Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-12-18
|" Mining" Journals.
Prescott Democist.l

The interest felt by the people m the East in mining matters during the past two years has brought into exis- fence a goodly number of so-called mining journals. They have sprung up mushroom-like Tn the leading cities, and their ostensible mission Is to enlighten people on mining affairs and give them advice on the dangers and dubious wiles of wildcat ' speculators. The Democrat has had occasion to refer to this class of min ing literature before, and it may not be out of place 10 notice 1t again. While there are few reliable journals devoted to the mining interest, pub lished in the East, the most of them are merely advertising sheets started in the interest of speculatOrs who love to have feet to dispose of. Prob bly, not one in ten of the men who are connected with these journals
 know as much about a mine as an Apache Indian does of the Seventh Commandment. The value of the mining information which they can set before their readers can therefore be easily estimated. As showing the sort of stuff that appears in these mining organs, We select the iol- lowing:
 We have found it next to an i'm possibility for a stranger visiting q mining camp in Utah, Colorado or the West to get any reliable information. The shark, the inning sharp, the vil- lain, is the first to form his acquain tance, and leach-like shik rhino, in- troducing him around, ard as birds of feather flock together, in all countries, the good people, judging the stranger or new conner by the bird he associates with, whom they know to be foul fowl, they, the solid peO- pie will say nothing calculated to put the stranger on his guard, fearing the result would be about as It is down South, where bulldOzing is more practiced than it is in the mining sec tions."
 What can be thought of the knOwl- edge of mines and mining commun- ities possessed by journal that will publish such stuff as thIs? We ven- ture to say that there are more mining sharks hanging around the offices of these one-horse mining journals in the East than can be found in all the camps in the West, and the great est risk the honest investor runs is In being fleeced by these unprinclpled applications, many of whom exist by blackmaIling properties of merit at the expense of their worthless wild cats.
 Let the honest investor steer clear of these mining bucket-shOps, and if he desires to purchase, let him come out himself or send a reliable agent. We guarantee that he will receive good treatment, and run far less danger of falling iEto the hands of sharks and villains than he would in the seedy sanctum of some of those Eastern mining sheets; and he will learn more about mines and mining than One-half the conductors of those papers will ever know.
 He can deal directly with the own CTS of mining properties, and will not have to pay tol! tO the impecunious operators who hang around the offices of these chickadee mining journals back East.
 Residents of the mining regions are
 ways glad to see reliable infOrma-
 on relating to their mineral resources ct before the Eastern people, but when such balderdash as we have quoted is put forward as facts, it is time to call the attention of the out side world to the utter falsity of such statements, and to the uureliability of these travesties on mining journals, who publish them.