Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-10
"Tell me how they do ftp"

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, eos he amt
had the experience. l showed a teller
some of the richest horn [ ever saw,
and he looked disguised like"
YES, 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"
''Were you ever 'staked' by tender
feet?"
Eyes, in 80 two cute chaps put up
for me to 60 to the Rico excitement,
and it would have been agood thing all
around if they hadn't had so much
money and went along"
clad too much money? What do
you mean?"
"Well, you see, one was a carpenter
and the other a grocery clerk, and they
wanted to do things in what they called
systematic business Style The car
penter said q town would be built if
mines were good. and SO he took a full
kit of tools and kegs of nails, bolts,
bars of steel, wise, and q 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 a
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 a
hundred feet of rope. 1 most died
laughing in my sleeve, and l thought I
had Joined a freightin' outfit"
''Well, how did it pSn out?"
"We hauled that cargo over to- Sun
nison, eos they said we must 90 that
way, and it tickled me znost to death
to sec 'em pay toll OFT that wagon
and hire Transfers to double 'em up She
hills. 1t cost them more money Sol
toll on that baggage-wag9n than [
would have wanted for rnH seasons
What did you do when yo,r got tcpI
''We never got to Rico"
"Why not?~
"The main reason was thay there
no wagon road at that time, and
told era SO betorrwe left Denver, but
said one would be built by the
we got to Gunaison, or if not. we
could cut cur way through or else go
to Gothic. kinder got stuck after
%fellers. they was so liberal; spent
their money freely and let me cool:Sthe
grub, and SO / llst picknicked with
hem all summer. and lost the whole
season.
''But what did shey do when they
ound they cauld not get through to
sico by that Ioute?:"
''Tkey acted ike scnstlMef ellers Them
IS the romance was prettywelE knockedtl
ut of 'em by the tsp ever Marshall'l
'ass, and the Observation-Disclosures and /
Merchants bougfk' tkeir stuff at less !
Nan Denver Yaipes, freight off, and /
saey concluded their experience was Il
what it, cost. and didlsrt kick q
bout it. TleyJ didu'5t prospect airy
You would discourage tenaarfeet
ON entering 1npan mining prospect
.Mk, / infer?'"
CHOW there .Voasre Of again, for il
'oald encouraged them. because. { be-
eve mimi and p~rospeetin7 prg13erly
to is tae best BUSINESS. g. MEAN
an follow, but he has Es.ct:to have. FIGHT
otions about liz"
'-NNill you please give me. soEas. of
lose 'notions??*"
CHATS Just what I soe1e hera. 3ur,
if you'll just tell this~kid End; other
like him what I saz;. IT'D do
M good, or lsAstwise aaght to. To
right arnan has got to regard
rs a businessehe's got TO. Learn, and
ne amt got dhe scads, to spend learn
lg.as a boss, lie wants 70 hire out as a
and and learn it that say.''
''But a a senderfoca get q job IS al
well, mimi men amt siglMn' .o
lie such a chap, but ifShe's go1 the
su!f in him 70 make % good ~m:sspectorl
q viii ror he discouraged. but will
,.s;ie till sca1la Teller lsires hira. II he.
amt git a job in a mining camp, he'd
etter give ap all thoughts OF being a.
rospector,, fer that takes grit, and
hard work and lots OF it The
more than any other man,
ubs up against the biggest kind Of
isapDointnents and. sees, E2o,aey and
abor wasted without ANY whining. be-
h,s regards his experience worth
t., and so he goes from on failure to
till he does strike it rich. 1t is
study to understand, ores and the
ormations Of different parts of the
so as to know where to look
or mineral and tell it's indications, and
hen trace 'em to, where nature de-
,os ted 'em in bulk. The prospector
also to be able to lest in a gen
raj way the rock he finds, to guess
close whether it viii pay or not,
md this he can't learn in a day or in
season. This the Eastern fellers
AN or won't understand. and some of
smart city clerks are as much out
place on a rich mineral mountain as L
would be behind a dry-goods coun-
;er."
You regard prospecting, then, as
akin to a profess on?"
That's the ticket, pard, and if tie
boys will be content first tolearn some
thing of the business they are to fol-
there won't be such a grand army
Of prospectors, as you call it, runnin'
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