Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-07-17
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THE SAVAGE SALE CAyARD.

Injurious Effects Of shch Reports
Abroad Have we saxeracers
Amongst Us f-Dnugers OF watt
ing for Big Prices, etc.
EUREKA, July 16, 1878.
EDIToR SENTINEL: Your readers of
this morning were presumably as much
surprised as you were yourself to hear of
| the sale of the Savage mine, by the round
about way of New York. 1t would be in
teresting to know at whose door to lay the
responsibility of having given currency to
to SO absurd a canard. When will local
correspondents Of distant journals learn
that hyperbole cannot supply the place Of
exact truth any more than imaginative
occurrences can supply the place of exact
fact. Munchausenisms are not always par
ticularly disagreeable, nor yet hurtful, ex-
cept when made use Of to subserve some
private scheme or other end, a~ntagonistic
to the public interests. Could the author
ship of the Records ''sell' be but traced
to some
PERIPATETIc sAZERAcER,
Like Fred. Hart, nobody would express
the least establishment at the treat. But
when penned, as it evidently was, by a
member Of a community noted for its de-
votion to those %virtuous and truth-ioving
principles which stand out in such marked
contrast to those crooked and goddess n
governing the Sazerac Club, the case is
changed, and one begins to wonder whether
to be most astonished at the ~impudence, or
amused with the imaginative vagafies OF
the man who could so far forget himself as
to prostitute his Faber to what must event.
ually injure the interest OF the
BASE RANGE,
Sully its reputation abroad, and bring I'M
merited disgrace upon its God-fearing in
habitants.
But, raillery aside, and to be serious,
there is to be nothing gained by circulating
such reports as the one under discussion.
Its repetition can have but one effect, and
that not d very serviceable one either.
There is no necessity for exaggeration. We
have many valuable properties under de-
.velopment in our district remaining I'M
sold, it is true; not, however, from the
want of merit, but from the rtrtinacious
folly Of their owners, who offer iittle or no
inducement to the entrance of capital, and
who do far less toward placing the exact
condition Of their properties before dis
tant spectators.
MINI owNER DECEIVE THEMSELVES
In trusting too implicitly to the sunbeams
of hope. The fame of Eureka, though far
travelled, cannot always be relied upon as
offering sufficient temptation to either cap
i~talists, their agents, or the promoters of
mining enterprises to visit it for the mere
purpose of affording qualification to q pass
ing curiosity. Moreover, the genuine in
weston, possessing capital and good bust
ness connections, will not much care to
visit a section whose mines are held at
such fabulous prices as have been asked
for many of those now seeking purchasers.
Neither a hole In the ground, a good pros
pect, nor yet a big price taken, as the lat
ter often was in early times, as an evidence
of worth, will any longer tempt the ducats
out Of %plethoric pockets, without receiving
a quid pro quo therefor.
Men who ask big prices for meagerly
developed mines place a very serious OBJ
stacle in the way of promoting either their
own or the districts interest. The writer
remembers when the original owners of
that now valuable property, the
GEDDEs AND BERTRAND,
Refused SITS, 900 for it. The men were
afterwards glad, as were many other tempt
ers of fortune like them, to accept q
mere pittance for a property which needed
only proper development to make it, as it
is now, a remarkably w~ell-opened and
promising mine. Will anybody say that
the pair of precious old fossils who owned
that mine were not enemies not only to
themselves, but enemies to the advance
ment of the district, by refusing to ratify
a transaction so favorable to its progress
and prosperity? We remember, too, when
MEssRs. WEYMOUTH AND srRoUT
Could have sold the now reviving Hoosac
for a cool 500, 900. 1t is, however, prob
able that if these gentlemen at that time
could nave cast the horoscope Of the future
or f~oreseen the ~chequered career through
which both themselves and their property
nave since then passed, they would have
been but too glad to consummate a bargain
offering such fair advantage to themselves.
Here we nave in these instances selected
from amongst many illustrations of the
dangers of delay and refusal, when a rea-
sonabiy fair amount is offered for a mining
property. 1t is said the woman who hesi-
ates is lost. So, too, is he who hesitates
and haggles about a few dollars more or a
few dollars less in the price of an Hyde
veloped mine. LUcAN.