The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-08-18
WORK YOUR MINES.

WORK YOUR MINES.
A man in this county who does not
live hundred miles from camp, owns
three very promising leads here. He
came here few weeks ago, employed
two men and in two weeks time did
one hundred dollars worth of work on
each one of his claims. There are
mining companies on the Pacific slope
who do not think they have claim
developed into producing mine until
they have expended $500, 900 in open
ing it up, and at that rate it will take
our friend 1000 years to turn his pros
poets into developed mines. The most
of us will never live to see this coun-
try developed if We have to wait on
such men to do it. We only give this
to show how some of our people are
developing their mines. Instead of
working all summer and doing all they
can to make mines out of their ten
foot holes they in a short time as pos
sible do the requirements Of law-$1oo
worth of work, and the balance of the
year sit around in public places and
talk about their rich mines, and
Micawber like, wait for some sucker
to come floating up stream to sell their
vndeveloped prospects to. The time
is coming when men want to see farther
into the rock than ten feet before they
invest any money in mining. 1t use
to be so, but the rich carbonate fields
of Leadyille and other places have
revolutionize matters of late years.
We say to any one who owns property
in this camp that it will be to your
advantage to work it, for already capi-
tai is beginning to seek investment
here. There is no danger of the bot
tom of these veins being worked out,
on the other hand depth has got to be
gained to make producing mines, and
so far there is not shaft in camp so-f
deep but what has given encouragement
to 60 deeper. So far there has been
nothing but surface scratching, and
the class of investors that are COM
ing here are men that have been use
to deep mining. There has hardly
been day for the last three months
but what you find names on our hotel
registers of experienced men sent out
here by syndicates from the different
money marts to examine property in
this camp, and it is very reasonable
to suppose that property with the most
development will receive more atten-
ton than those with a mere ten foot
hole on them. 1t is true that a great
many prospects are in the hands of
prospectors who are unable to do anv
more than the annual assessment upon
their claims, of which we find no
fault, but the case above alluded to
are men who are more able to expend
a thousand dollars in development
than some of US are to expend
a hundred dollars. They are men
who ought to be looked upon as taking
the lead in developing the country,
but instead of that they sit as a STUN
bling block in the highway of progress
and prosperity, waiting for some more
enterprising person to develop an
adjacent claim, thinking thereby to
sell their property at an enormous
figure on the merits of the developed
property.
With the advent of two railroads.
the removal of the Utes from their
reservation, which is liable to be done
any day now, and with the increased
value of those mines that are being
developed we think that we are fast
approaching = far more prosperous era
than We have had heretofore. Our
camp IS receiving steady and perma-
nent growth, and every day is gaining
more and more confidence and atten-
tioa from the moneyed men of the
country, therefore We say again that
it behooves every man who has mining
interests here to work it to the extent
lof his capacity.