One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

MONEY IN MINING. The Earth a Vast Treasure-box--$300,000,000 from the Comstock Lode--A Short Story of Three Millionaires--Opportunities in Mica Mining--Fortunes in Salt Wells--$10,000 for Locating a Mine--Not a Cent of Capital Needed--The Gold Belt of the United States--Two Men’s Earnings with the Pan--What Michigan Boys are Doing--Big Dividends in Tin--A Man with an Income of $2 a Minute. The immense importance which minerals play in our industries and the glittering fortunes made by delving into the earth, are faintly indicated by the fact that the output of last year aggregated the almost unthinkable sum of nearly $1,000,000,000. Profits in mining come mainly from four sources. The buying of mining lands with a view to sale, prospecting for the purpose of selling claims, placer-mining, and mining by machinery. Here are a few of the most promising roads to the earth’s hidden wealth.