The tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1890, 1890-02-19
AMONG THE MINES
The Health OF the Camp-A Prospecting
Company Needed.

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Company Needed.
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BARKER, Feb. Slopes were high ant
everything was making progress with
steady move when the cold wave cam
on and nearly all work stopped to wal
for it to pass over. Everybody who hae
a scheme or projected work on hand de
layed it for a few days. But before lit
frozen blasts had rolled away thu
grippe" characteristic OF the autocra
whose country gave it hi.tn, laid its cold
clammy fingers upon the spinal column
of the camp and chilled it to It's center
Nearly every L in the camp had it. II
a few cases pneumonia developed from
it. Dick Hills lay at deaths door for II
days and was given up by doctors and
friends, but he is regaining strength rap.
idly. Ed. Waters is also improving.
Thomas Clair, Hugh LIE Roy, Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Croft were also very sick.
Mike Wilson and Pat McGinnis are both
recovering, and now if no one else dies,
the scheme of these far-sighted gepilo.
men will fall to the ground. 1t seems
that on the first of January considerable
claim jumping was going on and the two
last named gentlemen, concluding that an
epidemic of some kind was at hand,
jumped the grave yard! Had the disease
proved at all fatal they might perhaps
have reaped a harvest by selling feet in
it. Now they will do we'll if they can
get the assessment work done on it. But
every prospectIr should own an interest
in such a claim, for it is the only kind of
location he can ever hope to stay with
Let us talk of this strange, singular per-
son-the "prospector."
The "prospector," to whom credit is
due for all the vast mineral treasures of
our commonwealth, is the man who has
the least of it. There are perhaps nc
other class of men in the whole world
who labor MS hard with as grand results
for others as they. The p~rospector di.
rectly and indirectly is the mar who fills
the golden Golfers of the millionaire,
raises the poor man to honor and fame,
forms corporations with almost the power
of a nation, builds cities bristling with
glittering spires and full of busy streets,
covers the plains with a network of i'm
migration and sows with a lavish hand
the golden grain of fortune for other men
to reap.
1t is hard to think that all of the pros
pectors of the Belt mountains must fol-
low in the track of their predecessors, but
such must be the result with the most of
them, unless some new scheme comes to
their aid, for the prospector is a man
easily discouraged and quick to abandon
his brightest prospect when the least
clouded.
Now if a company of men with money
to put into the development of good pros
poets, with an expert miner at its head,
would come into the different mining
camps of this country, they would surely
find a rich field for their work. l don't
mean a mining company, but a prospect
ing company company that will put
up say $1,000 for a half interest in a
prospect that their expert may deem good,
the money to be used in developing the
mine. In this way they are paying for
their interest in the mine by doing work
or their W property, and the %prospector
receives the share of the work done in
consideration of the interest he has given
up. The prospector does not want to sell
his property, but being unable to develop
it is always willing to give part of it up
to those who will do it for him and let
HIM take equal chances with them.
M. E. RIFT.