Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-08
PROSPECTING EXPEDITIONS.

Almost daily, prospecting parties are
starting out from Phoebe to the south
ward and eastward-the majority intend
ing TO explore throughout Southern Utah
and Northern Arizona. They are gener-
ally encouraged to the enterprise by re-
ports Of some one in the party claiming
to have been in the regions whittier they
are going, and to have found.there remark
ably favorable mineral indications.
We are not disposed to "throw cold
water" on these uncertain ventures,
especially in those cases in which love
of change and adventure are the main
incentives with the persons engaging IN
them. Thus the existing mining dis
tricts we're unveiled and made available
TO the world; and thus will the mineral
field be widened in the future. But how
greatly are the chances againt fortunes
being made in this way, even should
valuable discoveries be made' In placer
mining, the discoverer of rich deposits
has fair show TO, and often does, en-
rich himself but seldom or never in
ledge mining does the discoyerer realize
wealth. His chances to become rich by
finding veins have lessened with in
creased experience in such mining, until
now the mining capitalist can scarcely be
induced to stop and listen to description
OF an undeveloped vein. Placing before
him specimens glittering all over with
the precious metal, gold or silver, usual
ly results in eliciting discouraging
opinion, such as ''no good mine shows
pure silver in the ore, or ''free gold is
not formed in the rock that pays the
best in the MILL" and if the samples e1-
hibited are not remarkably rich, the poor
prospector, worn out and having expended
his last dollar, will most likely be told by
the manipulation of mining stocks, why,
I can get hold Of plenty of lodges richer
than that.
We ask our friends, who are about to
start off on these long, dangerous and
uncertain expeditions of discovery to
ponder well these facts-to consider If
they are able to sacrifice months or years
Of their time in making discoveries which,
when made, ara as much the property OF
the world o: large as of themselves indi.
vidually (for is it not true, as a rule, that
the brave quartz prospector is simply a
poorly paid guide, who leads other men
to fortunes?)
There are surer and better opportuni'
ties for poor men to make raise" in
the developed camps than to plunge, at
haphazard, far away into the uninhabited
wilderness. There are hundreds of prom
Using lodges in Lincoln county in which
working interests" can be secured, aut
new discoveries are being recorded almos
daily. There is no better field in pros
pect or to take chances" in than this
1t is, perhaps, better and more favorabl.
known to the world than any other silye
mining region; it has passed through tn
dark years of hope deferred and uncel
tainty, and is now the center of heav
capital combinations; discoveries her
are Immediately available, and stocks al
constantly offered, in the opening {
mines, at mere nominal figures, whic
may any day become OF great valu
Life, at best, and especially the miner
life, "is lottery" but we can see scare
ly the remotest prospect of drawing
prize by hunting veins away off in It
gons unexplored, out of the reach {
capital, and almost inaccessible to huma
industry.
For their own good we submit thes
reflections to those of our friends VII
are infected with the stampedine fever.