PROMOTERS AND PROMOTING 



maintained even without these revelations. 

 No good reason has, to my knowledge, been 

 advanced for doubting that the unexplored 

 mountains of Siberia, the Himalayas, 

 Africa, and South and Central America 

 may ultimately produce gold as copiously as 

 Alaska is doing. 



Leonard Courtney, in an article not long 

 since, expressed, in effect, regret that so 

 much capital and labor are used in mining 

 gold. His thought seems fallacious in ig- 

 noring the fact that prices are steadier the 

 greater the world's reservoir of fundamental 

 money is, including, of course, both coin 

 reserves and coinable bullion. Gold min- 

 ing is not, therefore, for the world's wealth, 

 any more than for that of the thrifty miner, 

 a losing business.* 



It is of consequence for all, and most 

 vitally for the common man and the poor, 

 that these chances for new wealth-making 

 should be found out and developed. Our 



* Probably the oldest notice of mining in all literature is 

 the eloquent passage in the book of Job : " Surely there is a vein 

 for the silver and a place for the gold where they fine it." Job 

 28:1. 



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