Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-09-30

euC HituIuS DuSlneSS Is now IN SuCn "a
prosperous condition with many com
panies, piling layer upon layer of div
idends, and the music of the stamps
delighting the ears of the miners in
almost every camp, that something
should be done for The less fortunate
members of the community.
He suggests that certain portion
OF the reserves for dividends should be
laid aside for the purpose of establish
ing home for respectable, aged and
INDECENT investors in mining stocks,
who have bought not wisely but too
much.
We have not given the matter suf.
ficient consideration as yet to give it
our approval or disapproval.
There are many sad cases no doubt.
The recent suicide of an impoverished
assessment payer, in Buffalo, who had
sunk 100000, would probably have
been averted, had he felt sure of some
hnal place of repose, and the press is
chronicling many other cases.
Present purchasers of Globe Cop.
per might ultimately find calm repose
in the sequestered shade of some such
institution. There are still living
survivors of the somewhat ancient
deals i'll Little Pittsburg and Chryso-
lite, and their attenuated forms may
be seen lettering along the highways
and byways of our principal cities;
many of these could be benefited by
being retired to a home of peaceful Sc
cur;ty. Silver Nugget, U. c., of b.
die, Silver Tree and many others could
be relied upon to contribute a consid-
cradle number Of occupants.
Aged, respectable, and of updoubt-
ed Indulgence, purchasers of Copper
knobb at 50 are still living. Bye
and-Bye, which has ever held the CUP
OF dividends to the lips, only to with
draw it before it can be partaken of.
Iuscarora, the war-whoop of whose
braves can be heard no more. North
Standard and others whose name is
legion, could fill any ordinary asylum
with their victims.
The enfeebled survivors of the Com.
stocks since 1875, those who have fall.
en- by the way before the return of the
bonanza whose presence now appears
70 many so imminent, might in the
quiet cloisters of such retreat eight
their battles over again." and the glo-
California and Consolidated Virginia,
) with the triumphs of the chiefs
Flood, Mackey, Fair and O'Brien-
would ever be interesting subjects to
taooC VIII WGlG uiidUic W uOiu out uu'
til the grass grew again. We have
now entered upon new era. Wild
, cats are less prevalent, and those that
, are around look limp and haggari, and
| incapable of mischief. Paying mines
are not the GASES they once were. The
, verdure is more plentiful, and dozen
, states are now rolling up the mass Of
, bullion From Maine to Mexico the
5 news is cheering, and "another dis
: trict heard from" is daily report.
This project of having those who
are receiving the increase help out the
. less fortunate brethren is deserving
5 of some consideration, now that there
5 seems less likelihood of many new
5 cases.
4 We don't know by what law Or en-
e actment it could be done, or whethe
: the idea is at all practicable, but nov
q that the ways of mining bid fair to b.
t of peace, and it's paths of pleasantness
r some method of ameliorating the con
| dition of those referred to by our cor
e respondent might in charity be de