The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-06-16
Matrimonial Mines.

The other nigh. old Blinkus. seeing
his son getting ready TO gs 20 ball.
proceeded to give him some whole
some advice on women:
Tom, my boy" he said" filling up
his pipe, Il see you are getting your
fancy tog, on for a ball Now, don't
object 10 balls, or any other kind of
natural Amusement; but l want TO Civ.
you little sdvIce. Tom: look out for
the women you will meet there. A
man who goes around after women is .
good deal Pike prospecsor hunting
for mine. You see woman at q
ball. and she's ali frizzlei up and rig
ged cut in silk, and powdered and
painted. where her skin shows itself.
These surface Groupings look pretty
we'll. hut If you locate on the strength
Of ein. you will get fooled every time.
A woman Of that kind is just like .
sal.ed mine Don't You take any stock
in her She won't wash. II you want
II prospect little, slide up and take
all assay of her conversation. All. my
boy, Three per cent. Of intelligence.
twenty five of fashionable etiquette,
and the rest friyolity, crnceit, Ignorance
and vanity. mixed up in about equal
parts. Drop her right away. Such
rock won't pay to mill. II ysu got .
patent for the claim. you'd never see a
dividend come out Of it as long as you
lived. The assessments to keep the up
per works in repair, and the lower
levels from Gavin in, would land you
in the poor house on lightning ex-
press, and some fine morning yo,. d
wake up to find your claim relocated
by somebody else"
The old man shock the ashes out Of
his pipe and continued;
Sometimes you'll strike Q plain girl
in common sort Of dress. She won (
be good looking, maybe. and won't
have any ans. lie surface indications
won't show much. but before you have
prospectcd long you're likely to come
10 some good indications that will pay
TO follow up. Rich stringers OF conyer-
sa,ional quartz and spurs of iutslli-
gence, showing up finely the further
you 20. Pretty soon you'll strike Q
well defined vein of solid practical
sense That's the sort of q mine 10
freeze 10. Locate it as soon - possible.
and get out your patent papers. and
You'll have regular bonanza to fall
back on the rest Of your life II you
think the good claims all taken up,
your badly fooled. This towns full
OF EN-. I'm an old prospectcr, and
I've Travelled around . good deal II
my time wasn't taken up with my ewn
mine, know VIII re there are lots of
prime locations only waiting for some
practical miner to come along and de-
velop them. \ woman's heart, Tom. is
u mighty curious thing, Take it in all
its dips, spurs, angles, ramiiications and
sinuosi,ies. and it's more of puzzle
and mystery than the whole of the
Comstock lode. Some fellows try to
work it, and by pure luck strike it rich
right of. in places where old exper-
fenced prospec,ors never s'posed there
WAS ANYTHING Getting title to the
property amt the only thing; it's keep
ing up the proper developments. and
seeing that Jumpers don't get in and
encroach on your claim. Some of these
domestic mines require All awful amount
of money for machinery. and some Of
'em can run on about nothing. When
ever you get one of 'em. and find you
can't run 1t TO advantage. the best thing
10 do is to throw up your job as super
intendent. and shut up the works. -
Iirlinid Chronicle