The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-06-13

the-way places"
'But that don't prevent tenderfeet |
from discovering themP"
"Guess you never saw tenderfeet
prospectin'"
Tell me how they do itP"
Cant only mention them in a gen.
commonly. the fellers who are staked
by their friends have mighty good
time foolin around, and if they find any
thing it's by downright, niger luck.
I've heard 'em say. lots of times, that
they wouldn't climb that mountain for
all the wealth init. But, ifone isspunky,
or tough enough to do it, he couldn't
tell pay from county rock, COS he amt
had the experience. l showed Teller
some of the richest horn [ ever saw,
and he looked Disguised like.
Eyes, but these men do sometimes
get hold of good claims"
''They occasionally do, but theirs
the exceptions, and they catch on by
trailing the old prospectors, getting
float like theirs, and takin' their advice
about locating"
feetP"
Eyes, in 80 two cute chaps put up
for me to 90 to the Rico excitement,
and it would have been good thing all
around if they hadn't had so much
money and went along
Had too much money! What do
you mean?"
"Well, you see, one was carpenter
and the other grocery clerk, and they
wanted to do things in what they called
systematic business style. The car
penter said town would be built II
mines were good, and so he took a full
kit of tools and kegs of nails, bolts,
bars of steel, wise, and a full black
smith outfit, and loading EN- in a
wagon, while the grocery fellow took
six months grub for all the workmen
he thought we'd need for building
good part of the town, and for the
miners on our mines. They said it was
better to buy these necessary things
where they were cheap, and so they
bought about 81, 800 worth of this kind
of truck besides mining tools and
hundred feet of rope. l most died
laughing in my sleeve. and l thought l
had Joined freightin' outfit.
"Well, how did it pan out"
1--WE hauled that cargo over to Cum
| nison, eos they said we must go that
way. and it tickled me most to death
to see 'em pay toll on that wagon
and hire transfers to double 'em up the
hills. It cost them more money for
toll on that baggage-wagon than L
would have wanted for my season s
outfit.
What did you do when you got to
RicoP"
1--WE never got to Rico"
"Why notP"
1.-THE main reason was that there
wasn't no wagon road at that time, and
I told 'em SO before we left Denver, but
| thew said one would be built by the
| time we got to Gunnison, or if not. we
could cut our way through or else go
to Gothic. l kinder got stuck after
those fellers, they was so liberal; spent
their money freely and let me cook the
grub, and so l just picknicked with
them all summer, and lost the whole
season."
"But what did they do when they
found they could not get through tc
Rico by that route?"
"They acted like sensible fellers then,
as the romance was pretty well knocked
out of 'em by the trip over Marshal
pass, and the Gunnison freighters anC
merchants bought their stuff at less
than Denver prices, freight of, anc
thew concluded their experience wa!
worth what it cost and didn't kicl
about it. They didn't prospect any,
further"
"You would discourage tenderfee
from entering upon mining prospec
work, l infer?"
"Now there you're off again, for
would encourage them, because l be
lieve mimi and prospectin' properl.
, attended to is the best business a mai
i can follow, but he has got to have RICH
Y notions about it. p"
evil you please give me some @
{ these 'notionsP'
+, That's Just what l come here fol
e and if you'll just tell this kid and othe
preenies like him what l say, it Ii d
v 'em good, or leastwise ought to. L
s prospect right man has got to regar
l. it as a business he's got to learn, an
if he amt got the scads to spend learI
r. ing as a boss, he wants to hire out as
o hand and learn it that way"
e "But can tenderfoot get job as
minerp"
|. "Well, mimi men amt sighin'
y hire such a chap, but if he's got Il
1t stuff in him to make good prospects
Il he will not be discouraged, but w
a rustic till some Teller hires him. If
can't git job in mining camp, he
It better give up all thoughts OF being
prospector, for that takes grit, al
tn means hard work and lots of it. Il
I'd prospector, more than any other ma
It rubs up against the biggest kind
n disappointments and sees money a.
an labor wasted without any whining,
to cause he regards his experience woF
Id it, and so he goes from one failure
another till he does strike it rich Ii
C. a study to understand ores and
Id formations of different parts of
O. country so as to know where to 10
MS for mineral and tell its indications, a
then trace 'em to where nature
h, posted 'em in bulk. The prospec
". ought also to be able to test in g
n, erai wav the rock he finds, to gu
nv pretty close whether it will pay or n
,e, and this he can't learn in day or
ps one season. This the Eastern fell
al can't or won't understand, and some