The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-09-22
DEAZ TIL OF THE PRESIDENT
A sad calamity has befallen the ma.
ion in the death Of our beloved Presl.

won for him the universal respect and
sadmiration of every portion Of the
country, without regard to political
sdistinction or sectional differences.
ITO use the memorable words OF Ham
llet " he was a man " in every sense to
(which that expressive word implies.
Many of those who at first bitterly
sopposed, him in the ranks of his polit-
:ica! adversaries, had become his warm
( lest friends and admirers. Not since
/ the days of Abraham Lincoln has the
schair been filled SO ably and honestly.
srhe people have long since believed
! that in the political campaign pend
sing his election, the character of Mr..
sGarheld had been very much mal'gned.
In fact his every act as chief magls-
strate has gone to prove that such was
sthe case. He leaves fond wife and
Iloving children to mourn the loss, yet
cherish the memory OF noble sire.
sMr. Garfield served his country well
.and his country loves and reveres him
stor it.
He would be vile man indeed, one
utterly devoid OF intelligence or patri-
sotism, who could have the temerity
ito impugn his acts or his motives.
What course Mr.. Arthur will pur-
sue is at present matter of pure spec
iulation. No man can even in his own
mind map out with any degree Of GER
stainty, his plan of action. Sufficient
stor the day is the evil thereof and
;while "we mourn for him who
gone" let us be careful how we pre-
Judge his successor. Mr.. Arthur may
sprove to be very good president, in
.lact, the opinion has been expressed
,by many of our most prominent pub
ilic men, that he will prove himself
equal to the emergency. We will not
condemn him before he has been tried
land found guilty.
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Some one has said that this is an
S'' off year" for booms in Colorado.
Is for town site boon,s ard worthless
lew mining camps are concerned, We
hink it is about SO, but never in the
history Of mining in this state has
! There been so much legitimate devel-
aopmcnt done, which in time will b;
proven by the ore outputs. The time
lis past for getting up excitements in
stown sites On paper, laying out whole
acres in town lots and foisting them
I IN the public; also we do not hear OF
50 many rich strikes in new and out
! aaof-the-way places, when investigated
sthat prove worthless. These are no;
1the kind of cxcitements that we want
! lt all. We like to see a camp with
sprospects that will stand working
3wjth vein of producing mineral in
1.-The near future. There are some
camps IN this state, as in all mining
countries, live for time upon expec-
nation, and the result is that the mar
swilo invests few thousand dollars in
these camps become discouraged and
3gives up in disgust, and because the,
Shappen to make failure in one place
,that is no reason that they would moi
succeed in another. Like all other
sbuslness it is not expected tina: every
J man will be successful. While some
] Inch make a success in farming or mer-
!chandising, others make a failure,
(which may be attributed to a great ex-
dtent to bad management. Just SO in
iminlng, but it is too often looked at
sin difereLt light. A man who en-
Sters into mining operations is too apt
ito become visionary, and think toe
much of being bonanza king, and
sin 4 rather injudicious manner and
/ poor judgment, loses all that he has on
sproperty that will never pay, there
sfore if he fails and his neighbor sue
9ceeds he atonce cries out that mining
lis fraud, whereas if it is followed
sjudiciously it is Just as legitimate as
farming, merchandising or any other
Legitimate occupation. Three -ffths
of the failures in mining may lie at
:tributed to bad management. Men
ywho do not know anvthinr of the