Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-07-06
THE AMERICAN PRosPEcToR.
Type OF American Citizenship Who De
serves the Highest Consideration.

serves the Highest Consideration.
Leave the walks and worries Of ciyi
lized settlements and ride your cayus
away out into the wilds of the mount
aims. Make your camp and spread
your blankets on some beautiful meadov
with wild and wierd surroundings
Fondiy imagine in the depths of thes,
solitudes that you are where man never
trod before. Take your rife and saun
ter off to get deer for supper. Cros.
the lonely swale and what do you rnr
| Sgainst in one of it's remote corners
where creek runs out? Not an empty
grave. No /; too short for that. A pros.
pect hole made twenty years ago. Then
you are not pioneer. No. The Amer
ican prospector has been here ahead OF
you and left his gravel and his old yeast
powder can to mark the spot. This was
some mining you had not heard of.
Very little is said about mining outside
of the grand discoveries daily made
within the borders of our great republic.
Mining is the great civilizer of the past
ages. for history plainly tells that barb
arian races became civilized when they
worked upon metal. The Crooks, Brit
ons, Mexicans and Peruvians wandered
about in caves, subsisting on roots and
small animals, and it was not until they
delved into the earth's strata that their
minds became enlightened, lifting them
out of the savage haunts of barbarism
See what monuments of exalted genius
the Greeks and Britons have left be-
hind them, which stands out in time
as great arch-keystones in the worlds
progress. That mining (or money! is
the mother of all other agents no sensi-
BILE man can honestly deny. 1t would
be quite difficult for one to tell precisely
the amount of money the miner has
won from sandy wastes and rocky, bar
rem mountains. You can be certain of
one thing: that he has established banks,
publishing houses. railroads, telegraph
lines, implements of war and peace.
He has given you tools that you may
hew your way to distinction and fame.
Why, then, can you question the legiti-
macy and permanency of mining utility
The miner has endured more hardships
and given his life's blood freer to make
new discoveries than the soldiers of the
nation who were torn in trenches by
shot and shell in the hell of battle. The
discoveries of mineral, of any Importance
in this country, were procured at the
peril of the miners life. There has
been no mountBin or valley in the
broad empire of America that the heroic
men dared not venture on. The star of
empire and progress followed over them
like the star which hung over the man
ger on Judeas night. The dark cloud
of despair caught many in it's slken
folds, and the heroic prospector's bones
are to-day bleaching everywhere upon
Americas soil. They penetrated swamps
forded streams, carried packs of provis-
ions on their backs together with tools
and instruments. They have conquered
the widest retreats, regardless of savage
foes. The oldest prospectors our coun-
try boasts of are dead. or are walking
around with silvered hair awaiting the |
call of "Boatman," when they will 90
hence to prospect the new beauties of
he unseen shore.