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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1888)
THE WEST SHORE. of IeraeL This was ... ....... t ll " ,t,.t.l .11 r.fM the c-M rated "roM of Ophir," brought Ly the Phoe nimn and Jcs from ihnt far and unknown land, !, rritioa was a puzzle to historians until so , j ily aolvnl by Kider Ilflggard a year ago. From !), cv.ftht (if Aia Minor, a voyage thither and return in the puny rebels of thoae ancient times consumed three yeara. It hna leen generally supposed to bo on iuc east cowt or Africa, or in the hast Indies; but that three mines were located in the heart of the ii r 1: ti . 1 . ... 1 1 1 1 I'm v.miij'M, and were reacneu oy sucn a 11 .. . 1 . . 1 . 1 1 1 11 ! mjai mm m (jescniK'u in iiaggarus romance, it had never More "entered into the mind of man to (vmoive," In the Ural mountains, that still i M th-ir yellow trcaHure, gold was mined in the time of (-uA(An nml ...... ...iv.-u muivijin nuu uuia 1 1. 1 ii . : i -i . .. . n.iM. u uj.-ir ot&inouuons 10 tne precious store. The fir..,. I. - I ('.,, . 1 :i . '! 1 . 1 .1 . . . .Mimiiii U 11 iu iufiiHaiy ami tne island of Tha , and the KouiHna procured it in the Pyrenesand In tlio rrovinreii of IfJv )inrArin,. t. . i "IUfiinthe form of plunder and tribute from all the civilized rmtiona of the known world. The an Spaniard waited it from the golden sands of K,mk1 the nations of Eastern Asia found it J" many pl,r, i that land once considered fabulous ly rich by t u jw.pl, of Europe. Some of this form 1 the plunder and tribute gathered by Alexander on bN farnou,ra,d,nto India, and it was always an in. -t.ve to con;i?t by the Komans, as well as the thither the fleets of Spain, For tUndEngUndin later years. ittlDA- M the time of the di-covery of America and th "I-wnR to Euro, of t!, rJ .... ' RD(1 th0 nimuUtolbyth Artoc; J 01 ac M.lr of r.,! ! i V ern' tho p8tim rhennh.H,, n ' h,r the al. ntobimii;,jt;:frl-1 MM ,,,:,:,.; jr'rant.credu. mingo and the conquest of Mexico by CortezTi $270,000.00 annually; but from the time the Spanish conqueror carried the cross with fire and sword into the peaceful and happy land of the Az-tecs-with one hand forcing upon them the religion of Christ and with the other robbing them of the ac cumulated treasure of ap-gold poured into Spain ' in a steady stream, rendering that nation the richest . llu lVf vuoiico uiiu rnnip maintained their armies of conquest, and with it was also fitted out that wonderful Spanish armada, which the latter sent to overwhelm England, and from which the poo. pie of the " tight little isle " were saved by the valor of their seamen and the mighty winds that "blow upon the face of the deep." An idea of the vast quantity of gold possessed by those highly civilized nations of America, and used by them chiefly for or naments, can be had from the statement that the not. ed and cruel Pizarro received, as ransom for the ireacneroosiy imprisoned Inca, a roomful, which is T. " uccu 01 1116 value of $15,480,710.00. lne discoverv. a few vPftra Mo nc A.. ., . j m v vio ), ui me creat e.lver mmea of PotoSi, added to the vast U III A t TAT o Ottawa 1 i ' . . --.-. ranlneS poured into Spain from Mexico Peru and the far Philippines of the East J hA throa mm.l - .1 ... 6 ra "uurees 01 world's supply of gold at the present time are the United States, L n n A,6f E1Msia' raBkiDg the order named, in tne llmfoH Hfn u . . , wtaiCB' K0ia is round m quantity n nn 7V tclluur)r "yg on either slope of the Tn f. . 1 , ' u Detween mm we Pacific. In fact alorgthe entire length of this great "back. one of the AmriVio a,- i . , fhili u ai 1 r uuueuiB, extending from Z tt l U8and9u f meD' wh0 lasted mil On ,T u IDf- 'h! bMiMW 00 "tensive seal" runiit . lT1 the APPlchian mountains, running thrnnfrli xr: m 1 South k,y n K""a' ""MMee, North and Si ; GTeis Md AIab. i"ve annually l ,rPP V' E0M 8bce the fi' discoveries oltir h n Prti0DS of (he b" JSH. , adl Md Nova Scoti; add their "uy every land, and is pro quantities in Italy, Austria, China, Japan, India acd tlj group a3 :r Tneo 8Dd other i8laDds of toworld IS4' - ! 'J! Africa is nS. U 1 Spain, Swit2er:la5 lD8'. Wd ci many and ivussia.