The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-03-16
BUT LOOK WHAT'S
COMING

The needs OF the world are gen.
orally anticipated and somebody pro.
vides the means of supply When
bl-metalism received hard blow by
the election of Mckinley to the presi-
dency, and it was freely predicted
that there would not be enough gold
in existence to form medium OF
exchange to do the worlds business
there were innumerable prospectors
in the northland who were about to
reveal to the world where gold could
be assembled in bucket-fulls, and the
brave spirits of earth flocked there
by multiplied thousands to bring it
forth.
When the development of uses for
electricity were making rapid strides
and it looked as If it would require
all the copper in the world to provide
telephone lines and ocean cables,
there came forth a Marcona and
many kindred inventors who handed
to the world sets of instruments that
made it possible to go over the heads
of the pole and cable lines and trans
NIT the messages on the waves OF
ether.
When the world war bronze out
and wasted copper in such quantities
as had never been known before and
quickened useful industries that con-
sumo great quantities of it, the
threatened copper famine ran the
price steadily upward till it more
than doubled but it found it's level
for different men in various parts OF
IscnnunrnI n
crate something resembling NAM
moth egg-beaters or cream-whippers
for the treatment of copper ores that
enabled them to save vast fortunes
in fine copper that had baffled the
world s experts for all time. They
find that they can treat the tailings
from which they once extracted what
they regarded as the main part of
the copper, and take greater fortunes
from it than they originally captur-
ed. They can treat mountains of ore
that have heretofore been consider
ed worthless because it was so fine
and of such low grade: BY this dis
covery applied within the past few
years and now being perfected on
mammoth scales, the mines that
have had the. name of being the
worlds greatest copper producers
have sunk to insignificance in the
production of the red metal, and mu-
milton factories, powder plants and
battlefields seemingly cannot use it
and blow it up fast enough to again
make a prospect of copper famine.
With so much of the worlds yell
low metal going down at sea, with
an era opening up that promises such
expansion of business as has never
been seen, with the egg-beater,
cream whipper mills working to ap-
ply the same methods to capturing
fine gold as have captured the cop
per who knows but the great low
grade gold deposits of the world may
soon be yielding cart-loads of yellow
metal to replenish the worlds gold
supply, and some other genii and
captains of industry find means of
building ships so large and so good,
so quickly built and so efficiently
driven by the new and cheaper fluid
fuel being developed by the Ameri-
can Board of Defense, that multi
tudes of ocean vessels may be pro-
vided to carry the tonnage of the
world better and cheaper than was
carried by the much-lamented tt
tanic, Empress of Ireland, Lusitania,
and all the other leviathans of the
deep that accident and war have sent
to the bottom and still is sending
down, assassinating and strangling
the great members of the ocean car
rying busineSSi