154 Silver-mining. 



Silver-mines in Colorado. 



34. Silver-mining is carried on very exten- 

 sively in the States of Nevada and Colorado, 

 where some men have become immensely rich 

 almost in a single day, owing to the discovery 

 of silver on their land. 



35. Many of the mines are far up high 

 mountains and reach to great distances within 

 them. 



36. Silver is found also in Utah, Montana, 

 and other Territories of the United States. It 

 was formerly found in large quantities in Mexi- 

 co, Bolivia, and Peru. 



37. It is said that many years ago an Indian hunter in 

 South America, in pulling up a shrub, observed something 

 white and shining clinging to the roots, and that this led to 

 the discovery of a mountain almost filled with silver. 



