The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1882-11-11
An Old Pyospector's Advice.

The other night old Blinkus, seeing
his son getting ready to so to ball,
proceeded to give him some whole
some advice on the subject Of woman.
'sToin, my boy he said, filling up
his pipe, ~ see you are getting fancy
toys for ball. Now, l don't obj ct
TO ball or any other kind Of amnse-
ment, bu l want TO 1--WE you u little
advee, Tom. Look out Tor the
women you meet there. A man who
goes aroun after women is great
deal ke a pro epertor hanting ior a
mine. You see a woman at a ball,
and she's all irizzled up and rugged
out in fine silk, and powdered ami
painted wherever the skin shows
itself. These surface groupings look
pret y well, but il you locate on the
strength Of 'em you'll get fooled every
time. A woman of that kind is just
like "A salIed NINE. Don't you take
any stock in h.r. She WON'T wash.
Il you want to prospect such location
little further. sliae up and take an
assay of her conversation. An, my
boy! Three per cent. of intelligence,
% OF fashionable etiquette, and the
rest frivolity, conceit, ignorance and
vanity, mixed III about equal parts.
Drop her right away. Such rock
won't pay to IN II. II you get pat
ent for the claim you'd never see a
di idend come out OF il as long as you
lived. The assessments to keep the
upper works in repair, and the lower
levels from caVing In, wound land you
In the poOr-house ON lightning ex-
press, and some morning you'd wake
up To find your claim relocated by
somebody else"
The old man shook the ashes out of
his pipe, and continued:
..Someliines you II strike a pl ,in
girl in common sort OF u dres~. She
won't be good looking, maybe, and
won't have any airs. The surface in
dications won't show much, but be-
fore you've prospecled long, you're
likely TO come to some good Indica-
tions that will pay 10 foiloA up. kicn
s,ringers ~ conversational quartz AMI
spurs of Intelligence showing up fine
" the deeper you 90. Prvty soon
You'll strike well-d-fined vein OF
practical common sense. That's the
sort Of Il mime To freeze TO. Locate II
as soon as possible, aud get out your
patent papers, ami you ii have reg
ular bonanza 10 fall back on for the
rest OF your fe. II you think the
good ella ms are all taken up you are
badly fooled. This town is full oil
'em. I'm an old prospector, and I've
travelled around a great deal. Ii my
time wasn't taken up with my own
mine, | know where there are lots of
prime locations only waiting for some
practical miner 10 come along aud de-
velop. A woman's heart, Tom, is
mighty curious thing. Take IL IN all
its spurs, angles. qualifications AMI
sinnoSities, and its more OF puzzle
and mystery than the whole Com
stock lode, Some fellows try to work
it, and by pure luck strike it rich
right off, in places where old expert
eneed miners never s'posed there was
anything. Getting the title to the
property ain't The only thing; it's
keeping up the proper developments,
and see that jumpers don't get IN and
encroach on your claim. Some of
those domestic mines require an aw
ful amount OF money for machinery,
and some of 'em can be run on about
nothing. Whenever YOU get one OF
'em, and find you can't run 1t 10 ad-
vantage, the best thing TO do is to
throw up your job as perintendent,
and shut NJ the works.