A "mountain of silver," or at all events a mountain
containing vast quantities of the metal, has been discovered in Nevada, the State just admitted into the American Union. Its name is Silver Peak, it is east of San Francisco and about seventy miles south of Austin, and twelve immensely rich lodes have already been opened. The whole of Nevada is rich in silver, but this particular spot will, it is believed, produce more than any mines yet discovered. Close to the peak is an extinct crater, near it a vast deposit of salt, within sight a hill of pure sulphur, and around endless stony desert, the whole scene suggesting strongly the picture which Mil- ton drew of hell. Neither poetry nor superstition are, however, *likely to stop the miners of the far West when they see their way clear to sudden and limitless wealth.
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