapidly Chaos in Mexico has greatly curtailed the output of silver from that country and there is little hope of any substantial increase from there for a prOtracted period Other been cut off by conditions attri5ut- able to the European war. hence the world isnow almost entirely depend ent upon the United States and Can ada for it's supply of the white metal The indications are that this supply is not commensurate with the vastly expanded demand.
 Snver in Demand.
 Although not in a strict sense a war metal. silver is in increasing demand. chiefly from the English and Euro pean hints for coinage purposes to pav troops in the field and replace the gold coins that are being withdrawn from circulation as means of strengthening their reserves. The growing belief that belligerent nations will be forced at close of the wsr to resort tO silver as a partial basis for their enormous issues of paper eur rencv is another factor that tends to- ward further advances in iis price Not only will the unprecedented de mand from Europe b. stimulated thereby. but the far east. always a heavy consumer of The white metal. will soon ha larger factor than ever tefore. China's standardization of her coinaoe wiil in itself require an proximstely 15oOOOoOo ounces of siI- yer. or almost twice ss much as the United States and Canada can output in a year.
 Silver Mines Respond.
 The factors cited are exertins a nowerfud influence in the silver pro ducting districts Of Yavapai county. Old-time silver honanzas- that have added millions tO the coined wealth Of the world-are srousinS from the inertia of decadenf days and will soon be again of the present in stead of the past They are coming hack. these champions Of the days of dollar silver and the double standard. and while thev may not duplicate their mast sDectacular records they yet will be imporiant units of the mining industry. Their rec ords arc interesting chapters in the history of territorial Arizona. To es- tahlish these records men hraved death by thirst. by exposure and by the tomahswk of the Apache. The white brother or those parlous times lahored for pOsterity with single jack in one hand and a rifle in the other. lest the red brother Of the des- art lift his scalp at any unwary mo- m ont durino tho days shift
 Follow the Sunset Trail.
 \ large majority of the sturdy Has saya~pans who picketed the Arizona frontier have passed along the Sunset Trail and dropped below the hori- zon that v~ils the present from the past. The milestoneS they erected yet remain. however. te inspire their ben eficiaries with the chronicle Of stern-
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