News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-09
MINING In COLORADO.
4 NEW VIEW or THE SUBJECT BY
VISITOR.
Somr Advice 10 Those who are ''NIasbcd''
on Il silver Mine That il worth Read
ing.
From the Milwaukee SUM-

mining property. My ideas are the
same as they always have been, and
coming nearer to the mines has not
changed me particle. If a man at the
east wants to make mining Il business,
and he knows anything about it, and
wants to come here and work ut mining,
the same as he would at raising cabbages
or building wagons, he can find an
opening here, and he may make a living,
and he may get rich; ; but there are no
more chances, in proportion to the
number of persons employed, to get
rich at mining, than there are in
farming or building wagons, or III mer-
camille pursuits. Thousands Of expert
miners, who know all about the business,
who have been in the mountains for
twenty years working hard, are poorer
to-day than when they commenced. a
few have got rich, the same as a few
have got in every other business pursuit
at the east 1t is no sign because one
man can get rich in the newspaper bust
ness that a thousand men can start
newspapers in the same gulch in Mil
waukee or New York, and get rich.
They may think that they can stock a
newspaper and invest capital, and by
tunneling and boring readers, that they
will strike pay ore, but they are liable
to fail, and it is so in mining. A man
may make fortune speculating in wheat
or pork, and thousand others will try
it and fail. 1t is so in mining.
1t is the easiest thing in the world to
put few hundred or a few thousand
dollars into a mine that someone says
will be a bonanza after they get down a
few feet further but not one il thou
sand strikes the ore thaI pays. The
man who sells the stock may make a lit
| tie something, and be honest, and he will
make more if he is dishonest, but the
men at the east, who put up the money,
in ninety-nine cases out Of a hundred,
never see a dollar of their money, and
that is what causes so many people to be
down on Colorado. There have been
too many wildcat schemes to bleed east
ern people. No man should put a dol
lar in mine without feeling that that is
the end of it. If he makes anything he
is ahead so much; but he probably won't.
If a mine is developed so it shows ore
that will pay for working, that mine
does not go to the eastern market beg
ging for money to work it, because men
right here will take it, if, after inyesti-
CATION, it proves to be worth buying.
1t is only those that are rich in the hope
of future developments that are sold to
eastern parties. Mining, by the miner
himself, is at the best uncertain; but
mining by "proxy" is the worst husl
ness in the world. 1t is like bashtul
boy being in love with a girl and being
afraid to declare his love, and sending
another boy with more gall to do the
sparkling, and while the bashful boy Is
waiting for developments, the other boy
with the gall marries the girl. The
man who puts mp the money does not
USUALLY have any more interest in the
mine, if it pans ont rich, th'tn tin" bash
! y,, nov who made love hy lr"Ny, h',' in
l,o children of the boy who had the gail
and married the girl. So my advice
would be TO keep ont of proxy mining.
CoIor1ld" ",'",IIHIv IN vtig al 'nibro ol, II ono
had never allowed Il dollars worth OF
wildcat mining stock to be sold to east
arn ,1artics. on. if she had law that no
body should form stock company with
no capitaI but a hole in the ground, and
tbatno stock should be sold until paying
ore had been struck. She is a rich State,
and turns out plenty Of silver and g"iu'
Int if two columns of figures could be
prepared. showing the dollars and days
works put into mining, and the dollars
taken out. the figures would cause much
sodrass However. there is gold here,
plenty, and silver till you can't rest; hut
fine getting of it should be business
and NOT a field of S SPECULATION. Mining
is like NTormonism-it Is haole TO De
overdone. If there was dog whistle III
sor+od in every mining hole in Colorado
that has never panued out cent, ana a
steam fog whistle inserted IN every hol4
that has paid enough to speak OF, and
all sbould blow at once, the dog Whistles
would drown the fog whistles by great
majority. If all the abandoned mining
holes in the hills had voices, and couiu
toll Of the davs of hard work, days Of
suffering and starvation, OF the hlSI'S ol
sleoplesspess, and dreams OF gold never
70 he realized. OF the weary steps nome
ward on empty stomachs, OF the poor
,,o1r5ad fellows who came here believing
that gold could be got anywhere tno'e
,,oioos wouId make new comers pay at
tention.
If tbe trails over the mountains ana
across the snow could tell of the heavy
hearts that have been over them, ana
couId pict1lre the thoughts of home ana
1o,,od ones that the pilgrims have III
d,1oed in. as with bruised feet they
pIodded along toward the mirage I'll
dorado. and of the places where urea
ond beart-broken men have lam down 10
die there would not be SO many people
getting crazy over mining. But Prop-
abIv have said enough to show that l
am not much mashed on mining; and II
those few words shall lead any man VINO
has decided to put few hundred uot-
lars into wildcat mine to change Ll'
mind and buy his wife silk dress, l am
=, 4,,,, Investment viii pan out more
bonniness to the ton of human ore, 10
both him and his wife. And if tins ar
+icIe shall be the means of deterrlng any
, voung man from throwing up gooo Joo
in the east. and leaving home, assoe"-
+ions and loving friends, to come ont
l bora 70 associate with condensed jack
asses that pack frying-pans and san
l horse over mountain trails in the searcn
! for wiIl-o'the-wisp gold, that has SIN
mon for every ounce of gold already Oh
tbe trail. I shall feel that this long, un
{ interesting article is not written III N"L'
Il If Won want to come to Colorado /"
II health. come. If you want to see 'h'
1t finest scenery in the world, and Speu'
'o money royalty, and see and get oc
! ouaipted with a large-hearted people
L come. But the fellows that are aIre"u'
l. here know all about mining, ana ca
q attend to it without any new men on III
war path.
MEDICAL SCHOOLS. - Two medlc'
l. schools for women are to be estahllSne
,e IN fine Province Of Ontario, one IN I'