The Clifton clarion., 1889-08-28

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 says that his system was poisoned with nicotine from the excersivc use of
 tobacco ill smoking cigarettes. He
 could not sleep, his appetite was gone,
 and be was in bad fix generally He took s. $. S. which drove out the poison and made new man of him.
 An exchange has the following to
 say about horse back prospecting:
 Throughout all the mining regions
 there has been done great deal of
 horseback prospecting. Most of this
 was done by the old timers. Ask one of these today about the mineral
 characteristics of particular section
 of hill or mountain country and he
 will sententiously pronounce it mo
 good" If his reason for thinking the
 range in question mo good" be de- manded. he will probably tell you that
 he and half q dozen "old pards" tra- veled all over the country years ago and saw nothing worth stopping for
 Take halfa dozen men. mount them and start them through the country. and it is not easy to get them to stop for anything. When an unusually fine looking quartz vein is found they may dismount and look al it, but that num- Der of men can never be brought to agree to stop and work anything. One or two may think the party should halt and sink upon vein that pre- sents a promising appearance, but the others will at once make all manner of objections. There is no timber near. it is too far from water. or the country rock is not of the right kind. Such party generally has some par ticular mountain range or section of country for its objective point. aGd in going toward it there is no turning aside from the most direct and easiest road. Not man will dismount and go up into rocky hills where horse cannot be taken. Snch q range of hills may be skirted. and some member of the party may point to spots to in dicate the presence of mineral veins, but the others begin to point out features of a damaging character. and when all the arguments pro and con have been heard. the verdict of tie mounted jury is-"No good"
 Such parties may make a topo- grahpical survey of a country. but they do not prospect il. However, in case you ask members of such an explor- ing expedition about range of country through which they have passed, they are ever ready to prompt r. answer, No good"
 In all the Pacific Coast States and Territories there are mountain re- gions embracing hundreds of square miles that have been "prospected' in just this way. How many expeditions we remember that have started well l mounted and equipped with a sufii- cient number of pack animals to carry | an ample supply of provisions through all long stretches of wilder ness. One in particular from the : Pacific Coast passed through the | southeastern part Of Oregon, hence ! into Idaho and doTa through Nevada, ! into Colorado aIG Arizona, when they turned and journeynd back ID the . ''rlace of beginning" as the surveyors . say. In all this trip they never dug a hole five feet deep in either quartz vein or placer ground. They could never agree upon any vein or spot of ground. They were afteran immense ly "big thing and the pig thing was ways ahead. ln Idaho, Nevada and Arizona they discovered a number of mineral belts and lodcs that were af- terward found to be rich--which yielded mi lions on millions ir god ana siiTeT snd built up large towns and camls-yct w5en they got back to Tehaaaa they reported that they had found nothing: the country over N hich they had passed was no good"