Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-10-01
The Matrimonial Mine.


 The other night old Blinkus, seeinG his son getting ready to go to bali proceeded to give him some wholesOm, advice on women.
 Tom, my boy" he said, filling up hi.
 pipe, ~I see you are getting fancy tOgs
 on for a bali. Now, don't object tC
 balls or any other kind of amusement
 but I want to give you q little advice
 Tom. Look out for the women you
 meet there. man who goes around
 after the women IS good deal like Q
 prospectOr hunting for mlne. You
 see a woman at ball, and shes all tiz-
 zled up and rigged out m silk, and pow dered and painted wherever her skin
 shows itself. This surface crOppings
 look pretty well, but If you locate on the
 strength of 'em you'll get fooled every | time. A woman of that kInd IS just | like salted mine. Don't you take any ! stock in her. She won't wash. II you | want tO prospect such location LJtle | further, slide up and take an assay of her conversation. Ah, my boy. Three per cent. of intelligence, twenty-five of fashionable etiquette, and the rest fri- vOlity, conceIt, ignorance and vanity mixed up in about equal parts. Drop her neht away. Such rock won't pay to mill If you got a patent for The claim you'd never see a dividend come out of 1t as long as you lived. The as- sessments to keep the upper works Tn repair and the lower levels from caving in would land you in a poor house on a lightning express, and some morning you'd wake up and find your clam re- located by somebody else"
 The old man shook the ashes out of his pipe and continued:
 "Sometimes you'll strike plain girl m a common sort Of a dress. She won't be good looking, maybe, and won't have any alrs. The surface indications won't show much, but before you've pros pected long you're likely to come to l some good indications that will pay to l follow up. Rich streaks of cOnversa- l tional quartz and spurs of intelligence | showing up finely the deeper you go. | Pretty soon you'll strike a well-detined | vein of common sense. That's the kind | of mine to freeze Co. Locate 1t as soon as possible, and get out your pat | ent papers, and you'll have a regular | bonanza to fall back on for the rest of | your life If you think the z lOd claims | are all taken up, you're badly fooled. This towns full Of 'em. I'm an old | prOspectOr, and I've travelled around a great deal. If my time wasn't taken up with my own mine, know where there are lots of prime locations only waiting for some practical miner to come along and develop. \ woman's heart, Tom, Is a mighty curious thing. Take 1t in all it's spurs, angles, ramiiicatiOns and sInu- OsitIes and it's more of puzzle aud a mystery than the whole COmstOck lode. Some fellows try Co work 1t and by pure luck strike 1t rich right off in places where old, experienced miners never supposed there was anything. Gittin the title to the property amt tine only thing; it's keeping up the proper and seeing that jumpers don't get in and encrOach upon your claim. Some of these domestic mines require an awful lot of money for ma chinery and some of them eau be run on about nothing. Whenever you get one of 'em and find you can't run 1t to advantage, the best thing Co do is to throw mp your job as superintendent and shut down the works.-NIrgInia Nev.) Chronicle