The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-03-16
WONDER If HE MEANS ITi

WIltlen ny Oor well KNOWN dnthIa1At<
king, Billy Muncey, to a friend Ii
Tuscarora, Nevada, Notwithstanding
it has got into print, and we copy the
same from the Times Re1vt1o Of thai
place:
Frank Culvert is in receipt of
letter from an old friend, formerly
resident of this place, dated Irwin,
Colorado, from which we are permit
ted to make the following extracts
You ask me what think of this coun.
try. Well, its a "dandy' in the
summer, for deer, elk, bear, grouse,
and large fat trout; anthracite, btu.
minous and coking coal, and railroads.
Good silver prospects, much the same
as in Eastern Nevada, though better.
Lots of "stinkers" and "Colorado
blowers;" a id good country to
live in with plenty sheckels in your
purse. The silver mines here are
Eastern interpretations, and conse-
quently the stock is non-assessable,
and after the first few thousand Of
original deposit are expended, they
find themselves fiat with drafts pro-
tested, their holes in the ground fres-
coed with attachments, and are cursed
long, loud and deep. l would
advise any one to come here, for the
sport of hunting alone, and this is
prime. l killed, last summer, upwards
of fifty deer, ten elk, and seven bears.
l think l will gather plenty of green
backs in this country, as Ihave chen
a setting," and although it dosn't
always answer to count your chickens
before they are hatched, still 1t be
hooves all old timers to catch hen
and set the "old snoozer," even if the
old gal should prove barren. l am
still holding on to my anthracite coal
banks, and everything seems to justify
me in thinking that l will come out
all "hunkey." Meantime, l am
healthy, happy, and with lots of
money-to get.
As regards the mining COM
panics, we think his head is level,
for there are too many men think all
they have got to do is to organize a
company, then go to work taking out
ore, paying dividends etc., on an un-
developed prospect hole. If they do
have working capital it is usually so
small that the superintendent of such
company will flourish like green
bay tree for one summer, but when
the foliage on our mountain tops
becomes tinted with gold, the bears
begins to hibernate and other animals
look tor a warmer climate, the aforesaid
superintendent can be found at hotel
in one of our metropolitan cities telling
what all he has done and at the same
time asking for more money that he
may come back another season, pay
up those he left in the lurch the fall
before, and resume work on a grander
scale. No company should commence
work on such mines as we have, with
out first resigning themselves to the
fact that they will have to expend
fifty, hundred, or if necessary two
hundred thousand dollars to get a
mine thoroughly developed. Of course
there are instances when not near that
much is required and sometimes pros
poets pay from grass roots, but it is
not intended that we should all catch
on to those opportunities for we would
be millionaires too soon. There are a
number of promising prospects in this
camp to day lying comparatively idle
for the want of m cans to work them,
and we are sorry to say that some ol
them are in the hands of companies
amply able to work them, while Others
of course are owned by the poor pros.
pector, who is willing to work his
property if he only had the means.
We understand that the people in
Gunnison are going to make part,
fight next month in their town elec.
ton. 1t is not always policy to make
party issue in municipal affairs in Z
small town, as a man is most Away.
chosen to serve on his merits, but w
presume they can do it in Gunnison
as that place begins to put on metro
politan airs. now that they are poinf