We have no great bonanzas there now with which to deluge the world. but we have many mines of lowgrade ores that might have been worked at a moderate profit it silver had stood at the oldtime figure. This would have led to fur.ther prospecting and the development of new leads. which in turn would have encouraged our people to engage in every other branch of secondary or dependent industry. As it is they have been corn-. pletely crippled. Only the best mines could be worked. The miners have been compelled to emigrate. the population is practically stationary. many of our towns hay been virtually abandoned. .perspecting has almost become a lost art.and every line of industrial deevlopment is at a standstill. But. Mr.
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