The Elk Mountain pilot., 1880-08-12
THE OUTLOOK.

There are some croakars in our
midst. Such characters may be found
everywhere and especially in new
mining districts. Many people come
to places of this kind who are by
habit and nature idlers, and possess
bad habits. People of this kind do
not succeed anywhere. Men must
learn by experience, if not otherwise,
that in mining camps, as elsewhere,
success will not attend them without
energy and industry.
Business Of every description pre-
scnts : healthy appearance in the town
Of Irwin. Although there is no inAa-
ton, there is sufficient activity to in
spire confidence. Nearly every man
who gives his attention to business
ard who appears to be in earnest in
his efforts to succeed, is satisfied
with the present, and has great
hopes for the future.
The streets present fair business
activity The hammer and saw are
heard in every direction along Ninth
street and in many other parts of the
town. buildings are going up rapidly
and nearly all the space for a distance
Of several hundred yards along Ninth
street is filled by buildings erected and
Others In the process of being erected,
and IN fact everything indicates pres
ent and future prosperity for the
camp.
There appears to be little doubt of
the fact that during the next year per
sons will realize their most san
gulne expectations in regard to this
district, from. the fact that mines now
being prospeeted and opened will
justify capitalists in employing large
number of men and erecting
machinery for reducing and treating
ores, and 1t must be admitted that be-
tore We can be assured Of permanence
and prosperity capitalists must come
to the rescue in the manner indicated.
Since our last issue reliable reports
have reached us from different parts
of the district in this vicinity that
the mines already discovered have
greatly improved in appearance, as
greater depth has been reached, and
many new discoveries have been
made which give great promise.
1t takes time and money to make it
manifest that quartz veins are of a
character to be permanent and rclia-
bic In all newly discovered localities,
but We have sufficient evidence of the
value of mines here to establish that we
are in the midst Of great mineral
wealth, which fact, in the course Of
a reasonable time, will be made
known to the world, and for the pres
ent our population should be
patient and industrious and they will
surely reap the rewards thereof.
These mines are known as assure
veins, which bear silver, and they can
not be worked and developed with
out labor and capital. In most in
stances they pay from the surface down
as far as they have been explored,
and surpass any other mines discov-
cred, in paying richly from
the groupings.
1t has been asserted in certain Jour
nails, upon the authority of an ex-
pert who was said to have been here.
that the veins are narrow. This is
true as to some of the prospects as far
as they have been explored, but there
are a number Of very wide and extern
slve veins in the camp, which were
Intentionally or otherwise overlooked
by the expert, and the journal that
made the statement should be severely
censured for either its carelessness or
intentional Misrepresentation.
POSTAL AFFAIRS.