People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — Geld Hine Owners Bcnefitted. [ARTICLE]

Geld Hine Owners Bcnefitted.

James Brushnahan, who has been spending a few days at the old home near Rensselaer, called at the Pilot office a short time before returningto western Montana. and discussed the condition of affairs there. Of course Mr. Brushnahan is a free silver man and a populist. He says that in the immediate vicinity where he is located the copper mines have kept up fairly good times. All of the exclusively silver mines in the Black Hills, Idaho, Montana, Colorado and elsewhere are closed, except a few of the very rich ones, because they do not pay to work. The silver that is being produced is largely that which is taken from gold mines, as nearly all gold quartz carries a percentage of silver. He thinks the mine owners are really the gainers by the demonetization of silver because it has doubled the price of their gold, the mining which is the greater industry of the two.