The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-02-23
HIGH COLORED REPORTS.

| HIGH COLORED REPORTS.
1t is very interesting and consollng
to read in our contemporaries, ac-
counts of terrible big strikes, millions
IN sight, 80 to speak, and all such stuff
about our camp, ard then have it
copied throughout the country asrella-
BILE news. Rest assured, reader, ii
there is any strike made in camp we
are liable to "catch on" but we do
not propose to make hella bullo for
the sake of so-called "boom." We
are willing to boom, boom, boom for
all the camp is worth, which is great
deal more than a great many other
camps that are now being extensively
advertised to the public, but we do
not propose to give false reports,
knowingly, for the sake of a boom.
Honest, hard working miners, who
have got property to sell do not want
1t. Mine buyers who buy for an hon.
est investment do not expect it, but
we will admit that there is some who
do expect it, and it is those men who
have nothing to loose and all to
make. Men who have no interest in
the prosperity and welfare of the coun-
try, but who are simply trying to
"gull" somebody in order to make a
"stake" and then skip out. This
camp wants no Misrepresentation, as
1t will speak for itself. Every mine
that has been developed has proved a
success, and there is no true fssure
VEN camp in the state the age of this
one that has shown up as we'll as this
has, Notwithstanding, development
has been much more slow than was
anticipated by those settling here.
Now we see throughout the state
papers, "another rich strike in Ruby"
alluding to the Blue Bird. Well now
they have had no strike in that mine
any more than they expected. When
the owners went to work there they
expected to get just what they did get,
and it is just what most any prospect
owner will get provided he works
down on his property and uses good
judgment where to work. The Blue
Bird shaft is down about ninety feet
and has vein four feet wide with a
pay streak about ten inches Of fine
crystalized quartz, thoroughly impreg-
mated with brittle silver that will
average over $50 ounces to the assay,
while the whole vein matter will aver
age about 80 ounces, simply this and
nothing more, and it is fair to pre-
sumo that this mine will prove equally
as good as any in camp, which we do
not think is saying too much. But
what we were saying is that exagger-
alton, and flaming reports will do
more to injure some camps than it will
do them good, which has been our
experience. Right is might, and when
you come to boost along mining
camp on false reports, reaction is
bound to set in, and it will be like a
bladder with the wind out of it-fall
fiat to the ground. Owners of proper
ties that live abroad when they see
these reports, commence to write and
inquire into the facts and when they
find it is exaggerated, it causes them
to loose confidence in the source from
whence it comes, and to loose
interest in any thing they see. Our
camp comes up to all of our expecta-
tions and is fully demonstrating what
we have always said it would. All
that IS wanted is time, patience, and
perseverance, and we are bound to
come out alright, as developments in
the last few weeks have proved.
Our faith in the future of our camp is
more and more engrafted with firm
ness, while we have had siege OF
Of despair, owing to the slow progress
of development.
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There is no business firm in Gunni-
son that has shown more enterprise
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