Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-06-10
VISIONS OF WEALTH.
Projects Of Great Moment Which
Are Mapped Out INCREASINGLY.
Some Of the Soedlest Men the Moss
brilliant Seheners-Ouslineo
Of the Proposed Rn.
emo terPrisss.


About every other man who h to be met
west Of the Missouri river Is . schemer. The
projects that are born here annually
mapped out in endless conversation or ia
stacks Of legal cap and then dropped inconti-
nentIy, would, IL properly described, al
volumes. Merchants, lawyers, physicians,
manufacturers, preachers, invalids, and all
the dependents occupy their spare moments
in studgiag up enterprises Of great weight
and moment. There. h semsthing in the It
mosphere which seems to encourage this pe.
culiar phase Of mental activity. A young
man in the east to whom inducements to set
tie in the far west may be offered, is as
sured that, while the salary may not be
large, be must not overlook the opportuni-
ties which . new country affords
to smart, active fellows Opportunity has
paid millions Of dollars in salaries in this
country during the last twenty years. It is
dealt in by all who may he established here,
and is parcelled out to new corners a. il il
were an asset of those already here. It Is
intans ible for the most part, and consists
chiefly Of magnificent ykionx The privilege
Of dealing in opportunity is generously ac-
corded to all, from the railroad manager to
the kitchen drudge.
Some OF the seediest men in the west are
the most brilliant schemers There il an old
fellow who auctuates between Virginia City,
Leadville, and Denver who has fathered
more projects involving tremendous engi-
neering feats than all the great engineers
in the world Every time he turns up hare
he has a new idea, and II very confident that
he has struck it this time His latest was
thus described by himself:
"You are aware that the great gold deposits
Of California have been found in the beds OF
rivers. Millions have been taken from them.
Now, l have q scheme that il properly
worked, will make the finds on those creeks
look like tallow dips by tho side Of an electric
light. All through the Rockies and Sie,ras
there are buried rivers, rivers that have been
covered up by volcanic upheavals ia the ages
that have gone. Centuries ago there were
rivers now unknown, as rich IN mineral a.
any Of those from whose beds 30 many for
tunes have been taken. Now, il gold has
been found In these comparatively new
rivers, as mos Of those with which we are
acquainted undoubtedly are, what do you
think must be the richness Of the deposits in
these odd river bed, into which the PRICELESS
treasures Of virgin earth were washedi
Il have located three or four Of these
ancient rivers, and have mapped out plan
Of operations. All that will be necessary is
to sink a shaft four or five hundred feet
through the earth and rock, and when the
gravel is struck run drifts up and down the
bed Of the old-tims river. There is abso-
lutely no limit to the possibilities, / may
say probabilities, OF this scheme, except the
length OF the river bed. 1t can be followed
frns sfc 10 81.
millions taken out. II y q big thing, and IL
can get some noseyed men interested in
the scheme will make hundred fortunes
Il have got q scheme" said . thin, long
whiskersd individual in q Las Animas
tavern the other day, (which only needs
money to make it stupendous
and worldfamous success Now, here's
this Arkansas river. Its no good
after it leaves the mountain country,
and with a little change in is course it might
be made useful to the west. I have found a
place where, by the construction Of a wall
Of rough masonry, seven or eight feet high,
for a distance Of two or three miles, that
river could be turned from its channel
here in Colorado, and sent booming to the
south through Arizona or New Mexico, as
you pleased, and into the Rio Grande With
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