The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-03-03
AN OLD pRospscroR'S ADVICE.

Tho other night took a walk to Jakes
camp on Wall street and listened to
some advice that he was giving to his
son Tom, on the subject of Women,
while the latter was preparing to go to a
ball Tom, my boy,' said he, filling
up his pipe, '' | see you are getting fancy
togs for ball Now, I don't object to
balls, or any other kind of amusement,
but want to give you little advice.
Tom, look out for the women you meet
in Calico. A man that goes around after
women is a great deal like prospector
hunting mine. You see woman at a
ball and she is all rugged out in fine silk,
and powered and painted wherever the
skin shows itself. Those surface crop.
pings look pretty well, but if you locate
on the strength Of them you will 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 little further, slide up and take
an assay of her conversation; but alas!
my boy you will find only 3 per cent. of
intelligence, twenty-five per cent. of
fashionable etiquette, and the rest frivol-
ity. conceit, ignorance, and vanity,
mixed in equal parts. Drop her right
away for such rock won't pay to mill, if
you get patent for the claim. You
will never see dividend come out as
long as you live. The assessment for
keeping your promising claim in re-
pairs would soon land you in the poor
house on lightning express time, and
some morning you'd wake up and find
your claim relocated by somebody else. /"
The old man shook the ashes out of
his pipe and continued: Sometimes
you will strike plain girl in common
sort OF dress. She won't be good look
ing, maybe, and won't put on many airs.
The surface indications won't show much,
but before you have prospected long you
are likely to come to some good indica-
tions. That will pay to follow up. Rich
stringers of conversational quartz and
spars of intelligence, showing up finely
the deeper you go. Pretty soon you will
strike well.deGned vein of practical
common sense. That's the sort of 9
mine to freeze to. Locate it as soon as
possible, and get your patent papers, ant
you will have a regular bonanza to de
pend on the rest OF your life. Ii yor
think all the good claims are all taker
up you are badly fooled. This town il
full Of them. l am an old prospecto
and have Travelled around great deal
If my time was not taken up with m.
own mine, l know where there are lot
of prime locations only waiting for som
practical miner to come along and de
velop.
"A woman's heart, Tom, is might
curious thing, taking in all its spurs
angles, ramifcations, and sinuosities
and it's more of puzzle and myster
than the whole Comstock lode. Som
fellows try to work it and by some goo
luck strike it rich right off in place
where old experienced miners never sur
posed there was anything Getting tn
title to the property amt the only thing
It's keeping up the proper development
and watching that jumpers don't get j
and encroach on. your claim. Some
those mines require an awful amount {
money for machinery and some of thel
can be run on nothing Whenever yo
get one Of them and find you can't ru
to advantage, the best thing You can d
is to throw up your job as superintent
ent and abandon the claim"
PIcKANDsHoyRI.