ROMANCE OF SILVER-MINING.
It was when capital anil hone we.-e alike exhausted that a last desperate stroke of the pick revealed the fabulous riches of the J-iig Bonanza mine in IS7U—a trciisuro-house wliich has since yielded ore valued at 130,(1(111,000. Tlie l'lorc» mine of San Luis l'otosi was struck by a poor priest, who bought sin abandoned chum for an "old song," ami tool; Ui(W,(MW .worth of silver out of it; and the accidental discovery of ashes in his camp-lire made a iuillioaaire of a negro liddler. J'eter Terreros, a muleteer, discovered by accident the iteal del Monte deposits in Hidalgo, and at the end :if twelve years had won .U. 000,000 and a Spanish title of nobility. To give but one more example, two brothers named Bolados, who earned a miserable livelihood by carrying fuel, found in a crevice opened by an earthquake an enormous block of silver, worth a quarter of a million pounds sterling.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 293, 5 December 1908, Page 3
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157ROMANCE OF SILVER-MINING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 293, 5 December 1908, Page 3
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