The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-03-20
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There are two classes of people in the world. directly the opposite of each other. The one is natural enthusiast, always looking at the rosy side of affairs, and whatever he un dertakes, he puts his whole soul into it and goes it with rush. He never owned horse, no matter how heavy and broken, foundered and spavined he may, be hut "he's the dogondest, best horse he ever saw," much less owned. If he discovers a prospect "there's millions in it,p even from the grass roots. Every cloud to him, no matter how gloomy and lowering, has silver lining. The optimist is the positive element in society tha, causes the wheels of commerce and mainsprings of business to move with accelerated speed. He may make mistakes, may be overcome with dis aster for period, but his naturally. buoyant temperament causes him to rise and float with the tide where an, other man would sink to the bottom like a stone. ...-
 The pessimist is his opposite in everything. There is no hing so good to-day as there wa' yesterday. He always looks at the dark side of matters. If he owns a horse, no matter how good he may be, he lives in momentary fear that the "biamed critter" is going to have the glanders, or he's got corns in his feet,. or the "bots Fl carry him off as soon as fly time comes" If he examines a mine. it's of little or no account, Git don't compare with the Comstock," and ''therell never be another Com. stock--another Washoe." There are no silver.l lined clouds for him; he's "prsctical man," he is, "no damned nonsense in his'n." With his in verted vision he looks at the sun, moon and stars, and they are infinite. ly removed into space, or If he turns earthward, by the same inverted sight he sees the bottom falling out of everything, and particularly the mines in locality where he is desirous of bearing them. How many of these pessimists have knocked the bottom out of Tomb. stone's mines our readers we'll know.
 These thoughts were induced by the reports of different parties re- turning of late from Sonora. One, gentleman who has known the Con- stock from the grass roots to the low est levels, and who has stood high in the councils of the nation, is reported to have said that millions will be sunk in Sonora, with little or no re- turns. The other, practical sort of fellow, who has always been an avsnt-courier of civ v,liLaton, says that So lora will toni>h the world with her yield of precious metals; that the surface has not been scratched by the superficial and in. efficient system of workings by the Mexicans. He points to. what the St. Helena company is doing, the Shugarts and the Santa Maria, where immense bodies of rich-rich in the full sense of the term ore IS re. warding these companies for their toll in reopening the once aban- doned mines of the naughty dons of d past age.
 The truth of this matter, as of others, will, no doubr, be found in the mean between the two extremes. That there will be wasted capital in Sonora, as there has been in Califor. mia, Nevada, I laho, Montana, Color ado and Arizona, ere is every reason to bell VI, and that millions will be realized j dicious invest. ments is equally apparent. Besides this, and of more mnment to the world will be the infusion of new blo, d n lew fe o country sta nat, d by o's on and he pow arlv Inf its neonla G,ns. unon th