The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-01

pectors are the most hopeful men in the
world.
Hope is worth about $1,000 year to a
Colorado prospector.
The gray-headed old miner who has
searched in vain for rich mine for
years is just as hopeful as one young and
vigorous and with his life yet before him.
TWO KINDS OF PROSECUTORS.
There are two kinds of prospectors. There
is the man who goes to work to find mine
and develop it and make fortune. All
tenderfeet belong to this class, for they al
ways start III with most ambitsous lnten-
lions. Then there is the 'conStitutionap
prospector, who looms up in evtry mining
camp, and can fill you with tnore wild
stories about mines and mining Than could
prince of Munchausens. He il always an
old-timer, and has been everywhere He
will talk as Familiarity of all thagreat min
ing camps between the Rocky mountains
and the Pacific coast as will al old New
Yorker of the principal buildinghon Broad
way He will tell you of the Ways when
Tabor had not dollar, when s. aron was
poor, when Mackay couldn't tear good
clothes, and Joe Chaffee had to RI hle Heis
kind of a mining camp tramp Indigenous
to the west. Roughly dressed, go1e1atured
whole-souled, he has generally sd claim
for a thousand or few hundred liars and
Spreed it out, and that same property later
has made somebody millionaire He has
always Just ''misseI" it, but nexi time he
won't sell, 'you can bet on that, pard," he
will say when talking it over. A queer,
quaint old fellow is the constitutional pros
pector, a character decidedly original in
every respect. Generally, he has a new
story to tell of rich find he had made last
fall, but before he could dig the assessment
the SHOWS came and drove him ont. "Just
as soon, pard, as the SHOWS off, I'm goin'
right back. It's second Leadyille, sure.
I've been through Arizona, Caltorny, Ne
vada, Montana and everywhen, but I'll
tell yer what, boys, it beats any hing I've
ever seed. Dem it, that old sni w storm
came and run me OUT Often aound the
warm fires during the long wintI' he will
spin out this yarn, and the, chancl are that
he will take in some teDderfIt before
spring who will give him CRIB stake"
for half Interest. But too ofteAhe can't
find the way back This is only g peculiar
tpye, for the most of them are unlike
the constitutional prospector, who is SUI
genertS.
GETTING READY.
The burro or jack is a necessary adjunct
TO every prospecting outfit, for lie is the
beast of burden on the long, marrow and
precipiUous trails of the Rocky mountains
Docile and sure-footed, he can lass over
nights that make even the old mointaineer
dizzy when looking down into the great
chasms that yawn beneath BJrros are
cheap during winter, but with th, advent
of spring, when they are needed, by the
projectors, their value Is greatly enhanced,
and If the demand is great, good burro or
mountain jack, which Is also known as the
ship of the DESERT will often bling $50.
One or two burros are purchased md then
tent, camping utensils, flour aud. bacon,
somemining tools, and whatever il consid-
cred nee assarY to q proSpectOrs Quilt.
From 1850 to 5000 Is )nsdered q good grub
stake fbr the season, but this sum will have
70 be Increased if they should find a pro-
perty Worth developing. This is oui-titting
IN its cheapest and simplest FORM A more
costly way is to purchase a wagbn and
team, Ind among other things. tab along
IN ass9ying outfit, and anvil AVID bd.Ow for
blacl smith shop. They can then test
the orf themselves and sharpen ter own
tools. It's poor miner who can't temper
his picls and sharpen drill. A goAd rife,
pistols ana hunting knife are always con
sldered necessities in prospectorA outfit,
which he carries himself for ready use
when far uAin the ranges or remote on the
frontier. TIE packing up and stal ling Off
isquite an eAnt. Now, the packing OF
burro is a diiicult art. II is easy toput on
the pack sadde, but when it comes e. pillng
on the great lAd this little animals cGpa-
ble Of carrying it is found difficult task.
Not only musdt be tied on tight bnt it
must be evenly baauced The little burro
gives many twist and turn in climbing
the narrow an, dangerous trail No one
can back a buto like an old-timer, but how
u tenderfoot hs often sweated and tugged
to got the loacpn and make it stick / fear
that many p,us tenderfoot from the east,
after repaclSinIhs burro for a dozen times
IN one day, habften registered things in
heaven from 81 crest of the Rocky noun
tains, which hNwill, on orthodox principles
answer for heThfter.
OFF HR THE MOUNTAINS.
All is ready BID tho boys are off. Hun
dreds Of times have seen them start on their
long jaunts in arch of the preciousmetal
Good nature aSunds, and sometimes a bot
Tie goes roundIjust for luck, you know.
food bye, I'D, )" are generally the parting
words, "strikd rich In the days when
The Gunnison Vas an almost unezplored
country, the lis left behind, or some one
OF them Wild shout out, ILoos
tut for hi Utas," "Save A your
scalp if yd have To 70 nJjgry,"
Keep out OF D way OF old Coloro7t The